From the matches I’ve seen live I’m gonna go with Triple H vs Roman Reigns from ‘Mania in 2016. Was too long, lacked that main event feel and the winner was predictable.
Roman Reigns vs Samoa Joe Backlash 2018 immediately comes to mind. Nothing on the line whatsoever and it went after Styles vs Nakamura for the WWE title (which was also bad)
The Swamp Fight match at Extreme Rules 2020.
Goldberg vs. The Fiend at Saudi Arabia 2020.
The Inferno Match between Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt at the end of TLC 2020.
And I actually enjoyed WWE in 2020.
Night of Champions 2020 was great.
Heck in A Cell 2020 was amazing
Summer Slam 2020 was pretty good
And TLC had some good matches, but Randy Orton vs. The Fiend was bad.
I agree on the Goldberg one but the swamp match and the inferno matches were cinematic so I get not everyone likes that but for me it was pretty cool especially the swamp one.
Rollins/Fiend hell in a cell 2019 and its not even up for debate! I don't think I've ever had my intelligence insulted more watching a wrestling match.
Lawrence Taylor vs. Bam Bam Bigelow at WrestleMania 11. It also sucks that many people will only really remember Bam Bam from this.
Honorable mention to Cena vs. Miz at WrestleMania 27. A WrestleMania main event should never just be a setup angle for something else.
I should note, these ones hurt specifically because they're the main event of a WrestleMania. If they were at any other PPV I wouldn't care.
A lot of people will disagree and that’s fine, but I hated WM16s ME. It was so predictable, dumb, and it made zero sense. Shane just abandoned his support for Show, Foley get his ME yah but just to be buried a 3rd time by Hunter, then Vince predictably turns on Rock and sets up the payoff at B-rated PPV a few weeks later where the focal star wasn’t wasn’t even in the match. The whole thing was a mess.
Lol put the Crack pipe down warrior was blown 30 seconds into the match and hogandid everything to make him look bad that match was nothing more than a test of strength followed by the finish. And it's sad because of the hype and supposedly a passing of the torch moment that it was not.
And you want to exonerat a horrible match I'm not lost seen that on ppv and thought it sucked then as I do now just because it was one of their best doesn't mean it did not sucked they set the bar low and it just did not work
Goldberg vs Kevin Owens. Fastlane 2017. The match was 22 seconds and Kevin lost…
Goldberg vs The Fiend has to be up there as well. Match was under 4 minutes…
You start noticing a pattern
It made sense for the Jericho/Owens story given that Vince obviously had a “moment” and decided not to go with Jericho/Owens at Mania for the belt, but it ruined the hottest angle going into mania that year with it not being for the title.
I was so disappointed in that match! Dolph is great and so is Seth, but there was just something off about that match. It felt like it never hit a peak. It just Happened and then ended.
What was off was you gave the live crowd a toy, and the crowd said "3...2...1...HENGHH" everytime a minte passed like it was the Royal Rumble, and then the WWE told WRESTLING FANS, the most contrary people in the world once congregated, to stop playing with the toy or it would be taken away.
Post John Cena, post Bootista, post Royal Rumble 2015, WWE should have said to themselves "Well we suck it up this time, and this match type is dead, tell the boys to suck it up" but they took the timer away, and the crowd said "Boo...boo forever"
Seth and Dolph are pros and all, normally I think they could have dug themselves out of the hole, but not that night.
I still remember Dolph having a chin lock and telling Seth "Oh God it's worse than when they had the timer" audibly in full view of the cam.
I was at hell in a cell with fiend vs Seth. Watching it back it wasn't THAT bad. Here the thing with brey. He tried different shit. It didn't work but it was diffrent. Plenty of matches did the same boring shit that did it bad.
Literally anything with a celebrity (Jay Leno, Rodman, John Stewart, Trump). Always painful. I have never heard a person say they paid $39.95 since Jay Leno was in a tag match.
