10 Most Inept General Managers In WWE History
9. Teddy Long
Teddy Long is a charismatic guy. He’s occupied a number of different roles throughout his 30-year career in the wrestling business, and his loose personality initially made for a welcomed contrast to the stiff, all-business types that typically occupied Raw and SD’s GM roles. Moreover, he ruled the roost on SmackDown for four full years before moving on to ECW, then back to the Blue Brand. He must have been a good General Manager, right?
Absolutely not.
The idea of throwing Long - who’d worked exclusively as a manager and referee for WWE up until then - into an authority role felt random enough, but his reign was characterised by one thing alone: repetitiveness.
Teddy Long had precisely two solutions to any given problem. If a single wrester is getting unruly, he’s going one-on-one with The Undertaker. If a group of four or more workers are causing a ruckus… it looks like we’ve got ourselves a tag team match, “playa”.
Long undoubtedly has his strengths as a performer, but his inept decision-making has become a running joke in professional wrestling. Can anyone name a single memorable thing that Teddy did throughout his tenure as GM?
Didn’t think so.