I was going to go with Nikki, but then I thought of that doll. That stupid, rotten, horrible, no good doll, WHICH WINKED AT THE CAMERA AND THEN APPEARED IN A MIRROR. WWE went out of their way to destroy a lot of people and things for the sake of pushing the idea that Alexa Bliss had an evil doll. It was some bad horror movie come to life and I could not stand this stupid thing, which is somehow following us into 2022, because of course it is.
Angle Of The Year
5. CM Punk Is An Old Gunslinger
4. The Rise Of RKBro
3. Baron Corbin Is Broke And It’s Hilarious
2. Hangman Page Wins AEW World Title
1. Whose Side is Paul Heyman On
WWE is pretty terrible these days but this is must see television. Paul Heyman is one of the greatest performers in wrestling history and the things he is doing in this story has been even better than I would have thought possible. Above all else, he made me want to see where the story was going next and it was nothing short of amazing to see every single week. The story is still going in the new year and I really want to see where these things go next. Or just whatever Heyman is going to do.
Worst Match Of The Year
5. Charlotte vs. Nia Jax – Raw – August 30
4. Randy Orton vs. Bray Wyatt – Wrestlemania
3. Alexa Bliss vs. Eva Marie – Summerslam
2. Miz vs. Damian Priest – Wrestlemania Backlash
1. Kenny Omega vs. Jon Moxley – Revolution
This is one where your mileage may vary, but ultimately, this was a bunch of barbed wire violence before the lamest ending you could imagine. It was like some sparklers going off in place of an explosion. Ignoring the total disaster of the ending, you had the carnage for the sake of carnage, all because AEW wanted to recreate some angle from Japan, down to Eddie Kingston trying to cover Moxley and selling the….well nothing really. This was bad on all fronts and is still somehow even worse than I remember.
News Story Of The Year
5. NXT Gets Its Own Sequel
4. Ring Of Honor Hiatus
3. Huge Stars To AEW
2. Fans Return
1. WWE Releases
I don’t know how it could be anything else, as WWE did not so much take the roster apart but completely gutted the thing. Over the last year and a half, WWE has literally released over a hundred wrestlers. That isn’t just going to shake up the WWE, but also the wrestling world as a whole. In addition to weakening the WWE roster, it opened up the flood gates to all kinds of other promotions. Several wrestlers have since moved elsewhere, which has made some other companies that much more interesting. This was a game changer, and the amazing part is it might not be done yet.
Feud Of The Year
5. Roman Reigns vs. Edge
4. Pinnacle vs. Inner Circle
3. Edge vs. Seth Rollins
2. Kenny Omega vs. Hangman Page
1. Roman Reigns vs. John Cena
This might have been short, but what mattered was how big this felt. That’s the kind of thing you don’t get to see very often, but Cena can make it work so well. Above all else, this felt like a feud that belonged in the main event of one of biggest shows of the year. Then the match wound up working too, which shouldn’t be a surprise. It wasn’t long, but Reigns defeated Cena in a huge main event and it felt like a showdown.
Title Reign Of The Year
5. Bianca Belair – Smackdown Women’s Title
4. Young Bucks – AEW Tag Team Titles
3. Bobby Lashley – WWE Championship
2. Kenny Omega – AEW World Title
1. Roman Reigns – Universal Title
The words “of the year” apply here, because Reigns was champion for the entire year. That is not something you get to see very often but it has been pretty incredible for a very long time now. Reigns comes off as the biggest star in all of wrestling and has been bringing people up just by association. This was an easy pick to make, because holding the title for a year is hard to fathom back in the day, let alone modern times.
Best Of 2020: Worst Match Of The Year
This is one of the interesting ones as thinking back to all of the bad matches over the course of the year can pull up some horrible memories. There were some matches that I had forgotten about and I wasn’t thrilled with having them pop back into my head. The in-ring product has come a long way in that you have a certain baseline for most matches, but the bad ones really fall apart. Let’s get to it.
As usual, in no particular order until the winner at the end.
