10 Wrestling Storylines That Wasted Incredible Premises

10. Sting Brings Down The Authority

The premise:

At Survivor Series 2014, Sting debuted in WWE to take down the Authority in an inspired continuation of his anti-nWo vigilante character. The Authority had destroyed, brazenly, any thin remaining notion of a meritocracy with insufferable, relentless condescension. They told us what was "best for business" in tedious recurring segments, which in storyline damned the surging crowd favourites (and reality, too, creating the first wave of nihilism from which no party has really recovered) - but Sting had descended from a position of judgement to damn them right back.

The scope for an epic saga was vast, one that might have culminated a year later in a traditional Survivor Series match fought between two teams led by the opposing establishment and anti-establishment. Sting's team, revealed over the months in the rafters as disillusioned, browbeaten midcarders - and later, emerging untarnished acts playing to the old, whose-side-is-Sting-on mystery - would overcome in a match with the ultimate stakes: ending the Authority and doing the exact same show but with a babyface General Manager.

The waste:

WCW sux lol.