Topic of WWE Stupidity

• Do to success of No Holds Barred, WWE had Randy Savage bring in Tom Lister to play his movie character, Zeus, to take down Hulk Hogan.

• Hulk Hogan completely forgot how to end his interview during Royal Rumble 1991, paused and said “Uh, well you know what’s going to happen Mean Gene!”

• WWE had a storyline in 1991 of Sgt. Slaughter defacing America. At this time, America was at war with Saddam Hussein. People were dying and WWE used it as an angle

• At Wrestlemania X, Alundra Blayze’s name display showed “Owen Hart” for a split second before it disappeared from the screen

• Undertaker seemed to be “missing” in 1994. WWE got Leslie Neilson to track him down

• WWE seemed to not give the Women’s division of the mid-90’s a lot of credit or TV time which is one reason why Alundra Blayze showed up on WCW TV and dropped the title in the garbage, mainly at request of Eric Bischoff. Sure, she probably regrets that but some hardly knew the division existed during that time in WWE

• In the 1996 Royal Rumble a identical twin tag team known as The Squat Team debuted. However they weren’t seeing again until the middle of 1997 when Jim Cornette announced his new team he’s the manager of. After a non-sanctioned brawl with British Bulldog, Owen Hart & The Headbangers, they were never seen again.

• Jim Cornette made comments about Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall & Kevin Nash having creative control over their WCW contracts saying it’s something you never give your superstars. However, he was working at WWE at the time and they’ve done this themselves. In fact, many companies do this

• In 1996 & 1997, one of WWE’s superstars was Jesse James who had a country music gimmick and he was face. In the 90’s, a country music star isn’t going to sit well with fans. This is why he usually got mixed reactions under this gimmick and it didn’t last long

• For a shot at WCW using older superstars, Wrestlemania XII had a match with “The Huckster” vs. “The Nacho Man” with “Billionaire Ted” as the referee.

• WWE spent weeks hyping up Ken Shamrock vs. Shawn Michaels for the PPV of December 1997 and it ended in a simple DQ

• In 1998, when Vince McMahon was in the hospital with a broken ankle on the RAW where Austin attacked him disguised as a doctor, earlier Mick Foley had showed up with a clown that made balloon animals for Vince. This was supposed to be at the hospital but later on, Sable was getting ready for an interview and one of the balloon animals was in the backround

• Vader & Kane were scheduled for a fight at a Pay-Per-View in 1998. Kane was the suspected winner but WWE gave it away by saying the loser will unmask

• RAW had a Hell In The Cell match in July of 1998. It didn’t happen as Austin battled Mankind & Kane while Undertaker beat up Paul Bearer in the cage. Less than a year before, Kane had ripped the Hell In The Cell cage door off it’s hinges. Now he couldn’t

• Flash Funk, Ahmed Johnson & Nation Of Domination have been rated as highly racist gimmicks. Cryme Tyme will surely be added to that list

• On a RAW in mid-1998, Undertaker raised his arm during part where area lights light up, but Kane’s ringpost pyro exploded right in Undertaker’s face. Later on when Kane did his pyro explosion, that ringpost of course, didn’t explode

• When Road Dogg had his throat injured, he had cue cards for Billy Gunn so Billy Gunn could say his lines for him before their match. However, when The New Age Outlaws first started they switched back and forth saying lines each week

• Back in the early 90’s and before then, anyone, even if not legal in the ring, could eliminate someone from a battle royal. WWE changed this in the late 90’s but in the 2002 Royal Rumble, as well as other battle royals afterward, it’s happened again

• WWE gets some disrespect of the 1997 Montreal Screwjob but still did a similar stint in the 1998 Survivor Series. But of course, it was to establish McMahon as an unfair boss

• Ahmed Johnson joined Nation Of Domination after Faarooq got rid of everyone except D’Lo. Ahmed’s joining seemed to make no sense since Faarooq was mainly using his group to take down Ahmed Johnson

• Kurrgan was an unstoppable monster in early 1998, but later on when “The Oddities” were in the scene, he wasn’t so threatening anymore

• WWE had trouble with Hawk due to a drinking problem and after he had to apologize for a former week, soon later they just gave him the drunk gimmick and being an idiot (like dancing with Oddities after losing) and even a lame suicide attempt by jumping on the RAW Titantron

• During Test’s entrance to a battle royal on RAW January of 1999, The New Age Outlaws theme played

• Vince McMahon won the 1999 Royal Rumble.

