10 Worst WWE Booking Decisions Of The '90s (Year-By-Year)

The mid-90s in WWE were defined by Vince throwing things at the wall and seeing what stuck. Never was that more apparent than when in November of ‘94, he took the belt off workhorse champion Bret Hart and put his faith behind 'Big Daddy Cool' Diesel, AKA 'Big Sexy' Kevin Nash, AKA your biological dad who reemerges in your life to get in a drunken skirmish at your football game.

Naturally, this decision would be one WWE would sorely regret. Since Nash mainly had size going for him, he couldn’t exactly put on a belter of a match. In addition, because he was so tall, he had to be placed against guys who were bigger and clumsier than him (Sid, Mabel) in order to look sympathetic, thus neutering his air of cool dominance that got him over in the first place. Now he was just a boring, tall guy who got his butt kicked by lumbering giants. It stood in stark contrast to the cool confidence of someone like Bret Hart, who knew exactly what his character was and how to portray it.

1995 was a miserable year for WWE, and that was apparent with Kevin Nash being the lowest-drawing champion in WWE history. Perhaps if they had kept their faith in Bret, it wouldn’t have been such a bad year.