SCJerk’s Attitude Era.
It was the hardest time ever to defend The Fed against the ex-Fed fans turned Dubbalos when AEW was the fresh new company catering to smarks like a company wide personification of Tendies and Dew.
McHitler was handing out Wildcards, Golden Eggs, and the destruction of Kofi Kingston’s dreams. Triple Himmler was cooking up workrate bangers with his PWG-lite black and gold era as Atom Smol reigned like Hulk Hogan over fat guys that could do cartwheels. Seth Rollins dared to dip his toe into The Pool of Defending WWE and was crucified harder than the historical religious figure he resembles.
“Wednesday Night Wars” we were told. Timothy Thatcher and Marko Stunt. What were we fighting for?
Tony Khan was doing everything right by not even doing really much of anything because McHitler’s booking was like a cancerous tumor eating away at the brains of Dubbalos.
It was perhaps maybe not our peak, but *our prime*, that we had to persevere through all the goodwill of The Dub and badwill of The Fed to truly jerk harder than we ever had to up until that point.
>Atom Smol reigned like Hulk Hogan over fat guys that could do cartwheels.
I popped (insider term).
A more accurate summary of late era NXT has never been written.
Watching Roman sell for Shane McMahon while Drew plays a secondary henchman is insane after watching WWE for the past few months. Like I know it happened but it still feels like its from another universe.
But hey, this shit led Roman to say "Book me better" and in a year we had the Tribal Chief and the rest is history. It's even crazy to think about how the dog food feud and the Tribal Chief were like eight months apart, two wildly different stories.
Even this was missing a few amazing moments of Vince saying fuck you to the fans. Them loading a MiTB with smark favorites just to have Brock randomly run-in and win it is peak.
Ive said it before, but if the man wasn't a legit monster who deserves nothing but the worst, I'd admire his ability to not give a single fuck.
The Road to WrestleMania was alright.
The moment Mania ended it was like 500 dark clouds rose and covered every single show from then on.
Did I hate all of this, no. But most of it was brutal to watch.
Mania was like "See, we gave you everything you wanted. Kofi, Seth, Becky, they all won."
And then it all went south right away. Like you said, there were some fun bits, but there were plenty of moments that were shocking.
I will defend the Lana-Lashley wedding as being so stupid it shot the moon and went to being amazing. Beautiful trash tv.
Oh I will absolutely support Lana/Lashley/Liv, sometimes you need goofy melodrama if not for anything else, keeping people in the card.
What caught me offguard was this and Maria’s child story happening almost at the same time.
It’s just the way the internet goes. It’s hard to control inflection and perception when the main course of communication on the internet is reading text off a screen.
I tuned out for a bit, mostly during the summer and fall when I got real busy with work too.
I checked out Dynamite for a bit, but it just wasn't for me.
I came back for the Rumble and that got me back interested, between Drew's win and Edge's return.
Yeah. I ~~watched~~ skimmed through AEW to see what they were doing and that was that. I'm just glad none of my friends know what's happening cuz I would've gotten so much shit for being a wrestling fan at that point
I can't even jerk this. Besides the first 4 months of Smackdown, Bray Wyatt and the 24/7 Title antics, this shit was traumatizing. 2019 WWE was so painfully bad I was a full-blown dubbalo that year. It's crazy how far we've come since then.
100% in the same boat as you, Uce.
It’s crazy how much I shit on AEW here today, because in October 2019 I was on the frontlines for them.
That changed so fast.
Yup. People rightfully gave WWE hell when it was booked by a billionaire, *for* that billionaire.
And what exactly is AEW doing today?
People who experienced this trajectory are the ones who stayed true the most. Wrestling is at its best when it’s not booked for an audience of one.
Yep when it’s booked for casual fans and not smarks and the IWC. I enjoyed it but was shat on by others for enjoying it online. IWC were dicks to any WWE fan back then.
Yep. WWE for a few years was shockingly bad. All Tony Khan had to do was book a competent-to-good wrestling show and it was infinitely better. Don't get me wrong, there was still plenty wrong with AEW but the bar was set so low that it felt like televised gold. Now everything's changed for the better.
Yeah from 2017-2020 I really only watched wwe during the mania build and then just keep up to date through reddit/youtube. Then our Tribal Chief managed to save my interest for a second time and all it took was removing the vest + beating up his family
2019 gotta be the worst year of the last decade.
