Worst Year in WWE history

[KingOfKings14]

Whats your worst Year in WWE history you can think of and why??

[wigsf3]

I hated the content in 1999 so much I stopped watching wrestling for a decade. I found the stories to be very juvenile in the sense that it felt like a ten year old was trying to be an adult and not knowing how and just defaulting to cursing and nudity.
Or maybe that was 1998.

[rocketking]

It has to be 1995, right? Which is kind of absurd if you consider that the show could have been built around Bret, Shawn, Owen, Nash, Hall, Taker and Bulldog (among others). Not to mention reliable veterans like Bam Bam, Jarrett, and Shane Douglas. Oh, and by year's end, the roster also included Goldust, Austin, and Triple H.

A good point above about 1999, though I agree that those years all kind of run together for me.

[Christian Small]

Statistically it is 95, every wrestling company did bad that year. Personally for me it was 2001/2002, more 2002. While the in ring work was outstanding the booking was just puzzling at times. I was also a massive Jericho mark so him winning the Undisputed title was awesome to me but the way they booked him after turned me off the product.

[rinaldo]

Pick one from 2005 and now.

[thebenjamin]

95 is the easy answer but 2007 caused me to fall off for a while.

[rinaldo]

I was 15 in '95. I was a huge WWF fan so it was all gold to me. Add the fact there was no WWf TV in my country back then so I had to resort to tape trading or buying a huge ass satellite dish to get the German and English airings of Superstars and you'll get why I honestly cannot say 1995 was their worst. not for me at least.

[rocketking]

There's so much bad WWF out there... I think it all comes down to who was over and what the main events were. Because in-ring WWF is pretty brutal going all the way back to the 1980s... Even the studs like Rude and Hennig were stuck carrying guys like Beefcake and Warrior to watchable matches. But it's hard to tag any of those years as "the worst" when Hulk Hogan was on top as the biggest wrestler and legitimately one of the most recognizable celebrities in the world.

Same goes for a lot of the Attitude Era: Austin and Rock at their peaks at (roughly) the same time plus Taker and Foley and the tag TLC matches and whatnot all overshadow the fact that the average (unfunny) skit and the average entrance were both longer than the average match.

[rinaldo]

I was 18 in '98. The Attitude Era was the best shit back then. Of course now I watch it back and see a desperate Vinnie Mac trying t be hip. But it was a good run.

[Milky]

I'd have to say around 2002 when Triple H was just beating the hell out of everybody. Also, the Monday Night Wars were still fresh in the memory and it just felt like WWE didn't really capitalize on a virtual licence to print money.

Another bad time was a few years later, from around 2005-2012. It just seemed like the WWE didn't really have any competition during this period, and I felt like their product was incredibly stale. Fortunately now they seem to at least be creatively motivated again.

[deezy]

2011, had a terribly thin roster where Big Show and John Laurinaitis headlined PPVs, not to mention making CM Punk their Cena adjacent who was given a worked shoot and somehow became the "voice of the voiceless" and every terrible and cringy segment that involved him from thereon after.....thank God Rock came back and renewed my interest in pro wrestling again .

[quadrupleh]

The problem is overexposure. If you were to distill the product, there's a lot of quality, just not enough to fill the five hours of Raw and Smackdown.