10 Times WWE Got Its Ass Kicked
1. The Monday Night Wars
In every sense possible, WWE has never had its ass kicked as much as it did for so much of the famed Monday Night Wars.
From talents jumping ship to the green, green money pits of Ted Turner's WCW, to consistently getting trounced by WCW in the ratings, to being completely left behind by its rival on a creative level, and to being faced with the very real prospect of being forced out of business, the Monday Night Wars was a painful experience for WWE.
We all know that the company would spin so many of these negatives into positives, with the departure of top stars forcing the then-WWF to create new stars, and the live nature of WCW Nitro forcing Monday Night Raw to become a live production. The end result, of course, would be Vince McMahon buying WCW in 2001 after Turner's company had become a sinking ship shell of its former self.
Still, for a good few years there, it was very much squeaky bum time for the very future of what was then known as the World Wrestling Federation. And it can be argued that WCW's own excesses and boneheaded decision making were just as pivotal a factor in the WWF's survival as anything that McMahon's company did off its own back.