2017 Awards: Worst Show of the Year

This is one of the more fun ones.

For some reason, this one always seems like it should have a lot of nominees. The thing is though, most WWE pay per views aren’t all that bad. Sure some of them might seem like they don’t need to exist (because they don’t), but at the same time most of them give you at least something worth checking out. That wasn’t the case with all of them though.

I’ll be leaving Survivor Series off as I thought it was actually a rather good show held down by some HORRIBLE booking and execution of the show’s namesake matches. Throw those out and make it a regular pay per view and it’s a near classic with Shield vs. New Day and Brock vs. Styles. I don’t get the hatred for that one outside of the terrible main event.

We’ll start things off with a show that didn’t seem to get the point that it was going for. Clash of Champions, in theory at least, should be a show focused on champions. That made it a little weird when the show was almost entirely built around a non-title match between Randy Orton/Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kevin Owens/Sami Zayn. The show was main evented by a title match but that was the token main event at best. This show didn’t need to exist and with a total of six matches including one that was less than two minutes long, it was a mess.

If that show didn’t need to exist, then Payback didn’t need to even less. The problem here was the Superstar Shakeup, which was scheduled to start immediately after the pay per view. Therefore, none of the matches mattered and what we got (the House of Horrors) was a huge mess. This was a major scheduling conflict but it’s not like the was going to be any good no matter what they did.

I’d feel weird if I didn’t include a TNA show in here so we’ll go with Bound For Glory. The show was basically headlined by the return of Alberto El Patron and that meant we were stuck hearing the word perro a lot. The wrestling wasn’t great with the MMA vs. wrestlers match being a disaster and almost nothing positive standing out. As usual, this didn’t need to be a pay per view but I do understand that they need something to build towards. This just wasn’t the best choice.

Then you have the easy winner with Battleground and it’s not one but TWO potential worst matches of the year. This show was HORRIBLE aside from AJ vs. Owens and New Day vs. the Usos but the two really bad matches more than drag those down. This was an easy pick for me and a hands down winner, mainly due to that main event. Just….egads.