10 Worst WWE Set Designs

8. Cyber Sunday 2008

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It's a f*cking big Blackberry. And not even a full replication of one. WWE should have given fans say on this rather than booking a Divas costume contest.

Yes, it was in keeping with the interactive element of the Cyber Sunday concept, but it was as if WWE thought we were all too thick to remember it for the duration of the show. In previous iterations of the event (and indeed, previous incarnation Taboo Tuesday), they did much the same, but there was something far more aesthetically appealing about the giant monitor and keyboard than this LED monstrosity.

That's another issue with this one - the phone isn't even all prop. Gimmicked up with lights as everything was during the first few years of High Definition experimentation by the company, the attempt to animate the buttons and screen for every wrestler's entrance results in reducing it to little more than an inelegant cut-out.

 
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