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WWE's Biggest Missed Opportunities - Storylines?

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What storylines that could have been done in a certain time do you think were a missed opportunity? One off the top of my head is a anti-gay storyline with The Real Americans and The Prime Time Players. I firmly believe all 4 wrestlers involved would have benefited from it. Titus plays the friend who is backing up his gay friend Darren Young while The Real Americans are ranting about how wrong it is and how un-american it is. PTP would have gotten over massively as babyfaces and the Real Americans would have gotten over massively as heels.
 
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Re: WWE's Biggest Missed Opportunities- Storylines?


I'm going to enhance your story for a even better missed opportunity.


Here goes:

Darren Young be John Cena's brother from another mother. His long lost half-brother. Together these two would be like the modern day Super Powers. One Black, one White. Both giving the fans what they want. The Hustle, Loyalty and Respect.


Then the positive story take a turn, when Darren reveals he's gay. John Cena would first have to come to terms of coping with his brother being gay. Doesn't take long, as Cena accepts Darren's life choices.

Then the UnAmericans enter the picture, Zebb Coulter's group, they reveal their anti-gay agenda against people like Young and they back up their army with Cena's other enemy The Wyatt Family, both the Wyatts and Zebb group team up, and go reel heel against the culture they accuse John Cena and Darren Young of pushing on society.

Shit gets real deep and good, but I don't know how to finish this yet. Need some :russo
 
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Biggest missed opportunity ever? The Invasion.

In recent years? The Summer of Punk. He came back too quick, which I can understand. You don't want to have your most over guy be away for too long. But if he stayed away for a couple of weeks longer, even months, that comeback would have been enormous. But I can understand that decision. His feud with Nash and HHH was totally stupid. Nash should'nt have been involved and HHH should've jobbed to Punk, he should've lost clean. And Punk should've gone through with his 'quest for change'. Just like Punk said 'this doesn't end when I beat you' (to HHH). He should have had a huge feud with HHH-Stephanie-Vince, maybe even turn Cena heel to be the authority's guy.

Just imagine Punk winning at MitB and leaving. Cena ending up as the new WWE-champion, by beating the winner of the tournament Mysterio. He defends that title at a couple of PPV's. At the Vengeance PPV (in October) Punk returns after the main event and does what they did now on RAW, holding the titles up in the air, clearly challenging each other. That pop would've been huge. At SS Punk gets screwed and loses to Cena, who turns heel when he shakes HHH and Vince's hand. At TLC he loses his rematch, again by interference. Punk wins the Royal Rumble. And Cena, the corporate champ, faces off against CM Punk for the WWE-championship in the main event of Wrestelmania 28.

For now it was about the WWE-championship, but Punk doesn't want to stop there, he wants real change. So now the feud with the authority begins. He faces HHH and later on he faces Vince. When he wins, the whole lockerroom runs out and takes him on their shoulders like when Sting beat Hollywood Hogan at Starrade.

That's like a year and a half worth of storyline.
 
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Biggest missed opportunity ever? The Invasion.

In recent years? The Summer of Punk. He came back too quick, which I can understand. You don't want to have your most over guy be away for too long. But if he stayed away for a couple of weeks longer, even months, that comeback would have been enormous. But I can understand that decision. His feud with Nash and HHH was totally stupid. Nash should'nt have been involved and HHH should've jobbed to Punk, he should've lost clean. And Punk should've gone through with his 'quest for change'. Just like Punk said 'this doesn't end when I beat you' (to HHH). He should have had a huge feud with HHH-Stephanie-Vince, maybe even turn Cena heel to be the authority's guy.

Just imagine Punk winning at MitB and leaving. Cena ending up as the new WWE-champion, by beating the winner of the tournament Mysterio. He defends that title at a couple of PPV's. At the Vengeance PPV (in October) Punk returns after the main event and does what they did now on RAW, holding the titles up in the air, clearly challenging each other. That pop would've been huge. At SS Punk gets screwed and loses to Cena, who turns heel when he shakes HHH and Vince's hand. At TLC he loses his rematch, again by interference. Punk wins the Royal Rumble. And Cena, the corporate champ, faces off against CM Punk for the WWE-championship in the main event of Wrestelmania 28.

For now it was about the WWE-championship, but Punk doesn't want to stop there, he wants real change. So now the feud with the authority begins. He faces HHH and later on he faces Vince. When he wins, the whole lockerroom runs out and takes him on their shoulders like when Sting beat Hollywood Hogan at Starrade.

That's like a year and a half worth of storyline.

^^^^This.

Punk/Cena should of been the launching of a new era. They were the perfect feud. HHH should of been going full heel as the evil WWE Authority. Cena joins him, Punk becomes the new anti-hero face. Instead, WWE pussied out and didn't want to play heel, so they let HHH run one of his ego games where him and his buddy (who should of been nowhere near a WWE ring or TV screen) destroyed the best feud in years to feud with each other. A feud involving Cena/Punk ended up putting HHH over as a sympathetic face COO. Because that's a proper end game.
 
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They could of made something special out of Jericho and Stephanie finally joining forces in 2002. They could of been great power couple heels. Instead, Jericho was a complete afterthought in his own feud, cleaning up dog shit while Hunter and Steph took center stage. Massive missed opportunity.
 