Braun Strowman vs. Bray Wyatt (Money In The Bank)
These two were stuck in one of the worst situations two wrestlers can be in: being part of a feud that isn’t as big as the company thinks it is and running with it. That’s the case here, as Strowman and Wyatt may have been stablemates but it wasn’t like it was some big deal. This was the match where everything stopped for the sake of Bray trying to control Strowman again and then Strowman just won. I’m not sure why this is supposed to interest me, but that is the case with anything Strowman does.
Dasha Gonzalez/Rachael Ellering vs. Ivelisse/Diamante (AEW Women’s Tag Team Tournament)
I know I’m in the minority on the tournament but I thought it was one of the biggest wastes of time I’ve seen in a long time and one of the only times AEW completely misfired. This was the complete bottom of the barrel as Gonzalez wasn’t a wrestler (not her fault) and Ellering was recovering from a torn ACL. That left Ivelisse and Diamante to carry the thing and that was always going to be a disaster. This was terrible and perhaps the worst match AEW has done to date.
Bayley vs. Tamina (Money In The Bank)
This one falls under the category of “what were you expecting”? Bayley has gotten a lot better over the course of the year but Tamina was just a fill in challenger until they could get to the showdown with Sasha Banks. The problem is that it’s Tamina, who is perhaps the least interesting main roster star. I feel sorry for Bayley and it isn’t Tamina’s fault that she is put into these spots, but this never had a chance.
Women’s Survivor Series Match (Survivor Series)
You never can tell what is going to happen with something like this, but this was at the height of the Nia Jax Puts Lana Through A Table Every Week period. As a result, this was ALL about Jax tormenting Lana until there was a massive countout to give Lana the win. It was a bad story, bad execution and a bad ending. What more could you have expected from something like this?
Goldberg vs. The Fiend (Super Showdown)
The only thing this match has going for it is that it was short. They had less than three minutes, but man alive it was a frustrating and bad three minutes. Goldberg managed to hit four spears and the Jackhammer for one of the most irritating results of the year. This is more on the booking than the wrestling, but that doesn’t exactly make things that much better.
I went back and forth on this but I couldn’t come up with anything to beat it.
Braun Strowman vs. Bray Wyatt (Extreme Rules)
This was the Swamp Fight and that means it’s time for Wyatt’s crazy antics. I know they sound cool on paper but they were doing this for the sake of having a second match between the two of them, making it a long, drawn out exercise in putting out whatever insanity they felt they could put on screen. I’m (almost) completely over these cinematic matches and a lot of Bray’s stuff is more tiring than anything else. It went long too, making this as bad as it got all year.
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This is the last entry in the series and we’re going out with something I think you all can guess pretty easily. More often than not these things are going to stand out rather badly and that was no exception in 2019. Keep in mind that I’m not looking just at the quality of the match. Some of this is going to be based on the way the match was set up/the idea of the whole thing. Sometimes the match just being set up terribly is a lot worse than the match itself being bad, and that was the case this year.
Also note that I’m intentionally ignoring Undertaker vs. Goldberg. Yeah it was bad, but it was bad due to an injury, and I’ve never found it fair to blame a bad match on someone being hurt, especially as badly as Goldberg was knocked out.
Ken Shamrock vs. Joey Ryan (Impact – November 5)
This is one where the match alone taking place is a bad idea. Impact is a promotion that does not have the best reputation in the world and their best move is to bring in Joey Ryan (an idea that is going to turn off a lot of people in the first place) and have him do his shtick on Ken Shamrock? As in the Shamrock who is something close to a legend willing to do something with your company?
It was a bad idea and made the company look like they were going for the fun route instead of trying to build something up. Ryan’s status in Impact (and wrestling) is secured so why waste one of Shamrock’s appearances on him? Just for the joke of having Shamrock take Ryan’s big move? Yeah Shamrock won and everything, but it’s the kind of match that shouldn’t have happened in the first place.
Becky Lynch/Seth Rollins vs. King Corbin/Lacey Evans (Extreme Rules)
The words to describe this match would be tone deaf. Seth Rollins went from winning the World Title from Brock Lesnar to being Becky Lynch’s boyfriend by the summer. Clad in a “The Man’s Man” shirt, Rollins was in a mixed Extreme Rules match (with tags because reasons) here for both titles against two opponents that no one wanted to see. I can’t imagine a more colossal mixture of everything that could have gone wrong. It just needed one more thing on top of it though.
