Worst year in WWF

[Guest nWoScorpion]

Hands down 1995 takes the cake.

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

From survivor series 94 to Royal Rumlbe 96 is wwf's dark awful period that is never spoken about.

[Guest nWoScorpion]

Diesel was champ for every one of those months until SSeries95 (then they gras gotg reen again an the sun shined like never before!~)

[Guest]

I have to agree with scorp, '95 blowed.

 

Diesel as champ

Mabel as King of the Ring

A host of shitty cards

Sycho Sid main eventing

 

My God, i'm starting to feel sick...

 

This has been the Taker Mark

[Guest nWoScorpion]

and UT being DEpushed badly

[Guest RetroRob215]

95 sucked, but I also didn't like 93.  Plus 99 was horrible in terms of wrestling and storylines, although business was booming.

[Guest Human Fly]

'95 did suck. HBK and Bret were the two best things about the fed that year (by far).

 

'93 was just downhill after arguably the worst 'mania ever. Hogan holding the belt until KOTR and not defending it once, while talking smack from the "Thunder In Paradise" set didn't make for compelling tv.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

1999.  Owen died. Russomania ran wild.  RAW was all chit-chat and no action.  Austin 3:16 ran out of gas by Wrestlemania.  Worst Royal Rumble ever.  Worst Wrestlemania ever.  Second worst KOTR ever (1995).  Worst Summerslam ever.  Worst Survivor Series ever.  

 

1995 at least was good prior to Wrestlemania, and after Survivor Series, plus Shawn Michaels was around to have a good match at virtually every event, including classics at In Your House II and Summerslam.

 

1993 had great television and lousy PPVs.

[Guest cabbageboy]

I will say this for the record:  1993 did not suck.  The PPVs did suck I will admit but Raw was awesome that year.  There were all sorts of great matches in 93.

 

1995 sucked all sorts of ass.  I didn't care so much about Diesel as champ, but the whole Mabel thing was so awful on so many levels.

[Guest bravesfan]

Well, 1995 is the only year I have tuned out WWF TV, so I have to go with that. Although 1993 did suck even worse angle-wise.

 

As far as bad workrate, I'd say 1991. Bret, Savage, Dibiase and Hennig carried this year by themselves...

[Guest]

Mabel was good for one thing in 95, getting crap thrown at him by fans while Vince begs MoM to get this over with.  I downloaded a video of that at:

 

http://www.wwekingofthering.com/

 

Download it, it's pretty funny.

[Guest J*ingus]

1999.  Owen died. Russomania ran wild.  RAW was all chit-chat and no action.  Austin 3:16 ran out of gas by Wrestlemania.  Worst Royal Rumble ever.  Worst Wrestlemania ever.  Second worst KOTR ever (1995).  Worst Summerslam ever.  Worst Survivor Series ever.  

Wow, a bit bitter are you about that year Kahran?  I'd argue that WM15 was better than 9 and maybe a couple of others, but there's room to debate on that one.  KOTR you're right, although the ladder match was tolerable.  Survivor Series had a few decent matches including Jericho-Chyna and the main event, and I'd say that it was better than both the year before and the year after.  As for Summerslam, what was wrong with that show?  Nothing sucked hard, and the main event was great.  It doesn't even compare with the crapfests that ruled the summers of 1993-1996, which tended to have one awesome match and then a bunch of utter shit.

[Guest nWoScorpion]

SSlam93: Good matches: Ramon/Dibiase, Bodies/Steiner, Perfect/HBK, BretDoink debateable, 6 man, ME was decent.

 

SSLam 94: Everything was good by UT/UT & Mabel/Jarrett

 

SSLAm95: Well, can't argue this one.

[Guest dreamer420]

1995.  do i even need to give a reason?

[Guest]

1999 wasn't that bad. Austin 3:16 didn't run out of gas before Wrestlemania. In Fact, Austin became MORE popular and even started to be in t.v. shows and magazines. Wrestling was as popular as it ever was in 1999.

[Guest Drury37]

I have to say 1995.

Thanks.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

1999 wasn't that bad. Austin 3:16 didn't run out of gas before Wrestlemania. In Fact, Austin became MORE popular and even started to be in t.v. shows and magazines. Wrestling was as popular as it ever was in 1999.

 

Artistically it was the worst, not financially.

[Guest]

I thought 90, 91, and 92 were all great, fun years during the dying days of the "Superhero" WWF.

 

93 was pretty good, IMHO, not nearly as bad as people say.  True, Wrestlemania could have been better, but I've seen much worse.  The Yokozuna monster heel angle captivated many people, wanting to know who would FINALLY take the title from him.

 

94 was a little worse than 93.  However several GREAT things came from it, namely Bret VS Owen (the whole feud as well as the individual matches.)

 

95 Sucked the sweat off a dead man's balls.  I don't know how it went from fun and entertaining to absolute shit so quickly, but between Mabel as KOTR and the introduction of some HORRIBLY lame characters and gimmicks, as well as a VERY substandard WM, this takes second worst year.

