Any booking decision has the best of intentions. A bad booking decision comes from not understanding the best way to make someone look stronger without hurting other performers. Most of the time, the decision depends on momentum, shock value and who needs the win more. Sometimes, choices are made for the wrong reasons.
WWE’s style of booking allows them to be able to make a million small mistakes, but making big mistakes is just bad for business. When a poor booking decision happens, WWE is in a race to either fix it or change the story to make it look like the choice was the plan the whole time.
A perfect example of this is the 2014 Royal Rumble that was won by Batista. No one had anything against Batista, but he just wasn’t Daniel Bryan. Anyone else winning the Royal Rumble that year was ridiculous. So, WWE teased Daniel Bryan for months and eventually, Bryan won the WWE Championship at Wrestlemania 30.
Sometimes WWE can fix the mistake they’ve made. Other times, they cannot. But, those mistakes are still etched into WWE history and those mistakes shape WWE history as much as any good booking decision.
10. Orton Cashes in On Daniel Bryan – SummerSlam 2013
9. Christian’s World Title Reigns – 2011
8. Rikishi’s Heel Turn – 2000
7. John Cena goes over The Nexus – SummerSlam 2010
6. Releasing Muhammad Hassan – 2005
5. Stripping RVD of WWE Title – 2006
4. Stone Cold Turns Heel – WrestleMania X-Seven
3. CM Punk Losing to The Rock – Royal Rumble 2013
2. WCW/ECW Invasion Angle
1. Booking Brock Lesnar over Stone Cold on RAW
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