History YMMV / WWE

** Prior to the Women's Evolution, it was very common for numerous episodes of RAW, Smackdown, NXT and WWE pay-per-views to not have a women's match (WrestleMania 29 was one example where a mixed eight-person tag team match was cut for time) but now that gender equality and feminism is in full swing, it is now common for episodes of RAW, Smackdown, NXT and the WWE pay-per-views to have two or more women's matches (with huge storyline buildup) these days in an attempt to please the PR and fans and not only that, would suffer consequences from sponsors as well if an episode of RAW, SmackDown, NXT for a WWE PLE did not have a women's match on the showing which the WWE is keen to avoid these days.

** Prior to the Women's Evolution, it was very common for numerous episodes of RAW, Smackdown, NXT and WWE pay-per-views to not have a women's match (WrestleMania 29 was one example where a mixed eight-person tag team match was cut for time) but now that gender equality and feminism is in full swing, it is now common for episodes of RAW, Smackdown, NXT and the WWE pay-per-views to have two or more women's matches (with huge storyline buildup) these days in an attempt to please the PR and fans and not only that, would suffer consequences from sponsors as well with an episode of RAW, SmackDown, NXT for a WWE PLE did not have a women's match on the show.

** Prior to the Women's Evolution, it was very common for numerous episodes of RAW, Smackdown, NXT and WWE pay-per-views to not have a women's match (WrestleMania 29 was one example where a mixed eight-person tag team match was cut for time) but now that gender equality and feminism is in full swing, it is now common for episodes of RAW, Smackdown, NXT and the WWE pay-per-views to have two or more women's matches (with huge storyline buildup) these days in an attempt to please the PR and fans and not only that, would suffer consequences from sponsors as well.

** Since 2016, this has changed due in large part to the "Divas Revolution/Women's Evolution" which allowed more time and matches featuring WWE's female talents. Now the order of importance features the following basic match types: a main-event match which features either the WWE Champion or the WWE Universal Champion and even either the RAW Women's Champion or the [=SmackDown=] Women's Champion on some occasions; a mid-card match which features either the United States Champion or the Intercontinental Champion; a storyline non-title match featuring two popular wrestlers (male or female); a tag team match featuring either the RAW Tag Team Champions, the [=SmackDown=] Tag Team Champions or the WWE Women's Tag Team Champions and occasionally, a match for the WWE 24/7 Championship.

** Prior to the Women's Evolution, it was very common for numerous episodes of RAW, Smackdown, NXT and WWE pay-per-views to not have a women's match (WrestleMania 29 was one example where a mixed eight-person tag team match was cut for time) but now that gender equality and feminism is in full swing, it is now common for episodes of RAW, Smackdown, NXT and the WWE pay-per-views to have two or more women's matches (with huge storyline buildup) these days in an attempt to please the PR and fans.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The 5 LJN published WWF games on the UsefulNotes/{{NES}} range somewhere between "complete crap" and "completely unplayable". The [[UsefulNotes/The16bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames fourth generation]] games were an improvement, but are criticized for their weak rosters (though to be fair that's not the developer's fault.) WWF fans rejoiced when Creator/{{THQ}} took over the license and ended Creator/{{Acclaim}}'s attempts at doing Franchise/MortalKombat controls in a wrestling game with ''WWF War Zone'' and ''WWF Attitude''[[note]]Acclaim would pick up the Wrestling/{{ECW}} license and release two absolutely '''[[Horrible/VideoGameGenerationsFifthToSixth awful]]''' games before ''both'' companies went bankrupt[[/note]]. But the worst example was ''WWE 2K20'', an unfinished bug-infested dumpster fire that tanked so badly that 2K Games cancelled ''WWE 2K21'' and used the year off to completely rebuild the game from the ground up. While there has been some great WWE games, like ''No Mercy'' and ''Here Comes The Pain'', overall there's been a lot more bad WWE games than good ones.

** Wrestling/JinderMahal, winner of ''[=WrestleCrap=]''[='s=] [[http://wrestlecrap.com/inductions/jinder-mahal-gooker-2017/ 2017 Gooker Award]], became the poster boy of booking for all the wrong reasons. After years of being barely beyond developmental level, they gave him the top spot, going from jobber to WWE Champion in the span of a month. WWE were happy to sacrifice the quality of their product just for what appeared to be an expansion project to India--which backfired on them since, according to the numbers, he didn't even draw there. They tried hard to make Jinder a credible main-event [[EvilForeigner foreign heel]], but the problem was that he was pretty poor in the ring, not great on the mic, and it seemed that he was only given said push because he had amassed a lot of muscle beforehand.[[note]]Not helping matters was that he had all the physical traits of a skinny guy who was recently juiced-up, which made WWE's supposed "Wellness Policy" look like a joke.[[/note]] so it all went downhill from there. It came at the expense of Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura, who was one of the most-over babyfaces in the entire company going in, and was made to look like a multiple-time loser coming out. In the end, as proof of how poor the whole experiment was, when WWE did finally go to India, Jinder ended up ''losing'' to Triple H.

** Old timers may remember the Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan as one of the top midcard heels of his era, and the longest-reigning Intercontinental Champion in history. What they may not know, however, is that he actually got his start in the WWF as a babyface. Reportedly, Wrestling/VinceMcMahon thought that with the rise of radio channels suddenly playing classic rock n' toll songs, an ElvisImpersonator would automatically be a babyface. This may have actually been the first instance of the company bringing in someone as a babyface who the fans rejected so hard that they [[FaceHeelTurn turned him heel]]: There was a series of "Vote of Confidence" promos, and an actual call-in survey asking fans to give their opinion on whether or not the Honky Tonk Man should be {{kayfabe}} suspended. While the results didn't matter, they were negative enough to get the Honky Tonk Man to change his attitude. He got cockier for a week, and then Wrestling/JimmyHart was paired with him to complete the heel turn, even though Honky didn't actually turn on anyone.

