History DethroningMoment / ProWrestling

* Tropers/{{JIKTV}}: Wrestling/ShawnMichaels' "I Lost My Smile" speech from the February 13, 1997 ''Wrestling/WWERaw'', Thursday [=Raw=] Thursday. After regaining the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-h.html WWE Championship]] from [[Wrestling/SidEudy Sycho Sid]] a month earlier at the ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble'', and facing the prospect of dropping the belt back to Wrestling/BretHart at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} XIII'', in return for Bret having done so for Shawn a year earlier, Shawn takes the coward's way out and forfeits the belt with a bogus excuse. All because he didn't want to do the job and he missed his [[Wrestling/TheKliq three asshole friends]] who were [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder stinking up the joint in]] Wrestling/{{WCW}}. Despite this, Shawn would remain employed, go on to win the [[http://wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Titles]] in the summer with Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin (which he would vacate, of course), [[Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob win the title for a third and final time]], and eventually go on to be inducted into the [=WWE=] Hall of Fame in 2011 as if this and all his other moments of political bullshit had never happened.
** SaiyanWarrior006: You're only delving into a small part of it. Shawn at that time was arguably the biggest prick in the Wrestling world with how he acted. Threatening to leave or no show if things didn't go his way. Refusing to put wrestlers over (If he did lose it was by DQ or countout) and a whole lot of other things including throwing a tantrum backstage and demanding he wins The European title at a show in Britain against British Bulldog (despite Wrestling/{{Davey Boy|Smith}} having it in his contract he'd never lose in his home country.) and afterwards gloating and dedicating the win to Bulldog's sister in the front row who had cancer and shortly died afterwards. Shawn would do nothing with it and drop it to his buddy Triple H making it all pointless. If it wasn't for the fact he was one of their bigger stars and it was a difficult time as they needed all the stars and marketable people they could get, his ass would've been fired long ago for the stunts he pulled.
* Blueranger: Wrestling/{{Melina}} vs Wrestling/AliciaFox at ''Wrestling/{{Summerslam}} 2010''. Whether or not you liked Alicia as champion, the way Melina completely buried her in that match is inexcusable. Melina can't help how she's booked (winning the match) but she can help the way she wrestles. Alicia was only able to get basic offence in that match and looked incredibly weak. Things got worse in their rematch for the title - Alicia got no offence in whatsoever. For three minutes all Melina did was beat the crap nonstop out of Alicia, burying her once again. These days Alicia is being used as a jobber while Melina got a push of her own and is still being booked strongly.
* Rickysayshi: ''Survivor Series 2006'', Wrestling/{{Lita}}'s farewell from WWE. Who honestly thought this up? After years of dedication she gets sent away by having Cryme Tyme give a "Ho Sale" and sell her "belongings" that include her panties, tampons, and a dildo. And you want to know the kicker? Before the segment starts you can see a security guy confiscating a "Thank You Lita" sign from a group of people in the crowd.
** Tropers/tsstevens: I would second this and by rights, this should probably be considered worse because of the disrespect shown to Amy Dumas as a person rather than the character she played. However for a moment put this shameful act in the context of Lita being a slut heel, that was the villain she was. What brought this on to a degree was the Wrestling/{{Kane}} angle where she is kidnapped and raped. Think about that for a moment: they try and sell a character by using rape. RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil is very much a RealLife trope. It deserves to be treated as being that heinous for real. If the WWE wanted to market Kane or Glenn Jacobs again this would be a major issue or should have been, instead, the whole idea seemed to have been forgotten or buried. To make it worse this seems to be a bout of punishment against Amy Dumas with other incidents such as male abuse and humiliation, all for saying that recreating the kiss she had with Wrestling/MattHardy would ruin the magic. And to make things even worse they had an angle with Gene Snitsky where he caused Lita to have a miscarriage of a baby she did not want in the first place and run with this angle for years. In the words of Wrestling/JimCornette who has spoken out against such ideas, fuck this company!

* gurudyne: [[Series/JerseyShore Snooki]] debuting in Wrestlemania 27. Wrestlemania, as in the crown jewel of WWE's [=PPV=]s, the event that exists as a hallmark of each participating wrestler's career. Sure, it's never been completely free of gimmicks or special guests, but I honestly can't remember someone less deserving of screentime at Wrestlemania, let alone a match. Wrestling/BryanDanielson was bumped off the card for Snooki's match. To make matters worse, this reeks of something TNA would pull.
*** SNL95: While on the topic of ''[=WrestleMania=] 27'' let's add the Corre being squashed in 90 seconds at Wrestlemania. Already having a squash match in a Pay-Per-View is horrible but it gets worse due to the fact that Wade Barrett was the Intercontinental Champion and Wrestling/HeathSlater and Wrestling/JustinGabriel were the Tag Team Champions leading to both titles losing most if not all of their prestige. It's especially bad that there was a rematch the next Friday on Smackdown that actually let them come out strong which begs the question why they didn't use the Smackdown match for Wrestlemania and if there was any point to them being squashed.
* Lionheart0: Wrestling/BookerT vs Triple H at Wrestlemania 19 for the World Heavyweight Championship. Up until this point, Booker T is crazy over, the crowd is rooting for him and it looks like he'll finally win the big one. The entire build-up has Triple H verbally burying Booker, insulting his skills, and saying [[UnfortunateImplications a person like him]] could never be WHC. Come Wrestlemania 19 you fully expect Booker to finally win the match right? Right? No dice. Booker T gives Triple H everything he's got, but Trips win after a single Pedigree. So not only did Triple H get to verbally bury Booker T, [[KarmaHoudini he ended being proven right at that.]]
* The_Reptile_: This one needs a bit of explaining. After the 2011 Draft, Wrestling/RandyOrton was put onto Smackdown, the apparent plan there to make him the top guy there, much like Wrestling/JohnCena was on RAW. To do this, they needed to put the belt on him as soon as possible. Okay, fair enough. The problem is that fan favorite Wrestling/{{Christian}} got the belt to keep it on Smackdown after Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio got drafted onto RAW. Now, it's been well documented that not just Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, but pretty much the entire booking committee behind WWE don't think too highly of Christian as a Main Event player, no matter what fans may say to the contrary. So how do they get the belt off of Christian? Have him keep it until Over the Limit, which is only about two weeks away? Nope! They have him lose it on the Smackdown afterwards to Randy Orton!
** Voidekat: To make things even clearer, that long-awaited title that Christian truly deserved? His first ever one? The one that made everybody happy? The heartwarming moment? All scrapped in less than two days.
*** Gravityman: Christian did win the title back a little while later, but unfortunately they apparently decided that Christian isn't allowed to look competent or anything. To put the belt on him, they put them in a match where if Orton gets disqualified, Christian gets the belt. The match then ends with... Orton randomly kicking Christian in the junk, a move so bizarrely out of character that it comes off as nothing but incredibly forced.
* Jables6: Wrestling/JohnCena and Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio failed to stop CM Punk from escaping MITB with the championship. In response, Vince holds a tournament of eight superstars, and none of them is Cena. Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr and Wrestling/TheMiz enter the finals, but their match is postponed by Vince, who wanted to fire Cena in front of the entire WWE universe. Cue HHH. He walks in, not only to stop Vince from firing Cena but to fire Vince as well, with HHH taking his place. Fast forward one week. Mysterio beats the Miz to obtain not only the first post-[=McMahon=] championship, but his first WWE Championship. Now all that's left is to see how long it will be before Del Rio cashes in his MITB. Then, Triple H pulls what many sports analysts call a 'dick move' and forces Mysterio to defend his title against none other than John Cena in the same night. in less than two hours, Mysterio lost his championship, and not even Wrestling/CMPunk walking out with the real belt around his waist to his old indy theme, Cult Of Personality, blaring through the speakers could end the fan rage felt that night.