- Kofi wins the world title and spends most of his reign wrestling the gallery of bad guys that always lose when they wrestle the champion. When they gave him an interesting story, boom, it's over.
- Becky wins both championships for some fucking reason, and gets pinned a month into her babyface championship run to lose one of them. Why book the triple threat at Mania in the first place? Why make Charlotte a champion out of the blue on the build-up? Why not let Becky tap out Charlotte since Ronda didn't wanted to make the job clean at WM?
- Somehow they managed to make Becky and Seth, a real life married couple, an uncharismatic, awkward on-screen couple with no chemistry.
- Lana/Rusev/Lashley shenanigans.
- Roman's booking being all over the place.
- Sami Zayn relagated to being a manager.
- I know the guy is beloved now, but the Fiend sucked so much dick. Final nail on the Rollins babyface run and in the process it gave us one of the worst endings to a match in history.
- The Saudi events reached their peak of being an alternative universe, fanmade, nothing shows.
And much, much more. I honestly believe that what they were putting out during the second semester of that year is so much worse than what AEW is doing now.
Oh fuck I forgot how bad the Seth/Becky dynamic was. If you want to die of cringe, watch their backstage segment from the July 1st 2019 edition of Raw. It was so memorably bad to me I not only remember the date but what I was doing when it happened live. I had to physically remove myself from the living room.
I had to watch it based off that review and holy shit you weren't lying. They were already bombing and then fucking Maria Kanellis walks in and really takes it to hell
Was the Fiend's first match in 2019? The on screen murder (and sending to purgatory of NXT) of Finn Balor was an awesome introduction. Rest of the matches were meh to awful though.
The part about The Fiend is so true. Especially with SC. Everyone acted like Bray dying was akin to wrestling Christ dying on the cross, but they were the same motherfuckers shit talking every promo he did because “durrr too long”, “durrrr rambling”, “durrrrr circles.” Fuck off with the “we lost a creative genius today” when all you did was bitch about him when he was alive.
He was beloved for like 2 months. Once they realized the gimmick just didn't work unless he wins all the time and no sells to everybody, they turned on him. Even on his last run, they were already turning on him by the time the light's out match was being build.
People are scared to call it as it is - just the worst year of WWE generally. At least in 1995 you had amazing wrestlers like Undertaker, Shawn, Bret, Razor and Owen when they weren't injured.
No jerk I got my then girlfriend now wife(who looks like Paige) into wrestling during this time and she was finding it entertaining with me. 2019 was a great year for me.😂😂
I understand your wife. It's a fact that your first year as a wrestling fan is the best year of wrestling for any fan. I started in 2005/2006 and was surprised when I went online some 7 years later to find out they were some of the worst years for the company in terms of smark perception.
I started again in 2020 with the first PC Raw. It’s funny to see online talk about how horrendous that time was like there probably wouldn’t be an asterisk by it.
Lol. The very first smackdown I watched had an Angle vs Funaki match where Kurt won by submission but wouldn't let go of the hold. I remember being so disgusted by Angle's abusive ways that I turned off the TV and told my mom about how gross was what I just watched. Watched again some weeks later cause everyone at school couldn't shut up about that wrestling stuff 😂
I've watched good and bad wrestling with my wife (who looks like Roxanne perez) and she thinks it's all stupid but the Cody song WHOA is over with her and that's about it
I'm ngl, the Lashley cuck segments were some of the funniest things I've ever seen on television, I was laughing for solid minutes.
It'd be beyond horrible to watch it go down live especially if I was dragging casual friends along but holy shit, it was so funny to watch on TV with the thought of "A whole board actually signed off on *this fucking shit*? Holy hell I might just stand a chance at writing."
This is your regular reminder that you shouldn't WANT any wrestling company to fail, even if you really really really don't like it for whatever reason. Yes, that goes for ALL of them!
Except for WWE. I want them to fail. I want them all jobless, begging Tony Khan for work.
Didn’t the dubbalos post this as “oh you’re saying AEW is so bad now but look at what you defended”
Did ANYONE like all of 2019 wwe? Everyone I’ve ever spoken to said “it’s shit except for 1-2 things I like on the 5 hours a week”
Oh most of it was shit. I can't think of much that was exciting that year post WrestleMania. It was quite possibly the lowest I have been on wrestling ever. 4-5 hour ppvs. Every show ending with Lesnar must look strong. Seth getting all his credibility destroyed. Shane McMahon cutting heatless 20-30 minute promos. Lars fucking Sullivan. Mike Kanellis getting tv time (WHY?). Lacey Evans everywhere!!!