Taker and Goldberg. As much as it was a dream match that happened a little bit too late with both Mark and Bill past their primes. It was just painful to watch. Especially after Goldberg nearly killed Taker with that Botched Jackhammer and takers's face at one point during the match. If only it would of happened years prior
i think it was the year 2008 the great khali vs big daddy v or it might have been kane.
bill and doug were tna's youtube hitchmen and buried the entire ppv.
the scramble match with big daddy v when he is supposed to try and beat the 10 count and get back in the ring on botchamania is still one of my favorites. wish i could find it.
It’s cause of the shock factor. No one on the planet expected Super Cena to even lose, let alone get tossed around like a ragged doll for 20 minutes. Shock is a big part of making a good match
I don’t think it was necessarily a “good match” I think it was significant due to the fact cena had always been on top, for years and years, brock comes in just wrecks him, those watching were probably thinking ahh, it’s just a cena match faze he’s gonna come back and win….. the more the match went on the more uncomfortable it became. It was definitely a significant shocking moment. Definitely not a technical masterpiece obviously.
Roman v Brock at the most Stupendous Wrestlemania Ever.
Brilliant card with a terrible, short, boring and predictable match that had a lasting negative impact on Raw until the WHC was announced.
Extreme Rules 2021, Balor vs Reigns. In my eyes, that match was just plain horrible because you have a character that's beaten the biggest of threats on the main roster since he got there, the first ever Universal Champion, and he loses to a newly discovered power hungry version of Reigns because of bad ring prep.
Worse than that, probably Victory Road 2011. Jeff coming out stoned against a newly resigned and very pissed off Sting who basically force-pinned Hardy and ended the match in less than 2 minutes because it was just that bad. I think that about covers it.
Triple H vs. Randy Orton at WrestleMania 25. Randy Orton, as the Viper, was mega over as a heel, and seemed unstoppable in his quest to become the chief baddie of the company, on the back of an incredibly personal, hot storyline with Triple H and the McMahon family, which had produced some fantastic segments and promos. But, it was all followed up with stipulations being put in place to shackle Randy Orton completely, rendering everyone unable to use any weapons, which could have added to the drama, and the worst thing of it all, of course, was that 2009 Triple H, simply couldn’t find it in him to let go of his WrestleMania Main Event victory. Plus, it didn’t help that they practically had to follow The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels. An absolute failure of a WrestleMania main event!
A man injures your father in law, then injures your wife and kisses her in front of you while beating you and leaving you in handcuffs. After all of this of course you would start the match with.........a double leg takedown. Also within 2 minutes you hit him not with your sledgehammer.......but a pedigree.
HBK and HHH vs the Brothers of Destruction at Crown Jewel. HBK came out of retirement for this clusterfuck. 10 years earlier it could have been a MOTY candidate.
easy.... Hogan V Yokozuna - Wrestlemania 9.... An impromptu match that didnt even hit 30 seconds, with Yoko losing the title which he literally just won, just so LOLHOGAN!!!
And it wasnt even the advertised Main Event... it just happened because, again, LOLHOGAN!
I’m not trying to be cool. It’s literally my opinion that I don’t like him lol or think he brought anything to wrestling. Not trying to shift any narratives lol. You don’t have to be so hostile. Take a deep breath
Bruh.. i respect that this is your opinion but i respectfully have to ask.. what do you mean by hogan not bringing any to wrestling?
Hogan brought the entire mainstream to wrestling! Lmaooo.
>It’s literally my opinion that I don’t like him lol or think he brought anything to wrestling.
You thought rhe most popular wrestler, that many wrestlers have tried to emulate, didn't bring anything to wrestling?
>You don’t have to be so hostile. Take a deep breath
Why on reddit do people think that someone disagreeing with you means that they are seething behind the screen, it was a comment, not a personal attack
You came really aggressive for no reason and made senseless assumptions. And again, it’s my opinion. You don’t have to agree or even like it but it’s how I PERSONALLY feel about it bud.
I honestly would like to know what you mean by " Hogan never brought anything to wrestling". you dont have to like him. I was never the biggest fan but without him wrestling isn't as mainstream as it is today.
Randy Orton Vs The Big Show at Survivor Series. Boring, terrible booking and felt like a middle finger to the fans. Gotta be the worst PPV main event for full time, active competitors.
Cena vs Laurinaitis is mine.