* Goldeneye101: I'd say the Wrestling/CMPunk / Cena Feud after Money In The Bank 2011. Not only did the aforementioned tournament happen, but at the actual match, Kevin Nash attacks Punk after he wins and Alberto Del Rio wins the title by cashing in the Money in the Bank. Cena gets pissy because he and Punk work their asses off to end in THAT. There then is a No. 1 contender matchup, where Nash interferes again by distracting Punk. Cena, completely contradicting his actions last week, capitalizes on it to win.
* clownishchimp: The whole Triple H as the COO angle. Before that, the angle was about Wrestling/CMPunk shooting on Wrestling/VinceMcMahon and WWE, taking shots at their behind-the-scenes activities and their attempt at a PG public image. As a result Vince suspended him and decided to give someone else a shot at the title until John Cena confronted him and demanded that Punk get his shot or he would walk out. Vince agrees but says if [[YouHaveFailedMe Cena fails to beat Punk, he is fired]]. So Punk gets his shot, and despite Vince's attempts at another Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob, Punk wins and escapes with the title. At this point, WWE is getting a ton of praise over the angle and people can't wait to see what happens next. The following night they hold a tournament to crown a new WWE Champion, while Cena is about to be fired by Vince, making people wonder if Vince would actually do it or not. Then the angle goes downhill when Triple H shows up completely out of the blue and announces that the Board of Directors has relieved Vince of his duties (even though Wrestling/VinceMcMahon is the majority owner of the company [[note]]Though RealLife business laws do let a board and/or the other shareholders file a legal injunction against the majority-holder's power (just not his profits) if he's too reckless - which presumably {{Kayfabe}}[=-happened=] offscreen.[[/note]]) and that he is the new COO. There's also the fact that this is Wrestling/VinceMcMahon the man whose been running WWE since the '80s and brought wrestling to the mainstream and boom periods such as the Rock N Wrestling and [[Wrestling/AttitudeEra Attitude Eras]], and who has played the BigBad of WWE programming since the Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob, and yet he's just kicked out of his own company out of nowhere and dropped and forgotten about like a bad date, just to stop him from firing Cena. It gets worse when Cena simply gets the title back the next week and Punk shows up right after he wins it. This has lead to an extremely confusing angle in which HHH and Punk are feuding, yet neither wants to do a FaceHeelTurn, making it hard for the fans to figure out who to root for. Then at Summerslam Punk beats Cena to be the undisputed WWE champion, but is then attacked by Wrestling/KevinNash so that Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio, a heel whom WWE had pushed to the moon despite his lack of overness with the fans, can become the new champion. So Cena is now busy feuding with Del Rio for the title, while the angle turns into a three-way feud between Punk, HHH, and Nash(who is the one playing the heel), two of them being semi-retired from in-ring competition. There's a whole mystery over who sent the text to Nash, but he then reveals he sent it to himself, so HHH fires him. HHH and Punk finally face each other at Night of Champions, which has interference from Wrestling/TheMiz, [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]], and Nash, and HHH winds up winning the match, thus burying Punk. He then fires Miz and R-Truth and makes a Triple Threat match for HIAC between Punk, Cena (who beat Del Rio cleanly to win the title), and Del Rio for the title. It ends with Del Rio winning the title despite just losing it weeks ago when Miz and R-Truth attack Punk. This incident leads to the entire roster becoming threatened by an "unsafe workplace"(yeah, they are afraid of the [[SmugSnake MIZ]] of all people), and pretty much everyone on the roster walks out since they do not have confidence in Triple H and want him to step down. Yes, almost the entire roster pulls a FaceHeelTurn because they do not support HHH, who is being portrayed as the sympathetic face of the storyline. And there's no end in sight for this angle. To make things even worse, they are playing up [[YesMan John Laurinitis]] as the [[TheManBehindTheMan the person, or one of the people, behind the conspiracy]], meaning that potentially the angles payoff of this whole storyline is a semi-retired Wrestling/TripleH fighting one of his [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon father-in-law's]] former stooges for control over WWE. Alternatively, it could also lead to yet another feud between Wrestling/TripleH and his wife Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon for control over their father/father-in-law's company. What would make the latter potentially worse is that it may extend to Wrestlemania 28, in which the Wrestlemania ten years earlier saw the last feud between HHH and Stephanie, which was terrible, and the match that the feud was building up to, HHH vs Wrestling/ChrisJericho, [[EpicFail somehow got to be the final match on the card over]] [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] vs [[Wrestling/HulkHogan Hollywood Hulk Hogan]], one of the biggest matches of all time. And Wrestlemania 28 has Rock vs Cena as the scheduled main event. [[FridgeHorror Which means WWE could be repeating history by booking HHH and Stephanie's marriage problems over one of the biggest, most anticipated matches of all time.]] So basically it looks like this whole thing is just to make HHH [[CreatorsPet the center]] [[SpotlightStealingSquad of attention]] once again. And as big as this rant is, it still probably doesn't fully cover how bad this is, but I will leave that to anyone else who has something to say about it.

