10 Times Wrestlers Blatantly Lied To Your Face

Elements of WWE's output between 2017-2019 were about as bad as anything you've heard about the high school gym days of 1995. Creatively, the company was close to bankrupt, and they didn't have any competition to help spur change. That'd shift once AEW arrived in 2019, at least, but it still took a good while before WWE would shake itself from mediocrity and start getting serious again.

On the 18 December 2018 Raw, the McMahon clan stood mid-ring and meekly offered an apology for some of the horror show content fans had been tasked with sitting through on the flagship. They kinda/sorta took responsibility for it (before pinning the blame on authority figure Baron Corbin), then said things would be different in the new year because now fans would be in charge.

"From this moment, you are The Authority". Really? No self-respecting WWE fan would've booked 2019 to be the way it was. This was a bold-faced lie from Vince, Shane, Stephanie and Triple H. It was becoming more and more obvious that patriarch Vince was a spent force creatively, and that WWE actually had zero clue how to give their core audience exactly what they wanted to see.

Raw had sagged, SmackDown was doing the same, and there was worse to come in 2019. The quartet might as well have stood inside the ring on that Monday night episode and said: 'So you think this is bad? Just wait until you see what we've got coming up next!'.

Man, the final few years of Vince's tenure were agonising to churn through at times.