2005 is always a difficult year to chat about due to the passing of Eddie Guerrero. I mean, what really matters on camera when a legend like that was gone too soon? It's always important to mention it as well. As long as we keep him in the conversation, he's never truly gone. It wasn't mad 12 months for WWE, though, because they just continued to struggle creatively. The adjud era was long gone, so what the hell was going to be the new secret source? I mean, just three years after this, they would be going PG. Sums it up, wasn't working. So what truly hit the floor and likely stopped some people watching? Thank you for joining me, my friends. My name is Simon Miller. I am aboard a hole. Let's find out. Number 10, The Big Show, go sumo. There must be more to this, because it was so weird. At WrestleMania 21, the big show goes sumo. There must be more to this because it was so weird.

At WrestleMania 21, the big show was told he would be having a gimmick match and facing sumo legend Akebono. This had been a somewhat silly wrestling bout. I'd have understood it more, but we were going to go the other way. This was a full-on sumo wrestling match on the biggest card of the year. Agabono was never going to agree to a work contest either, given his background, so it was legit.

Surprising. was a full-on sumo wrestling match on the biggest card of the year. Agabono was never going to agree to a work contest either, given his background, so it was legit. Surprise, surprise, it lasted eight seconds. Paul White didn't have any experience here. He got wrecked. Be telling me to go into a hair contest. I'm losing. I suppose it was cool seeing the ring turned into a sumo arena, but getting the big show to put on a moashi, I don't know, didn't feel like we were respecting the sanctity of the sport. Amazingly, this is also sandwiched between Kurt Angle versus Shaw Michaels, JBL versus John Cena. That's a nuts card. I get wanting to buffer those two to keep the fans engaged, but go and watch this one for yourself and make up your own mind. It is over so fast because Akebono throws the Big Show away. The truth is, the fans didn't really care about this, but they also really hadn't been given a reason to either. Three years after this, where Big Show did it again with Floyd Mayweather, it made way more sense because the buildup was treated like it was life or death. Akabono was not granted the same privileges. He likely should have been. Number nine, all the non-wrestler wrestling matches. So make no mistake about it, this was Vince McMahon just torturing people he didn't like. Nobody was desperate for authority figures to fight, yet we got loads of it in 2005. Even Eric Bischoff knew that doing him versus Teddy Long on the Survivor series was mad. And look, they tried, bless them, I suppose. But they are not trained in-ring performers, so what's the best we really could have hoped for? Of course, fans tempered their expectations too, but go and watch it for yourself. And remember, people paid for this. With that in mind, oh my gosh, Teddy mocked Bischoff's martial arts background, which seems weird all things considered, and Eric spends a long time choking along with his belt. I suppose he wasn't going to use his skills anyway, but also sounds a little bit kinky. The finish saw the boogeyman helped Teddy get the win, and don't forget Parma Cannon on the outside. I don't even know why he was there. Just because. Make a new franchise in that. This went on second from last two and it's as above. WW felt like this would just reset the audience before the main event. But I think most people were stunned. It even happened to begin with. Some of the crowd would also just give up on the promotion after stuff like this, especially if you've gone down there and dropped some money. It's not what you wanted. Once more, Eric has talked about this on his podcast, and with no actual wrestle out there, it was five minutes of people not wrestling. Before you say, but what about the boogeyman? He literally arrives and ate some worms, and I actually think that makes this worse.

If we did it today, the fan basically will have a meltdown, also than usual. Number eight, the Royal Rumble Finish. So I love this, and I think most people do. I mean, it was a mistake, but looking at it this way, if you are going to make an error at the Royal Rumble, this is the way to do it. Make sure you do go watch this if you've never seen it before. but John Cena and Peter topple over the top rope and literally hit the floor at the same time. That wasn't the plan. Big Dave was meant to win. You can't tell something is off though because everybody panics and it's the aftermath that wasn't ideal. The referee stole for time as one raises Sena's hands or another rages Batista's hand, as the crowd

tries to work out what's next? Well, I'm going to tell you. Because the irate Vince McMahon

essentially breaks cave fame and comes marching to the ring, and we do not talk about this enough.

He wasn't part of the story. He just emerged through rage. The whole thing then became a meme

for the rest of our lives, because yes, as Vince slides in the ring, he tore both of his quads. To this day, I don't know how he did that. It's basically impossible. Obviously, we didn't know that, so the next few minutes are surreal. McMahon sits on the ring mat and yells at John and Dave like they had paid truant that day, and he was the dad telling them off. It's unreal this happened. And after scolding the match officials too, it does get restarted and the animal wins. How this wasn't planned, I'll never know. Well, it kind of feels like it was. Petitia was so worried he thought it was going to get fired and Adam Copeland has talked about how insane it was backstage. I mean, at least it was entertaining, but again,

because they hit the floor simultaneously, we just thought this was some weird script. W.W.E. was

trying, why I struggle a little bit to justify it in this list, but yes. From a Vince McMahon point

of view, this must have been down there. His entire plan went out the window. Number seven,

the new Legion of Doom. The word new in front of a tag

team is death, so do the opposite of Nike and just don't do it. Most fans don't even want an updated

version anyway. The reason you're even trying to breathe life into a name is that they were

legends, respect what they did, don't try and reimagine it. Hilarously, this got out of control in

2005 because WWE tried this with the

Flippin Legion of Doom, the Road Warriors, a team so over that they had big crowd reactions

named after them. Now, to be fair, it was most of the commentary calling them the new LOD,

but it was still said, and yes, while Animal remained, his new partner was Heidenreich.

Hawke was gone, nobody liked this, even more so because after Heidenreich had joined in July,

he had some kind of weird special ceremony in August where he also got given his spikes,

and the whole thing felt so forced.

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