** FusengerShadow: Worse yet, Michael Cole was annoying enough insulting Daniel Bryan before he was champ. Cue Bryan winning the WHC. Does the insulting stop or even diminish any? It sure doesn't! You do not have your featured commentator bury one of your champs! It's like WWE is going out of their way to deliberately sabotage Bryan's run at the top. However, Cole has transitioned into being a full Bryan supporter now, as a heel commentator should be. It just took two months longer than it should.

* [=KantonKage=]: John Cena vs Wrestling/DamienSandow. Sandow first practically destroys Cena's injured arm and cashed in his Money In the Bank and still loses and is buried in the process. In their second encounter, Sandow is treated like chopped liver, [[JobberEntrance meaning no televised entrance]], Cena gets introduced first despite coming out last and Sandow doesn't get introduced at all.
* [=O-Zone=]: So does anyone remember when WWE introduced the Anonymous Raw General Manager back in 2010? Where they were represented by a computer (evidently complete with [=GLaDOS=] voice during one night). And then after about a year of putting up with it, the company decided just to do away with it all together without even revealing whoever it was? Yea...well, you know how WWE has been bringing back past General Managers to run both Raw and SD!? Guess who was back on July 9th, 2012 Raw? yep, the computer, complete with Michael Cole reading the emails and all. Oh but wait, there's more! At one point, King and Cole were arguing later that night and Cole accidentally throws a drink in King's face, which lead to the GM booking a Wrestlemania rematch between the two...so yea we get a rehash of that match, like we really needed it...Booker and Josh come out to commentate it and after Cole tries to escape beforehand, Booker throws him in the ring, and Jerry Lawler pins him in about 10 seconds....but then, the GM reverses the decision because Booker interfered (as in simply throwing Cole back in the ring, how is that considered interference?) and declares Cole the winner ([[HereWeGoAgain Yes, just like at Mania]]). But wait! Here comes the [[SarcasmMode "Best"]] part of all! Wrestling/SantinoMarella, who has been doing detective work (complete with Sherlock Holmes hat) throughout the night to try and find out who the Raw GM is, comes out and declares that he's "solved the case" or something like that; he determines that the Raw GM is under the ring (and you base this on what?) cue the annoying "ding" and the email says there is no one under the ring...of course, Santino goes under and...it's, ready for this, [[spoiler: Hornswoggle (yes, the Little Bastard/Illegitimate Child of Vince [=McMahon=]....The Anonymous Raw GM, introduced about 2 years ago, then just disappeared, is finally revealed to be Hornswoggle all along...]] Remind me again, why do people think TNA is the worst company?
* Cynical Bastardo: Wrestlemania IX. Yokozuna beats Wrestling/BretHart and is shown to be an unstoppable monster heel. That is, until Wrestling/HulkHogan comes down and challenges Yoko for the title and beats him in no time at all. Further still, Hogan didn't defend the title again until ''Wrestling/KingOfTheRing'' (and refused to job to Bret).

* [=ChrisDV=]: The WWE's inability to develop new stars, and constantly relying on Cena & Orton. With the Attitude Era stars finally retiring, the WWE has a severe lack of star power & has become increasingly reliant on Cena & Orton. Even though they have pushed some superstars to the main event - such as CM Punk, The Miz, & Daniel Bryan - the only one you can argue is truly still a main eventer is Punk, with the likes of Miz & Bryan being immediately shoved back down to mid-card status after their world title feuds have finished, and that's largely because of how long Punk was champion & that he went from the WWE champion to a feud with the Undertaker. If Orton & Cena both suffered lengthy injuries between now & [=WrestleMania=], the WWE would be forced to rely on mid-carders & part-timers for their biggest show of the year. And part of the problem is that when someone (Like Zack Ryder, Wrestling/DolphZiggler or Daniel Bryan) gets over on their own, the WWE take it upon themselves to give them a moment in the spotlight before throwing them back down to an even worse spot on the card than before, seemingly because they didn't choose that superstar to be pushed.

** [=GX Next=]: Looking at it from a booking perspective was a real crap moment. Look at the Legends panel; the COO's hero growing up and his bestie. Who wins the tag titles? COO's Wrestling/DgenerationX stablemates the New Age Outlaws, a {{tag team}} with a combined age of 94. Who is still the WWEWHC? COO's Evolution stablemate. Who is the surprise legend entrant into the Royal Rumble? Kevin Nash, not Diesel as he had been a mere three years prior, Kevin Nash. Finally, who is the winner of the Rumble? COO's other Evolution stablemate. Any one or two of these would have been okay and honestly, Shawn Michaels and Ric Flair on the legends panel was more than justified, but all of that together makes me think this should have been called Kliq-a-mania than rather than the Royal Rumble.
* Tropers/{{Totaldramawwe}}: One of the things I didn't like about Wrestling/WrestleMania XXX (don't get me wrong, I like it) was when John Cena beat Wrestling/BrayWyatt with the AA. My problem is not because he defeated Bray but because this was the time where Cena could have developed his character with the whole storyline he and Bray had been through the past few weeks and what became of it? Nothing, just nothing. Luckily for the Wyatts, they beat John with Sheamus and Big E on the day after the event, but it was still a waste of a good plot and some great character development for John.

