10 Times WWE Was Literally As Stupid As WCW

10. The Gunther Incident

One of two things happened to arrive at Gunthergate:

1) WWE actively tried to associate the former WALTER with a nazi U-boat commander under the belief that, since he was fairly obscure, nobody would notice.

2) WWE didn't know that they had filed a trademark related to the nazis because nobody in a huge billion dollar corporation had the forethought to type 12 letters into Google. Insensitivity via complete reckless idiocy.

In a way, it's incredibly telling (and grimly amusing) that the lack of clarity created a mutated discourse of its own. Is WWE evil, or just as stupid as sh*t?

At the very least, then, WWE is as systemically incompetent as WCW at its absolute dumbest.

The Final Solution is a more infamous part of global history than Günther Stark, who, realistically, you hadn't heard of this time last week.

Before realising that they had named Hulk Hogan's latest Monster of the Week after the nazi plan to exterminate the global Jewish population - or Monster of the Minute, since the narcissistic bastard worked seven of them in one match - WCW named Jeep Swenson 'The Final Solution' before a hasty name change in which one word was changed. Sound familiar?

It's rather difficult to feign ignorance on that, but then again, it was WCW.

Consider it a tie: WCW was stupider, but Jeep was a one-shot monster. WWE was lazier, but WALTER is one of the greatest wrestlers of his generation.

It's not as if WCW changed Sting's name to Steve after three years, which somehow would be as dumb.