Ranking The WORST Era Of Every Major Wrestling Show

Where to start? 

1999 was shocking. The plotting was disastrous (but the ratings were immense). They killed the idea of competition in 2001, but at least the promotion was loud in spite of itself. 2002 and 2003, oh boy. Triple H have could have read the winning lottery numbers in his opening promos and millions of people would have still deserted the product. 

"You see...12...in this very ring...35...the fact of the matter is...44...I am that damn good...3...uh..."

The 2000s was a bleak n' bland time overall. The WWE house style was at its most generic; the material steadily became more ugly as Vince McMahon attempted to chase the controversy that drove his second boom period. The Guest Host 'era' was just horrendous. Deeply unfunny material, hopeless pursuit. WWE's attempt to grow the base with disinterested celebs barely endorsing utter trash shockingly did not work. The 'Authority' era was awful as well. It was parody. 

Triple H and Stephanie McMahon droned on obnoxiously about how they knew what was best for business, and said that Daniel Bryan wasn't good enough, and they were actually going to do the unhappy ending before they were forced not to do it. Imagine that.

"And Daniel Bryan...who did die!"

The 2020 pandemic output was astonishingly awful - Vince McMahon's decaying brain had been permanently Shibata'd by that point - but your winner is the 2019 post-WrestleMania season. Constant humiliation segments; the nonsensical Wild Card rule that WWE broke on night one; the capital idea to make every match Two Out of Three Falls in case you really missed that aimless slo-mo heat segment; Seth Rollins trying to be the Rock on top: WWE Raw was an atrocity that punished the wrestlers for wanting to wrestle and punishing you for wanting to watch them wrestle. 

People surely only watched for the initials alone - brainwashed loyalty or, to be generous, the fading hope that it might get good again. 

If WWE launched in 2019, it would not exist today.