 

96...oh dear God, 1996...how anyone can pick 95 over 96 as worst year is beyond me.  There was not ONE all-around good PPV all year.  Sure the Iron Man match and Austin winning KOTR were exceptional moments, but I can't honestly think of ONE good thing about this year besides them.  I can't tell if it was just so bad I can't remember, or that I'm subconsciously trying to forget.  Either way, every time I think of a WWF memory that pissed me off, 9 times out of 10 it was in 96.

 

97 was not quite as good as some people seem to think.  (Once again, IMHO)  I liked HBK winning his second and third titles (however shittily it was done), Austin VS Bret, and the birth of DX, but whenever I think of this year, the first memory that springs to mind is Survivor Series.  Not good.  As far as workrate, it was vastly improved over the past couple years.

 

98, well, who didn't like 98?  98 took all the shit 97 started and made it top-notch entertainment.  Everything from Austin VS McMahon, DX, the Rock's star rising (before he got nastily dull) and one of Foley's best years ever was fun.  This was the year the rest of the world stood up and took notice.  Unfortunately, it was also the year we were all joined by millions of lame contemporary fans.

 

99 was just as good, I think.  I honestly did not know 99 was so hated until I read this thread.  I thought it was just about as good as 98.  The wildly entertaining Austin/McMahon feud continued all the way to June, Rock went from a superstar to a mega-star, HHH finally reached the top tier, Foley won 3 WWF titles,  (Or was the first in Decemer of 98?  If so, my bad) Jericho showed up and took almost immediate control of the upper midcard, a great KOTR tournament with a hilarious Chyna/Road Dogg match and a Finals that ended with a Fameasser off the TOP ROPE.  (I'm sorry, but I don't share the hatred for Billy Gunn that most of us do.  I think he used to be an amazing athelete.)

 

Anyway, that's my 2 god damn cents

[Guest areacode212]

I have to agree with the 1995 voters, specifically between Survivor Series '94 and Survivor Series '95. Diesel as champ, Bret de-pushed to extremely lame feuds, Mabel as KOTR, the Clique running the show, etc. Just horrible.

 

I always thought they should have gone with Backlund as a heel champ; how much worse could it have been than Big Sexy Ratings Killer?

[Guest]

I'd have to say the worst year for the WWF was the whole attitude era from 1998 to now. I miss old school wrestling and bad gimmicks.

[Guest thefrenchargel]

95 in the WWF was wretched on all fronts with the exception of HBK and Bret's stuff. See also: 1993. TV was way better in 93 though, and WCW was sucking much much worse than the WWF that year, so maybe 93 WWF seemed better than 95 due to its competition.

[Guest dreamer420]

even the 1995 royal rumble was a giant clusterfuck and rumbles usually rule.  i watched it last night and motherfucker, was there ever a lot of jobbers in it.  it was funny to see rikishi and billy gunn fighting back then under different gimmicks.  the entire show was a letdown right to davey boy not winning and rumble and having to see shawn michaels do so.

[Guest]

2002

 

I actually liked 91-99. I was a mark all that time and it was pretty cool to watch. And I actually thought Mable was cool.

 

This year we have had horrible storylines and not very good wrestling.

[Guest dreamer420]

the title of the thread says before 2000 though.

[Guest]

Missed that. In that case, I would say 99.

[Guest papacita]

This is probably because I was in full mark mode back then, but I loved 95. I mean, it started off with that hot ass Bret/Diesel match from Royal Rumble...HBK winning the Rumble (which pretty much solidified him as my favorite wrestler)...I was VERY into that whole Bam Bam/LT thing and even the Bret/Lawler/Hakushi feud, and ALL OF MY FAVORITES WERE WINNING. Maybe not the most cutting-edge year as fsr as storylines, but I was entertained.

 

96 was good, because they really stepped up the attitude from Royal Rumble on (although the fed did drag for a period between KOTR and SummerSlam, which most likely had to do with Warrior suddenly leaving).

 

97 was pure gold. My favorite year in wrestling, period.

 

98 is right behind it too. By this time, most of my favorites were gone, but good booking kept me hooked and very entertained.

 

99: Worst year. Started out hot angle-wise, but the poorly booked Wrestlemania XV, in addition to rapid-fire title changes, just seemed to take a lot out of the fed. The Summer of 99 was, IMO, one of the most boring summers I can remember for the WWF, as it was clear that Russo had run out of ideas (and let me remind you all, I was a mark then. If a mark can pick up on this stuff, then they've got problems). And after Russo left, the booking just got worse and worse...Rocky pretty much stalled as #2 face to Austin, Vince McMahon's feud with HHH stole airtime from people who needed it (anybody ever notice that Paul Wight gave maybe one promo during his World Title reign, and that Chyna/Jericho, which was a major storyline going into Survivor Series, got almost NO promotion leading into Armageddon? The McMahon/Helmsley feud was the angle from hell IMO). Business may have been booming in 99, but I don't care what anyone says, this was the worst year for the WWF ever.

[Guest]

I was a mark in 99 and I didn't find any promblems with it until they gave HHH the belt.

 

I rooted for Jericho in his feud with Chyna.

 

I also liked the fact that Austin won back the title at Wrestlemania XV. People seem to forget that the WWE says Austin/McMahon ended at Fully Loaded in July in the First Blood End Of An Era match. It makes sense since when McMahon returned, he was a face.