10 Worst WWE Moments Of 2007

WWE in 2007. Let's be honest, how much do you actually remember from what happened on screen

As always, if this is when you first got into wrestling, you likely love it, but in terms of a 12-month period in general

well, it's a bit of a mixed bag. There's a reason the Battle of the Billionaires happened at WrestleMania

WWE just wanted to make as much noise as possible. A big reason for this, of course, was due to the horrific murder-suicide of the Benwell family

and I'll tell you, I took some time off watching after that. It was just too hard to process, and yes, it was the worst thing of 2007

and we shall talk about it later. Otherwise though, my friends, we will start with some storylines

I am Simon Miller. Let's go. Number 10, Teddy Long has a heart attack

There's a horrible and eerie irony to this, but one story WWE did go back to a lot over the years

was characters acting like they were going to die. I mean, don't do that because wrestling is meant to be an escape

Now a joy of 2007 with Mr. Long was how obsessed he was with putting heels in matches with The Undertaker

and randomly putting tag team bouts. Still a meme today, it's very funny in a stupid way

For some reason, this led to him dating WWE diva Crystal Marshall

So, of course, in June, they got engaged on SmackDown. Why wouldn't you do that on camera

By September, they were getting wed when, yep, Teddy suffered a heart attack, inadvertent commas

Now, I really don't think this is the way when it comes to sports entertainment, but I suppose wrestling is a soap opera

And most definitely nobody was talking to each other because come November, Crystal got released

When Teddy Long did return to TV, it was like nothing had happened

No wedding, no cardiac event. I mean, that's really bad. This was the one time just finishing it was for the best, though

as this screamed Al Wilson, which we've covered on this series before. But if you mean my friends, that was bad enough the first time around

So yes, it was Shock TV. I don't want to be that guy, but it was no good

Number nine, the end of the Cruiserweight title. Horn Swoggle got a big old push in 2007

so much so at the Great American Bash he won the Cruiserweight title. This was essentially a scramble with Charvo Guerrero, Jamie Noble

Funaki, Jimmy Wang Yang, and Shannon Moore, so not many people expected Swog to get the W

and it would have been fine for him to be the champion, apart from the fact throughout the whole year he'd been treated as a comedy figure

This carried on as well because co-general manager Vicky Guerrero on the 28th of September SmackDown

just decided, nope, Horns, you are no longer the champion because we're going to retire the belt

That honestly was it as well until 2016 when the Cruiserweight Classic came back

basically 205 Live. If you want the trivia, the final match for the gold was 31st of August 2007 on SmackDown

as Hornswoggle defended against Jamie Noble. Surprise, surprise, it was sort of just there

This was the worst ending too, because given this had WCW history, we were just forgetting about Rey Mysterio vs Eddie Guerrero

or anything involving Chris Jericho and Dean Malenko. If you wanted to see WWE not care about the lighter wrestling boom

well, this was it. WWE did have priors with this because the Intercontinental title

had been merged with the World Belt in 2002, so really, one that Vince McMahon saw even less in

well, that was Scrooge. We couldn't have just thought up something more interesting though, Apparently not. Why bother

8. Edge to the Great Khali July 2007 Edge was forced to drop the world title due to a pec injury It sucked As we know now that usually means somewhat of a scramble and to be fair WWE is usually very good at sorting this If we have an unexpected hole we can fill it with something last minute and exciting

we didn't do that here. Because we just went to the classic let's do a battle royal

and I guess because nobody could figure out how you throw somebody so big over the top rope

the great Carly won. And look, Carly in wrestling makes sense. A massive man is always going to have

place but nobody thought he should be the world champion yet here we were batista was his first

challenger because big men will always slap man meat but that didn't go well the whole thing was

fighting upstream the great one wasn't helped in the sense we soon turned to kane which was not the

right move therefore after that it was ray mysterio well we've done the giants now let's do david and

goliath by unforgiving we pushed our hands together and it was a three-way with big dave and ray

by then i think wwe knew they had to change it up and batista got the win the gold down the line

and Carly would become the Punjabi playboy, which was equally as bad for different reasons

