10 Times WWE Was Even Dumber Than WCW

6. TLC 2014

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Imagine the creative meeting ahead of the main event of TLC 2014.

It paints a dire picture illustrative of the malaise that affects everything. At some point, the following question must have been floated to the upper echelon of the creative team: How can Dean Ambrose lose without losing? Bray Wyatt is primed for the Undertaker at WrestleMania, and Ambrose isn't in the plans, but come on, guy, this is WWE. We couldn't possibly do anything conclusive, things of that nature.

This koan vexed the philosophers, until inspiration struck.

"We could make him look like a giant a**hole?" Vince McMahon offered.

"You mean, exponentially more of a giant a**hole than if he just lost clean?"

""Clean?!" That's a wrestling word! Shut up goddamnit!"

And so, after enduring several wicked bumps in a deeply physical match, that effort was undermined totally when Ambrose misjudged the length of a cable monitor, which promptly blew up in his face, complete with fantastically awful special effects.

Your winner, via idiocy: Bray Wyatt!

Perhaps it wasn't smoke, but rather the ghostly apparition of Sister Abigail inhabiting that monitor.

Or perhaps absolutely nothing that means anything can ever happen.

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