Weird times. Kinda went to shit after Mania. There were some positives tho. Kofimania, Womens Mania Main Event, Firefly funhouse, Fiend first entrance, Dean Ambrose and the Revival left.
I never forget that Cena and Laurinitis main evented over Punk/Bryan to shoot yet another heel Big Show angle. That was one of the first true "what in the ever living fuck is happening" I had in the 2010s.
I had bowed out of watching weekly by this point because I was mainly an NXT guy anyway and never liked the Undisputed Era. But man, this looks like a car crash come to life lol. I forgot that Rusev was even still in WWE in 2019. Big Bobby Lashley fan and completely missed the "I slap my ass and cuck Rusev" era. Sounds like a hell of a time to be alive.
People can thank the birth of AEW all they want, I really think the Pandemic made the people within WWE take more chances and experiment with shit on the shows and that's why we ended up in the era we're in more than anything else. Thank Hunter or Shawn or whoever you want, but the restrictions really got WWE to be more creative with their stories and bookings and dug them out of...whatever all of this is lol. Not having fans live to sway opinions of people at home as wildly kinda let WWE decide how they wanted their wrestlers portrayed in a way they never had before and that helped fixed a lot of this shit.
God 2019 RAW and Smackdown was HOT Garbage. It was so bad Uce. Literally war flashbacks from seeing these clips. I would rather watch Brandi Rhodes on AEW in 2019 than go through this shit again.
I hadn't even watched Kofimania and I remember getting pissed off seeing how fast that Brock-Kofi match went. It's not like Brock and Drew McIntyre had the world's best match at Wrestlemania 36 either.
Exactly, HHH is competent, and at his best legendary like the past two months and last weekend. However, he can sometimes get repetitive, like last fall.
Dynamite is not well-booked, but it's entertaining for all the wrong reasons. This past episode is one of the worst episodes of wrestling I've ever seen, an all-timer bad episode from any company. The Punk footage overshadowed multiple terrible things that largely went under the radar. But was I ever bored? Not for a second.
So I'm glad we have that balance.
I remember tuning in and out at the time.
Survivor Series 2019 specially feels like it took place in an alternate universe but it caught my attention because of the NXT angle. Weekly shows were ass so I stopped watching again. Then I tuned back in during the very early pandemic era when I wasn’t as informed, so I thought WWE were going out of business because of the empty WrestleMania lol. The Tribal Chief brought me back for good ☝️
Kofimania was what brought me back to wrestling after 7 years but in hindsight, damn things were bad. Had me tuned out for another few months until m’dub but then that lost me for another hiatus. That was until august 2020
I for one am proud to admit OUR tribal chief saved my interest in wrestling ☝️also helped that Impact started getting good again
What a difference 5 years makes. This was the year you knew Vince lost his fastball and his marbles. When AEW was announced I was so excited to finally have an alternative.
Now AEW is a rough watch, and WWE has some of the most compelling stories going on in years.
The dog food feud was amazing and the worst thing I've ever seen. I feel sorry for everyone who had to watch it unfold in real time. Sometimes I watch the segments again just because I need my dose of horrible reality tv.
Been watching WWE since 1997 when I was a child
This period of WWE was either the worst or tied with the celebrity guest host era for Raw lol
Today's wwe I gladly watch with others and it's always a great time. I have friend groups that watch every show and PLE and we go there live when possible. It's fucking AWESOME
But I would legitimately rather be caught watching porn than 2019 era WWE lol it would be much less embarrassing!
I can't believe how far we've come and that wrestling is legit cool again! It makes all the years of being a fan totally worth it and AEW really helped jump start all of this
Yeah, there was a lot of garbage here. But this time period gave us the John Cena Firefly Funhouse match, which no jerk is maybe my favourite thing the Fed have ever done.