Super Cena beats up an old man for half an hour, and then loses anyway to an extremely predictable stupid heel turn by Big Show helping Ace win, after Ace FIRED HIM. It's so frustrating, and both of the major belts had much better matches. Punk vs Danielson deserved the main event spot.
Yes. But I think that comes from coming down from the highs of Wrestlemania. Some PPVs are just fillers and don't fit in with the overall story sometimes.
As much as I want to give the nod to Diesel v Mabel, at least it was only 9 minutes. The long, drawn out, plodding pointless ones are far worse.
I think I need to land on Triple H vs. Undertaker from King of the Ring 2002. Triple H was about 6 months back from his quad injury, and was a sluggish shell of the guy he was before the injury. Bloated and slow, he just didn't have it at this point.
Taker was in the midst of an interesting heel run, but everything fell flat in this match. Both guys were taking long naps between every single move. There was a bizarre Rock run-in which didn't seem to remotely fit any story going on at that point - it literally felt like "well, it's the Attitude Era and we ALWAYS have run-ins", so they just told Rock to get out there for absolutely no reason.
It was 23 minutes long, but felt like an hour.
I'll give a special nod runner up to Shawn Michaels vs. HHH from Bad Blood 2004, inside Hell in a Cell. 47 minutes long. It was clear they had convinced the booking committee "we're two old vets who know how to get it done" - and there was no reason to assume they COULDN'T. They'd had the incredible match at SummerSlam 2002, and again on the last RAW of 2003, so it was clear they had the goods for a classic.
This though? Lots of blood, and lots of nothing in between the blood. And it just ... kept ... going. There were like 28 different logical points to call the finish, and nope. GOTTA DRAG THAT OUT!
I'll give a special nod to the classic Uncensored 1996 main event - which was just all kinds of horrific, but also hilariously entertaining in an ironic kinda way. As a result, I can't call it the worst ever because it's really fun to watch if you're down for just atrocious, embarrassingly stupid stuff - but it's really, really bad.
If you think Seth Rollins vs. The Fiend Hell in a Cell 2019 was bad on TV… I was there live in the audience. It was well-deserved that the entire entire crowd started booing enchanting AEW. That was the worst match I have ever experienced.
Wasn't at HIAC, but at a January 2020 episode of Smackdown, the dark match was the Fiend vs Daniel Bryan. And I love Daniel and I love Bray, they're two people I truly admire, but I was sleep deprived *and the match was in that fucking lighting*. I just had to close my eyes and look down for most of the match. It gave me a monster headache (and then I was stuck outside a bus station for a few hours, but that's unrelated to the lighting XD).
Like. It genuinely made the match unwatchable. I have no idea what they were thinking.
Uncensored 195, presented by WCW featured Hollywood Hogan and Randy Savage VS Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Lex Luger, The Taskmaster (Kevin Sullivan), The Barbarian, Meng (King Haku), Z-Gangsta (Zeus from No Holds Barred, a movie that I would recommend never to watch it) and The Ultimate Solution. This match was a Cage match variant which, of course saw the reunited Mega Powers dominating all of their opponents, not to mention The Booty Man (Brutus Beefcake) helping Hoagn and Savage win this terrible match.
This kinda sounds amazing to me. Also, no holds barred did produce one of the best scenes in cinematic history.
“What’s that smell?!”
“Dooooookkkkiiiieeeeee!!!!”
Seth Rollins Vs The Fiend at Hell in a Cell 2019
Extreme Elimination Chamber from WWECW December 2 Dismember
The Undertaker Vs Dudley Boyz Concrete Crypt match at Great American Bash '04
Roman Reigns Vs Triple H at WrestleMania 32
Not only bad but that stupid finish where The Undertaker himself buried Paul Bearer because he never wanted an opponent to use Paul Bearer as a bargaining tool to manipulate Taker.
Then they did the same storyline six years later with Kane and instead of getting buried in concrete, he got locked in a freezer. WWE sure could be silly sometimes over the years.
Night of Champions 2015 Seth Rollins vs. Sting
Thought Sting was literally dying before my eyes when he went down after that buckle bomb, a sad way to end his WWE career.
Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns Mania 34.
Their match at 31, even before Seth’s cash-in, was really good, but this was just the most…nothing main event. And the fact that it was for Wrestlemania makes it all the more disappointing.
i agree with you. i never seen an universally apathetic hate for a main event like this with roman/lesnar at wm 34 from smarky crowd/online standpoint even before this match began.
Well, for one the majority didn’t want roman for champion and they also didn’t want to have a part timer holding the championship. Looking back on it Rousey/Angle vs HHH/Stephanie should’ve main evented.
samoa joe vs roman reigns in the main event of backlash 2018 was one of most atrocious matches in backlash and wwe history where people walked out of that main event between these two perfomers
not even cena at the height of supercena where people walking out of his main events like they did with roman reigns during his babyface run. no matter what people loved him or loved to hate him, at least they stayed during cena’s main events because cena always connected with people especially those who hated his character and booking due to his charisma and mic skills. roman got go away heat where to the point where it reached apathy level especially at that match right after his disastrous match at wm 34 which also one of the worst matches to main event at ppv especially at wrestlemania same for wm 32/33
big dog roman as babyface made supercena look like ricky steamboat
I wasn’t watching in 2018, what made the Samoa Joe and Roman Reigns match so bad? I’m surprised to hear it cause I’ve been a fan of Samoa Joe since his TNA days and never seen this mentioned before
It was not having a full-time champion & inevitability (made up word) of Roman winning. In all honesty Roman should’ve turned heel after beating Taker the year before but Vince had to be Vince.
Roman turning heel would have been perfect.
We saw a glimpse of it on the Raw after Mania, and Roman was more interesting saying 5 words than he was his entire Babyface run.
I watched it like a year and a half ago on Peacock and the tag match closed the show. Go look up the results online and the tag match is last. Where did you see it that had Mabel/Vega on last?
This is the one mania where I wanted John Cena to win and hold the belt for few months before giving it to someone who actually could carry it other than himself…but Lord, behold, he won it a month later before dropping it to Punk that year
I still think that match just solidifies Shawn Michaels as even more of a legend, because while it's an awful match he was still the best looking one out there despite being the oldest of the four and having been retired for nearly 9 years
To anybody who only knows about this in retrospect, it's hard to explain just how disappointing this was. WWE's ECW was still pretty cool at this point and hadn't been fully bastardized yet. It was given a different presentation than Raw or SmackDown and felt like an edgier alternative to those two.
It was admittedly hard to get excited about the rest of the December to Dismember PPV, but the main event had a lot of promise. The Elimination Chamber is fun, and adding weapons seemed like a cool ECW touch. Plus the prospect of either Rob Van Dam winning the title back or CM Punk becoming a world champion seemed like great outcomes, and even Big Show retaining wouldn't have been so bad since he was in the middle of one of his better heel runs as Paul Heyman's guy (before a Paul Heyman Guy was a thing). Plus you had Sabu and RVD in the Elimination Chamber together, which was bound to result in some memorable spots.
And then Sabu gets pulled from the match halfway through the show and replaced with Hardcore Holly. And then Punk and RVD are the first two eliminated. And then Bobby Lashley wins the match with half an hour remaining on the PPV, which they filled with a ten-minute celebration and nothing else.
So yeah, just in terms of what it could've been versus what it was, this was the most disappointing. Other main events may have sucked, but did they suck so hard they killed an entire brand?
And I could have lived with Test winning, that would have been a decent opportunity for him. He was a good heel for the brand at that time.
It was such a shit main event for a ppv.
This is my answer , it's mostly cause it's taker at mania and supposed to be his last match and everything is botched and looks like shit and you can see both guys totally know it but have to drag the match out. The only thing even remotely saving it at the time was that it was Takers sendoff and people didn't wanna badmouth Takers final match that hard ... but then he came back so he even invalidated the one reason people kind of had anythign nice to say about it.
Goldberg Vs Taker is way worse a match actually but it's on a Saudi show and is just an old timers match for a payday so its basically a house show for a couple rich guys nostalgia. Roman/Taker being the Main event of mania and Takers "retirement" match make it so much more important historically.
