The Highest Level of Stupid

[Grimmas]

I am in the mood for a laugh, so what is some of the most stupid decisions in wrestling history? I am sure we can fill 20 pages of Russo crap alone.

[goc]

Turning Austin heel when The Rock was going to be off making a movie leaving a gigantic void at the top babyface position and driving off a large portion of their audience in the process.

[cpst]

Two from this year alone: the booking of the Royal Rumble, and Undertaker returning at Battleground.

[Mad Dog]

The Invasion.

[The Chief]

Goldberg never regaining the WCW Title

[Wahoos Leg]

The WWF immediately pulling the trigger on Flair vs Hogan and Road Warriors vs Demolition feuds when both acts joined the company

[LariatMMBOPPO]

Trying to initially book Floyd Mayweather as a sympathetic babyface when he came in to face Big Show.

[Zoo Enthusiast]

Goldberg never regaining the WCW Title

Mine was going to be Goldberg punching a legit window.

[Mad Dog]

Austin giving the Stunner to Stacy Keibler on TV after the domestic abuse with Debra has always bothered me.

[Strummer]

2014 Royal Rumble is the worst creative decision in company history. For a stand alone event it has to be. I guess the whole Invasion was worse

[sek69]

WCW beating Goldberg because they felt they had to end the winning streak. I mean, yeah at some point it had to end, but having it become a political trophy for the usual suspects to try to be the first was stupid if not predictable.

[goc]

WCW beating Goldberg because they felt they had to end the winning streak. I mean, yeah at some point it had to end, but having it become a political trophy for the usual suspects to try to be the first was stupid if not predictable.

I feel bad for Kevin Sullivan every time I hear him tell that story.

[Boondocks Kernoodle]

Tony Schiavone going into business for himself and refusing to promote the upcoming ECW house show during Mike Awesome's debut on Nitro, thus violating the terms of the deal with Heyman that allowed Awesome to make the jump to WCW. Scott Hudson even tried to set him up ("Doesn't he have some kind of title defense?"), but no, Tony had to stick up for what was right. Ended up costing WCW an additional six-figure payment to ECW.

[PeteF3]

The Black Scorpion.

[artDDP]

Triple H kicking Kurt Angle in the balls and pinning him at Unforgiven 2000.

[Tabe]

Crockett giving a million bucks to McMahon right before the first Wrestlemania.

[Timbo Slice]

Fingerpoke of Doom. Katie Vick. The Gobbledygooker.

[Johnny Sorrow]

Crockett buying UWF.

[NotJayTabb]

Master P vs the West Texas Rednecks. Paying a fortune to a really bad rapper to run an angle pitting rap vs country. Not only running said angle in southern America, but giving the heel team an impossibly fun, catchy anti-rap theme song, then wondering why the fans were cheering for the heels. To cap it off, WCW obviously thought "Hmm, we can use this to put one of our underused workers in a prominent TV role. Who on the undercard screams 'urban'? Of course, Brad Armstrong!"

[El-P]

http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/19237-wcws-highway-to-hell/

 

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[funkdoc]

The WWF immediately pulling the trigger on Flair vs Hogan and Road Warriors vs Demolition feuds when both acts joined the company

 

no way do i agree with the latter, especially. demolition were already on the way down the card - jobbing the tag titles clean was a big sign. had to get whatever value left from them at that point.

 

i also don't think there was going to be a ton of money in the former regardless of how it was done, just because of sheer timing. that was a peak point for wrestling burnout, combined with all the steroid & sex scandals. WCW brought in hogan at a much better time since that stuff had worn off to some degree.

 

EDIT: to actually add something of my own here, cutting off the summer of punk the way WWE did. that was the most mainstream press i recall wrestling getting since the attitude era, though i wasn't around for the trump & mayweather stuff. daniel bryan's fate was a similar story but one you can't really blame the company for, given his injury risk.

[(BP)]

The Summer of Punk II somehow turning into a Nash/HHH feud...in 2011...with a ladder match blowoff.

[Mad Dog]

Come on guys. HHH obviously needed the heat at the time. And Nash, who doesn't love watching Kevin Nash wrestle?

[artDDP]

WWE deciding to air the Muhammad Hassan al Qaeda angle immediately following the 2005 attacks in London.

[2PhoneShawty]

Having Bryan eliminated so early in the Royal Rumble this year, and then having Roman Reigns win. Then subsequently having Roman Reigns beat Bryan at the next PPV clean.