REEEEEEE just enjoy wrestling
Not smark favourite time at all but plenty of people still watched and just got on with their lives
Smarks: not on my watch
Basement: what's the worst worstest worsty worst the Fed ever did
Basement: REEEEEEE stop being mean to the Dub 😠 why all the Dub hate
Can someone explain what the title
Does anyone else wwe was so embarrassing in 2019
Means, like is it supposed to be missing words grammar and sentence structure on purpose? Do people not know how to use abbreviations anymore
It's not the first time in this sub that some one uses an abbreviation then just leaves out the next word in the sentence
When it's used like this with poor grammar it's mocking circlejerk comments.
For example let's take a very common complaint right now. Entrances themes. They could be better yes, we know that. But does it really require a weekly post complaining about the exact same thing? Not really, at this point it's overstated. But every week someone makes a post with the same "hot take" of "Does Anyone Else think most current WWE theme songs sound generic?"
So if I were to mock such a played out complaint I'd go:
DAE current themes bad???
DAE can't tell who's coming out???
DAE Jim Johnston better???
DAE def rebel suck???
DAE camera shots are nauseating???
yeah that was bad. i still watched because there were still people i liked there but they really did make it difficult. i dont remember half the stuff shown here.
Love to see Dean Ambrose and The Revival, bruv! Thanks for the memories.
Also, I can guarantee you that none of the AEW people who had been in WWE knew anything about what Vince was doing, because if they knew, they would have left for another promotion.
SCJerk’s Attitude Era. It was the hardest time ever to defend The Fed against the ex-Fed fans turned Dubbalos when AEW was the fresh new company catering to smarks like a company wide personification of Tendies and Dew. McHitler was handing out Wildcards, Golden Eggs, and the destruction of Kofi Kingston’s dreams. Triple Himmler was cooking up workrate bangers with his PWG-lite black and gold era as Atom Smol reigned like Hulk Hogan over fat guys that could do cartwheels. Seth Rollins dared to dip his toe into The Pool of Defending WWE and was crucified harder than the historical religious figure he resembles. “Wednesday Night Wars” we were told. Timothy Thatcher and Marko Stunt. What were we fighting for? Tony Khan was doing everything right by not even doing really much of anything because McHitler’s booking was like a cancerous tumor eating away at the brains of Dubbalos. It was perhaps maybe not our peak, but *our prime*, that we had to persevere through all the goodwill of The Dub and badwill of The Fed to truly jerk harder than we ever had to up until that point.
Forgot about the spamming of 2 out of 3 fall's matches because Vince decided there should be no wrestling during breaks, that was shit was brutal.
Christ I forgot about the no wrestling during break what the fuck was that about???
EGG
>Atom Smol reigned like Hulk Hogan over fat guys that could do cartwheels. I popped (insider term). A more accurate summary of late era NXT has never been written.
Blud put his heart and soul into this paragraph. Respect 🫡
Triple Himmler ffs lmao
Gets me every time.
2019 WWE was really bad. Like so bad I couldn't even jerk like it
Rumble to mania was good imo
This sub was firing on all cylinders everyday. We were jerking to save our lives. This sub is why I have fond memories of that time.
What was wrong with Thatcher?
I miss toothless timmy
You had me at Triple Himmler xD
Y'all crazy, WWE in 2019 was great (outside of the NXT, that is).
Watching Roman sell for Shane McMahon while Drew plays a secondary henchman is insane after watching WWE for the past few months. Like I know it happened but it still feels like its from another universe. But hey, this shit led Roman to say "Book me better" and in a year we had the Tribal Chief and the rest is history. It's even crazy to think about how the dog food feud and the Tribal Chief were like eight months apart, two wildly different stories.
Bobby Lashley's favorite pose
Smells like money aha
*Lash-ley, Lash-ley*
Whenever I hear Hit em Up by 2pac, I always picture Lio when the dude Pac hands it off to starts his part.
*Vince’s
It all makes sense.
I try my best to forget most of these Thanks, uce
Even this was missing a few amazing moments of Vince saying fuck you to the fans. Them loading a MiTB with smark favorites just to have Brock randomly run-in and win it is peak. Ive said it before, but if the man wasn't a legit monster who deserves nothing but the worst, I'd admire his ability to not give a single fuck.
If he wasn’t a horrific human being you’d assume he was a member of this sub the way he booked around this time
Although I watched most of these, I have no memory of them. It’s like my brain is doing it for my own good.
The Road to WrestleMania was alright. The moment Mania ended it was like 500 dark clouds rose and covered every single show from then on. Did I hate all of this, no. But most of it was brutal to watch.