** Depending on the fan, you might get a few different answers on "worst thing to ever happen." In roughly chronological order: Vince taking the WWF national, Vince admitting to the government that wrestling is indeed fake to save money on taxes[[note]]It didn't work[[/note]], the WWF turning into a promotion where [[Main/WrestlingDoesntPay everyone on the roster was working their second job on TV]] in the mid-90's, the Montreal Screwjob, the WWF becoming a publicly traded company, Vince buying WCW, the name change, Triple H marrying Stephanie [=McMahon=], Eddie and Benoit dying, the move to TV-PG, and WWE basically killing the traditional wrestling business model by giving away everything for only $10 a month, Vince's retirement and Triple H taking over the wrestling side of the company. Time will tell if Vince McMahon unretiring and merging WWE with UFC under new parent company Endevor will join the list.

** The centerpiece feud of the so-called "Divas Revolution", the rivalry among three factions: "Team PCB" (Wrestling/{{Paige}}, Wrestling/{{Charlotte|Flair}}, Wrestling/BeckyLynch), "Team Bella" (The Wrestling/BellaTwins, and Wrestling/AliciaFox), and "Team BAD" (Wrestling/{{Naomi}}, Wrestling/TaminaSnuka, Wrestling/SashaBanks), is considered to have been a dud of a storyline for several reasons:

** Wrestling/RandyOrton also qualifies. There are those who like him for his [[JustForPun ruthless aggression]] and latent wrestling skills, not to mention the ever-powerful RKO, while others hate him because they claim that his "The Viper" SoftSpokenSadist character comes off as absurdly boring (especially in comparison with his more lively "Legend Killer" gimmick in his younger days). His hellraising attitude behind the scenes has also exacerbated the latter.

** The Cruiserweight Classic is Lucha Libre Elite's ''Campeonato Elite Mundial'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] New Japan Pro Wrestling's ''Best of the Super Juniors''. That very year New Japan brought back the ''Super J Cup'' after having not used it for about seven years as if to remind everyone they had already done that too.

** Depending on the fan, you might get a few different answers on "worst thing to ever happen." In roughly chronological order: Vince taking the WWF national, Vince admitting to the government that wrestling is indeed fake to save money on taxes[[note]]It didn't work[[/note]], the WWF turning into a promotion where [[Main/WrestlingDoesntPay everyone on the roster was working their second job on TV]] in the mid-90's, the Montreal Screwjob, the WWF becoming a publicly traded company, Vince buying WCW, the name change, Triple H marrying Stephanie [=McMahon=], Eddie and Benoit dying, the move to TV-PG, and WWE basically killing the traditional wrestling business model by giving away everything for only $10 a month. Time will tell if Vince's retirement and Triple H taking over the wrestling side of the company joins this list.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: The awful [[CatFight cat-fighting, hair-pulling, bitch-slapping]] style which dominated WWE women's wrestling originated with Wrestling/TheFabulousMoolah. She essentially owned the women's division, didn't train them properly in the first place, and was the champ by default due to lack of credible challengers. She reigned for so long because no one could touch her.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The 5 LJN published WWF games on the UsefulNotes/{{NES}} range somewhere between "complete crap" and "completely unplayable". The [[UsefulNotes/The16bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames fourth generation]] games were an improvement, but are criticized for their weak rosters (though to be fair that's not the developer's fault.) WWF fans rejoiced when Creator/{{THQ}} took over the license and ended Creator/{{Acclaim}}'s attempts at doing Franchise/MortalKombat controls in a wrestling game with ''WWF War Zone'' and ''WWF Attitude''[[note]]Acclaim would pick up the Wrestling/{{ECW}} license and release two absolutely '''[[Horrible/VideoGameGenerationsFifthToSixth awful]]''' games before ''both'' companies went bankrupt[[/note]]. But the worst example was ''WWE 2K20'', an unfinished bug-infested dumpster fire than tanked so badly that 2K Games cancelled ''WWE 2K21'' and used the year off to completely rebuild the game from the ground up. While there has been some great WWE games, like ''No Mercy'' and ''Here Comes The Pain'', overall there's been a lot more bad WWE games than good ones.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The 5 LJN published WWF games on the UsefulNotes/{{NES}} range somewhere between "complete crap" and "completely unplayable". The [[UsefulNotes/The16bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames fourth generation]] games were an improvement, but are criticized for their weak rosters (though to be fair that's not the developer's fault.) WWF fans rejoiced when Creator/{{THQ}} took over the WWE license and ended Creator/{{Acclaim}}'s attempts at doing Franchise/MortalKombat controls in a wrestling game with ''WWF War Zone'' and ''WWF Attitude''[[note]]Acclaim would pick up the Wrestling/{{ECW}} license and release two absolutely '''[[Horrible/VideoGameGenerationsFifthToSixth awful]]''' games before ''both'' companies went bankrupt[[/note]]. But the worst example was ''WWE 2K20'', an unfinished bug-infested dumpster fire than tanked so badly that 2K Games cancelled ''WWE 2K21'' and used the year off to completely rebuild the game from the ground up. While there has been some great WWE games, like ''No Mercy'' and ''Here Comes The Pain'', overall there's been a lot more bad WWE games than good ones.