* Tropers/TotzthePlaid: For me, it's not a stupid character or plot twist that comes to mind as the WWE's D.M.o.S. (though there are many that are mind-numbingly bad), but rather a brain-dead moment where the very rules of a match were completely forgotten by every single person involved. All five wrestlers (John Cena, Wrestling/DeanAmbrose, Randy Orton, Kane and Wrestling/SethRollins), the referee, and all three commentators (JBL, Michael Cole, and Jerry Lawler) completely forgot that a Street Fight is basically a no-holds-barred-all-weapons-allowed-free-for-all brawl, not a handicap tag-team match. This lasted for at least ten minutes of tagging in and out, everyone staying in the ring, the referee breaking up holds and counting on "illegal" actions, with everyone acting like it was normal. The WWE's had many moronic things happen since I started watching, but the main event of the October 20, 2014 Raw is the only time I rage-quit a match so far. (I've read that it broke out into chaos later in the overrun, but that's what the match stipulation promised from the start, not well-ordered idiocy.)

* Tropers/saltyoven: The 2015 Royal Rumble was already a terrible PPV with only the triple threat championship match standing out as a good match, but the big dethroning moment occured at the actual royal rumble. After Daniel Bryan was eliminated, people realized quickly that Roman Reigns was going to win it. Okay, this is going to need bullet points on why this was a terrible idea from the get go. 1. This would mean that Wrestlemania 31 will only be Roman Reigns's 2nd singles match in a PPV and he's already in a match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, it makes Brock Lesnar Look like a complete and utter chump with his push to being the champion. 2. After Daniel Bryan was eliminated, people still kept chanting for him and were booing every other entrant afterward. 3. Towards the end of the match, there were "We want Wrestling/{{Rusev|AndLana}}!" Chants. Yes, people would rather see an anti-American Heel win than the babyface. 4. By sheer location at which the royal rumble was held: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To give an idea, that is pretty much smark HQ. And because everyone was booing there, casual fans will buy into the booing and dislike the result as well. After that night, within 24 hours WWE Network lost 300,000 subscribers, the #1 trending Hashtag on Twitter was [=#CancelWWENetwork=], and they lost subs so quickly, [[DemandOverload the website actually crashed]] trying to keep up with the cancellations.

* Nyame: ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2015'': This PPV had a lot of stupid moments, but I'm just going to mention the main event to cut time. Okay, your original world champion was injured and you're having a tournament to determine a new champion. You've got Wrestling/RomanReigns, the original number one contender, and Wrestling/DeanAmbrose, best friends and self-proclaimed "brothers" in opposite blocks of the tournament, making it blatantly obvious who's going to the finals (especially since Wrestling/SethRollins, the third of their number who betrayed them, was the champion who got injured). Predictable? Sure. But this was what the fans, including me, wanted, especially if they weren't going to get the Rolleigns match. Then comes the actual match. Which is nine minutes long. Nine minutes. ''For a '''world title match'''''. It's not like the performers lacked chemistry or intensity, and sure, they may have wrestled the semi-finals earlier in the night, but would it have killed them to be given five or so more minutes? And then there's after the match. Where Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}, a heel who has been booked into nigh-oblivion since he returned and has been regarded as irrelevant for ''years'' now, cashed in and won the title off of Wrestling/RomanReigns, in a blatant rehash of ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2013'' two years before. Reports came in the next day that the only reason this happened is that Vince didn't want Reigns to be booed when he won, and it was booked hours before the show started. There were so many missed opportunities to do something new and exciting in this PPV, and they absolutely blew every single one of them. Just because they're so desperate to get their chosen guy over as the next Wrestling/JohnCena, they put the title on a guy that no one, not even the company itself, wanted on top. Just another event that proved that WWE doesn't give a damn about what their fans think and is more willing to overwear a long since outdated formula rather than do something spontaneous and new. It shouldn't have been surprising that the ratings for RAW the next night dropped to the lowest rating for a non-holiday episode in the last eighteen years.
* Jon Milne: One of the most distasteful things I have ever come across as a wrestling fan is the exploitation of real-life deaths of people connected to wrestling for use in storyline angles, which namely tends to happen via the heel characters mocking the face characters about the death of said wrestling personality, but such efforts only tend to succeed in bringing really cheap heat from fans and smack of incredibly lazy and bad taste storytelling - Paige bringing up Reid Flair to Charlotte, and CM Punk bringing up Paul Bearer to the Undertaker being notable examples in recent years. But to me, the absolute nadir of this kind of thing was the "Eddie-sploitation" of 2006, in which the death of Eddie Guerrero was repeatedly utilised in truly disgusting storylines and angles, not least Randy Orton being scripted to tell Rey Mysterio that Eddie was "in hell", and that Rey had as much chance of beating Orton as Eddie had of coming back to life. Mark Henry would get in on the act, telling the Guerreros that he would spit on Eddie as well as the other family members if he was alive. And then Chavo and Vickie would be cast as the villains (yes, the ''villains'') in the feud they would have with Rey, and later Chris Benoit, and Eddie's name would keep on getting brought up despite fans very obviously hating that the WWE kept doing this. To understand how offensively bad this is, this is to date the only Gooker Award winning induction on Wrestlecrap to not contain any pictures or jokes, just straight-up criticism about how truly full of bad taste this angle was.
* {{emmens}}: Wrestlemania 32 was bad and there are so many things I could call a dethroning moment of suck. The cheap use of legends, The Rock being in a "match" with Erick Rowan, the placement of the Undertaker vs Shane [=McMahon=] match where the fate of the WWE hung in the balance. but I think the truest dethroning moment of suck from all of this most recent Wrestlemania was from the night after. The opening ladder match ended in the best feel-good moment of the year where Zack Ryder won his first ''WrestleMania'' match to become Intercontinental champion. this is significant due to how WWE has chosen to use Zack Ryder before this point (Google it so this entry doesn't get too long.) and immediately on RAW the next night, Zack loses the championship, to The Miz, because his wife Maryse distracted Ryder. Absolutely disgusting.
* Tropers/DrZulu2010: I removed my original entry because, speaking of Undertaker vs Shane O' Mac, in the end, the Hell In A Cell match between them was that because of how moot the whole thing was. Shane, despite losing, still has control of Raw and The Undertaker may have wrestled his final match (or at least, his final non-Wrestlemania match) while giving Shane a proverbial slap on the wrist. For something like that to happen on Wrestlemania, which is supposed to be similar to a season finale was a good sign of Vince's lack of long-term thinking.

