I watched wrestling as a young'un, until WCW died, when I was around 9 or 10 years old. I guess most of my wrestling memories from those days were from WCW, even though I know I watched both. One that sticks out from WWF, strangely, is X-Pac and Kane teaming up. It was probably actually pretty bad, but, damn, it was good enough for young Ben. Kane protecting his little buddy; X-Pac teaching Kane the important things in life--speech, for example--only for Kane to freak out, as he always does, and turn bad again. Hearing Kane say "suck it" with the voice aid device was one of the most important moments of my young life, though.
Some recent storylines had aspects of them that were great, but the payoffs were sorely disappointing. The Nexus storyline had some amazing moments--Cena being the guest ref between Barrett and RKO? Remember that? With Piper's Pit, and Rowdy telling Cena how he needs to honor the title and call it down the line? Then, Cena's subsequent firing? That damn-near brought me to tears. Then Cena came back a week later, though, and the Nexus storyline dissolved into the weird New Nexus/Corre bullshit.
CM Punk's reign this summer, too, had a disappointing end. The entire build-up and conclusion to MitB was amazing. But, of course, Cena and CM Punk both had to come back two weeks later, despite one quitting and one being "fired." Then Kevin Nash showed up. Then HHH got mad. It got dumb. Could have been so much better.
I guess the most satisfying recent storyline for me was the one between Vince/Batista and Cena a couple of years ago. It had a solid enough storyline, nothing earth-shattering, but pretty good. Cena actually seemed like an underdog to me, which was cool. There were some pretty good matches, in which Cena outsmarted Batista. And it had an awesome ending, with Batista quitting while in the wheelchair. A nice, concise, satisfying story arc. If only they could pull that off with one of these more original storylines...
