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

Again, hard to pinpoint an out-and-out bad major decision for WWE in 1998, as this was the year when they began reaping the benefits of their climb back to relevance. It was a year when they finally pulled ahead of WCW and never looked back, but during the summer of ‘98, WCW did put up a fight with the likes of Goldberg. WWE, instead of offering a compelling counterpoint, gave people the Brawl-For-All.

Concocted by Vince Russo as a way to see Bradshaw get punched in the face (no, really, go watch his shoot interview about the subject), the Brawl-For-All was a terrible shootfighting tournament that injured the men in it, bored the crowd to tears, and most of all, drew no ratings. Even though it was clear WWE were about to pull way ahead of WCW, the summer was the latter’s last gasp of breath at the top. Maybe if WWE hadn't hoyed crap like the Brawl-For-All on television, that gasp would have ended a lot quicker.

Not to mention, it hobbled two potentially great WWE careers. The tournament was designed to get 'Dr. Death' Steve Williams over, but when he was knocked out by Bart Gunn, that went out the window. And instead of doing something substantial with Gunn, who won the tournament, they had Butterbean knock him out at WrestleMania. Well done.