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They could of made something special out of Jericho and Stephanie finally joining forces in 2002. They could of been great power couple heels. Instead, Jericho was a complete afterthought in his own feud, cleaning up dog shit while Hunter and Steph took center stage. Massive missed opportunity.
I'd say the opportunity is still there, and more better now that Jericho has the more cleaner low hair cut look now than the scruffy look he had going on during the end of the Attitude Era.

I say the opportunity was definitely there a few years ago when Stephanie fired Jericho, they should have did it then.
 
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The breakup of The Shield. Whilst the way it was done was acceptable, I'd have much preferred The Authority to stay away from it and the group to break up organically (infighting etc). This could and should have culminated in a triple threat match at WM30, possibly for Ambrose's US Title (although it wouldn't have been necessary).

I was praying they'd go down that route and they certainly teased it before the face turn but sadly it never materialised. I think perhaps probably because the group got over so well they held off on the breakup idea and turned them face instead.
 
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Breaking the steak.

I like Lesnar winning, but there were a multitude of different things they could have done to elevate someone new.

PHOONE
 
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I think they dropped the ball with ryback! Keeping him face and having him face cena as a face could have been huge!
Agreed with this. There's a thing on Netflix (Best of Raw/SD 2013) and the first thing it showed was Ryback v Punk for the title, with Shield interrupting.

Ryback would have been great. Instead, he's in complete mediocrity, teaming with Axel against the Dust bros.
 
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Abruptly ending Punk vs Cena in 2011 was dumb.

They should have let Punk make media appearances and have more off-WWE moments (like that Comicon "invasion" he did) for multiple weeks. It was unique and awesome.

Build it up, make it believable and then, have him come back at Survivor Series instead of 2 weeks later. The Punk/Cena feud could've been FUCKING amazing and finish it at Wrestlemania the next year.
 
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Abruptly ending Punk vs Cena in 2011 was dumb.

They should have let Punk make media appearances and have more off-WWE moments (like that Comicon "invasion" he did) for multiple weeks. It was unique and awesome.

Build it up, make it believable and then, have him come back at Survivor Series instead of 2 weeks later. The Punk/Cena feud could've been FUCKING amazing and finish it at Wrestlemania the next year.
This is what I was going to say. He should have had a very long leash. Defend the belt in ROH. Have him show up at WWE media stuff taunting the WWE. Social media should have been used more. The Comic Con video and belt in the fridge were great, but there should have been more. I get needing that Summerslam match, but it honestly could have went til Rumble and been 100 times better.
 
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The "Invasion" angle combining WCW and ECW with WWF.

It started out ok with run-ins from the WCW guys, but it wasn't as organic as when Hall & Nash "invaded" WCW. They didn't need to replicate the nWo, but the end kind of turned into a mess. I think the WWF front office could have ponied up some money to have the biggest stars appear sooner than later. But it did produce some epic moments:

ECW stars align with WCW and turn on WWF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2hKTuU5hMA


Austin opens a can on WCW (crazy double choke slams from Kane and Taker) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCtJpX329JU
 
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Re: WWE's Biggest Missed Opportunities- Storylines?

The "Invasion" angle combining WCW and ECW with WWF.

It started out ok with run-ins from the WCW guys, but it wasn't as organic as when Hall & Nash "invaded" WCW. They didn't need to replicate the nWo, but the end kind of turned into a mess. I think the WWF front office could have ponied up some money to have the biggest stars appear sooner than later. But it did produce some epic moments:

ECW stars align with WCW and turn on WWF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2hKTuU5hMA


Austin opens a can on WCW (crazy double choke slams from Kane and Taker) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCtJpX329JU
That Austin run in was my favorite WWE memory. I was still young enough to believe it was real and man such a a pleasure to watch that era. I feel for the new generation, those days are over.
 
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^ Maybe not ROH, I don't think WWE would've allowed that. But yeah, pretty much this.
Probably not, but I don't think it's totally out of the question. I think theres enough respect there, and they've worked together to use some ROH footage. So it's not totally out of the realm of possibility to have a title defense there in that case, assuming there's not a loss.
 
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Daniel Bryan and Randy Orton could have been awesome had it not been for the clusterfuck finishes at NoC, Battleground and HIAC. Their raw match when Randy was still face where bryan taps him out with the kendo stick is one of the single best raw matches ever imo.

Nexus/Wade Barrett, Ziggler/Del Rio post payback last year, Cesaro post mania
 
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Recent memory : For a missed opportunity, it would have to be the streak. I was happy that Brock beat Taker but it could've been so much bigger. I think to create the most buzz, Cena should have beaten Taker by turning cheating and thus creating the biggest heel turn in history. Cena would be the most hated guy in Wrestling (There's a case he is now) and finally the product wouldn't feel as stale.
 
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..Obviously from a personal perspective My Wrestlemania 30 would have looked like

HHH Vs Randy Orton Vs Batista (with Batista as a face)

Undertaker Vs Brock Lesnar (Taker going over, but his music cutting out to reveal a giant scorpion on the titantron)

Daniel Bryan Vs CM Punk for WWE title (with Bryan going over)

Shield Vs Wyatts TLC

John Cena Vs Sheamus (Sheamus as a heel)


This way WWE would still have Punk employed and multiple scenarios to happen after and time for things to play out.
 
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