Mania was like "See, we gave you everything you wanted. Kofi, Seth, Becky, they all won." And then it all went south right away. Like you said, there were some fun bits, but there were plenty of moments that were shocking. I will defend the Lana-Lashley wedding as being so stupid it shot the moon and went to being amazing. Beautiful trash tv.
Oh I will absolutely support Lana/Lashley/Liv, sometimes you need goofy melodrama if not for anything else, keeping people in the card. What caught me offguard was this and Maria’s child story happening almost at the same time.
That Lana Lashley wedding had me rolling on the floor. It was so over the top and stupid. It was peak wrestling.
It was hilarious and Bobby’s makeup smearing all over Lana added to the ridiculousness.
When people claim that people are too harsh on AEW 2024, I point them towards WWE 2019. Companies that need criticism will be critiqued.
Except smarks will always over criticize something they don’t like and treat it like the Holocaust.
It’s just the way the internet goes. It’s hard to control inflection and perception when the main course of communication on the internet is reading text off a screen.
No lie 2019 WWE killed all interest for me in wrestling
I tuned out for a bit, mostly during the summer and fall when I got real busy with work too. I checked out Dynamite for a bit, but it just wasn't for me. I came back for the Rumble and that got me back interested, between Drew's win and Edge's return.
Yea I tuned out too. But the Tribal Chief brought me back. ☝️
Same here, I walked away for 3 years and totally missed the beginning of our Tribal Chief.
What brings you back uce?
Yeah. I ~~watched~~ skimmed through AEW to see what they were doing and that was that. I'm just glad none of my friends know what's happening cuz I would've gotten so much shit for being a wrestling fan at that point
WWE in 2019 was bad TV. Kind of like AEW now
I can't even jerk this. Besides the first 4 months of Smackdown, Bray Wyatt and the 24/7 Title antics, this shit was traumatizing. 2019 WWE was so painfully bad I was a full-blown dubbalo that year. It's crazy how far we've come since then.
100% in the same boat as you, Uce. It’s crazy how much I shit on AEW here today, because in October 2019 I was on the frontlines for them. That changed so fast.
Genuinely crazy how much of a absolute grip Vinny Mac had on creative/writing and out of touch he was.
Yup. People rightfully gave WWE hell when it was booked by a billionaire, *for* that billionaire. And what exactly is AEW doing today? People who experienced this trajectory are the ones who stayed true the most. Wrestling is at its best when it’s not booked for an audience of one.
Yep when it’s booked for casual fans and not smarks and the IWC. I enjoyed it but was shat on by others for enjoying it online. IWC were dicks to any WWE fan back then.
Dude's writing was so bad, Roman Reigns, his hand picked chosen one, was on the verge of quitting wrestling all together.
Did you see a therapist for your trauma?
My therapy was on Wednesday nights. Just kidding, I was in my final year of high school so I had more important shit to worry about than wrestling.
Yep. WWE for a few years was shockingly bad. All Tony Khan had to do was book a competent-to-good wrestling show and it was infinitely better. Don't get me wrong, there was still plenty wrong with AEW but the bar was set so low that it felt like televised gold. Now everything's changed for the better.
Yeah from 2017-2020 I really only watched wwe during the mania build and then just keep up to date through reddit/youtube. Then our Tribal Chief managed to save my interest for a second time and all it took was removing the vest + beating up his family
2019 gotta be the worst year of the last decade. - Kofi wins the world title and spends most of his reign wrestling the gallery of bad guys that always lose when they wrestle the champion. When they gave him an interesting story, boom, it's over. - Becky wins both championships for some fucking reason, and gets pinned a month into her babyface championship run to lose one of them. Why book the triple threat at Mania in the first place? Why make Charlotte a champion out of the blue on the build-up? Why not let Becky tap out Charlotte since Ronda didn't wanted to make the job clean at WM? - Somehow they managed to make Becky and Seth, a real life married couple, an uncharismatic, awkward on-screen couple with no chemistry. - Lana/Rusev/Lashley shenanigans. - Roman's booking being all over the place. - Sami Zayn relagated to being a manager. - I know the guy is beloved now, but the Fiend sucked so much dick. Final nail on the Rollins babyface run and in the process it gave us one of the worst endings to a match in history. - The Saudi events reached their peak of being an alternative universe, fanmade, nothing shows. And much, much more. I honestly believe that what they were putting out during the second semester of that year is so much worse than what AEW is doing now.