• WWE’s Hell In The Cell match was originally meant for a confined area with no escape but in the first as well as many others, the contestants have made it out of the cage.

• Mark Henry had gotten Mae Young pregnant which led to the infamous “Birth to a hand” scene with her in the hospital.

• Vince McMahon became WWF World Champion

• Harvey Whippleman won the Women’s Championship wearing a mask

• Mae Young flashed the crowd at the 2000 Royal Rumble swimsuit contest.

• WWE hired Terry Taylor who worked in WCW for a few years, and in 2000 and he even commentated an hour of RAW where WCW was badmouthed during a segment. He went along with it but within a month, Taylor was released.

• At Wrestlemania 2000, during the 15 minute Hardcore Battle Royal, Referee Tim White counted a 2 count and stopped at three thinking Crash Holly was to kick out right at the last second but he wasn’t. He then said Hardcore Holly won the match, not Crash, even though he signaled the kick out

• Dean Malenko & Jerry Lawler had an “Over the top, off with the top” match where when they were tossed over the ropes, the lady they represented had to strip down until she became topless.

• During a Benoit vs. Rock feud, they battled in the back and had constant bleeped out words. But Rock clearly said, “Chicken ****!” right before break

• When Dean Malenko spied on Lita in the shower, the camera accidentally panned lower to show she had a thong on

• When Stephanie McMahon & Triple H were having problems in 2000 during the McMahon-Helmsley era, the police were called on Triple H. Next week, it was revealed Test had called them as revenge for what happened to him seven months earlier. First of all, Test was also heel, and second, in the wrestling world, anything that happens 3 months ago or more is no longer existent

• Kane & Chris Jericho had a huge feud nearing the end of 2000, all over an accidental spill of coffee

• Raven at one time had a mysterious masked woman dressed in black helping him in his matches. It was no secret who it was and even fans chanted “Tori” at her before she was unmasked

• During a Rock interview, a backstage employee opened a door in the shot, saw an interview filmed and quickly closed the door

• During the constant tag title changes on 2000, Lillian Garcia thought the titles were held by Edge & Christian. Christian walked out for the match and was announced, “..accompanied by Edge, he is one half of the World Wrestling Federation…. Christian!”

• Wrestlemania’s X-Seven gimmick battle royal had 19 former superstars in the match. Gillberg was cut at the last minute due to WCW being purchased. Vince McMahon didn’t want possible “Goldberg” chants

• Mick Foley’s investigation of Austin’s rundown by a car led him to Rikishi of all people. In order to cover the bad feedback, they had to set up Triple H paying him off

• Every member of The Mean Street Posse, Funaki, Maven, Molly Holly, Trish Stratus, Terri Runnels and even a random Ho of the Godfather’s named Bobcat have been WWE Hardcore Champion

• On a RAW of 2001 during the Holiday Season, Bubba Ray Dudley & Tajiri fought in a match wearing Santa Claus outfits

• During a tap-out, Hebner trying calling for the bell and Shane grabbed Hebner’s arm preventing it as if the bell could only ring if Hebner finished signaling for it

• Production crews clearly showed a camera view with a sign saying “HBK - 1. Y2J - 1” in the crowd during an entrance by The Dudleyz. Shawn Michaels & Chris Jericho had nothing to do with the match

• Three letters, XFL

• During the name change from World Wrestling Federation to World Wrestling Entertainment, instead of adding another lower dash to the logo, they removed the two F dashes just having the WWE logo read “WW”

• In 2002, The Godfather turned heel telling the crowd it’s their fault why his “Escort Service” failed. Why is this listed? It was on Metal. The most un-watched WWE program at the time

• Kid Rock performed “American Bad Ass” on RAW. First of all this was in Canada, and second of all, the crews missed the bleeped word leaving Kid Rock clearly saying “The F word” on TV

• During 2002, Raven was asked to be a commentary but his rejection resulted in being banished to Sunday Night Heat only. Storyline wise, he lost a “Loser leaves RAW” match. Finally after that punishment was over, he won his right back on RAW, but was released shortly after

• Many times WWE has given different numbers of weeks in a row WCW Nitro beat RAW. It’s been said multiple times at different occasions, 83, 84, 85 and 88 weeks

• At Survivor Series 2002, for some reason the production crews had the camera fully on Rico when he yelled at Jeff Hardy to hurry up for his moment

• Steve Austin had a cinderblock broken over his knee by Scott Hall. The next two weeks, he had the wrong knee taped up

• WWE had once spelled Shelton Benjamin’s first name “Sheldon” on an episode of Smackdown.

