00:00You know what's worse than a bad idea? A bad idea you follow through with.
00:05I have come up with loads of awful plans throughout the years, but thankfully somebody has stopped me.
00:09When it comes to wrestling though, well, no.
00:12So I am Simon Miller, and would you like to hear some of these things that actually happened?
00:17Sure you do. Let's go.
00:19Number 10, The Gobbledygooker
00:20At one point backstage in the then-WWF, somebody said,
00:24Hey, a giant turkey should hatch from an adult-sized egg on pay-per-view.
00:28And it got greenlit.
00:30I mean, that is more fascinating than the meaning of life.
00:33It happened way back at the 1990 Survivor Series, and do not forget,
00:36this was scaring people back then too,
00:38Mark Calloway, who had just been signed, thought he was going to be the Eggman.
00:42As we know, this thing did arrive in November, an incident we all facepalmed,
00:46including kids.
00:48They're not stupid, they know.
00:49The best part is, this was actually Vince McMahon's answer to the likes of Nintendo's Mario or Sega's Sonic.
00:55He thought the World Wrestling Federation needed something similar,
00:58and the reaction was so bad, the gooker was dead within weeks.
01:02This was so bad.
01:04Proper bottom-of-the-barrel stuff.
01:06Number 9, WWE's Greatest Raw Rumble
01:08As it was on a 2018 Saudi Arabia show, we all knew this Greatest Raw Rumble meant less than the real Raw Rumble,
01:15and then Braun Strowman won it, and was given a title that was never defended.
01:19What?
01:19Once more, everything I said would have been talked about backstage, and for some reason, we were all just fine with it.
01:25It was so weak, too, as the Great Part just meant we were going to have 50 people enter.
01:29So for being literal, it was the biggest Raw Rumble, and sounds so grand.
01:34The truth is, because the Saudis were paying so much money for these events, they wanted Prime WWE,
01:39which WWE didn't want to do.
01:42This was some weird halfway house which didn't help anybody.
01:45It is 2024 as I am recording this, too, and we have never seen that championship again.
01:51What a waste of money, if nothing else.
01:53I wonder if it's on Strowman's mantelpiece.
01:56Number 8, The Brawl For All
01:57Here we go again.
01:59The description is what kills the brawl for all.
02:01Let's do some real fights on a wrestling show, which by proxy tells the audience that the rest of the matches are not real.
02:08The WWF also started the tournament as a vehicle to get Dr. Death Steve Williams over, and if that's the case, just have him win worked matches.
02:17That's way easier.
02:18You're He-Man, you have the power.
02:20Given that Williams got knocked out hard, it totally ended his WWF run, too.
02:25So talk about a failed concept.
02:27It was Gunn who went on to be victorious, and management punished him for it.
02:31So infuriating.
02:33Number 7, Gable Steveson can be Kurt Angle.
02:35Do you know what is ridiculous about this?
02:37By the time Gable Steveson had debuted on NXT, we already had the best Kurt Angle copy, and his name was Chad Gable.
02:44With these two, the comparisons were light and not like a blow to the skull, which told you maybe, just maybe, Chad could follow suit.
02:50But we shall keep it open.
02:52Because Gable Steveson had won the gold medal in wrestling, though, WWE decided any time he was mentioned, Angle's name must come next, as well as Brock Lesnar's.
03:01Do not make a mistake, this guy's the real deal, please listen to us.
03:03We'll never know now, either, because after what felt like a long old time, Steveson was let go, because it wasn't working out.
03:10Who knows what his level was.
03:12But I would hazard a guess putting this much pressure on him so early raised the bar way too high.
03:17I mean, you're literally going to have to become one of the best pro wrestlers ever to make it come true.
03:21Number 6, Ronda Rousey's Babyface Turn.
03:23I don't think Ronda Rousey being a babyface was totally out of the realms of possibility, but go and listen to Ronda talk about it.
03:29Even she thought it was silly after a while.
03:31If the performer feels that way, well, come on.
03:34And sure, this wasn't the case at first, as Rousey was irked by the booze, but it's a Logan Paul situation.
03:40He felt the same, but somebody sat down with him and explained the deal.
03:43It doesn't sound like anybody did with Ronda until she got under Paul Heyman's learning tree.
03:48I truly believe a Triple H book Rousey is night and day, and she just didn't get the support she needed.
03:53That's true, of course you're going to feel a little bit miffed.
03:55You don't know the industry. Somebody has to fill you in.
03:59And I'm 99% sure that's what Craig David was singing about.
04:02Number 5, The Core.
04:04My favorite story about The Core is the way it's spelt.