* Giant Leviathan: Sami Zayn's FaceHeelTurn. I have one word to perfectly summarise why turning Sami Zayn Heel was a colossally stupid decision: R-Evolution. The entire point of that storyline, was that Sami Zayn was tempted to turn Heel after months and months of getting screwed over, but ultimately chose not to. And the thing is, he did show an edge, he did show character (Probably more character than anyone on the main roster has right now), and he did it all while making the conscious choice to stay Babyface. But now we're saying that that moment no longer matters. This pivotal moment in Sami Zayn's character may as well have never happened. [[SarcasmMode Great, well done]] [=WWE=]. This is as idiotic as Batman suddenly gunning down families in alleyways, or Spiderman deciding he doesn't need to bother stopping criminals, or [[TakeThat Captain America joining Hydra]]. You're going against one of the most important moments in their character development (And in Sami Zayn's case, the very thing that made him stand out as a unique character) for the sake of a shock moment, and his reasoning is moronic too. "[[InsaneTrollLogic After being severely injured, I now realise that my worst enemy is totally correct and I will now change my life's philosophy to agree with him!]]" [[SarcasmMode Gee... I never realized it was so easy! I think tonight I'll go stab some Westburo Baptist Church members. Because as we all know, violently assaulting someone is the best way to get them to agree with your worldview.]] Also, this makes no sense for Kevin Owens either. This is the guy who is the most paranoid man on the planet. [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder The guy who turned on Chris Jericho because he felt so uncomfortable with someone being so close to him]]. There is no way Kevin Owens would be so accepting of this. If the writers had any consideration for character consistency whatsoever, Kevin should be going: "What's your angle? You think I owe you something? Don't try to pull that "I just wanted to help" shit on me!" Because an act of such loyalty would make Kevin Owen deeply uncomfortable. [[HeelRealization Since it reminds him of how much of a treacherous scumbag he is]]. But no. Fuck nuance. Fuck character depth and consistency. We need a random shock moment because the [=WWE=] doesn't know how to write characters. So here's the real story as far as I'm concerned: Sami Zayn died on a hospital bed due to a crushed throat. The guy who came to save Kevin Owens is his identical cousin Mami Sane. And I'm done. The two characters that brought me back into the WWE, into wrestling, were Bray Wyatt and Sami Zayn. Now one of them is a rambling idiot who is about as worthless as slime mold. And the other one is dead. Fuck you WWE.

* [=Patrickthekid=] I thought it couldn't get worse than having Kofi Kingston losing the title in a 7-second squash to Brock Lesner, but the company somehow found a way to top themselves in the Hell in a Cell 2019 main event between The Fiend and Seth Rollins. Despite being the babyface, [[DesignatedHero no one wanted Rollins to retain the title]]. Yet it was clear that the company didn't want to make the exchange. So how did they protect the two of them? Well, first they had Rollins throw just about everything at the Fiend, including no less than ''eleven Curbstomps'', making the move look weak and the Fiend look impossible to beat. All while the crowd booed at the match for Rollins dominating the match. Yet the worst part was when Rollins used a sledgehammer... and the referee called a no-contest. In a stipulation where Mick Foley almost died for real ''yet had it keep going''. The Fiend was perfectly fine afterward and attacked Rollins but at this point the damage was done. One of the few over acts was humiliated once again while the top babyface was forever tarnished. All while the crowd was calling for refunds, a continuation of the match and AEW.
* [=Will108=]: Triple H vs. Steve Austin, No Disqualification match. Survivor Series 2000. The most wanted match in said PPV, ended with Triple H getting into a car trying to run over Austin, only for Austin to one-upped him by using a forklift to pick up Triple H's car and drop it off the forklift from 30 feet in the air. The car lands on its top with Triple H still being trapped inside. The match ended No Contest. After those violent brawls and strikes between Austin and Triple H, the match ended in such an anticlimatic way. Austin didn't get a win. What a disappointment.

** Tropers/ZeoSpark16: I agree with that. Even Triple H himself thought that Theory winning the briefcase wasn't a good idea since Theory was still green in the WWE and it was too soon for him to have a shot at a major title already (especially if said current champion is [[InvincibleVillain Roman Reigns]]). So, Hunter had him cash it in on then- U.S. Champion Seth Rollins instead and even lose to him.

** [=TnAdct1=]: After years of having the "vote of no confidence" be the Dethroning Suck, this, combined with the Raw following the event, has usurped it. Just when it looks like WWE is finally getting better, Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, whose departure was a huge reason for the turnaround, returns to Creative and manages to take everything WWE accomplished in 8 months and ruin it in the span of a day. The ending of [=WrestleMania 39=] was bad enough, but the Raw following it, which is usually one of the must-watch episodes of the year, was easily one of the worst episodes of the show to date, with the show receiving three rewrites (two happening ''while the show was in progress''), only a half hour of actual wrestling (with the commercial free first hour only having one match, which consisted of a squash match), a Wrestling/SethRollins segment where he just comes out to hear the fans sing along to his theme and then returns backstage, Wrestling/MattRiddle being the only return on an episode that is usually filled with surprise appearances, and a BaitAndSwitch main event in which Wrestling/BrockLesnar [[FaceHeelTurn becomes a heel again]] and beats up Wrestling/CodyRhodes in a manner that, when combined with the end of the main event of the previous night, comes off as a TakeThat from Vince for how Cody had managed to find success outside of WWE. Wrestling/CMPunk is probably right when he said that "Maybe this company (WWE) will be better after Vince [=McMahon=] is dead."

** Tropers/CynicalBastardo: And, of course, Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin suddenly turning heel (again) and joining WCW because "they appreciate him." Anyone who knows Austin's career and how he badly was treated in his WCW run, essentially began moving their heads in the direction of the nearest wall.