• Hulk Hogan once tried to threaten Undertaker by chasing him with Undertaker’s own motorcycle, but Hogan couldn’t start the thing

• WWE had a horrid angle where Kane engaged in sexual activity with a corpse named Katie Vick. WWE apologized to this by Shawn Michaels saying it offended him

• Howard Finkel once announced William Regal as the competitor in a match when he was accompanying Lance Storm for HIS match.

• The angle when Molly Holly was wearing the “granny panties”, she only wore them if she was to get her pants pulled down in the match. Once she was receiving a power bomb and a thong was visible under her pants

• When Brock Lesnar won the 2003 Royal Rumble, the theme for the Pay Pew View played. His theme finally played about 8 seconds later.

• Almost a year after the name change to WWE, Steve Austin said “WWF” with a speech during his WWE return in 2003

• RAW went 2 and a half hours due to a Smackdown incident where McMahon had attacked Hulk Hogan. That raw was on an extra half hour but only had four matches

• In 2003, Jackie teamed with Christopher Nowinski against Trish Stratus & Bradshaw. Jackie messed up many times in match and the storyline she had with Trish was dropped as Jackie had to go to training.

• Jacqueline won the WWE Cruiserweight Championship

• On the second edition of “RAW Roulette” one new match featured was “Legend Killer” match. Seems coincidental that happened to be the match spun for Randy Orton as he had the gimmick at the time.

• Christy Hemme won the first Televised WWE Diva Search but afterward, six others from that same exact diva search were hired as well as some of them still in WWE while she isn’t anymore.

• When Shawn Michaels & Triple H packed up four Spirit Squad members in a box with a “To O.V.W.” tag on it, even though Kenny was one of them and he still remained, Johnny also showed up the next week for a battle royal

• Muhammad Hassan was a gimmick where he hated being looked down upon for the occurrence on 9/11/2001. This was distasteful in many ways making a huge American tragedy into an angle

• When Snitsky had his first interview arguing that Kane & Lita’s incident wasn’t his fault, his eyes seemed to move off camera a slight bit as if he was reading off cue cards

• WWE constantly had diva searches only because they were the highest rated segments on RAW

• When Randy Orton was RAW GM for a week in 2004, he announced a tag match as “World Heavyweight Championship”

• During Smackdown’s $1,000,000 Tough Enough contestant training, one contestant said he was thirty. However, Al Snow and the rest of the trainers didn’t believe him and asked to see his I.D. They found he was forty and didn’t accept him because of his lie. Not long later, he debuted in WWE as The Boogeyman

• On and RAW back in 2004, Gail Kim made a return after an absence for a diva’s battle royal. The bell rang during commercial break and when it came back after commercials, two were left and they had to show replays of the other eliminations

• Out of all Tough Enough winners, WWE only has one currently employed but has others that never won, employed too.

• Sometime after Tim White returned after getting injured in a Hell In The Cell match, he was given a failing suicide gimmick.

• During a Randy Orton vs. Undertaker feud, Orton saw his father covered in blood. It was supposed to be all in his head but every fan saw it too

• A recorded segment showed Christian walking for his match in the back. After his words to two ladies, someone off camera told him to go back and they were to film it again. Apparently, they played the wrong recording

• “Camera 6, camera 6, worst cased scenario, camera 6” was heard when Trish & Lita walked backstage toward entrance for a match. Then the sound came back in.

• John Cena told RAW GM Eric Bischoff, “I once watched Nitro. But then I turned it to RAW when Mr. McMahon started beating you 83 weeks in a row…” It was WCW known for the 80+ weeks. Anyway, RAW has more than that, not just 83.

