10 Times WWE Blew Their One Big Shot
3. RacistMania
There's a reason that's as fair as it is absolutely abhorrent why the 2003 feud between Booker T and Triple H will always appear in lists about WWE mistakes, or things they got wrong, or why it's important to remember that Hunter is still one of the dirt worst no matter what you might think of NXT.
More so than the hideous bigotry that informed the angle, is the fact that 'The Game' didn't get a lick of comeuppance when it mattered.
This was the definition of reality booking when the fantasy was the most obvious outcome. Pro wrestling exists to provide escape with its extremely unique brand of entertainment. To put "smiles on faces" as those on message always say when a mainstream microphone is shoved in their faces. This moved further in the opposite direction quicker than Triple H did when tasked with making the cover on a completely buried Booker after the match-winning Pedigree was hit.
Hunter complained for years about just how far his 1996 punishment set his career back. this single result was exponentially worse for his grounded down challenger.