* Cynical Bastardo: Wrestlemania IX. Yokuzuna beats Wrestling/BretHart and is shown to be an unstoppable monster heel. That is, until Wrestling/HulkHogan comes down and challenges Yoko for the title and beats him in no time at all. Further still, Hogan didn't defend the title again until Wrestling/KingOfTheRing (and refused to job to Bret).
** Tropers/{{Krendall}}: To make things worse, the original plan was for Hogan to have one more run with the title and then drop the belt to Hart in a "passing the torch" moment at King of the Ring or Summer Slam. Hogan then decided to take a three-month vacation immediately after Wrestling/WrestleMania (not even making TV appearances), pissing off management so much that they demand he drop the belt at [=KotR=] and leave the company. Even then, Hogan refused to put Bret Hart over, only agreeing to drop the belt back to Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}}.
* Armando Payne: 2013 Royal Rumble. Punk V Rock. Rock winning with 2 fucking moves. It's like David Arquette being the WCW champion all over again.

* [=HeavyMetalSnail=]: Batista winning the 2014 Royal Rumble. There are so many reasons why this sucks. First, Batista had not worked with the company since 2010 and has only been back for around a month, making it absurd that he were to win something so big after being with the company for such a short amount of time. Second, he won the rumble by eliminating young Roman Reigns after Reigns broke Kane's elimination record in a rather effortless and anticlimactic fashion, completely derailing the momentum that he built up in the match. Third, the match was stacked with several people who had not only worked for the company longer, had not won the rumble before, and have shown themselves to be far greater talent than Batista (CM Punk, Antonio Cesaro, The Shield, The Wyatt Family, Big E Langston, and Dolph Ziggler being the most notable examples). Fourth, Batista is guaranteed a title match at Wrestlemania over several more over wrestlers, including the beloved Daniel Bryan (who was not even in the match), signifying that WWE would rather have a match featuring a 45-year-old has-been rather than one of their more popular, younger, and better wrestlers who would actually benefit from a rumble win and a world title match. This finish was so bad that it seems like WWE was trying to piss off their fans and alienate their viewers. It is proof positive that WWE hates their fans and does not want to listen to them. Why else would they not push any of the wrestlers that the fans actually like? It was an abysmal finish that shows that WWE wants to keep rehashing the same old shit instead of actually trying to run a wrestling company properly. This is the kind of garbage that you expect from WCW.

* ColeYote: Back in time a couple of years, John Cena vs The Miz I Quit match at Over The Limit 2011. The match was a half-hour 2-on-1 beatdown of John Cena which "ended" with a rehash of the Rock/Mankind recorded "I quit" dirty finish. Except the referee decided to be smart for once, checked it out, and restarted the match. John Cena then no-sells half an hour of injuries and literally wins with four moves, one of which was ducking a title belt to the head and another of which was a bit of pants belt whipping (which, as a masochist, I can say is hardly crippling). I cannot overstate the absurdity of it. I mean, I am not exaggerating when I say it was half an hour of The Miz beating on John Cena only for John to completely forget about it as soon as the match was restarted.
* WWE Raw - 8/25/2014: After he got absolutely demolished by Wrestling/BrockLesnar at Wrestling/SummerSlam, we were supposed to hear from what should've been a "walking wounded" John Cena and his crazy reasoning for why he wants to rematch Brock right away at Night of Champions. Instead, we get a do-nothing "Hall of Famers" conference with Hulk Hogan kissing up to Cena, Cena comes out, selling absolutely nothing from his beatdown by Lesnar other than "Oh, I got my ass kicked" and instead of the same impassioned promo we heard from him before Summer Slam, just flatly says he's going to beat Brock Lesnar's ass, doing absolutely nothing to sell his destruction at Summer Slam or even sell the rematch at NOC, which we can only hope is not WWE's cheap way of popping the belt back on Cena to tie Flair's world title record and take even further refuge under their ever-thinning security blanket that is John Cena.

* Tropers/saltyoven: The 2015 Royal Rumble was already a terrible PPV with only the triple threat championship match standing out as a good match, but the big dethroning moment occured at the actual royal rumble. After Daniel Bryan was eliminated, people realized quickly that Roman Reigns was going to win it. Okay, this is going to need bullet points on why this was a terrible idea from the get go. 1. This would mean that Wrestlemania 31 will only be Roman Reigns's 2nd singles match in a PPV and he's already in a match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, it makes Brock Lesnar Look like a complete and utter chump with his push to being the champion. 2. After Daniel Bryan was eliminated, people still kept chanting for him and were booing every other entrant afterwards. 3. Towards the end of the match, there were "We want Wrestling/{{Rusev|AndLana}}!" Chants. Yes, people would rather see an anti-American Heel win than the babyface. 4. By sheer location at which the royal rumble was held: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To give an idea, that is pretty much smark HQ. And because everyone was booing there, casual fans will buy into the booing and dislike the result as well. After that night, within 24 hours WWE Network lost 300,000 subscribers, the #1 trending Hashtag on Twitter was [=#CancelWWENetwork=], and they lost subs so quickly, [[DemandOverload the website actually crashed]] trying to keep up with the cancellations.
* NazirulTakashi: Okay. As a long-time WWE fan, I've endured a lot of stupid things that I could easily put on this page. But I'm not going to put them easily due to the fact that I could only pit one stupid thing on this page only. But after the 23/2/2015 edition of RAW, I've finally found something to be written here. In that show there's a Divas Match between [[Wrestling/TenilleDashwood Emma]] and Wrestling/{{Paige}} against the Wrestling/BellaTwins. What makes me put that match as a DMOS? The way WWE treated the match of course! First of all, Paige makes her entrance before going to the Commercials and showing a Sting promo. In other words, Paige is in that ring for 10 minutes while those things are happening (while at that time, Emma does a JobberEntrance). Then the match starts... which instantly ended in 30 seconds with the Bellas winning the match. So let me get this straight? WWE RAW is 3 hours and yet they can only give the Divas 30 seconds worth of screen time? The way the Divas Division was handled was pretty insulting towards the fans of said Division to the point that [=#GiveDivasAChance=] were trending No 1 on Twitter, hoping that the Division improves someday! If that doesn't change the WWE's view in handling the Divas Division, I don't know what will.

