Best/Happiest Wrestling moments/segments

[These Are The Days]

The "worst" thread gave me the idea. Shoutout to @alko

For whatever reason this one stuck out in my head and I will always remember June/July 2003 as the high water mark of Smackdown! Kurt Angle was on fire coming back and they FINALLY reached a happy medium with Lesnar's character. It beat the hell out of the "aw shucks" Lesnar we saw right after he won the belt at Mania 19



And if I'm gonna mention the Smackdown! high water mark I better mention this too. I yelled "HOLY SHIT!" so loud my mom came out and asked what happened.





They really should've turned Taker heel instead of Lesnar after Vengeance. He was so poorly handled and goes from "superplex" to unable beat anyone clean unless it was Spanky. Anyone could've believed "Big Evil wanted his title shot and would do anything to get it.

I know WWE wanted a Mania rematch at SummerSlam but Smackdown! really went off a cliff after that. It got waaaayyyyyy too heel heavy for waaaaayyyy too long. After Angle dropped the belt in the ironman in summer 2003, they had 1 babyface champion for a few months in Eddie. The next was John Cena in 2005.

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[GKJ]

Was that when they had JBL as champion? because his reign felt way longer than it was. I had just gotten back in at that point and man was I surprised he was a champion

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

 

[JackSlater]

That's probably the best that a happy wrestling moment has ever been presented. Great execution by WWF.

The ending of Wrestlemania 20 was a pretty good happy moment. It isn't quite the same in retrospect though.

 

[These Are The Days]

Was that when they had JBL as champion? because his reign felt way longer than it was. I had just gotten back in at that point and man was I surprised he was a champion

Yeah it was. Now granted, he was an AMAZING heel champion but his booking went too far for too long. I get his character not having one clean win or a random act of God always saving him. But that was what, 8 times at least and almost a year? It was made even worse that it was 565 days from the time Lesnar won the ironman to JBL losing at Mania 21. Eddie's reign was 134.

In perspective that's 1 year, 6 months and 18 days of hating your champion with a 4 month and 13 day break in between where you loved him. The heel burnout was real by fall 2004

 

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[GKJ]

Yeah it was. Now granted, he was an AMAZING heel champion but his booking went too far for too long. I get his character not having one clean win or a random act of God always saving him. But that was what, 8 times at least and almost a year? It was made even worse that it was 565 days from the time Lesnar won the ironman to JBL losing at Mania 21. Eddie's reign was 134.

In perspective that's 1 year, 6 months and 18 days of hating your champion with a 4 month and 13 day break in between where you loved him. The heel burnout was real by fall 2004

And then came John Cena

 

[These Are The Days]

And then came John Cena

lmao I know right? Had WWE continued to let him come out in local jerseys and spitting off free styles he would've been the greatest champion since Stone Cold. No doubt in my mind. But he was toast when they made him a milquetoast Hogan and put him on Raw. It's a case study in how your heat lives and dies by the mic and your character's affect. You don't neuter a certified badass babyface and expect him to stay popular.

 

[Tkachuk4MVP]

Foley winning the title for the first time on Raw was magic, especially after WCW tried to ruin it. (I was one of the people who immediately turned the channel when Schiavone made that announcement).

 

[ManofSteel55]

Two of my happiest wrestling moments - Mark Henry's "I've got a lot in the tank" promo on Cena. Chills. And ECW One Night Stand, when RVD pinned Cena.

 

[JackSlater]

This was also great.

 

[These Are The Days]

This was as good as ANYTHING in the AE

 

[Kaner9]

The real answer

 

[Kaner9]

Tommy Dreamer finally beating Raven is also a keeper

 

[Emperoreddy]

Christian's return was great too. Suxked so much there wasn't a crowd. His hug with Edge was great.

 

[CHGoalie27]

Whether or not people liked them- when the mic gave out on Enzo and Cass and the crowd helped make it not matter.

 

[CHGoalie27]

Christian's return was great too. Suxked so much there wasn't a crowd. His hug with Edge was great.

Only one I can think of that could top that pop and he comes from Chicago.

 

[Milos Krasic]

123 Kid beating Razor Ramon

 

[Kaner9]

Whenever Otis got some from Mandy he looked so happy and it made me lol

 

[Emperoreddy]

Big E winning MitB felt really good. A damn good year for Black Excellence in wrestling overall.

 

[67 others]

Christian's return was great too. Suxked so much there wasn't a crowd. His hug with Edge was great.

Edge's return is up there. The reaction videos alone are fun to watch

 

[93gilmour93]

This is always fantastic to watch

 

[93gilmour93]

HBK owning Montreal Shawn was the best…..

 

[swflyers93]

Just random ones for me:

HHH coming back from surgery after what, 9 months
Returns: Edge, Cena, Hardy Boyz return, Sting in WCW was a fav of mine
Jericho debut in WWE
Mox in AEW

 

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