GREATEST LETDOWNS IN WRESTLING HISTORY
 

THE TWO THAT COME TO MIND FOR ME ARE

GLACIER NOT ACTUALLY BEING THAT GOOD DESPITE THE AMAZING HYPE.

AND.

MANKIND'S BIG MATCH LOSING STREAK NEAR THE END OF HIS WWE CAREER. IT WAS SUPER SAD SEEING HIM LOSE SO MANY TIMES

HOW ABOUT YOU GUYS?

Roman Reigns.

Ultimo Dragon in WWE.

Bray Wyatt's booking from WM 30 onward.

TNA squandering their amazing roster with dogshit booking and creative.

THAT IS ALMOST /ENDTHREAD LEVEL GOOD. THAT GUY COULD HAVE BEEN A TRIPLE H LEVEL (2000-2009) HEEL

I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE HOW BADLY THEY FUCKED UP THEIR INITIAL TELEVISION DEAL AND THE HOGAN/NWO ROSTER.

LETTING AJ AND JOE GO WAS JUST RETARDED.

At one point they had an arguably better roster than WWE.

Obviously the Invasion.

Feel like they were between a rock and hard place on that one. The big stars contracts were tied up, but if they waited, they'd be doing it when the Monday night war heat had really cooled off.

It's easy to look back in hindsight and say yeah, they should have just waited, but in the moment, it's a tough decision to make.

Sure, but it was a big letdown to me as a fan.

Not so much for me, but Bret Hart in WCW must be one of 'em.

For me, at the time, I was only 10 years-old, so wouldn't have known the difference between good booking and shit booking, hell, Hak vs. Kendall Windham in a Kendo Stick match was Wrestlemania main-event quality TV for me. :D

Diesel's Royal Rumble comeback.

Mordecai

WWE 3HR RAW

Cruiser weight division

Christian not getting a push in 2004/2005.

A big deal not being made about Christian coming back to WWE.

Christian losing the world title so quickly and never getting a proper long reign.

Christian quietly retiring with no fanfare or final story.

Rikishi's heel turn.


Yeup. Either they should have waited longer to do it or at least made it into a 2-part story so they could get more of WCW's bigger stars involved later.

Also having too much focus being towards another McMahon family feud.

He probably got a heros retirement party backstage.

Oh, DDP's WWE run.

Jerry Lawler not winning the WWE title in 2011. Mr. Perfect never winning the big one, Austin Aries's wwe run.

Could not agree more. Christian deserved better.

It also still sticks in my craw that they had him drop the WHC to Orton on a random SmackDown! 5 days after winning it.

CM Punk getting squashed by HHH after returning (when he should have been gone from WWE for a year)

Brock Lesnar's initial booking upon his return

The way the Nexus became a nothing faction

Lesnar's 2014-2015 monster reign fizzled into a pretty huge letdown. He beats The Undertaker's streak and squashes Cena for the title. Starts a great "Who can possibly stop this man?" story. He ends up just losing the title without getting "stopped" and the man who finally beats him is... The Undertaker.

Hooray for 50/50 booking! :shifty:

The Higher Power.

Oh, easy one I forgot about even though it was out of their hands...

Muhammad Hassan. Could have been an all-time great heel.

* TNA from the time they got Kurt Angle...then hired Vince Russo the same week.

* "We will get Roman Reigns over as a babyface!" - Vince McMahon, 2015 to present

* The Invasion

Road Warrior Animal as the mystery entrant in the match Sid broke his leg.

For that to be a letdown, you'd have to actually look forward to a wcw main event.

I CAN ONLY EVEN REMEMBER A HANDFUL OF NON-DISSAPOINTING WCW MAIN EVENTS.

GOLDBERG VS. NASH WAS AWFUL.

I'd say Sting's WWE run was a massive letdown

Dolph Ziggler after winning Survivor Series

Sting vs Hogan it was ...ok right up till the end where it just collapsed

I would say Hido Itami but he seems to be finding his feet as a heel.

R-Truth's heel run

Booker T VS Triple H

William Regal after winning KOTR.(next to Booker this one pisses me off the most)

Batistas ring gear when Evolution faced The Shield

Luke Harper

Awesome Kong in WWE

Desmond Wolfe/Nigel McGuinness in TNA

Big Show's initial run

Hogan back in WWE. Other than The Rock match, he once again pushed himself down our throats. How they coulld put the belt on him is beyond me? Also, didn't he beat Lesnar once?

No, he never did, actually. Brock beat him on the August 4, 2002 edition of SmackDown! in their only singles match with each other.

nah Lesnar squashed his ass.

Oh, good. That run was so fucked up I thought that might have been a possibility.

Oh, according they also had a longer match at SummerSlam.

Both times he lost was from passing out of a bearhug. Guess he really didn't want to get pinned.

He wasn't shoved down anyone's throat. he was the most over guy in the company.

I thought Buff Bagwell could have been a whole lot bigger than he was in WCW. Also felt like Benoit was terribly underused in WCW

As far as WWE, Ted Dibiase was so much better than what he actually accomplished. Kerry Von Erich could have been one of the greatest of All Time, but for some reason he got jobbed after a honest IC title run. The Brainbusters should have had a more dominant run. Though they did end Demolitions run. Also, I thought for sure Adam Bomb would be a superstar.

Some current guys.

I'd love to see a storyline of Neville taking on people outside the CW division. And Dolph Ziggler is way too good for the WWE to not know what to do with him.

Regal getting suspended right before his main event push was the exact moment my passion for wrestling started to fade.