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Voting is open for WrestleCrap's 2024 Gooker Award! (www.wrestlecrap.com)

submitted 7 months ago by GeekFTW@lemmy.zip to c/squaredcircle@lemmy.zip

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Adam Cole vs. MJF—The most tiresome, convoluted story line of the year (and the year before that). Technically, we’re not supposed to nominate it until it’s concluded, but we expect 2027 to have a pretty crowded field as it is.
Jimmy Uso vs. Jey Uso—After 3+ years of build, the brothers finally face off at WrestleMania… and totally stink up the joint. Cinema.
Crown Jewel titles—Belts so prestigious, the champions don’t even get to wear them!
The Elite take over, show the All In footage—The Young Bucks’ hostile takeover of AEW fizzled out completely, but not before relitigating their feud with the long-gone CM Punk. It seems the temptation of showing an AEW guy losing a fight to a WWE guy—wait, losing? And they still aired it? Anyway, the temptation proved too great to resist.
The Wyatt Sicks—The late Bray Wyatt’s puppets finally came to life. Their first order of business? Murder Chad Gable. (He was fine)
Mercedes Moné and Kamille—“Huge waste of Moné” is far too obvious a joke to use here, so we won’t.
The Rock’s WrestleMania meddling—Dwayne Johnson joins WWE’s Board, and Cody Rhodes (suddenly the stupidest wrestler alive) just hands him his WrestleMania title shot. In the end, Rocky had to settle for pinning the future champ in the Night One main event.
The System at the Hardy Compound—Broken Matt Hardy’s latest outing saw the Hardy Compound turn into a real animal house! There was a werewolf, a Moose, a dead horse…Plus, his wife chopped off a woman’s head.
The Learning Tree—Chris Jericho’s latest persona has divided AEW fans—those in attendance chant, “Please retire”, while everyone else just changes the channel.
CM Punk’s friendship bracelet (Punk: “It’s not really about the bracelet…”, WWE: “Oh, yes it is!”)

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[–] Brain@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 months ago

In terms of screwing up the story and smart money, The Rock's WrestleMania meddling is way up there.

In terms of stupidity, The Bucks would be a good pick.

In terms of I hate this company... learning tree.

Hardest Gooker Award ever.

[–] Neon_Carnivore@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 months ago

In case anyone is wondering: I voted, for da Rock.

Learning Tree is a real close second, though.

[–] Neon_Carnivore@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago

I did my part! o7

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I really can't nominate the Cole vs MJF because of the injuries. Granted they didn't handle it well lol

The Bucks airing the All In video has got to be up there.

Chris Jericho is my winner though, my God is he more off-putting by the day

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Learning Tree was my vote too, but not surprised it looks like All In Footage is in the distant lead lol

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I made the mistake of going into the comments lol

Don't

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can never actually see em, I think my ublock filters break whatever system they use. Been like that for years.

That being said, I believe ya lol.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago

I gotta step up my unlock filters game one of these days

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 months ago

Yeah, the All In footage was bad for one night. The Learning Tree has sucked the life out of every show for months.

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

Chris Jericho is now the reason Chris Jericho left WCW.

[–] siv9939@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago

I don't remember seeing anything happen on the Hardy Compound for awhile but according to YouTube I already watched it. I guess it couldn't be that bad.

I'm surprised with how few votes the friendship bracelet is getting. Granted, most of what I heard about it was second hand since I haven't watched much WWE lately, so maybe it was blown out of proportion, but it did seem dumb as fuck. Not as dumb as the Learning Tree though. He's the worst.