What was your reaction to....

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

Jericho Winning The WWF Title On RAW, Then Immediately Giving It Back To HHH

Great disappointment. Jericho could and should have been made a main event player off of that angle, but instead had his legs cut off from under him and was buried in less than two hours.

[Guest wildpegasus]

Goldberg losing to Nash was one of the worst booking decisions in the history of wrestling.

[Cheech Tremendous 0]

Goldberg losing to Nash was one of the worst booking decisions in the history of wrestling.

 

Bad booking decisions can be overcome with compelling storylines and interesting characters. Having Nash go over Goldberg wasn't the crime, it's how he did it and how they followed up on it.

[cabbageboy 0]

Cheech apparently agrees with me. Look, if Goldberg can't lose one match and stay over then he's nothing anyway.

 

Let's just say that Goldberg had simply beaten Nash for the belt in the scheduled Jan. 4, 1999 rematch and then had another long title run. Is it really still a terrible decision?

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

Nash going over Goldgerg was bad in that it should have been someone who could benefit who ended the streak and that it was done specifically to undercut Goldberg. Correctly built to and handled, with the right person doing it, ending Goldberg's streak wouldn't have been a bad thing. However, the timing and handling was done purely for ego, and it was a complete disaster.

 

The streak should have ended at some point, but not then and certainly not at the hands of Nash.

[cabbageboy 0]

I remember hearing about the Fingerpoke a month before it actually happened. I couldn't believe anyone would seriously consider doing something that moronic.

 

Nash beating Goldberg is one of those decisions that is almost impossible to look at in terms of that lone match. The disasters that followed make it easier to say it was a terrible idea. Whereas if they had done some feasible booking after Starrcade 98, it wouldn't be looked at the same way. They even had the initial stuff right:

 

--Goldberg beats Scott Hall's ass for screwing him out of his streak.

 

--Goldberg then beats Nash's ass in revenge for ending his streak.

 

--Goldberg then tracks down Hogan and they have the big PPV title match that they SHOULD have had originally. Goldberg wastes Hogan and regains. This is the obvious direction things should have gone in, but Hogan and Flair did the goofy double turn, Hogan got hurt in April, and WCW generally went to hell.

 

Somewhere around the time DDP won the title things got seriously fucked up in WCW in terms of the overall direction. As in there really wasn't one.