* {{emmens}}: Wrestlemania 32 was bad and there are so many things I could call a dethroning moment of suck. The cheap use of legends, The Rock being in a "match" with Erick Rowan, the placement of the Undertaker vs Shane [=McMahon=] match where the fate of the wwe hung in the balance. but I think the truest dethroning moment of suck from all of this most recent Wrestlemania was from the night after. The opening ladder match ended in the best feel good moment of the year where Zack Ryder won his first Wrestlemania match to become Intercontinental champion. this is significant due to how WWE has chosen to use Zack Ryder before this point (google it so this entry doesn't get too long.) and immediately on raw the next night Zack loses the championship, to The Miz, because his wife Maryse distracted Ryder. Absolutely disgusting.

* Giant Leviathan: Sami Zayn's FaceHeelTurn. I have one word to perfectly summarise why turning Sami Zayn Heel was a colossally stupid decision: R-Evolution. The entire point of that storyline, was that Sami Zayn was tempted to turn Heel after months and months of getting screwed over, but ultimately chose not to. And the thing is, he did show an edge, he did show character (Probably more character than anyone on the main roster has right now), and he did it all while making the conscious choice to stay Babyface. But now we're saying that that moment no longer matters. This pivotal moment in Sami Zayn's character may as well have never happened. [[SarcasmMode Great, well done]] [=WWE=]. This is as idiotic as Batman suddenly gunning down families in alleyways, or Spiderman deciding he doesn't need to bother stopping criminals, or [[TakeThat Captain America joining Hydra]]. You're going against one of the most important moments in their character development (And in Sami Zayn's case, the very thing that made him stand out as a unique character) for the sake of a shock moment, and his reasoning is moronic too. "[[InsaneTrollLogic After being severely injured, I now realise that my worst enemy is totally correct and I will now change my life's philosophy to agree with him!]]" [[SarcasmMode Gee... I never realised it was so easy! I think tonight I'll go stab some Westburo Baptist Church members. Because as we all know, violently assaulting someone is the best way to get them to agree with your worldview.]] Also, this makes no sense for Kevin Owens either. This is the guy who is the most paranoid man on the planet. [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder The guy who turned on Chris Jericho because he felt so uncomfortable with someone being so close to him]]. There is no way Kevin Owens would be so accepting of this. If the writers had any consideration for character consistency whatsoever, Kevin should be going: "What's your angle? You think I owe you something? Don't try to pull that "I just wanted to help" shit on me!" Because an act of such loyalty would make Kevin Owen deeply uncomfortable. [[HeelRealization Since it reminds him of how much of a treacherous scumbag he is]]. But no. Fuck nuance. Fuck character depth and consistency. We need a random shock moment because the [=WWE=] doesn't know how to write characters. So here's the real story as far as I'm concerned: Sami Zayn died on a hospital bed due to a crushed throat. The guy who came to save Kevin Owens is his identical cousin Mami Sane. And I'm done. The two characters that brought me back into the WWE, into wrestling, were Bray Wyatt and Sami Zayn. Now one of them is a rambling idiot who is about as worthless as slime mold. And the other one is dead. Fuck you WWE.
* Tropers/ZeoSpark16: I would love to rip into this one but a huge Dethroning Moment for me was Jinder Mahal's WWE title run. Let me first say that Jinder Mahal as a jobber for three years. Three freaking years! And, all of a sudden, when he gets moved to Smackdown via the Shakeup, he is suddenly World Champion material. Let me point out during that time, Mahal didn't even have a good finisher and suddenly he is just given the world title. Mahal is definitely one of the worst WWE Champions in a long time because [[FlatCharacter his personality was so bland and too much of a generic heel]]. His moveset sucked, his theme song is annoying, and he is overall not WWE champion material. WWE only did this because they were doing a tour in India and they wanted Mahal to feel like a "hero" to them because he's holding the WWE title to represent them. Well, there was one problem with that. Mahal is not Indian! He's Canadian! And you know what else? [[DidntThinkThisThrough Everyone knew he wasn't Indian]] so having a major title on a mediocre wrestler such as him was entirely pointless! It was a good thing WWE nixed the idea of having Mahal win back the title from AJ Styles or we would've stayed with a boring champion for an even longer time. I still can't believe he ran with the title for around 6 months. I nearly stopped watching Smackdown if it wasn't for the good rivalry between Kevin Owens and AJ Styles over the US title.

* [=Patrickthekid=] I thought it couldn't get worse than having Kofi Kingston losing the title in a 7 second squash to Brock Lesner, but the company somehow found a way to top themselves in the Hell in a Cell 2019 main event between The Fiend and Seth Rollins. Despite being the babyface, [[DesignatedHero no one wanted Rollins to retain the title]]. Yet it was clear that the company didn't want to make the exchange. So how did they protect the two of them? Well, first they had Rollins throw just about everything at the Fiend, including no less than ''eleven Curbstomps'', making the move look weak and the Fiend look impossible to beat. All while the crowd booed at the match for Rollins dominating the match. Yet the worst part was when Rollins used a sledgehammer... and the referee called a no-contest. In a stipulation where Mick Foley almost died for real ''yet had it keep going''. The Fiend was perfect fine afterwards and attacked Rollins but at this point the damage was done. One of the few over acts was humiliated once again while the top babyface was forever tarnished. All while the crowd was calling for refunds, a continuation of the match and AEW.
* [=Will108=]: Triple H vs. Steve Austin, No Disqualification match. Survivor Series 2000. The most wanted match in said PPV, ended with Triple H getting into a car trying to run over Austin, only for Austin to one-upped him by using a forklift to pick up Triple H's car and drop it off the forklift from 30 feet in the air. The car lands on its top with Triple H still being trapped inside. The match ended No Contest. After those violent brawls and strikes between Austin and Triple H, the match ended in a such anticlimatic way. Austin didn't get a win. What a disappointment.

** Tropers/ZeoSpark16: I agree with that. Even Triple H himself thought that Theory winning the briefcase wasn't a good idea since Theory was still green in the WWE and it was too soon for him to have a shot at a major title already (especially if said ccurrent champion is [[InvincibleVillain Roman Reigns]]). So, Hunter had him cash it in on then US Champion Seth Rollins instead and even lose to him.

