I thought this would be interesting, I just hope it pans out decently enough. The title is quite simple: What in the last 5 years that WWE has done that has either been a failed experiment that should've been successful, outright stupid booking, or stuff that just really pisses you off?

Here's my 5...

#5: Necrophillia
For the first time I can remember, I actually turned off wrestling because I was so disgusted by this angle. Also the fact Triple H pulled yet another Power Play pisses me off even more.

#4: RAW World Heavyweight Title
Yeah, it's Triple H again, this time being a bitch because the IC Title was "beneath him" (except in 2001 when he squashed Jericho and Jeff Hardy for his millionth and millionth +1 reigns), forcing the title to be brought back in. Does he win a Tournament? A grueling Rumble? No, he's simply handed it. Then to top it off, the belt becomes nothing more than a Triple H ego-fest as he holds onto the thing for nearly a year, allowing his best friend to hold it for 3 weeks, squashing Booker T in a racial angle that would piss of the NAACP, feuded with barely mobile Scott Steiner and Kevin Nash, then made Goldberg look like shit. The most worthless title for over a year, and after Benoit TRIED making it credible, it still belongs to Triple H.


#3: Goldberg
I'm starting to see a pattern (working backwards). GOldberg was made by going through people like nothing. Except in WWE, he had problems beating up ANYONE, and was often made the bitch in angles. When he finally DID get over by tearing through 3 people in the Elimination Chamber at Summerslam, an INJURED Triple H still goes over. The booking after that was still pretty bad until he left the day after Wrestlemania XX, which featured the infamous encounter with Brock Lesnar.

#2: The New World Order
Ratings are slipping a little, so McMahon signs back Hulk Hogan (who hasn't been in WWF since August 1993), Kevin Nash (since May 1996), and Scott Hall (also May 1996) to spice things up. The Problem? They have difficulty beating up one person in 3-on-1 encounters! If that isn't bad enough, crowds refuse to boo Hulk Hogan, thus turning him face far sooner than expected, Kevin Nash injures himself TWICE, and Scott Hall hops off the wagon. Then in stupid moves du jour, they make Ric Flair a nWo supporter, and have BOOKER T join?! AND SHAWN MICHAELS?!

#1: The Invasion Angle
Seriously... HOW DOD YOU FUCK THIS UP!? I swear, Vince must've done this intentionally to drive the point home that "WWF was better than WCW." You have Undertaker squash one of the WCW Main Eventers time after time, have big feuds between WWF Stars that "jump ship", and when the angle is over? Well, they signed Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Curt Hennig, and Dustin Rhodes in a span of 2 months. In the enxt year, they also brought in Scott Steiner and Goldberg. Please... this had money written all over it, and was the biggest bomb in recent years.

I'll add the top 5 later, but Diva Search, or any overly useless diva air time. This includes the UK girls, the Daily ...something. Just plain useless.

I forgot about that shit. I can't believe the WWE has me hating seeing hot, half-naked women on T.V.

This is a little entry I wrote last year (I forget when exactly).

Woah, I forgot all about Tazz/Austin. I was marking out inside hoping Tazz would be his ass... and we got nothing. Pretty much everything you listed was bad, but I seemed to block most of it out my my mind.

Anyway... I know I shit all over Smackdown but damn... have we even mentioned one angle from Smackdown (2002-2005) that was really horrible? I know Tough Enough 4 was a waste of time, but it wasn't bad enough to make me wish to be blind, and Booker T's voodoo angle lasted all of a week.

I think they blew it by not pushing Flair/Benoit/Guerrero as the new Horsemen in 2002.

I didn't think it was that bad at the time. May be if I were to rewatch it, perhaps. The bit with McMahon exposing he was head of the Ministry was a slightly predictable to me, but I know it wasn't to a few people because they weren't expecting such a complicated swerve.

Thank Steve Austin for that. His departure caused an audible that forced Flair to turn face again, and... go over Eddie Guerrero at KOTR? Does that make any sense?

I was a complete and total mark when the corporate ministry happened and I thought it was terrible at the time. That's how bad I think it was.

I probably could've added the Al Wilson/Dawn Marie storyline, except I got so much cheap laughter out of it.

"It was me the whole time Austin!!!"

Looking back... yeah, the Ministry angle sure was stupid. The Undertaker was "too into his character", you had a stable consisting of Mabel, Phineas Godwinns, Justin Hawk Bradshaw, and a Vampire, then in a moment that makes as much sense as Greedo shooting first, Vince McMahon, who the Undertaker has taunted, assaulted (and tried to marry his daughter) for 3 months, reveals he was behind it all along?

1999 WWF sure did blow with the big angles.

June 99 started my whole dying off as a wrestling fan. I never had the same passion for wrestling after that month.

I lost mine in September 2002 when It finally kicked in that no matter what, Triple H runs the show.

June 99, April/May 2001 and April/May/June 2002 were the big killers for me.

I bounced back from the Corporate Ministry angle easily enough, so it didn't hurt my interest in wrestling in 1999.

My big turnoff periods were April to May 2001, pretty much all of 2002 except for a few brights spots in the fall, and last fall.

I enjoyed most of 2002 because of the return of Hulk Hogan. I don't care what anyone else says, but for some reason whenever he's on, I become a care-free mark who doesn't know what words and phrases like "politics" "kayfabe" and "holding people down" mean.

I remember spending all of 2002 waiting for the WWE to get their act back together. I thought they were going to when Summerslam 2002 was so awesome. From that point, Smackdown became a good show for several months while Raw became a pathetic mess.

Pathetic mess is an under statement. I think I have 1 episode of RAW on tape from September 2002 through January 2003, and that was the one where Kane beat Jericho for the IC Title.

I have the all gimmick episode with TLC 4. The show concludes with Triple H accusing Kane of murder.

I'd say Raw was the crappiest it ever was from September 2002 up until around October 2003. That was strangely enough the time Smackdown was at it's best since the roster split too.

Smackdown's worse time was probably April 2004 until January 2005.

I actually thought Raw was good from July-August of 2003, until Shane McMahon came back and did you-know-what to you-know-who. That just REALLY killed Raw for me. Thank God Smackdown was good though.

Even I thought Shane McMahon getting so much offense on Kane was bullshit, especially after Kane had been squashing RVD left and right for weeks.

I seriously think the complete burial of Kane during that time was Triple H politics, because a heel Kane was drawing better ratings than the supposed biggest star in wrestling.

As much as I like Kane, he has one horrible flaw... he's a Yes man. He does whatever the writing team wants him to do, which usually hurts him more than it helps him. (He's still over though, although Lita might hurt that)