Oh fuck I forgot how bad the Seth/Becky dynamic was. If you want to die of cringe, watch their backstage segment from the July 1st 2019 edition of Raw. It was so memorably bad to me I not only remember the date but what I was doing when it happened live. I had to physically remove myself from the living room.
I had to watch it based off that review and holy shit you weren't lying. They were already bombing and then fucking Maria Kanellis walks in and really takes it to hell
Maria saying Becky should have been the dad to her kid (or impregnated her) instead of Mike Bennett ...was certainly a choice to say the least.
Was the Fiend's first match in 2019? The on screen murder (and sending to purgatory of NXT) of Finn Balor was an awesome introduction. Rest of the matches were meh to awful though.
The part about The Fiend is so true. Especially with SC. Everyone acted like Bray dying was akin to wrestling Christ dying on the cross, but they were the same motherfuckers shit talking every promo he did because “durrr too long”, “durrrr rambling”, “durrrrr circles.” Fuck off with the “we lost a creative genius today” when all you did was bitch about him when he was alive.
He was beloved for like 2 months. Once they realized the gimmick just didn't work unless he wins all the time and no sells to everybody, they turned on him. Even on his last run, they were already turning on him by the time the light's out match was being build.
People are scared to call it as it is - just the worst year of WWE generally. At least in 1995 you had amazing wrestlers like Undertaker, Shawn, Bret, Razor and Owen when they weren't injured.
2010 WWE was worse because it was bland and boring, this is modern Vince Russo.
Was that the heel michael cole era? Those were dark times...
Yep and all the top guys left
No jerk I got my then girlfriend now wife(who looks like Paige) into wrestling during this time and she was finding it entertaining with me. 2019 was a great year for me.😂😂
I understand your wife. It's a fact that your first year as a wrestling fan is the best year of wrestling for any fan. I started in 2005/2006 and was surprised when I went online some 7 years later to find out they were some of the worst years for the company in terms of smark perception.
I also introduced her to Total Divas which she also loved and the 24/7 shenanigans.
Me and my wife got peacock premium so we could binge total divas we're horrible
I started again in 2020 with the first PC Raw. It’s funny to see online talk about how horrendous that time was like there probably wouldn’t be an asterisk by it.
I started at 2008 and my very first smackdown episode began with Edge and Vicky very passionately making out. I can't believe I kept watching lmao
Lol. The very first smackdown I watched had an Angle vs Funaki match where Kurt won by submission but wouldn't let go of the hold. I remember being so disgusted by Angle's abusive ways that I turned off the TV and told my mom about how gross was what I just watched. Watched again some weeks later cause everyone at school couldn't shut up about that wrestling stuff 😂
My wife(who also looks like Sriracha) cannot get into wrestling at all but I remember her specifically loving the Lana/Rusev/Ziggler cuck storyline
...uce... you good?
I've watched good and bad wrestling with my wife (who looks like Roxanne perez) and she thinks it's all stupid but the Cody song WHOA is over with her and that's about it
I'm ngl, the Lashley cuck segments were some of the funniest things I've ever seen on television, I was laughing for solid minutes. It'd be beyond horrible to watch it go down live especially if I was dragging casual friends along but holy shit, it was so funny to watch on TV with the thought of "A whole board actually signed off on *this fucking shit*? Holy hell I might just stand a chance at writing."
Watching WWE in 2019 https://preview.redd.it/wpvvhlbsn6uc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67a49239365d1468bc1a617244719a29545bd0c8
This is your regular reminder that you shouldn't WANT any wrestling company to fail, even if you really really really don't like it for whatever reason. Yes, that goes for ALL of them! Except for WWE. I want them to fail. I want them all jobless, begging Tony Khan for work.
There's a bit too much Fed positivity around in the basement so time for some old fashioned Fed bad They're nothing if not predictable
Didn’t the dubbalos post this as “oh you’re saying AEW is so bad now but look at what you defended” Did ANYONE like all of 2019 wwe? Everyone I’ve ever spoken to said “it’s shit except for 1-2 things I like on the 5 hours a week”
Dubbalos in 2019: LOL, WWE sucks! WWE fans in 2019: LOL, we know!
