WWE’s Fingerpoke of Doom
By Scott Keith on 15 February 2015
Scott,
A lot of fans – myself included – are of the opinion that the overall WWE product now is more unwatchable than ever. Where you can pinpoint both the second that Ralph's heart rips in half and the moment WCW began to sink (the "Fingerpoke of Doom"), do you think there is a similar moment in recent WWE history?
For me, it is WrestleMania 27. No matter your opinion on The Miz headlining the show, the way the match was booked was mind boggling for any match, let alone a Mania main event. The Rock – who hadn't so much as laced up the boots in seven years – standing tall at the end of the show and the WWE Champion left to be an afterthought. I suppose they had a chance to recover with CM Punk winning the title in Chicago, but we all know how that went…
What would you classify as your WWE "Fingerpoke" moment?
HHH booking himself to go over CM Punk at Night of Champions 2011, which was pretty much Punk's hottest point and the time when they could have made him into a new top level WM-draw superstar. And then he jobbed and now he's gone. I don't think it directly killed the company's momentum or anything, but he was the last guy who could have been the guy to be bigger than the company and they deliberately killed him off.