Today we present you 9 Last-minute changes that destroyed WWE Storylines
With the WWE pushing out hours of content every day
it’s clear that the biggest Sports Entertainment company in the world
needs to work fast.
With the stories we see on RAW,
SmackDown Live
and NXT
decisions can be made on a dime,
sometimes for the better,
but often for the worse.
And when a quick, last minute decision gets made,
there’s always going to be a Superstar
that gets buried in the process
as well as plenty of ticked off fans.
Here are 9 last-minute changes
that completely destroyed WWE storylines,
and the Superstars who got hurt
along the way.
9. The beast reigns supreme at Crown Jewel
When Brock Lesnar regained the Universal Championship at Crown Jewel
most fans weren’t pleased.
The Beast’s first run,
which lasted a staggering 504 days
had only ended a few weeks ago,
a reign which had seen the prestigious championship vanish for months.
Whilst some claim the plan was always for Brock to regain the title,
this seems unlikely, as he had just dropped the title to Roman Reigns,
and the company were pushing for Reigns Vs AJ Styles match
at Survivor Series.
According to others,
the planned triple threat match
was meant to see Braun Strowman defeat both Reigns
and Lesnar,
though this plan changed following the Big Dog’s Leukaemia diagnosis.
With the Monster Among Men reportedly have trouble backstage,
the company gave the title back to Brock,
clearly the wrong choice,
which only added to a show
which was already a PR disaster.
8. Mr. McMahon’s absence.
In 2007, the WWE started one of their riskiest storylines,
when they killed off Vince McMahon, having
the Chairman’s limo explode with him inside.
Whilst tragic, this would’ve reportedly been great news for Mr. Kennedy,
who would be revealed as Vince’s son and heir to WWE,
leading to a main-event push
which would’ve seen the Green Bay native winning a World title
before fighting a revolt of Superstars
led by the very-still-alive McMahon.
Unfortunately, real life tragedy got in the way,
as in the wake of the Benoit tragedy,
the company instantly pulled the plug on the story
with Vince returning in a taped segment on ECW,
and Kennedy never reaching the highs he had been promised.
7. Charlotte beating Sasha Banks at Hell In A Cell.
In 2016, the feud between Charlotte Flair and Sasha Banks
was a great start to the brand extension
Both had proven themselves in NXT,
though fans couldn’t help but notice that
that Flair always won in title matches on Pay Per View
whilst Banks would win on RAW
but have very short reigns.
A key example of this came at Hell In A Cell,
in Bank’s home town of Boston,
where the plan was for the Boss to retain the title,
in what would have been a true feel-good moment.
Instead, the change was made,
and Flair won the RAW Women’s Championship once again,
maintaining her pay-per-view undefeated steak,
but severely annoying the loyal crowd.
The switch weakened Sasha badly,
who is still yet to receive a lengthy reign as Champion
and isn’t expected to get one soon.
6. Goldberg winning the Universal Title
The WWE Universe weren’t exactly thrilled when Bill Goldberg won the Universal Championship from Kevin Owens,
a title change made all the worse when you realise the WCW star beat Owens in just 22 seconds.
Apparently, this title change didn’t go down well backstage,
, with Vince McMahon reportedly not even wanting it in the first place.
Speaking on his podcast, Chris Jericho revealed the plan was for Owens to retain, and lose the title at WrestleMania to Chris Jericho,
allowing the Fozzy singer one last time as World Champion, before he would eventually lose the title to Lesnar.
No-one is quite sure what caused this last-minute change, but most will agree it was a bad move,
the WrestleMania match between Jericho and Owens for the US title, was far more entertaining than Brock and Goldberg.
5. Sasha wins, just to lose again
We’ve already mentioned how Sasha Banks has had a rough time with
the RAW Women’s Championship, but in 2017, the Boss hoped this would change.
After Nia Jax injured Bayley, in what would be just one of several injuries caused by the #FaceBreaker,
it was Banks who replaced the huggable one, winning the RAW Women’s Championship from Alexa Bliss.
This reign would not be the one fans of the Boss had hoped for,
as Bliss would win the title back just days later, making the huge win practically meaningless.
And whilst Bayley did return, the company has been hesitant to push either her or Banks into a title match,
instead seemingly rewarding Jax for the injury, by having her end Bliss’ reign at WrestleMania 34.
4. Big Show becoming WWF Champion
1999 was a strange year for the WWF Championship, which was held by seven Superstars across the 12 months.
The most bizarre of these champions was the Big Show, who was able to defeat Triple H
for the title at Survivor Series 1999, whose rise to being the company’s top heel was hurt with the loss.
But the Giant was never even meant to be in the match, as the plan had been for Steve Austin to dethrone the Game,
, in a triple threat match which also featured longtime nemesis The Rock.
However, Austin’s neck issues were getting worse,
, requiring urgent surgery, with the WWF writing him out of the match with a now infamous hit and run.
Whilst a fine enough Superstar, the young Big Show wasn’t quite
World Champion material, only defending the title once on pay per view, and not even in the main event.
His reign abruptly ended, hinting at the mess to come from the “who ran over Stone Cold” angle.
3.No Bayley/Sasha heel turn
In NXT, Sasha Banks and Bayley
were two of the WWE’s biggest star,
contrasting well, in a feud based on the NXT Women’s Championship
wanting to be the better woman, and eventually respect.
But both has suffered since joining the main roster,
and it looked like the pair were about to split in 2018,
with a heel turn being teased for months.
This definitely got fans invested,
as whilst it seemed logical for Banks
(who is sadly making her third appearance on this list) to turn
a heel turn by the loveable Bayley
could’ve been the character shift she needed.
Instead, WWE decided to have neither woman turn,
making the past few months of their show obsolete,
as well as making both women seem completely unmotivated.
A completely pointless angle,
which wasted two talented ladies,
many fans thought they’d go
see Dr. Shelby to cope with their anger.
2. Kurt Angle subbing for the Shield
We all now know about
Roman Reign’s history of illness
but when the Big Dog dropped out of a long-awaited Shield reunion,
fans weren’t so forgiving.
For weeks, the company had hyped up the return
of the Hounds of Justice,
who were ready to dominate the WWE once again,
if they survived their TLC opponents
of Kane, The Miz, Braun Strowman and The Bar.
Once Reigns was out,
fans quickly lost interest,
and whilst Kurt Angle was chosen as his replacement
this did not work out well.
In his first WWE match in over a decade,
Angle came out through the crowd with Rollins and Ambrose,
whose styles he did not mesh well with.
Whilst Angle, Rollins and Ambrose would win,
it is still annoying that Angle’s grand return to the ring
was such a waste.
1. Asuka’s streak is broken
When 2018 begun,
things were looking promising for the Empress of Tomorrow.
Still undefeated
since her NXT debut in 2015,
Asuka carried on her winning ways
when she won the first women’s Royal Rumble Match
earning a Women’s title match at WrestleMania.
Things came crashing down for her though,
when Charlotte Flair made the Empress tap out at the show,
in what was reportedly a last-minute call,
which was just the start of a rough period for the Japanese star.
Losing to Carmella
and James Ellsworth not long after,
Asuka’s year got much worse,
with the last minute decision to end the streak
being the catalyst for all of this.
Whilst she is now riding high once again as SmackDown Women’s Champion
nothing she can do can ever bring back her undefeated streak
or the fact that she was completely buried by WWE.
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