10 Times WWE Was Even Dumber Than WCW

1. The Fiend Is Buried (Under A Pile Of Weapons By Vince McMahon)

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WWE just booked a worse finish than the Fingerpoke of Doom at Royal Rumble 2015 In A Cell 2019.

They bathed a red cage in red light. They promoted The Fiend, the monster from which Bray Wyatt disassociates, as The Fiend Bray Wyatt because they're too stupid to tell the difference or because they think you're too dumb to not realise. They gave the Fiend Bray Wyatt an oversized comedy mallet, which was somehow considered less deadly than a sledgehammer - the same sledgehammer Triple H has used in the same match with no complaints from the referee. There are no rules: only a depressing expanse of meaningless, a black hole into which everything dies.

The Fiend, before the referee took pity on this poor supernatural monster, kicked out of 11 Curb Stomps. It's not as if he's a regular pro wrestler, he's a monster, so this must be viewed through different optics - except he was lying on his back for a f*cking eternity, as if the move were as powerful as the plunging kitchen knife of a final girl, so he, a supernatural monster, looked weaker than a regular pro wrestler.

The big jump scare at the end of this sh*tty horror movie saw Wyatt plunge his fingers into Seth Rollins' throat, who coughed up a pool of blood and did not die.

Vince Russo swerve!

He did die. His babyface character died, The Fiend's aura died, the Cell's mystique died. Everything f*cking died, except WWE, which is too big to die.

Zombie WCW, everybody.

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