• Rey Mysterio won the World Heavyweight Title at Wrestlemania 22 but proceeded to lose almost every match

• The rebirth of ECW excited many ECW fans but not long, it became a show for B rate superstars or superstars making their start on TV

• When Cryme Tyme won a tag title shot, they went weeks without receiving one. Then they were taken off TV for almost a year

• To hype up a Donald Trump/Vince McMahon feud for Wrestlemania 23, Rosie O’Donnell & Donald Trump impersonators fought on RAW. Chants heard from crowd were “Boring”, “TNA” and “VKM” (Voodoo Kin Mafia from TNA who badmouthed WWE at the time)

• The night after Wrestlemania 23, The Coach had an idea of taking the tag team titles away from Shawn Michaels & John Cena by having a ten team battle royal for them. Afterward, there was another ten team battle royal as said by Coach. But one of these actually had nine teams

• Eddie Guerrero died in November of 2005, and for the next five months, Rey Mysterio won his matches dedicating his matches Eddie Guerrero. Many saw that this was distasteful for using his death as a push for Mysterio, also it lasting nearly half a year. Eddie’s nephew, Chavo was thinking about leaving WWE at this time.

• A couple of times ranging from 2004 to 2007, RAW has a had lingerie pillow fights between divas which have nothing to do with wrestling.

• The Hardcore title was re-instated just before ECW’s rebirth in 2006. Mick Foley announced he & Edge were co-champions, however, the feud with Tommy Dreamer & Terry Funk ended and the title didn’t appear again.

• When Edge & Lita had a “live-sex” celebration on RAW, he hid underneath the covers and returned to view with Lita’s panties. When this was crashed, Lita fell out of the bed wearing an identical pair Edge had seemingly taken off her

• RAWs return to USA had a production error showing a quick frame of Orton yelling at someone that happened at the beginning of RAW. This frame was played during an entrance

• Announcer Justin Roberts once announced a #1 contenders match for the Cruiserweight Championship but it was Intercontinental

• Hornswoggle became WWE Cruiserweight Champion

• In false Rumble trivia, Ric Flair on multiple occasions has been said to last over an hour in the 1992 Royal Rumble match and was not corrected until 2007 when JBL said he was almost half a minute short of an hour

• WWE gave up the Cruiserweight title and made a Divas title for women on the Smackdown brand thinking fans love seeing women matches more than Cruiserweights

• For many years, it was known Bushwhacker Luke was the shortest time in a Rumble match. This was not corrected until 2008 came around and RAW aired Rumble history finally showing The Warlord held that record before Luke even made the history they mentioned over the years

• At Royal Rumble 2008, not only did Mike Adamle have horrid speech but he called Jeff Hardy, “Jeff Harvey”

• In the summer of 2008, one match on RAW were between impersonators of Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama

• Hurricane Helms returned from a long absence with constant “Hurrapops” during Smackdown for over a month. After his return, he won a match and WWE did nothing with him for many months until his interviews on ECW led to a Hurricane return.

• On RAW’s 15th anniversary, they announced a 15 Man Battle Royal featuring superstars from the past 15 years. This match had 16 superstars.

• Michael Cole had mentioned that a certain RAW was it’s 800th edition but a few months later they had an 800th edition special

• Only a short time after Jericho returned with the Save.Us.Y2J storyline, he had an interview and the lights dimmed while he still talked as if a commercial break was going to begin. The lights lit up again a few seconds later until he was finished

• Since the brand extension, WWE has held a draft every year trading superstars between RAW & Smackdown. However, in 2007 & 2008, superstars were going to both shows including ECW meaning the draft had little effect.

• With lack of tag teams throughout most of 2008 and beginning of 2009, instead of throwing together superstars who weren’t doing anything, WWE just unified the World & WWE Tag Team titles

• WWE hyped up Kizarny for weeks and after a winning debuted match, he was released

• Throughout 2008, many times a great 20 minute match on RAW would end in a DQ.

• WWE advertised Wrestlemania 25 as “The 25th anniversary of Wrestlemania” but that would occur at Wrestlemania 26

• WWE had a 25 Diva Battle Royal for Wrestlemania 25. This featured many divas of the past decade but of all people, Santino dressed in drag was the winner