Best Of 2020: Worst Major Show Of The Year
We had to get to this one but it’s kind of one of the most difficult to pick. One of the best things about modern wrestling is they have managed to find a baseline that makes it really hard to have a bad show. AEW and NXT are virtually incapable of it, leaving WWE and whatever Impact has done. Note that this will not included special TV episode because as special as they are, they’re still just TV. Let’s get to it.
As usual, in no particular order until the winner at the end.
Note: Bear with me on a lot of these, as there just weren’t that many bad shows this year.
Summerslam
The biggest problem here was the fact that it didn’t feel like an important show. There were some nice matches included, but I couldn’t bring myself to care about most of them and that’s a bad thing. Roman Reigns returning at the end kept it from being too bad, but I can barely remember most of this card and that’s not a good sign for what is (allegedly) the second biggest show of the year five months later.
Wrestlemania XXXVI Night Two
As cool as it was to see Drew McIntyre finally win the World Title, it was another one of those matches that comes and goes in about five minutes. That kills so much of the buzz that comes with it, to the point where if this was any other ending, it would have ruined the show. Other than that moment, Charlotte vs. Rhea Ripley, and the good Edge vs. Randy Orton match (yes I still like it), this wasn’t much of a night and certainly didn’t feel like a Wrestlemania. Of course it gets a big pass like everything else this year, but it wasn’t exactly a fun show.
Payback
This show had the major problem of coming a week after Summerslam, giving it the feeling of being the show that had everything not good enough to make it onto the previous pay per view. Roman Reigns won the Universal Title and Keith Lee beat Randy Orton completely clean, but I can’t tell you another thing that happened on this show. They were behind the eight ball coming in and then didn’t exactly deliver, but I’d put this one much more on the scheduling than the wrestling. That may not be fair, but it’s the reality of what happened.
Like it was going to be anything else.
Super Showdown
The Saudi Arabian shows (Remember them?) don’t have a good reputation and you leave them feeling a bit dirty. This time around though it made a lot of people mad, as Goldberg beat the Fiend in a match that was probably only booked to satisfy the people financing the event. It was one of those incredibly frustrating moments and came after a pretty bad (but not the worst) show, which is enough to give it this one pretty easily.
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