And then Brock Lesnar cashed in Money in the Bank to become Universal Champion again, because Brock Lesnar must be a World Champion in WWE. This was the culmination of a bunch of bad ideas and it left me never wanting to see anything else on from WWE for at least twenty one hours, because the show must go on. Even if the show comes after a terrible idea for a match.
Shane McMahon vs. Roman Reigns – Super Showdown
This was part of the Summer of Shane, as fans kept sitting around waiting for SOMEONE to stop Shane. Somehow that was the case going into Super Showdown in Saudi Arabia with Shane facing Roman Reigns. There was no way they would do something like this right? I mean, it’s Roman Reigns. This guy beat the Undertaker at Wrestlemania so he had to be able to beat Shane right?
Well of course not, as Shane kicked out of the Superman Punch, blocked the spear, and pinned Reigns in the end (albeit with help from Drew McIntyre). The ending actually made me laugh, because it was clear that WWE was trolling us. That’s all well and good for them, but is it really a good idea to be trolling the fans for about eight months, including on this show that was controversial enough in the first place? They certainly seemed to think so and that’s why we were stuck here.
Those were all bad, but one had me actually ranting and raving at my screen as the match took place.
Seth Rollins vs. The Fiend (Hell In A Cell)
It makes me mad just thinking about it again. I’ve seen a lot of wrestling from a lot of companies and I don’t remember the last time someone came up with such a bad idea this side of Vince Russo. You have an actually interesting character in the Fiend and you put him inside your company’s biggest showdown match (it’s so big that the show is named after it) and….it’s almost some weird performance art thing with the Fiend being down for about half of the match. That’s bad enough, but then there’s the ending.
It’s a DQ (officially a referee stoppage, but it is my experience that a wrestler being told not to do something and then doing it, followed by a bell ringing is a DQ) inside the most dangerous match in wrestling. I won’t go into my full rant again, but the amount of long term damage here is astounding. Why should I care about the Cell again? The whole premise of the match is thrown out the window, likely because WWE didn’t think things far enough ahead. But hey, you can buy it again next year!
On the other side of things, yeah the Fiend recovered but the point is he shouldn’t have had to recover from this because it shouldn’t have happened. This is one of the only times I can remember when it felt like WWE took my money and laughed at me for it. That’s not why I’m a wrestling fan and I should never feel that way.
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We’re continuing the down part of the year with this one, which is one of the bigger picks of the year. You know the kind of matches I’m talking about here: the matches that leave you in awe of how bad they are while having nothing positive come out of them. These are fewer and further between, but oddly enough some names keep coming up in these options.
Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar – Greatest Royal Rumble
What the heck was that? I mean really, what the heck was that? They can’t even get the ending right with the whole whose feet hit first bit. The problem here is the same as it was with every other Reigns vs. Lesnar match: they don’t bother to build anything up and just hit their finishers over and over. That’s fun every now and then, but when it’s all you do every single match, the interest goes away in a hurry and we were LONG past that point here.
Roman Reigns vs. Samoa Joe – Backlash
This is the BEAT THE TRAFFIC match where the fans completely ripped it apart, and with good reasoning. Samoa Joe had come back the night after Wrestlemania and Reigns beat him here in a match that he didn’t need to win. It also came at the end of a show that went about forty five minutes long and advanced almost nothing. This was the wrong match at the wrong time in front of the wrong audience with the wrong ending. What else could have gone wrong?
D-Generation X vs. Brothers of Destruction – Crown Jewel
There’s a really good chance that this is going to win for a lot of people and I can get that. The thing for me though is….well what did you expect? The youngest person in here was HHH, who got injured during the match. There was no way this was going to be good no matter what they did and it’s now just a footnote in Shawn’s career, which didn’t need to happen. That’s the match in one statement: a footnote that didn’t need to happen. The guys were trying but they were fighting against time, which has an unbeaten record. It was bad, but it could have been worse.
Like this match was worse.
Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar – Wrestlemania 34
This is a case where it’s the booking instead of the wrestling, which was watchable enough. The problem here is they needed to just pull the freaking trigger on Reigns but instead we had to drag this out for another four months when no one wanted to see this match in the first place. Reigns getting ANOTHER coronation in the main event of Wrestlemania wasn’t on anyone’s wish list and then Lesnar just beats him to keep things going. I guess it was supposed to be a surprise, but there are times when you should just go with the logical choice and that’s what they needed to do here. It was the wrong moment, and that’s the worst of the year.
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This is one of the awards that often shows you how bad things can get. There’s a fine line between a match that isn’t very good and one of the worst of the year. That’s the case this time around as well, meaning I won’t be including matches that aren’t very good because I’m looking for something far worse than that. These are the worst of the worst for one reason or another.
Before we get into the regular nominees, I’m intentionally leaving out Goldberg vs. Kevin Owens from Fastlane. It was 20 seconds long and it’s kind of hard to make a match really be that bad in so short a time. The match was stupid booking instead of a bad match, which are two very different things.
We’ll start with the ladies as Alexa Bliss and Bayley which had one of the most career destroying fallouts that you’ll ever see. Bayley still hasn’t recovered from this and there’s a good chance that she never will. The whole story was about Bayley channeling her inner extreme and then she just got the heck beaten out of her in the actual match. Terrible idea and a really bad match, which is quite the horrible concept.
Next up is House of Horrors from Payback, which wasn’t even the worse Orton vs. Bray Wyatt match of the year. This was basically a segment in a house (which wasn’t horrory), an hour off, and then a brawl in the ring with interference giving Bray the win. Wyatt gets nothing out of winning because it’s non-title and then the Brand Split screwed everything up anyway. Easily a horrible match, but it would get worse for these two.
Let’s spread the venom a little more with the men’s Survivor Series match. I don’t remember the last time I saw a match and wondered what the heck they were thinking more than this. It was COMPLETELY overbooked, the big stars they brought in didn’t mean much, and it wound up being about HHH vs. Kurt Angle. Oh and that whole Braun Strowman attacks HHH thing? Still waiting on a followup. This was a straight up disaster and one of the biggest missed opportunities in a long time.
It’s time to get to Battleground and one of its two horrible matches of the night. First up is the flag match between John Cena and Rusev, which was as much pandering to the show’s name as I had seen on anything other than the Royal Rumble. This was long, it was never in doubt, and it was flat out terrible, along with having a rather heavy handed set up in the first place. Cena is better than this, but he seems to have forgotten how to do so.
And now, in a rarity, I present you with a tie for the worst match of the year. In no particular order, we have Randy Orton vs. Bray Wyatt at Wrestlemania XXXIII and Randy Orton vs. Jinder Mahal in the Punjabi Prison match at Battleground. Both of these are horrible for reasons that I can’t quite differentiate, meaning I can’t put one beneath the other.
We’ll start at Wrestlemania, which not only felt like a nothing title change but also featured Bray’s main event run (which was long overdue in the first place) having its legs cut out from under him (and he’s showing no signs of recovering), title reign for Orton that is as transitional as you can get, and A BUNCH OF FREAKING BUGS BEING DISPLAYED ON THE MAT FOR NO APPARENT REASON! I get the idea of Wyatt trying to get in Orton’s head, but it didn’t even work. Orton just shrugged it off, hit the RKO, and won the title. What was the point of this?
Speaking of that, what in the world was the point in having the Punjabi Prison match go that long? It felt like they could have chopped a good fifteen minutes (it was less than thirty altogether) from the thing and told the same story: Orton dominates, the Singh Brothers interfere, Mahal gets beaten up some more, the Brothers interfere, Great Khali makes a one off appearance and Mahal retains. It was long, it was terrible, and Mahal retained the title.
But was it as bad as Orton vs. Wyatt in Orlando? Well…
I don’t know, because I’m not thinking about these things again and you shouldn’t either. Go watch some old Divas matches which were at least so bad they were funny. These were so bad that they belong in a woodchipper somewhere. The bad stuff was REALLY bad this year and I can’t imagine things actually being worse this year.
Best of 2016: Worst Match of the Year
This is another big one and something more interesting than several of these. We’ve all seen some bad matches from WWE every single week and it’s always fun to go back and look at what might be the worst of them all. In case you might be a bit slow today, we’re looking at the worst matches of the year in WWE. As usual, these are in no particular order.
