8 Biggest FUMBLES In WWE History

WWE has built all manner of stars and classic storylines over the years, but they are far from immune when it comes to dropping the ball. Some of the most perfectly gift-wrapped stories and characters have landed in the lap of WWE creative, only for them to splurge all of their potential with reckless abandon and, occasionally, a sadistic hint of glee.

A lot of these things have felt almost purposeful. WWE and Vince McMahon's penchant for taking creations from companies outside of themselves are too large in number for them to feel like they weren't deliberately sabotaged. Quite why they would do this to themselves and their watching audience is anybody's guess, but the evidence speaks for itself over the course of the last 30 years. 

Be it unfathomably crashing their own creations and stories, or intentionally taking apart the life's work of others, WWE's long-running history of fumbling some of the biggest open goals in wrestling can be counted by the truckload. These are just some of the many times WWE have taken something that should have been great and flushed it down the toilet.

Whenever the subject of WCW is brought up, Sting is quite rightly one of the first names that come to mind. Whether thinking about the bleach-blonde surfer Sting or his dark and brooding Crow character, wielding his big black bat and taking out the NWO, Stinger was exceptional in every era of the company.

When he decided to wrestle for TNA after the demise of WCW, his staunch reluctance to have anything to do with WWE was almost part of his brand. It's why the sight of him on WWE television was borderline surreal when he made his debut at the 2014 Survivor Series. All of the "what if..." situations were finally in play, but as was customary when it came to Vince McMahon and being handed anything popular in WCW, he decided to take it apart like a toddler breaking his friend's toys.

Sting threw a spoke in the wheel of The Authority's dominance upon his arrival, and was quickly put into a feud with Triple H that led to a match between the two at WrestleMania 31. What proceeded was one of the most historically stupid matches in WrestleMania history, as Sting's lifelong enemies in the NWO sided with him to be part of a ringside scuffle with D-Generation X. If this wasn't daft enough, Sting then went on to lose his only WrestleMania match to Triple H.