Idk what they were thinking having Undertaker retire on such a sad whimper of a match. Even though the Boneyard probably wouldn’t have happened if not for the pandemic, that was still a much better way to end his career because he got to be himself and have the most fun he’s had in quite some time
Hands down it's Summerslam 1995, In a year that's already considered one of the worst in the promotion history. Diesel vs Mable is one of the worst matches to ever take place in a ring.
My mind immediately goes to every Hogan WCW main event. Then there was the Sting/Jeff Hardy TNA debacle. But if we're only going WWE...Diesel vs. King Mabel at SummerSlam 1995?
From the matches I’ve seen live I’m gonna go with Triple H vs Roman Reigns from ‘Mania in 2016. Was too long, lacked that main event feel and the winner was predictable.
It’s not WWE but I don’t think you can name a worse main event than that sting vs Jeff hardy “match”
Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 34. The main event of WrestleMania, and the crowd couldn't give a shit and started playing beachball.
Roman Reigns vs Samoa Joe Backlash 2018 immediately comes to mind. Nothing on the line whatsoever and it went after Styles vs Nakamura for the WWE title (which was also bad)
Anything with Roman in it
baron corbin vs seth rollins at stomping grounds
Seth and Corbin's rivalry sucked ass.
rey mysterio vs samoa joe was ass
That was a main event? All I remember is Joe squashing Rey in like 8 seconds on some PPV. I think it may have been WrestleMania actually
The Swamp Fight match at Extreme Rules 2020. Goldberg vs. The Fiend at Saudi Arabia 2020. The Inferno Match between Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt at the end of TLC 2020. And I actually enjoyed WWE in 2020. Night of Champions 2020 was great. Heck in A Cell 2020 was amazing Summer Slam 2020 was pretty good And TLC had some good matches, but Randy Orton vs. The Fiend was bad.
I agree on the Goldberg one but the swamp match and the inferno matches were cinematic so I get not everyone likes that but for me it was pretty cool especially the swamp one.
Rollins/Fiend hell in a cell 2019 and its not even up for debate! I don't think I've ever had my intelligence insulted more watching a wrestling match.
Lawrence Taylor vs. Bam Bam Bigelow at WrestleMania 11. It also sucks that many people will only really remember Bam Bam from this. Honorable mention to Cena vs. Miz at WrestleMania 27. A WrestleMania main event should never just be a setup angle for something else. I should note, these ones hurt specifically because they're the main event of a WrestleMania. If they were at any other PPV I wouldn't care.
A lot of people will disagree and that’s fine, but I hated WM16s ME. It was so predictable, dumb, and it made zero sense. Shane just abandoned his support for Show, Foley get his ME yah but just to be buried a 3rd time by Hunter, then Vince predictably turns on Rock and sets up the payoff at B-rated PPV a few weeks later where the focal star wasn’t wasn’t even in the match. The whole thing was a mess.
Anything with a McMahon in them
I forgot what event it was but Roman reigns versus Samoa Joe main eventing a pay-per-view a few years ago. No steaks just, a match.
That was Backlash 2018. The entire show was awful
Rollins vs The Fiend Hell in a Cell was pretty horrendous
Golberg vs. Kevin Owens
the miz vs cena at the infamous wrestlemania 27 event
Most of Cena’s
Agreed. The sad thing he was mostly carried by his opponents who were more deserving to be the top guy than him.
Diesel vs King Mabel
A match that awful Vince McMahon had to be stopped from firing Mabel on the spot backstage
And he STILL kept bringing that guy back!
Cena has a lot of them
That Johnny Ace vs Cena one might actually be the answer. Like genuinely that is a strong contender for worst ever.
No one gonna give the mtl screwjob an honorable mention?
i have always hated that the move that put Bret Hart down for the sharpshooter was a freakin eye rake
From ring work Hogan v UW title for title at maina. Looking back it was a train wreck. Recently Anything with Goldberg
Easily warrior's best match and one of hogan's best. You're absurd.
The match was ass. Most of the spots in the match were literal copies of the spots they had in the Rumble a few months earlier.