1. Brock Lesnar vs. Dean Ambrose – Wrestlemania XXXII
We’re hitting the ground running with a no holds barred street fight between two people who should have been able to beat the heck out of each other. That’s basically what was teased as we came into this match with various hardcore legends giving Ambrose weapons to use, such as a chainsaw and a barbed wire baseball bat. On paper, this had the potential to be one of the best fights of the year.
And it just wasn’t. Lesnar destroyed Ambrose for the majority of the match and unfortunately that was the trend for most of Lesnar’s matches over the year. Ambrose hung around for a good while and had a few hope spots but above all else this was just boring. The aforementioned weapons were brought in but not really used as the chainsaw didn’t work and the barbed wire bad shot missed (of course). One F5 later and Ambrose was done.
This was really just about being boring than bad and that’s not a good thing. The problem with Lesnar was the fact that almost no one was able to do anything to him and he would just disappear for months on end while the loser would be stuck doing nothing. Ambrose was treated like a jobber and then won the World Title a few months later. It’s hard to overlook Ambrose’s complete destruction here though and that’s not a good thing.
2. Carmella vs. Nikki Bella – Tables, Ladders and Chairs
If you want to see why so many people don’t like Bella, this is where you start. The story behind the match was Carmella calling Bella out for being a reality start with everything handed to her and whose whole relationship with John Cena was based on her fame. Instead of taking this as a bunch of insults like they really were, Bella basically said “Yeah, what’s your point?”
A No DQ match was set up and it all fell apart from there. Carmella worked on the knee for most of the match and then Bella just popped up like there was no injury, shrugged off everything Carmella did to her and won clean. In other words: let’s all praise Bella because she’s so amazing and interesting when she treats so many people like they’re beneath her and acts all serious because she’s famous or whatever WWE wants you to buy at this point.
Above all else though, the match wasn’t any good to go along with a horrible story. Carmella could be something special in the division going forward but this is another loss to Bella, who really doesn’t seem phased by all of the insults and rather true statements because she’s famous and therefore above any criticism. That’s not interesting and it’s even worse when the match was horrible.
3. Natalya vs. Charlotte – Payback
You know what’s a bad idea? Pushing a feud over and over long past the point where it stopped being interesting. You know what’s an even worse idea? Having the ending to a match tied back into the Montreal Screwjob, which has been brought up over and over again for years despite it being less interesting and more eye roll inducing every single time it comes up.
Yes, somehow in 2016, we got another Montreal Screwjob finish to a match and they made it even better by tying it into the idea of Charles Robinson being a huge fan of the Flair Family. It felt like a way to back out of a story without actually giving us anything logical or a good idea in general. Charlotte vs. Natalya wasn’t the best story in the world in the first place and then giving us a bad ending made things even worse.
This is a case where the booking brings what could have been a totally fine match down. It’s a stupid decision that feels like a way for WWE to chuckle at themselves and stretch their story out even longer because, for some reason, Sasha Banks wasn’t allowed to face Charlotte until later in the year so we were stuck with something like this. Lucky us indeed.
4. Shane McMahon vs. Undertaker – Wrestlemania XXXII
Let’s get this out of the way right now: McMahon was pretty clearly a replacement after names like Cena and Randy Orton were both left off the card due to injuries. Either of those two against Undertaker inside the Cell would seem like a much better main event level match but this was about as good as we were going to get. Based on that, this match deserves a little bit of a break.
However, that doesn’t make up for the fact that it was one of the worst executed matches I’ve seen WWE put together in a long time. First and foremost, I do not accept that McMahon can give Undertaker a real run for his money, including kicking out of a chokeslam and Last Ride as well as surviving Hell’s Gate. This is the same Undertaker who took Lesnar to the limit just a few months earlier but now he’s having issues with McMahon? Really?
Couple that with the THIRTY MINUTE run time (longer than Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels, Undertake vs. Mankind, Undertaker vs. Lesnar (either time) and Undertaker vs. Edge among other Cell matches) and there was almost no way this was going to work. The big dive, while entertaining, was also terrifying (assuming you ignore the crash pad underneath the table) and not enough to save the match. This should have been fifteen minutes long and a glorified squash rather than a competitive match that lasted twice as long. But hey, you have to fill that six hour run time somehow.