I really don't know how anybody thought this was going to work. Number seven, Rosie versus Donald

This has a totally different feel to it these days, but still, it was terrible

But in true Vince McMahon fashioners, Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump had a falling out in real life

he thought he would use it to kick off the year with a bang. Brings us to the January 7th roar

he got two people to dress up as these celebrities and fight. This was done for one man and one man only

As always, if anyone booked this today, there would be a meltdown online, and the real issue is how desperate this all felt

Surely it will get some mainstream publicity. Even if it did, it wasn't going to show wrestling in the right light

It made it out like sports entertainment was one big joke. Don't forget this was weeks before the Royal Rumble too

Kind of felt like we needed a TV time for angles. Vince was awful here as well, as he described Rosie as having lesbianic fury

whatever the flub that means, and the audience hated this so much, they started chanting TNA

That didn't happen all that much, so it goes to show. It's just an absolute joke and not in the way it was meant to be

So bad. So, so bad. Number six, Cave Fed beats John Cena

So we stick with the start of 2007, because WWE would often feel like they needed to kick the year off with a bang

How do we attract fans who then may feel like they're locked in for 12 months? For some reason during this period, we picked Cave Fed

This would be Kevin Federline who went to Raw, and man, he beat John Cena in a no-disqualification match

Not even kidding. And Cena was the current WWE champion. And as for K-Fed, well, I don't want to be horrible

he's basically known as Britney's wife. I mean, do you remember how mad we all were that Travis Scott just happened to walk to the ring slowly in 2025

Imagine, man. Just imagine. Of course, the likes of Umarga and Johnny Nitro interfered

so this was tainted. But technically speaking, you could have Kevin as one of John's last opponents during his retirement tour

and the law would have worked. That shouldn't be a thing. Cena was still mega over here as well

so there was just no need. It was so wild to see, but as above

WWE just wanted mainstream attention so badly they were even going to sacrifice their top guy

Get this too? It didn't work. I know, shock horror. Number five, the Mr. Kennedy saga

This is such a shame looking back, but I guess Mr. Kennedy, Kennedy does have to take some of the blame The man won the Money in the Bank briefcase at WrestleMania 23 and given how he was booked you could tell he was going to get the mega push Sadly Kennedy then suffered a shoulder injury

so WWE had edge beating for the briefcase when we got super sad news

Ken had been misdiagnosed. The ailment wasn't as bad as first thought

He only needed a few weeks rest. I guess everybody turned around and just went, whoops

It was too late for that, so you would presume that WWE would have course corrected

but they didn't. Kennedy did return and went after the Intercontinental Championship when the house fell down

Not only did he get busted on the wellness policy just weeks after doing an interview saying nobody in the company does drugs

but he also apparently hurt Randy Orton in a match. Even before then, the word on the street was he had proven to be a bit dangerous in the ring

and eventually all this bad news got to Vince McMahon, and yep, Ken Kennedy was let go

It's so hard to underline what a shock this was at the time, we all had him down as the new guy

Kennedy was being prepped to be revealed as Mr. McMahon's illegitimate son in 2007 too

While that story was dumb, it was still quite the position to have. McMahon wasn't going to give that to anybody

It was a way to move somebody up. That affected fans as well because Hornswoggle was put into this position instead

And yeah, we turned weeks worth of stories into a joke. Kennedy never really recovered from this either

It was just a wild catalogue of bad events. Number 4, Vince McMahon, ECW Champion

This was always going to happen. Vince McMahon had already made himself the WWE champion in 1999

so as he saw the whole ECW brand as lesser than, yeah, why not rule the roost over there

nobody will care. It was incorrect. But on the 29th of April, Vince beat Bobby Lashley in a 3-on-1 handicap match, a backlash

McMahon's son Shane Anumaga just wrecked Bob, but still, this was totally nuts

Vince was also wearing a do-rag at the time after having his head shaved at WrestleMania

so it made it even more insane. And yes, I get it. McMahon did this as he wanted to get Lashley over as a mega babyface like Steve Austin

so let's just copy and paste. Problem was, Bobby was way too early on his journey

