Best Of 2019: Worst Angle Of The Year
IMG Credit: WWE
We’ll finish up with a pair of fun awards as the most interesting things about these are the worst of the year. You can often get a near unanimous answer to the best of things, but the worst side is a lot more divisive. The bad side of things is just more interesting a lot of the time and it might bring back some things that you have forgotten about over the course of the year.
Lana/Bobby Lashley/Rusev
I’m starting with this one because I don’t think it’s as terrible as some. It’s really bad and one of the worst things of the year, but it’s hardly the all time terrible one that a lot of people would seem to think that it is. Yeah it’s gone on forever, it shows little sign of slowing down and egads I’m terrified of what they’re going to do with the finish, but it’s not as bad as it seems.
Now all that being said, this is some wretched television with the soap opera drama that is designed for one small group of fans rather than what the masses might want to see. It’s going on so slowly and it is almost hard to believe that we are still doing all of this stuff. Lana has gotten some good heel heat out of the whole thing, but let is end already because we are now in the fifth month of this story. How is that the best use of TV time?
Usos Prank The Revival
I was there when this one started and my goodness it made me cringe. This was 1000% a Vince McMahon idea and you can imagine him sitting in the back laughing his head off over all of this nonsense. The idea is as simple as it sounds: the Usos decided to mock the Revival and did it week after week. This wasn’t funny and it was a waste of two perfectly good teams, which is where it becomes a bigger problem.
WWE has all the talent they could want and this is what they do with them? The Usos are one of the best teams WWE has ever had and the Revival are an actually different kind of team but for some reason their best idea is to have them in something that would be on a bad Nickelodeon show. This was insulting to the fans and a huge waste of the talent involved. Is there any wonder why the Revival wants out?
Shane McMahon: Best In The World
This one speaks for itself. It was a story that just kept going and going no matter how many people were sick of seeing it continue. Shane was around every single week, often wrestling, won a title in the process, and then went on to win at Wrestlemania. This is all for the boss’ son, who NEVER LOST ANYTHING. Shane went months without a singles loss and probably should have been #1 contender to the Smackdown World Title at various points.
What in the world was the positive of this? Yes Shane did get attention, but he drew an audience because he wasn’t around very often. When you put him out there every single week, it’s an old guy who looks like he ran a marathon on the surface of the sun after about thirty seconds and can’t throw a punch to save his life. Shane is fine in doses, but we got the whole bottle this year.
Roman Reigns’ Attacker
WHAT WAS THIS??? In August, someone started attacking Roman Reigns and tried to take him out. Eventually it was revealed to be Erick Rowan was the attacker, eventually aligning with Daniel Bryan. Somewhere in there, this turned into a story involving a doppelganger (which went nowhere), a bunch of twists and lies, Buddy Murphy (which went nowhere) and eventually Luke Harper returning
AND NONE OF IT MATTERED! That’s what the whole thing wound up meaning as Rowan started messing with something in a cage, Harper got released and Bryan is on fire as a face again. The problem is the story went spiraling out of control and I don’t think anyone knew what was going on by the end. It nearly became entertaining in a way to see where it would go next because it didn’t make sense and was such a mess by the end that it didn’t even matter to anyone.
I was looking at the list of nominees and this one stood out hard.
King Corbin Thinks Roman Reigns Is A Dog
The more I think about this, the less I can believe I actually watched it. Ignoring the whole boring Reigns vs. Corbin (again) feud, this was actually the focal point of the whole thing. Corbin even had a guy in a dog suit pretending to be Reigns and a major point was dog food (that part seems almost like an accidental gem in this mess). The feud is still going and managed to bring in Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode for that big shot of charisma.
Much like the prank deal, this had Vince written all over it, because he thinks that Reigns beating up Corbin for TREATING HIM LIKE A DOG BECAUSE HIS NICKNAME IS THE BIG DOG is going to make Reigns the biggest hero in the company. It takes something special to make me hang my head and just want to hit things, but they did it every single time this story was on screen. And now it’s going to keep going in the new year!
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