** [=RippeFan13=]: One can never truly know what Vince is thinking, but likely he figures with the upcoming UFC merger, he can do whatever he wants, even if it loses money or ratings, cause they've got that sweet Endeavor money coming in.
* [=RippenFan13=]: I've been watching WWE since its days on Spike TV, and the Invasion, believe it or not, hooked me, and I've been watching ever since then, and have even learned to retroactively enjoy the older years from the '80s & '90s when I grew up. I have read all the above listings, and have no problem with them, but we all watch wrestling for different reasons, and for me, I just like the over-the-top, colorful characters. Anyway, I believe wrestling is cyclical, so if something is bad now, eventually something better could come along. Anyway, I've changed mine from the Wrestling/BobbyLashley / Lana "relationship" because, despite all that, Lashley has enjoyed great success in the company, even winning the World title twice, and is still a big-name talent. Instead, I'm choosing the heel turn of Dominik Mysterio. Maybe people felt Face!Dom was the second coming of Rocky Maivia, I don't know, but heel Dom is even worse. He's basically a DirtyCoward, whiny simp who can't win a match without help from his [[Wrestling/RheaRipley "girlfriend"]] [[note]] Not to mention WWE downplaying the UnfortunateImplications of said "relationship" which, while never stated outright, was implied like crazy that they were [[Series/{{Friends}} "having all the sex."]] [[/note]], or stable and a [[PoorMansSubstitute poor man's]] Wrestling/EddieGuerrero [[note]] He uses Eddie's signature Frog Splash and Three Amigos suplexes, and his "relationship" with Rhea is a rehash of Eddie's similar one with Wrestling/{{Chyna}} in 2000. Admittedly, Eddie was essentially an honorary uncle to him, so this could be considered more of an homage, as compared to the "Eddiesplotation" Vince pulled. [[/note]] with little of the charisma or skill that the latter possessed. A later trip to "prison" and then acting like a parody of a hardened criminal has only poured more fuel onto this dumpster fire. [[note]] This is apparently based on another of Dom's honorary family members, Wrestling/{{Konnan}} who legitimately was in prison. [[/note]] To give you an example, the other members of the Judgment Day stable are considered either EvilIsCool or LoveToHate; Dom gets ''massive'' boos just coming out and loud boos and chants when he tries to cut a promo, which seems to be another example of WWE not understanding when people get [[XPacHeat the wrong kind of heat]]. It's admirable of Dom to want to follow in his [[Wrestling/ReyMysterio dad's]] footsteps, but the way WWE has handled him is like throwing someone in a lake with cement shoes on and expecting them to float.

* [=RippenFan13=]: I've been watching WWE since its days on Spike TV, and the Invasion, believe it or not, hooked me, and I've been watching ever since then, and have even learned to retroactively enjoy the older years from the '80s & '90s when I grew up. I have read all the above listings, and have no problem with them, but we all watch wrestling for different reasons, and for me, I just like the over-the-top, colorful characters. Anyway, I believe wrestling is cyclical, so if something is bad now, eventually something better could come along. I have never called WWE out on any of its stupid decisions regarding booking or misuse of talent [[note]] Serious, how did ''[[TheBrute Lars Sullivan]]'' go nowhere? [[/note]]. But there is one thing now that I would consider a DMOS; this 2019 angle on RAW with Lana divorcing [[Wrestling/RusevAndLana Rusev]] and getting with Wrestling/BobbyLashley. I don't know if it's Kayfabe or based on legit marital troubles, but it's cringeworthy all the same. Every segment basically boils down to Lana mocking Rusev over his failures in their marriage, bragging about how happy she is with Lashley, and how they are (to paraphrase [[Series/{{Friends}} Chandler Bing]]) "having all of the sex." How WWE expects this to help any of their careers is beyond me; I still can't believe they dropped Wrestling/LioRush as Lashley's hype man, and then try to get him over this way. Plus, it deals with two UnfortunateImplications, namely 1). BlackIsBiggerInBed, which is a somewhat true, yet still offensive, stereotype and 2). again casts the cheating woman as the heel (I'm looking at you Wrestling/{{Lita}}). Hopefully, this will get resolved, but again, it's hard to watch.

* [=KingLyger=]: "Hardy vs. Hardy: The Final Deletion". Beyond just using Wrestling/JeffHardy and Wrestling/MattHardy to recreate spots that were way past their prime, the editing was so bad that it was impossible to follow along. The SpecialEffectsFailure of using holograms from drones just looked flat-out ridiculous, even by the standards of professional wrestling. There are so many {{Ass Pull}}s, {{Ass Pull}}s, and random costume changes that the match simply had no basis in reality anymore. The flat-out {{Narm}} of lines like "it's a dilapidated boat!" killed the credibility even further. Also, as CrazyIsCool as Matt Hardy's character is supposed to be, his constant bleating of "Brother Nero!" quickly became the most annoying sound of the whole video. Finally, the audio quality was just terrible, with noticeable popping and scratching every time either wrestler hits the mat. It's already being called "''Film/TheRoom'' of pro wrestling matches," and it's not hard to see why. It has me convinced that TNA won't live to see 2017.

** [=TnAdct1=]: After years of having the "vote of no confidence" be the Dethroning Suck, this, combined with the Raw following the event, has usurped it. Just when it looks like WWE is finally getting better, Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, whose departure was a huge reason for the turnaround, returns to Creative and manages to take everything WWE accomplished in 8 months and ruin it in the span of a day. The ending of [=WrestleMania 39=] was bad enough, but the Raw following it, which is usually one of the must-watch episodes of the year, was easily one of the worst episodes of the show to date, with the show receiving three rewrites (two happening ''while the show was in progress''), only a half hour of actual wrestling (with the commercial free first hour only having one match, which consisted of a squash match), a Wrestling/SethRollins segment where he just comes out to hear the fans sing along to his theme and then returns backstage, Wrestling/MattRiddle being the only return on an episode that is usually filled with surprise appearances, and a BaitAndSwitch main event in which Wrestling/BrockLesnar [[FaceHeelTurn becomes a heel again]] and beats up Wrestling/CodyRhodes in a manner that, when combined with the end of the main event of the previous night, comes off as a TakeThat from Vince for how Cody had managed to find success outside of WWE. Wrestling/CMPunk is probably right when he said that "Maybe this company (WWE) will be better after Vince {=McMahon=} is dead."