10 Exact Moments WWE Stopped Trying

It's unbelievable to think about now, but Vince was determined to prove that he could make the dying WCW brand work in 2001. Plans were put in place to revive Nitro, and a 9 July 2001 match pitting Booker T vs. Buff Bagwell was supposed to evaluate fan interest.

Or, y'know, destroy McMahon's own interest.

Here's the kicker: Buff vs. Booker was dull, but it wasn't bad enough to kill the entire WCW project. Perhaps Vince was looking for any old excuse, and he found one when fans sat on their hands. Later, Steve Austin and Kurt Angle ejected Bagwell from the arena and that was very-much that.

Any thoughts of turning WCW into a standalone brand were outright cancelled from that point on. The WWF increasingly relied on their own workers (Austin and Angle, mainly) to carry things instead of the WCW crew, and even drafted in ECW to form the 'Alliance'.

What other exact moments can you think of when WWE stopped trying? For more wrestling, check out 10 Wrestling Moments That Scared The Sh*t Out Of Fans and 10 Times WWE Retconned EVERYTHING!