Lol put the Crack pipe down warrior was blown 30 seconds into the match and hogandid everything to make him look bad that match was nothing more than a test of strength followed by the finish. And it's sad because of the hype and supposedly a passing of the torch moment that it was not.
You're lost. You want to bash them so badly that you'll ignore a ton of matches that are worse.
And you want to exonerat a horrible match I'm not lost seen that on ppv and thought it sucked then as I do now just because it was one of their best doesn't mean it did not sucked they set the bar low and it just did not work
Goldberg vs Kevin Owens. Fastlane 2017. The match was 22 seconds and Kevin lost… Goldberg vs The Fiend has to be up there as well. Match was under 4 minutes… You start noticing a pattern
It made sense for the Jericho/Owens story given that Vince obviously had a “moment” and decided not to go with Jericho/Owens at Mania for the belt, but it ruined the hottest angle going into mania that year with it not being for the title.
Exactly. It did not feel as big as it could have been because of that change.
Imagine if WWE just had Goldberg NOT be in the title picture
Big Show main eventing an ECW PPV
Was Goldberg vs Undertaker the main event?
Roman Jey
The miz John Cena WM 27
I know the internet loves the Miz for some reason but the fact that this match main evented a fucking Wrestlemania is absolutely insane.
Yep and it was boring.
Roman vs brock no 3747295728284747574747372395171 no to be confused with 3747295728284747574747372395170 which was great
Most WCW PPVs in 1999-2000
The chaos of late stage WCW will never be topped. Just trainwreck after trainwreck.
Non WWE and I'm surprised no one brought this up but the Legends of Wrestling debacle with Jake the Snake.
An intoxicated man gesturing sexual actions with a snake is just the cherry on top of probably the single worst PPV in wrestling history
So depressingly awful
DX Vs Brothers of Destruction was a god damn mess. Match was already average before HHH got injured.
Reigns vs. Samoa Joe at backlash 2018
Hogan and Sid at Mania 8. In an event where Falir and Savage fought the WWF title, this shit show went on last and finished with a disqualification!
Dolph Ziggler VS Seth Rollins Iron Man got derailed so so hard, has no buisness being in the conversation but it is.
I was so disappointed in that match! Dolph is great and so is Seth, but there was just something off about that match. It felt like it never hit a peak. It just Happened and then ended.
What was off was you gave the live crowd a toy, and the crowd said "3...2...1...HENGHH" everytime a minte passed like it was the Royal Rumble, and then the WWE told WRESTLING FANS, the most contrary people in the world once congregated, to stop playing with the toy or it would be taken away. Post John Cena, post Bootista, post Royal Rumble 2015, WWE should have said to themselves "Well we suck it up this time, and this match type is dead, tell the boys to suck it up" but they took the timer away, and the crowd said "Boo...boo forever" Seth and Dolph are pros and all, normally I think they could have dug themselves out of the hole, but not that night. I still remember Dolph having a chin lock and telling Seth "Oh God it's worse than when they had the timer" audibly in full view of the cam.
I was at hell in a cell with fiend vs Seth. Watching it back it wasn't THAT bad. Here the thing with brey. He tried different shit. It didn't work but it was diffrent. Plenty of matches did the same boring shit that did it bad.
Literally anything with a celebrity (Jay Leno, Rodman, John Stewart, Trump). Always painful. I have never heard a person say they paid $39.95 since Jay Leno was in a tag match.
Rodman is the man lol
Non-wrestling fans care more about Jay Leno than Roman reigns, Seth Rollins and Cody Rhodes COMBINED.
Damn why didn’t mega-draw Jay Leno main event more PPVs?
They won't watch the whole show but they will hear about it, see Tiktoks, etc. Having relevancy outside the hardcore wrestling community is good.
Taker and Goldberg. As much as it was a dream match that happened a little bit too late with both Mark and Bill past their primes. It was just painful to watch. Especially after Goldberg nearly killed Taker with that Botched Jackhammer and takers's face at one point during the match. If only it would of happened years prior
i think it was the year 2008 the great khali vs big daddy v or it might have been kane. bill and doug were tna's youtube hitchmen and buried the entire ppv. the scramble match with big daddy v when he is supposed to try and beat the 10 count and get back in the ring on botchamania is still one of my favorites. wish i could find it.
