Unpopular Opinions

[Shaun Hewitt]

Hit us with your unpopular opinions.

- I actually liked the Stardust character.

- I don't understand the R-Truth character. Is he meant to be mentally disturbed? It seems he is mega popular, but everything he does just seems...dumb? I don't get it?

- I always preferred Matt to Jeff Hardy

- I thought Finlay was boring.

- Not necessarily an unpopular opinion but Goldberg losing his streak, followed by the finger poke of doom as well as Vince Russo is what killed WCW. Russo should never have been an on-screen character.

 

[Mike Oxbigg]

I never liked Eddie Guerrero

 

[Marshall_magic]

1. Dean Ambrose did nothing good in WWE that didn’t involve either Seth or Roman (shield or otherwise). He’s easily the worst of that trio. Even in AEW he’s mediocre.

2. Triple H’s 5 match PPV cards are better than the bloated cards under a previous regime.

3. Whilst wrestler cuts are hard to hear about and horrible for those cut they don’t make the company evil.

4. Jey Uso was a great choice for rumble winner. Dude moves a shitload of merch and gets good reactions. Cena’s story for 2025 will be the chase, winning the rumble doesn’t make an enticing chase.

5. The streak should have ended, just not with Brock - wrestling is worked so people retiring as champions or leaving people unbeatable is bad business.

 

[Shaun Hewitt]

1. Dean Ambrose did nothing good in WWE that didn’t involve either Seth or Roman (shield or otherwise). He’s easily the worst of that trio. Even in AEW he’s mediocre.

2. Triple H’s 5 match PPV cards are better than the bloated cards under a previous regime.

3. Whilst wrestler cuts are hard to hear about and horrible for those cut they don’t make the company evil.

4. Jey Uso was a great choice for rumble winner. Dude moves a shitload of merch and gets good reactions. Cena’s story for 2025 will be the chase, winning the rumble doesn’t make an enticing chase.

5. The streak should have ended, just not with Brock - wrestling is worked so people retiring as champions or leaving people unbeatable is bad business.

I agree with 1 through 4

Point 5, I agree that it shouldn't have been Brock but to be completely honest, I'd have been happy with it being unbeaten. Imagine him retiring on the grandest stage in his last match, what a legacy.


That said, I'd also have been happy with a different person to beat the streak..and this might be another unpopular opinion but Cena may have been a good option. Why? Perfect chance to have finally given him a heel run. A heel Cena could have been like Hogan going to the nWo, a long time fan favourite getting his bad guy run.

Someone mentioned not liking Eddie G, i think he was great honestly. I got tired a bit of constantly seeing angles with him and either Chavo or Rey but he could play a great heel or a loveable baby face. I wouldn't put him in my top 20 of all time however

 

[Marshall_magic]

The Kane/Lita/Hardy/Snitsky storyline is more distasteful than Katie Vick

 

[Valheru]

WCW 2000 wasn't as bad as its reputation suggests, especially the 2nd half. I would strongly argue that by March 2001 they had a decent product with some good workers. Their death ultimately came down to the fact that AOL/Time Warner didn't want wrestling on their channels. Had there have been a TV slot as part of the sale, Bischoff would have bought it and the company would have been a viable alternative for the foreseeable future.

 

[Shaun Hewitt]

The circa 1998 Horsemen (Flair, Malenko, Mongo, Benoit) COULD have worked if booked correctly.

They were booked into oblivion and never won any big matches. 3 out of the 4 were excellent workers

 

[MRN]

Kofimania was the drizzling shits.

Jinder was a great heel champion with a great gimmick (modern day Maharaja) and an awesome entrance that made him look like a star.

The streak ending was great, I jumped off the couch throwing my fist in the air with a huge 'YES!'

Never cared much for Taker. His 2002 big evil run and his '07 run after the royal rumble were good but other then that I've never been fussed.

Releases are an inevitable and important part of the business. I actually think WWE don't go far enough with their releases most years.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

Hogans stranglehold on the heavyweight belt for so long stopped the WWF from ever being truly great. Having an untalented bum stopping truly skilled wrestlers from having their go is one of the main reasons the WWF was essentially a joke. The IC Belt was always the "true" championship there.

 

[Meth]

5. The streak should have ended, just not with Brock - wrestling is worked so people retiring as champions or leaving people unbeatable is bad business.

I don’t think the streak should have ended, though I wouldn’t put the Undertaker in the elite tier. So, I don’t think the streak should have necessarily been a thing, but seeing as it was, don’t end it

I don’t think they really capitalised on it with Brock.

