10 Biggest Wrestling Crimes WWE Committed In 2016
WWE need to move on from the 'heroic' Roman Reigns already...
Many were irritated on social media when Bill Goldberg swanned back onto WWE television, agreed to face Brock Lesnar at Survivor Series and then squashed the former WWE and UFC Champion on the pay-per-view. Top complaints noted that Goldberg had made Lesnar look like a chump, making it difficult for WWE to build Brock back up as a monster.
For what it's worth, there's an end goal with that Survivor Series bout. Lesnar and Goldberg will likely meet again, possibly at WrestleMania 33. Other decisions the company have made throughout 2016 haven't been met with the same foresight.
These must be considered crimes committed by WWE against their own product, they didn't serve any great purpose.
Rendering top storylines utterly meaningless by changing the booking, undermining one of the best feuds 2016 provided and even continuing to flog a proverbial dead horse when it came to one performer in particular.
All of these are things WWE have been guilty of during 2016. Here are the worst offenders...
10. Missing Out Major Names In The WWE Draft
The WWE Draft promised to provide a definitive split between Monday Night Raw and the rebranded SmackDown Live during the Summer. Whilst it was great to see the likes of Charlotte Flair picked second overall for Raw, not to mention the fact that Becky Lynch took pride of place on SmackDown, some expected names were missing.
WWE drafted some talent up the ladder, bringing performers like Nia Jax to Raw and American Alpha to SmackDown. The latter was warmly-received, Chad Gable and Jason Jordan had been tearing it up on NXT. As for Jax, she was deemed a poor replacement for Bayley or Asuka.
Further to that, fans had been expecting to see names such as Shinsuke Nakamura or maybe even Samoa Joe in the WWE Draft. Neither were called up from NXT, which disappointed some.
WWE had a plan, Bayley would land on Raw after the drafting was all said and done. Still, it felt cheap to deny fans some names they quite clearly wanted to see during the Draft.