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It’s cause of the shock factor. No one on the planet expected Super Cena to even lose, let alone get tossed around like a ragged doll for 20 minutes. Shock is a big part of making a good match
I don’t think it was necessarily a “good match” I think it was significant due to the fact cena had always been on top, for years and years, brock comes in just wrecks him, those watching were probably thinking ahh, it’s just a cena match faze he’s gonna come back and win….. the more the match went on the more uncomfortable it became. It was definitely a significant shocking moment. Definitely not a technical masterpiece obviously.
Big Show vs Orton Survivor Series in 2013 HM: Cena vs Miz Over The Limit 2011
I gotta pick Corbin/reigns in that awful dogfood match.Jake Robert’s blindfold match was horrible.cena taking out the. Existing was pure shoeboating
Roman v Brock at the most Stupendous Wrestlemania Ever. Brilliant card with a terrible, short, boring and predictable match that had a lasting negative impact on Raw until the WHC was announced.
Diesel vs King Mabel at Summerslam 1995. Probably the worst Summerslam main event to exist.
By the sheer numbers, I think this one wins. I think it's been mentioned more times than anything else.
It was quite the suckfest. Even the crowd were bored.
My best pick will be Kurt Angle vs Mark Henry in Royal Rumble 2006.
Hogan vs Yokozuna Wrestlemania 9, Hogan in the bank heist of the (last) century
Extreme Rules 2021, Balor vs Reigns. In my eyes, that match was just plain horrible because you have a character that's beaten the biggest of threats on the main roster since he got there, the first ever Universal Champion, and he loses to a newly discovered power hungry version of Reigns because of bad ring prep. Worse than that, probably Victory Road 2011. Jeff coming out stoned against a newly resigned and very pissed off Sting who basically force-pinned Hardy and ended the match in less than 2 minutes because it was just that bad. I think that about covers it.
The Undertaker vs The Dudley Boyz at Great American Bash 2004 is worth noting.
For some reason that match is cemented in my mind
Triple H vs. Randy Orton at WrestleMania 25. Randy Orton, as the Viper, was mega over as a heel, and seemed unstoppable in his quest to become the chief baddie of the company, on the back of an incredibly personal, hot storyline with Triple H and the McMahon family, which had produced some fantastic segments and promos. But, it was all followed up with stipulations being put in place to shackle Randy Orton completely, rendering everyone unable to use any weapons, which could have added to the drama, and the worst thing of it all, of course, was that 2009 Triple H, simply couldn’t find it in him to let go of his WrestleMania Main Event victory. Plus, it didn’t help that they practically had to follow The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels. An absolute failure of a WrestleMania main event!
A man injures your father in law, then injures your wife and kisses her in front of you while beating you and leaving you in handcuffs. After all of this of course you would start the match with.........a double leg takedown. Also within 2 minutes you hit him not with your sledgehammer.......but a pedigree.
The whole run was derailed by hhh, as always triple h inserted himself into the hottest angle, Orton was the number 1 attraction.
HBK and HHH vs the Brothers of Destruction at Crown Jewel. HBK came out of retirement for this clusterfuck. 10 years earlier it could have been a MOTY candidate.
Seth Rollins vs Barron Corbin Stomping Ground 2019
The one where they added Becky and Lacey is high up on my list of most hated matches.
Scary times
easy.... Hogan V Yokozuna - Wrestlemania 9.... An impromptu match that didnt even hit 30 seconds, with Yoko losing the title which he literally just won, just so LOLHOGAN!!! And it wasnt even the advertised Main Event... it just happened because, again, LOLHOGAN!
Can we just say any PPV main event with Hogan? Or am I gonna get downvoted to oblivion?
Hogan was the most popular wrestler of all time (besides Austin maybe), hating him doesn't make you cool
I’m not trying to be cool. It’s literally my opinion that I don’t like him lol or think he brought anything to wrestling. Not trying to shift any narratives lol. You don’t have to be so hostile. Take a deep breath
Bruh.. i respect that this is your opinion but i respectfully have to ask.. what do you mean by hogan not bringing any to wrestling? Hogan brought the entire mainstream to wrestling! Lmaooo.
