10 Times WWE Ruined Something They Didn't Create

5. The Great American Bash

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WWE had the pick of any WCW pay-per-view name they wanted. Events like Starrcade and Halloween Havoc seemed logical, as did the chance to finally promote War Games under the WWE banner (even if Fall Brawl always was a lame duck title). None of those interested Vince McMahon, because he wanted The Great American Bash instead.

This was fine, if WWE were prepared to treat the event with respect. Loyal fans who remembered the show from the NWA's glory days were glad to see it back on the calendar, but 2004 would change that. Sadly, so would each subsequent event (barring a few enjoyable matches) until WWE themselves did away with it completely.

In 2009, WWE even retitled the event as 'The Bash'. A terrible name without the historic 'Great American' prefix, the show was yet another example of the promotion's bizarre need to stomp all over anything WCW had created. After all, it couldn't be WWE's fault that The Great American Bash wasn't clicking with their audience, could it?

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