Armchair bookers are so cute. I hate to break it to you, but you disagreeing with a decision doesn't make it a "mistake" or mean they "should" have done what you wanted. That's just stupid.
Speaking of stupid, I am so sick of hearing about Triple H vs. CM Punk. First of all, did you even watch the match? That was about as far from a clean victory as you can get, so we can stop calling it that. Secondly, who cares? What, exactly, would have changed if Punk won? A few weeks later, Punk won the title and held it FOR A YEAR AND A HALF!!! If that doesn't tell you wins and losses are meaningless, I don't know what will.
But, really, the Cena vs. Lesnar argument is just as bad. The only valid point I saw in this thread is that they could've made it a double countout. That would've been fine. But again, what would Lesnar winning accomplish? Lesnar already got what he needed out of that match. He dominated it, he looked unbeatable, they established him as a monster just like they wanted to. Pinning Cena wouldn't have done anything for him. Instead, they found a way to make both look good at the same time. But you want Lesnar to win and gain nothing, while hurting Cena, why? It makes no sense. Oh right, it's because you people hate Cena, just like you hate Triple H. Now I get it. Funny how Triple H/CM Punk is the exact same as Rock/Cena I, literally every argument against the former can be used against the latter, the only difference is Rock won clean, yet everybody who complains about the former never even mentions the latter. Funny how that works.
I'm sure there are.
Edge should have retained the championship at Wrestlemania 25.
A meaningless Cena/Triple H loss. Shocking. Something tells me this is the beginning of a trend.
Triple H should have won the WWE championship at Elimination Chamber 2010; not Cena. Triple H vs Sheamus should have been the championship match. Sheamus was getting better but they had Cena win the championship and they had an underwhelming main event between Cena and Batista. It would have been much better if Triple H won the chamber, and defended it against Sheamus at Wrestlemania. Sheamus could have finally regained the championship at Extreme Rules the way he did. That would have made him a dominant heel than giving him cheap victories over Cena. Cena w/m Bret Hart vs Batista w/m Vince should have been the other match. There was no point in having Bret vs Vince; that match was awful.
This makes no sense whatsoever. Cena-Batista was 10x the match Triple H-Sheamus was and clearly more deserving of having the title. And why would you want to rid of Hart vs. McMahon? Obviously the match should've been shorter, but why get rid of it entirely? It's not about the quality of the match, it's about seeing Bret beat Vince's ass. That was great.
Randy Orton should have gone over Triple H at 25 and Booker T should have gone over H at 19.
Why the hell would Orton beat Triple H? That makes no sense. Orton had be terrorizing the McMahon family, and you want it to continue at WrestleMania? It's funny, because the exact same argument you would use for Booker T winning would also apply to Triple H beating Orton. It was the only result that made sense in the context of the storyline.
Brock should have defeated Cena! It was just a terrible choice to have Cena win that match.
See above for how stupid this is.
Chris Jericho could have won at least one MITB! In 2008, it was alright to have Punk win the MITB, but it would have been much better if Jericho won it. He just returned in late 2007. He should have defeated JBL in a No DQ match at Royal Rumble instead of losing by DQ, and he should have won the MITB. Or at least he could have won the Intercontinental championship at Wrestlemania. There was no point in having him return at Armageddon, just so that he'd lose at Royal Rumble, No Way Out and Wrestlemania.
Chris Jericho should have won the 2012 Rumble, or at least the 2013 one and he could have gone after the World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestlemania 29.
Chris Jericho should have gone over Ryback, Bourne and all the other younger talents that had no reason to beat him. Oh and jobbing to Fandango was the worst!
See a trend here? Jericho is a lot like HBK in that he's mostly used to make other people look better and get them more over, because he's so over that losses won't hurt him, much like people say about Cena, though they want Cena to lose for that reason and still complain about Jericho losing..funny. Almost as funny as how this is another example of the double standard regarding part timers. Part timers like Triple H that you don't like should lose, but part timers like Jericho that you do like should win. Got it.
CM Punk should have won the 2011 Rumble, not ADR. Orton vs Punk should have been the WWE Championship match at Wrestlemania 27. Christian vs Edge should have been the World Heavyweight Championship.
