One Moment WWE Wants You To Forget From Every Year (1985 to 2026)

3. 2024 - The Biggest Botches From The Biggest Stars In The Biggest Story

By 2024, WWE were a year and change into a business rebirth and undeniable and totally unexpected creative boom. Vince McMahon was gone for real this time, and with Triple H at the wheel, a logical and consistent (and consistently hot) product became the frankly-remarkable norm after two decades of a descent into true slop.

Predictably, it was around this time the company added post-show credits. "Paul Levesque & Lee Fitting" were executive producers of what you'd just seen, and wanted you know about it ever week. God forbid the hundreds of otherwise-unknown hardworking folks it takes to put together one night of red hot Fed, 'The Game' was once again thinking top-down as part of his ongoing strategy to lean into just how much this was a show about wrestling rather than a wrestling show. The next step was WWE Unreal, which bled over into on-screen stories and made angles, including finding drama from botches. Bad Blood's Rhea Ripley/Liv Morgan match would have been perfect fodder for the Netflix project.

The finish called for the returning Raquel Rodriguez to secretly attack 'The Nightmare' to allow Morgan to get yet another victory following her SummerSlam win and Dominik Mysterio's devastating defection. Instead, the run-in happened right in front of the referee, forcing the wrestlers to stumble through a phantom fall as everybody on screen (audience included) looked more confused than locked in to the story. The whole thing got thrown out, with both Morgan's win and Rodriguez return let down by the botch. Messrs Levesque and Fitting get the praise, so they can take the blame for this one too.