04:07True or not, Wade Barrett has said that it was meant to be spelled C-O-R-E and not C-O-R-R-E,
04:13but they sent Heath Slater to do the paperwork, and he screwed it up.
04:17I like that tale so much, I'm just going to believe it.
04:19There's also WWE trying to save face because, man, had they screwed up the Nexus.
04:24Just go and listen to anybody talk about SummerSlam 2010.
04:27As soon as management realized it, The Core was their way to try and save it,
04:31as they feuded with the new Nexus led by CM Punk.
04:34This is just so messy.
04:35Barrett could have been good in this role too, but you know the deal.
04:38For whatever reason, WWE never booked him properly, and it is so maddening looking back now.
04:44He proved it time and time again, and then bam.
04:47We chopped the legs off from underneath him.
04:49What a stupid thing to do.
04:50Number 4, NXT's first run.
04:52Given what NXT has evolved into, this is sort of hilarious.
04:56Because way back when, NXT was not a developmental brand for the main roster.
05:00It was in fact a reality show.
05:02That's right.
05:03We did have rookies, but that was just an excuse for Vince McMahon to have them look like idiots,
05:07which also means, yep, the company was hiring people and putting them on a payroll to laugh at them.
05:12What are we doing?
05:13Most remember the Miz and Daniel Bryan pairing, but all things considered, they made this work.
05:17But I cannot fathom the people in charge thinking this was a good use of time.
05:21To use wrestling vernacular, we were basically burying our own company.
05:26WWE was mostly just obsessed with the boom in reality TV, but still, this wasn't it, and fans mostly took it as insulting.
05:34And I thought about it, and I think that's because it was.
05:37Number 3, the wildcard rule.
05:38So get your head around this one.
05:40WWE had brought in the brand split as a way to separate Raw and SmackDown,
05:44and then constantly spent their time figuring out ways to get Raw guys on SmackDown and SmackDown guys on Raw.
05:50That is bonkers.
05:51Rather than end the draw, Vince McMahon would just find dumber and dumber ways to justify this,
05:56such as the wildcard rule.
05:59It was in 2019, and it meant three Monday guys could appear on Friday and vice versa.
06:04And guess what happened instantly?
06:06More than three wrestlers jumped ship.
06:08So he introduced a rule, and then broke it.
06:11Please hit me in the face.
06:12Commentators tried to justify it by saying that the number had been increased to 7,
06:15when it was scaled back to 3, before all of a sudden it was 4.
06:19You can see why people hated WWE for a while.
06:22It was next to impossible to follow.
06:24To be honest, 2019 was just bad all around with the promotion,
06:27which is why the door was open for AEW.
06:30And we all needed it, even if people like to pretend otherwise.
06:34Number 2, Booker T doesn't beat Triple H.
06:36As ever, Booker T has said after the fact he is fine with this,
06:40and his opinion counts the most, Booker was in the feud.
06:43From a fan point of view though, nah, no idea.
06:46Now you can spin it however you want, but the story leading towards WrestleMania 19 did have racial undertones.
06:51I'm not going to use the phrasing here as I find it uncomfortable, but it was there.
06:56If WWE was not going for this angle, they were totally crazy.
06:59I would rather wrestling stayed away from this altogether because it usually lacks the needed nuance,
07:03but at least if Booker T won the world title, it would send out a good lesson.
07:06Do not be a dickhead, you'll get your ass kicked.
07:10And then guess what happened?
07:11At the show of shows, not only did Triple H win, but after the pedigree,
07:14he took forever to cover Booker T.
07:17Kind of felt like he defeated him three times over.
07:19It was also an awful message to send, because this ain't what wrestling should be.
07:23The good guy always has to win in the end.
07:25I'm amazed anyone behind the scenes agreed to this, because it deflated the fans,
07:29which is also not the point.
07:31Wrestling's meant to make you feel good, like busting ghosts.
07:34Number one, the kennel from hell.
07:36What a mess this was.
07:38Quite literally too.
07:39Let me talk about running out of ideas.
07:41It got even worse as it tied into the feud between the big boss man and Al Snow,
07:45after the boss man had kidnapped and forced Al to eat his own dog, Pepper.
07:50I am not kidding.
07:51For some reason, even though surely this would have been quite traumatic for Snow,
07:55though, WWE still made him compete in a match, where he is going to be reminded of these
08:00horrific events, or potentially get Maul to death.
08:02It was unreal.
08:03Of course, it fell through the floor, and the dogs in question had no idea they weren't
08:07meant to be dogs, so they just wandered off, and they pooped everywhere.
08:10Know of any other ideas that were stupid behind the scenes, and even more stupid in front of
08:14the cameras?
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