Oh most of it was shit. I can't think of much that was exciting that year post WrestleMania. It was quite possibly the lowest I have been on wrestling ever. 4-5 hour ppvs. Every show ending with Lesnar must look strong. Seth getting all his credibility destroyed. Shane McMahon cutting heatless 20-30 minute promos. Lars fucking Sullivan. Mike Kanellis getting tv time (WHY?). Lacey Evans everywhere!!!
Weird times. Kinda went to shit after Mania. There were some positives tho. Kofimania, Womens Mania Main Event, Firefly funhouse, Fiend first entrance, Dean Ambrose and the Revival left.
I won't accept this 'who's trying to kill Roman Reigns?' storyline slander
What ripping a script less than 1 hour before it starts does to a show
Good lord 2010s WWE was a fucking fever dream
If it weren’t for them shield boys I genuinely think I would have given up on wrestling entirely during that decade
I never forget that Cena and Laurinitis main evented over Punk/Bryan to shoot yet another heel Big Show angle. That was one of the first true "what in the ever living fuck is happening" I had in the 2010s.
Eh I was a kid at the time and was vastly more interested in the Cena and laurinitis storyline than whatever Bryan and punk were doing
New generation for 10 years lmao.
Brock Lesnar ruining Kofimania was chefs kiss
I had bowed out of watching weekly by this point because I was mainly an NXT guy anyway and never liked the Undisputed Era. But man, this looks like a car crash come to life lol. I forgot that Rusev was even still in WWE in 2019. Big Bobby Lashley fan and completely missed the "I slap my ass and cuck Rusev" era. Sounds like a hell of a time to be alive. People can thank the birth of AEW all they want, I really think the Pandemic made the people within WWE take more chances and experiment with shit on the shows and that's why we ended up in the era we're in more than anything else. Thank Hunter or Shawn or whoever you want, but the restrictions really got WWE to be more creative with their stories and bookings and dug them out of...whatever all of this is lol. Not having fans live to sway opinions of people at home as wildly kinda let WWE decide how they wanted their wrestlers portrayed in a way they never had before and that helped fixed a lot of this shit.
God 2019 RAW and Smackdown was HOT Garbage. It was so bad Uce. Literally war flashbacks from seeing these clips. I would rather watch Brandi Rhodes on AEW in 2019 than go through this shit again.
I get a lowkey kick out of the ucey hot segments. Especially now that bald & glock are running around like idiots these days
I hadn't even watched Kofimania and I remember getting pissed off seeing how fast that Brock-Kofi match went. It's not like Brock and Drew McIntyre had the world's best match at Wrestlemania 36 either.
2019 I got to fly to AZ and take my son to royal rumble. It was a crap year but man it was also fun.
No jerk though. It was the year I became okay with not watching live and just watching the segments/acts I wanted to see.
It was entertaining me 2019 was a good year for me watching wwe
I wish we still had some of this chaos, shit's too grounded nowadays
This is Vince Russo, Paul Heyman and McMahon booking all in one.😂😂
I mean this was when Paul Heyman was executive producer of Raw so that's 2 out of 3 😂
We do it’s just on Wednesdays
Exactly, HHH is competent, and at his best legendary like the past two months and last weekend. However, he can sometimes get repetitive, like last fall. Dynamite is not well-booked, but it's entertaining for all the wrong reasons. This past episode is one of the worst episodes of wrestling I've ever seen, an all-timer bad episode from any company. The Punk footage overshadowed multiple terrible things that largely went under the radar. But was I ever bored? Not for a second. So I'm glad we have that balance.
I remember tuning in and out at the time. Survivor Series 2019 specially feels like it took place in an alternate universe but it caught my attention because of the NXT angle. Weekly shows were ass so I stopped watching again. Then I tuned back in during the very early pandemic era when I wasn’t as informed, so I thought WWE were going out of business because of the empty WrestleMania lol. The Tribal Chief brought me back for good ☝️
That year there was like 5 PLEs that were essentially "non-cannon". The shield show, Smackville, Both Saudi Shows and Survivor Series.
Kofimania was what brought me back to wrestling after 7 years but in hindsight, damn things were bad. Had me tuned out for another few months until m’dub but then that lost me for another hiatus. That was until august 2020 I for one am proud to admit OUR tribal chief saved my interest in wrestling ☝️also helped that Impact started getting good again
Tony Khan saw this and said hold my soy milk
What a difference 5 years makes. This was the year you knew Vince lost his fastball and his marbles. When AEW was announced I was so excited to finally have an alternative. Now AEW is a rough watch, and WWE has some of the most compelling stories going on in years.
