10 Worst Years To Be A WWE Fan
9. 2013
WWE called it a story, because sometimes they're liars.
Did it feel like a story you wanted to stick with in October, two full months removed from Daniel Bryan's first WWE Title victory (and defeat) at the hands of the evil Authority, when he was being buried on television? Did it feel like a story worth continuing on with when WWE tried to cycle him out with The Big Show? Or when a ring was filled with Champions and the only one getting cheers was one they tried to keep shunted at the back?
These were horror stories without the jump scares, unless you include that time Stephanie McMahon pushed Dusty Rhodes' hand away, mid-facepalm.
It's almost impossible to judge the year beyond everything that followed the 'Biggest Party Of The Summer' but things weren't great before then. CM Punk's last full time year was full of things that p*ssed him off, including the culmination of his title reign in order to get to a Rock/Cena rematch the company had promised not to do.
The Royal Rumble 2014 was the payoff to all the disdain, but the fractures in the relationship between WWE and the ticket-buying audience were borne out of this relentlessly unsatisfying booking.