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Joel
29-01-2010, 14:51
I've been thinking of storylines in the past, and for some of them I can't help but feel that the booking went the oppositie direction, which seems like the wrong direction. Sometimes it isn't even storylines, but how wrestlers are treated and what they accomplished (or should have accomplished).

So this thread is pretty much to just list the ones that come to your mind from any era, from any promotion.

- Mr. Perfect, Rick Rude and Ted DiBiase were amazing heels and great in ring workers, yet for some reason they never held the WWF Championship.

- Randy Savage has to go down of the one the greatest of all time. He had the look, the in ring skills and tons of charisma. Yet in his WWF and WCW days, this man never once pinned or submitted Hulk Hogan.

- Ultimate Warrior was WWF Champion and was over as hell. An interesting feud started with him and Savage. Instead of letting that be the main event of WrestleMania 7 - Title vs Career, they had Warrior drop the title to Slaughter at the Rumble, ONLY for Hogan to win the championship at WM7.

- WM8 was the first time the WWF Champion did not main event (last match) a WrestleMania. Why was that? Because Hogan was not the champion and busy main eventing (although the ending of the match did justify it a little bit).

- At WM9, Yokozuna defeated Bret Hart to win his first WWF Championship. A few minutes he was humiliated by Hogan and his reign ended on the same night.

- In one on one compeitition, Chris Jericho has never once beaten HHH. In fact he did once on Raw to win the WWF title, but it was ruled unofficial.

- Heading up to WM19, Booker T was the most supported face in the company. He was probably working the best he had in his WWE career. Couple that with the racial storyline they decided to throw in; everything pointed to the Booker man winning the title from HHH. But of course that didn't happen. HHH literally buried him. He hit his pedigree and allowed about 15 seconds to pass, before he crawled over and pinned Booker for the three. A few weeks later, Booker beat HHH in a lame non title match on Raw. Yeah, that made up for it.

I'll stop there for now, but will add more later.

muscularmatt
29-01-2010, 22:39
The modern booking is shit full of it. If you are a genetic freak then you are going to be a world title contender within a year doesn't matter if you can wrestle or not. So my choice for shite booking is the fact that Shelton Benjamin has never won a world title, and the Great Khali has.

HH
29-01-2010, 22:50
The Great Khali issue I agree with, the same with Sheamus right now. I have a few problems with Benjamin however, I feel that he is lazy in terms of him willing to learn despite him having all the ability in the world. My God if he had Booker T's charisma...

BarnDoor
30-01-2010, 10:25
Vader should have won the title off Michaels at Summerslam 1996, not doing so killed all the momentum he had built since his debut at the Rumble.

For Ted Dibiase, an IC Title reign would have been a start (closest he got to being world champion was being paraded as such in February/March 1988). I would add Jake Roberts to your list also, definitely deserved an IC reign.

Demolition and Legion of Doom should have had a proper feud in 1990, not one where LoD basically come in, cost them the titles and basically just whitewash any achievement Demolition had. For two years they were the top tag-team in the WWF, and then, just because LoD come in, they get disregarded and treated like shit. I know Ax had cancer, but they could have still maintained it with Crush.

muscularmatt
30-01-2010, 20:36
Vader should have won the title off Michaels at Summerslam 1996, not doing so killed all the momentum he had built since his debut at the Rumble.


How many times have they done that same angle though? Unstoppable monster appears, beats the shit out of everyone in sight, only to be be beaten by the champ at the eleventh hour.

BarnDoor
30-01-2010, 20:49
True, but Vader was a legitimate monster who could actually carry a title, as he had proved in WCW and Japan - not a Mabel, Kamala, or Giant Gonzalez. Once HBK beat him he sniffed around the title scene for a little longer (Final Four comes to mind), but then they clearly ran out of ideas for him as they teamed him with Mankind, turned him face in the US vs. Canada angle, and then gave him a shit feud with Kane. After that it was Shotgun, and being beaten by Mark Henry in another wank feud, the final embarassment. Compare this to him from 1988-1996 and its a real disgrace.

muscularmatt
30-01-2010, 21:34
It pisses me off that the only way a heel can carry a title is by cheating/running away/being a pussy, not because they are a power monster like Vader was in the early going. It cheapens the whole of wrestling for me, the thought that only good guys are tough, and all the baddies are cowards.

Joel
31-01-2010, 13:23
For Ted Dibiase, an IC Title reign would have been a start (closest he got to being world champion was being paraded as such in February/March 1988). I would add Jake Roberts to your list also, definitely deserved an IC reign.

Definitely about Jake. Can't believe I forgot to mention him.

- I'm a Warrior fan, but him kicking out of 5 of Savage's elbow drops at WM7 was terrible.

BarnDoor
01-02-2010, 14:21
I think we just have to accept that Hogan and Warrior, at some stage or another, were truly indestructible human beings.