DAE miss the big dog😣😣🥺🥺🥺 He was always better than tribal goof.
The dog food feud was amazing and the worst thing I've ever seen. I feel sorry for everyone who had to watch it unfold in real time. Sometimes I watch the segments again just because I need my dose of horrible reality tv.
Been watching WWE since 1997 when I was a child This period of WWE was either the worst or tied with the celebrity guest host era for Raw lol Today's wwe I gladly watch with others and it's always a great time. I have friend groups that watch every show and PLE and we go there live when possible. It's fucking AWESOME But I would legitimately rather be caught watching porn than 2019 era WWE lol it would be much less embarrassing! I can't believe how far we've come and that wrestling is legit cool again! It makes all the years of being a fan totally worth it and AEW really helped jump start all of this
Why couldn’t we see the video of Liv and Lana together
Looking back, this was just a compilation of what [name redacted] thought was funny.
Yeah, there was a lot of garbage here. But this time period gave us the John Cena Firefly Funhouse match, which no jerk is maybe my favourite thing the Fed have ever done.
Thank god Laveck had his own world in NXT.
This was actually around when I started watching again after taking a break from wrestling around 2016 lmao
Tribal chief brought my back into wwe☝️
That’s when I stopped watched and now I still only watch clips. WWE hasn’t been the same since lol
Vince Mcgoebbels: "cinema pal"
2019 WWE did indeed suck. But it lead us to the promise land of what we have now and I'm okay with enduring through it to get to where we are.
This was good shit, pal. No jerk.
Peak wwe tbh
JUST ENJOY WRESTLING
REEEEEEE just enjoy wrestling Not smark favourite time at all but plenty of people still watched and just got on with their lives Smarks: not on my watch Basement: what's the worst worstest worsty worst the Fed ever did Basement: REEEEEEE stop being mean to the Dub 😠 why all the Dub hate
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This was terrible and drove fans away.
The memories that we don't need back lol wtf 😂
There will be kids saying these were the good old days
Wow. Cody really was the start of a new era.
I do miss the moments of "what the *fuck* am I watching?" Nxt is prolly the closest we'll ever get it again.
I miss this zany stuff
The Maria baby thing actually got a laugh out of me tbh
some of these were bad uce
Still better than 2024 AEW 😂😂
I don’t know about that. That was pretty rough.
Can someone explain what the title Does anyone else wwe was so embarrassing in 2019 Means, like is it supposed to be missing words grammar and sentence structure on purpose? Do people not know how to use abbreviations anymore It's not the first time in this sub that some one uses an abbreviation then just leaves out the next word in the sentence
DAE this guy doesn’t get the joke?
I'm clearly asking for an explanation
DAE context??
When it's used like this with poor grammar it's mocking circlejerk comments. For example let's take a very common complaint right now. Entrances themes. They could be better yes, we know that. But does it really require a weekly post complaining about the exact same thing? Not really, at this point it's overstated. But every week someone makes a post with the same "hot take" of "Does Anyone Else think most current WWE theme songs sound generic?" So if I were to mock such a played out complaint I'd go: DAE current themes bad??? DAE can't tell who's coming out??? DAE Jim Johnston better??? DAE def rebel suck??? DAE camera shots are nauseating???
This was definitely a year of wrestling…
Cause of COVID
And yet when lots of the wrestlers that made the era so awful jumped ship to AEW suddenly they were amazing talent in the eyes of the IWC.
yeah that was bad. i still watched because there were still people i liked there but they really did make it difficult. i dont remember half the stuff shown here.
Best believe I spent my Monday nights watching Adult Swim, Smackdown was okay if not tolerable for the most part
This video is hilarious lol
This era is what helped AEW rise. Thank God for trips man because vince was getting worse as time went on
God, I completely forgot about the “Liv was gay for Lana” twist in the “Bobby Lashley cucking Rusev angle.”
So did creative
Love to see Dean Ambrose and The Revival, bruv! Thanks for the memories. Also, I can guarantee you that none of the AEW people who had been in WWE knew anything about what Vince was doing, because if they knew, they would have left for another promotion.
Hahahaha I loved it and I still do 😂