Not one part of this makes any sense. Miz-Cena was the WWE title match and, thus, the main event. That's where they started the Rock-Cena feud. Obviously that doesn't work if it's not for the title. And given that Edge was about to retire, and Christian was going to take his place in the title picture, why the hell would they have a match for the title? You want Christian to be a heel? Then him winning the title a few weeks later, after it was vacated by Edge's retirement, is ruined. Let me help you out. If you don't want ADR in the title match for whatever reason, have Christian win the Royal Rumble instead. Then you can do Christian vs. Edge for the title, both as faces, and have Edge announce beforehand that he's retiring after the match. That would've made for a cool moment. But, again, there's nothing you can do about Miz-Cena being for the title, despite your hatred for Cena.
The Undertaker should have won at least one match in the Kane-Taker feud in 2010. Having Bearer return on Smackdown siding with Taker only to turn on him in just a week was a bullshit decision.
Why? Undertaker was finishing up his career as a full time wrestler, and putting Kane over. There was no reason for him to win any of those matches.
Shawn Michaels could have defeated John Cena at Wrestlemania 23. Rey Mysterio's triple threat match at 22 should have been the main event.
You want Cena to lose??? You want to downgrade Cena vs. Triple H??? Mind=blown. HBK didn't want the title, that was clear. No reason for him to win. And suggesting they put Mystero's title match after John Cena vs. Triple H is just hilariously ridiculous on every level.
The Undertaker vs CM Punk was supposed to be the main event of 29. Streak vs Streak. Cena could have just challenged Rock to a rematch after losing every match the previous year. Cena should have lost to Brock, and then took time off before returning at No Way Out to defeat Big Show. Then winning MITB is alright, but after that he should have lost to Punk at Summerslam and NOC (instead of a draw finish). After losing the Royal Rumble as well (which Jericho won), Cena could have just challenged Rock to a match. Punk should have gone over Rock at the Rumble.
Wow, this is...wow. Ok, why the hell would Undertaker vs. Punk be the main event? Undertaker wrestles once a year, they're not going give him the title. And, no, Punk isn't going to end the streak. And why the hell would Rock just randomly accept a challenge from Cena after already beating him? No part of that would've made any sense whatsoever. They needed Rock to win the title and Cena to win the Rumble for their rematch to be possible and for people to want to see it.
Booker T beating Triple H is a valid one, but that's about it. There are many other matches that could've gone either way but, again, to suggest it was a "mistake" that they did what they did is ridiculous.
EDIT: I'm amazed that nobody has mentioned WrestleMania 2000, when Triple H beat Foley, Show, and Rock to keep the title. Unlike most of the complaints about H's wins, this one would be another valid one. Rock should've won the title at Mania instead of the next month. I'm guessing most of the people who have posted so far are too young to remember that since most of the matches list have happened recently.
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Surprised no one has mentioned this yet: Starrcade '97, Hogan vs Sting for the WCW Title.
They spent the entire year hyping up Sting vs the nWo in one of the greatest build-ups in history. All anybody wanted was for Sting to finally get his hands on Hogan. Just like how so many people want Daniel Bryan to win and overcome the odds at Wresltemania, Sting was supposed to overcome Hogan. Everything seemed to be going to plan...
And then Hogan hit the leg drop. Sting will kick out, surely? 1... 2... 3... Nope... He didn't. So Bret Hart gets on the microphone, makes some rushed comment about how "this isn't going to happen again" or something stupid like that and they restart the match. Apparently it was a fast count. It wasn't. It was a normal count. Sting went on to win the match but nobody cared because they'd just seen Hogan beat Sting right in front of them. What should have been a clean win for Sting turned into a shot at the WWF over the Montreal Screwjob. Honestly one of the worst match outcomes in history.
Hahaha, so true. I don't think anybody was even really considering WCW for some reason(again, likely because of the ages of those who have posted so far), but you could write a book with all the bad decisions they made. Unfortunately I didn't really follow WCW(I should say fortunately, but unfortunate for the purposes of this thread), so I wouldn't be able to list them off all of the top of my head, but I'm sure others could. The match you mentioned, the fingerpoke of doom, Goldberg's streak ending with a taser, Arquette winning the title, all atrocious decisions that were much worse than anything the WWE ever considered. Daniel Bryan not winning the title tomorrow would be the only thing that could compare to any of those, which is why it's so funny that we have some idiots suggesting he shouldn't or won't win.