5. Dean Ambrose vs. Chris Jericho – Extreme Rules
Here’s a story about a potted plant named Mitch, who became the plot point of a feud between these two major stars. For some reason Ambrose was given his own talk show to replace the “Highlight Reel” and he brought Mitch in as a decoration. Jericho broke the plant over Ambrose’s head and a huge feud erupted, eventually setting up a cage with weapons match at “Extreme Rules 2016”.
What followed was a nearly thirty minute long match with the weapons barely being used and the plant (one of the weapons included) not being used AT ALL. If there has ever been a match that missed the point worse than this one, it hasn’t happened recently. The match was a watchable brawl at times but the big problem is it was supposed to be all about the violence rather than just some mild brawling.
In a word, this one missed. There’s more to a match than what you do between the bells. You also have to do the things that make sense instead of just doing something that you want to do. The whole point of this match should have been the plant (as ridiculous a premise as that is in the first place) but it wasn’t even touched, despite the fans waiting on it to be picked up at some point. I’m sure that has nothing to do with the fans not being all that into the match at times.
6. Triple H vs. Roman Reigns – Wrestlemania XXXII
This is a match that was doomed from the start. To begin with, the fans really weren’t interested in seeing Reigns in the main event of the biggest show of the year. Making it even worse was Triple H, whose feud with Reigns hadn’t been interesting either and really wasn’t doing anything to make the fans care that much more. On top of that, by the time the match began (counting the pre-show), “Wrestlemania XXXII” had run for about six and a half hours. Think about that for a minute and wonder how tired you would be.
It didn’t help that they then went on to have a twenty seven minute match (not counting Stephanie McMahon’s WAY too long intro with some weird Mad Max theme) which was built around working on the arm instead of the violence and anger that the match needed. It was all about standing around, waiting on the inevitable Reigns spear and pin that the fans were dying to boo. Not exactly main event caliber stuff there.
That’s the part that really brings this down: it was the main event of the biggest show of the year, making it probably the biggest match of the year by default. You can’t go with a match this dull with a bad story after all this horrible buildup and expect it to work in any way. This match was a disaster and neither of the two has really gotten over it in the nine months since it’s taken place.
7. Randy Orton vs. Brock Lesnar – Summerslam
Again, this one has to do with the stage. This wasn’t some nothing pay per view like “Battleground 2016” or “Fastlane 2016”. No, this was the second biggest show of the year and the main event should be a major deal instead of just some nothing match. The match was even hyped up over a month in advance with Orton being announced as Lesnar’s opponent a full pay per view in advance.
What wound up happening? A squash. Lesnar absolutely flattened Orton, defeating him in less than thirteen minutes with Orton managing a quick RKO and elevated DDT for his lone important offense. Other than that, Lesnar squashed him with a string of German suplexes and F5’s before beating Orton so badly that his head was busted open and the match had to be stopped.
That’s it. That’s how the main event of the second biggest show of the year ended. I don’t know if that bleeding was the planned ending or not but the build towards it certainly wasn’t the most interesting idea in the world. It was even more of Lesnar destroying someone with almost no recourse before walking away. Orton didn’t need to defeat Lesnar here but he should have at least given him a challenge, which wasn’t the case here.
All of these matches have something bad about them but only one of them had the honor of being the main event of the biggest show of the year and that’s enough to make it the worst match of the year. Aside from Reigns spearing Stephanie McMahon, there was nothing here that entertained me. It was a disaster up and down and there’s really no way around that.
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Criteria here: I’m not including Divas matches, most of the Knockout matches, anything that’s really short (under 3 minutes or so) or whatever Sting and Jeff Hardy did at Victory Road.I’m going to go with Cena vs. Miz in the main event of Wrestlemania. Not only was the match itself boring, but the ending was atrocious. I said this in my review and in the Live Discussion of the show: They booked a Dusty Finish in the main event of Wrestlemania. That isn’t acceptable to me. This is Wrestlemania, not any other show of the year. I hold it to a higher standard than a double countout and Rock suddenly having the power to make matches throughout the night. This didn’t work for me at all and I remember thinking to myself “that’s how they ended it?” after the match and show ended.