Friday, January 25, 2019

23 Times Mr. McMahon Gave Us Life (aka Best WWE Things Of 2018)


It's Royal Rumble weekend - a good time to reflect on the past year for Mr. McMahon.

Was 2018 a good year?
We originally thought "no."
After all, this was the year Sami Zayn challenged Bobby Lashley to an army-style obstacle course to prove his valor.
2018 was the year The Riott Squad reenacted the "Complicated" video.
This was the year Raw and SmackDown joined forces to record the worst song of 2018.
This was the year audiences boo'd Roman Reigns every week only for him to take a leave of absence due to a battle with cancer.
Alexa Bliss, Sami Zayn, Kevin Owens, Braun Strowman, Paige, John Cena, Dean Ambrose and probably 10 other people also took extended absences or sustained debilitating injury.
This was the year Raw relieved Kurt Angle as GM and prominently replaced him with Boring Corbin (aka "Baron Boring").
This was the year Triple H and Shawn Michaels should not have reunited but did anyway.
This was the year of "The Worst Raw Of All Time."

However, we put a list together anyway. Was this a good year? The answer might not be "no," but rather we're thinking the answer is closer to "sort of."

On a more positive note, 4 of WWE's 9 five-star matches took place this year. And at its best, the shows were often very funny.

These are not really ordered, but the first 5 or 6 are better than the stuff at the bottom.

#1. Velveteen Dream's entrance (NXT TakeOver: Philadelphia, Jan 27)

Not included in video: slowly rolling around on the floor of the ring for 45 seconds.


#2 Daniel Bryan vs. Brock Lesnar vs. jaded audience members (Survivor Series, Nov 18)

Brock Lesnar was interesting once in 2018. Audience dude should have meme'd harder.



#3. Becky Lynch ambush with broken face (Raw, Nov 12)

Everyone else's #1.
Honorable mention: Dean Ambrose promo with burning trash cans from the same night


4. Braun Strowman gets a Pitchfork headline for smashing Elias with an upright bass (Raw, Feb 12)



#5. Gargano vs. Ciampa (NXT Takeover: New Orleans, April 7)



#6. Bray Wyatt and Matt Hardy: "The Ultimate Deletion" featuring lawnmowers and drones (Raw, March 19)



#7. Elias vs. Gritty (Raw, Oct 15)

Honorable mention: Ronda Rowsey's 1 good promo from the same night.


#8 Nikki Cross interruption (NXT, Sept 26)



#9. (tie) John Cena runs outside (Wrestlemania, April 8), Braun runs to the bathroom (Raw, Nov 5)




#10. The New Day, Rusev, No Way Jose's conga line, and Bobby Roode interrupt Elias' big song (Backlash, May 6)



#11. The worst Raw of all time (Raw, Nov 26)

Episodes like this are why we started watching. Vince put a lot of hard work into writing this piece of shit. We thank him.



And more stuff...

#12. Bobby Lashley sisters promo (Raw, May 7)


#13. Velteteen Dream's "Call Me Up Vince" pants (NXT Takeover: Brooklyn 4, August 18)


#14. Bayley's false heel turn (Raw, June 25)


#15. Kevin Owens cuts a promo on his cat (@FightOwensFight, Nov 13)


#16. Women's Royal Rumble features Trish Stratus, Lita, Jacqueline, Michelle McCool and Vickie Guerrero (Royal Rumble, Jan 28)


#17. The Miz vs. Daniel Bryan 3-part promo (SmackDown, Aug 14)


#18. Dean Ambrose turns heel moments after Roman's cancer announcement (Raw, Oct 22)


#19. Sami Zayn's reading glasses (Raw, April 16)


#20. Seth Rollins just keeps on going for 65 minutes (Raw, Feb 19)


#21. "The New" Daniel Bryan debuts as a leftist SJW heel (SmackDown, Nov 13 & Nov 20)


#22. Braun pulls a port-o-potty carrying Kevin Owens (Raw, July 2)


#23. Seth's face when Dean came back (Raw, Aug 13)


Also when Elias nailed that 1 solo and smiled but we forget when that happened.
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