Doing shortcuts like this actually made it worse. Don't force things down people's throats

If somebody is booked right, they'll get there eventually anyway. The timing of it wasn't ideal either as ECW had only been relaunched in 2006

and now a year or so on. Vince was the champion. In Juni, they lost it back to Bobby, but still

What a mad two months. I don't really know what they thought this was gonna do

Number three, the limo explosion. So this would have been bad anyway, but yeah, the fallout from it

Sheesh, his all-time awful WWE that made you want to take a break. It all began with Vince McMahon allegedly telling the creative team

the Mr. McMahon character needed taking off TV permanently because he was getting old

He then decided to just finish the dude off, and the answer to that was killing him on Monday Night Raw

Therefore, on the 11th of June, Vince walked past the entire roster as he got into his vehicle when, bravo, it exploded

leaving you to question who done it. Not sure anybody truly cared and they were more offended this was the route we had chosen to take

The word has always been because WWE ran this on their website as legitimate

people actually rang up to see if Vince was okay. All of this was dumb

Even if what had happened next hadn't have gone down, this still was WWE going way too WCW Even more so because yes they played it seriously Of course it didn last more than a day as the Chris Benoit murder tragedy took place and even WWE knew this couldn carry on

We'd have been beyond insulting, but yeah, even if it was, I don't think we needed to do it

Number two, Hornswoggle McMahon. We just spoke about it, but it does need its own entry

After the Ken Kennedy, Kennedy issues, Vince McMahon threw his toys out the pram

and just made one big long storyline a joke. Didn't pick somebody else to be his fake son

he ended it as if it was a waste of time anyway. This is what I mean about 2007 as well

because it really was cool hornswoggle in case of emergency. Nothing wrong with that in theory

but one, it became redundant like all these things do, and two, it just wasn't serious

Stoy your confidence away. What else is just going to become one big punchline

We had Triple H out there during this reveal to laugh at Vince McMahon too, and that sucked

Why is having Swog as a son so funny? Imagine you were a little person watching this

It wasn't exactly in good taste. And the joke was rubbish too. Swogs could now potentially run the company and fly on the WWE private jet

Who could possibly care? Even a man got bored of this, so in February 2008, he just said

actually, Hornswoggle is Fitfinly's son, meaning it was five months of nonsense

We've been told the reveal of this would change the landscape forever. My ass

Let's not get into logic here either, but Hornswoggle is not a child

He was a grown-ass man, but he was told to act like he was eight. This sucked, man

Again, nobody would dare do it today. Number one, the Chris Benoit tribute

Because this did actually air as a Raw episode, it does sort of fit into the canon of what WWE did do in 2007

Really, you can take the rest of the entries on this list and throw them out the window, because stories are stories

Even when they suck, meh, who cares? It's wrestling. It doesn't actually matter. I don't think anybody will forget where they were

when the Chris Benoit murder-suicide news came out, however, because it was so unbelievable

It still doesn't feel real today, and that's down to the fact it's one of the worst moments in wrestling history

Forget the year known as 2007. Whatever the timeline may have been, WWE still chose to air this episode of Raw

and at the time, the idea was the whole family had been murdered. As such, you get tribute after tribute to Benoit

and I don't blame the wrestlers for this. That was their friend and colleague. If nothing else, they too were trying to make sense of it

Of course, when the truth came out mere hours later that Chris Benoit had been responsible

well, the whole thing just felt even worse. Sort of ties into the fact that you should always wait and be patient

This muddied the waters even more, and nobody needed that. As hard enough as it was

As mentioned during the intro as well, I actually took the rest of 2007 off watching wrestling, because this was so harrowing to even

think about. It was really difficult to tune into WWE to escape life anymore. It was life

and the constant news cycle referencing it was proof of that. It's actually amazing WWE was able

to find their way again. That's how bad it was. We can't all talk about it though if you are going

to bring up 2007, because that would be of disservice to Nancy, Benoit, and son Daniel

It's always important that we never forget them or their families, because I would imagine they are

still dealing with it today. Know if anything else you want to talk about when it comes to 2007 WWE

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