I don’t think he should have kept wrestling as long as he did (even on reduced schedule) and he should have stopped wrestling at Wrestlemania beyond his loss to Brock

 

[Meth]

Kofimania was the drizzling shits.

Yes, absolutely. Terrible that he was ever a champion. Seemed to be a benefactor of all of the incredible black wrestlers who were hard done by in years gone by

 

[Valheru]

Bret Hart is overrated. He is not in the top tier of workers.

I will die on this hill.

 

[Marshall_magic]

I don’t think the streak should have ended, though I wouldn’t put the Undertaker in the elite tier. So, I don’t think the streak should have necessarily been a thing, but seeing as it was, don’t end it

I don’t think they really capitalised on it with Brock.

I don’t think he should have kept wrestling as long as he did (even on reduced schedule) and he should have stopped wrestling at Wrestlemania beyond his loss to Brock

I think they fumbled Brock so badly when he returned that the streak win got him back on track. He lost his first match back against Cena (when booking Cena’s worst ever year apparently) - they should have done the summerslam squash here. They then booked him 50/50 with a semi retired Hunter before a fantastic match with Punk.

I remember thinking back at 21 that Randy should have done it, although 20 years later it’s safe to say that Randy was able to recover from that loss.

Undertaker is a funny one, he’s one of the most respected guys in the back and comes off when watching his podcast as a pretty good dude. In an industry where the guys are so petty at times you rarely hear a bad word said about him. That said a lot of his work was pretty bad for the first half of his career. His first decade after reverting to the deadman was fantastic and his commitment to his gimmick helped get it over when it should really not have worked. Most of his other work is kinda rubbish. He might crack my top 10 ever but definitely not top 5. Would have a great match against the right opponent. Also put over a ton of shit wrestlers who he should never have had to job to in a million years

 

[Marshall_magic]

Yes, absolutely. Terrible that he was ever a champion. Seemed to be a benefactor of all of the incredible black wrestlers who were hard done by in years gone by

The original gauntlet match was fantastic. Got over like crazy and there were no real plans for Bryan at mania (I think the original plan was KO). At that point you couldn’t ignore the fan reaction.

If you’re on the main roster for about 10 years the fans will respect you if you get a push. It’s happening with Jey now and will happen with many others. Heck there are fans out there who think Truth should have a world title run.

 

[Meth]

Bret Hart is overrated. He is not in the top tier of workers.

I will die on this hill.

I was in Calgary recently and stopped into Hart’s bar. Talk about a monument to Bret’s narcissism

 

[Meth]

I think, like Lesnar, Kane was mishandled. Like, he was legitimately terrifying when he first came out. Wrestled under that red light. Randomly came out and destroyed people. How did he go from that to being a goof?

 

[Valheru]

Undertaker is a funny one, he’s one of the most respected guys in the back and comes off when watching his podcast as a pretty good dude. In an industry where the guys are so petty at times you rarely hear a bad word said about him. That said a lot of his work was pretty bad for the first half of his career. His first decade after reverting to the deadman was fantastic and his commitment to his gimmick helped get it over when it should really not have worked. Most of his other work is kinda rubbish. He might crack my top 10 ever but definitely not top 5. Would have a great match against the right opponent. Also put over a ton of shit wrestlers who he should never have had to job to in a million years

TBF to taker, for the original gimmick he was given a lot of rubbish to work with. As a heel he was given Hogan who is limited in the ring and then as a face he was used as an attraction to take on big bads like Kamala, Yoko, King Kong Bundy, Giant Gonzalez and Mabel etc.

Once they humanized the character in 1996, the results were a lot better through 1999 against the likes of Mick Foley, Bret Hart, HBK, Stone Cold and Kane etc

 

[Valheru]

A bit more on the early days of taker. His PPV opponents from debut to end of 1995 were...

Survivor series elimination match
Royal rumble match
Jimmy Snuka
Hogan
Hogan
Royal Rumble
Jake Roberts
Kamala
Kamala
Royal Rumble
Giant Gonzalez
Giant Gonzalez
Survivor series elimination match
Yokozuna
Fake taker
Yokozuna
IRS
King Kong Bundy
Mabel
Kama
Survivor Series elimination match
Mabel

I don't see how it could get worse

 

[Marshall_magic]

Another unpopular opinion. Cena and Orton are very good wrestlers but have next to no chemistry. I dare anyone to watch their PPV back catalogue and tell me even half the matches are good. The I Quit match at Breaking Point was fantastic but otherwise their matches are pretty bad.

Also - Orton and HHH have not had a good PPV match

 

[MRN]

I'm not sure if this is an unpopular opinion here, but it seems on the wider internet it is.
Undertaker and Triple H's match at WM17 was WAY better then their other two WM matches.