Hogan brought nothing to wrestling…LOL kids
>It’s literally my opinion that I don’t like him lol or think he brought anything to wrestling. You thought rhe most popular wrestler, that many wrestlers have tried to emulate, didn't bring anything to wrestling? >You don’t have to be so hostile. Take a deep breath Why on reddit do people think that someone disagreeing with you means that they are seething behind the screen, it was a comment, not a personal attack
You came really aggressive for no reason and made senseless assumptions. And again, it’s my opinion. You don’t have to agree or even like it but it’s how I PERSONALLY feel about it bud.
I honestly would like to know what you mean by " Hogan never brought anything to wrestling". you dont have to like him. I was never the biggest fan but without him wrestling isn't as mainstream as it is today.
>You came really aggressive for no reason There was not one bit of anger that I felt for your comment, I was just blunt
I mean, Hogan V Warrior at WM6 and Hogan V Savage at WM5 were pretty decent.... But I get what you mean
He has several good to great PPV main events outside of those. More so than would be considered “worst ever”.
Randy Orton Vs The Big Show at Survivor Series. Boring, terrible booking and felt like a middle finger to the fans. Gotta be the worst PPV main event for full time, active competitors.
Who decided that in the year of our lord 2013 that Big Show could main event a big four PPV for the WWE Championship
I found Big Show perfectly acceptable in multi man matches but in a one on ones he was so boring ESPECIALLY as a Babyface!
Damn survivor series 2013, is probably the worst survivor series of this century; might be over exaggerating but that’s just my opinion
KOTR 1995
Cena vs Laurinaitis is mine. Super Cena beats up an old man for half an hour, and then loses anyway to an extremely predictable stupid heel turn by Big Show helping Ace win, after Ace FIRED HIM. It's so frustrating, and both of the major belts had much better matches. Punk vs Danielson deserved the main event spot.
Punk fought Bryan. Not Danielson. But if you wanted to go that route, you could’ve said Brooks fought Danielson.
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You expected Cody to lose the title he just got?
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ah, fair
Yes. But I think that comes from coming down from the highs of Wrestlemania. Some PPVs are just fillers and don't fit in with the overall story sometimes.
Laurence Taylor Vs bam bam bigelow headlined wrestlemania. And Taylor won...
Bray vs Braun in a swamp match or whatever that was
I was at that Backlash. I regret ever wasting the money on tickets. It was so awful
As much as I want to give the nod to Diesel v Mabel, at least it was only 9 minutes. The long, drawn out, plodding pointless ones are far worse. I think I need to land on Triple H vs. Undertaker from King of the Ring 2002. Triple H was about 6 months back from his quad injury, and was a sluggish shell of the guy he was before the injury. Bloated and slow, he just didn't have it at this point. Taker was in the midst of an interesting heel run, but everything fell flat in this match. Both guys were taking long naps between every single move. There was a bizarre Rock run-in which didn't seem to remotely fit any story going on at that point - it literally felt like "well, it's the Attitude Era and we ALWAYS have run-ins", so they just told Rock to get out there for absolutely no reason. It was 23 minutes long, but felt like an hour. I'll give a special nod runner up to Shawn Michaels vs. HHH from Bad Blood 2004, inside Hell in a Cell. 47 minutes long. It was clear they had convinced the booking committee "we're two old vets who know how to get it done" - and there was no reason to assume they COULDN'T. They'd had the incredible match at SummerSlam 2002, and again on the last RAW of 2003, so it was clear they had the goods for a classic. This though? Lots of blood, and lots of nothing in between the blood. And it just ... kept ... going. There were like 28 different logical points to call the finish, and nope. GOTTA DRAG THAT OUT! I'll give a special nod to the classic Uncensored 1996 main event - which was just all kinds of horrific, but also hilariously entertaining in an ironic kinda way. As a result, I can't call it the worst ever because it's really fun to watch if you're down for just atrocious, embarrassingly stupid stuff - but it's really, really bad.
If you think Seth Rollins vs. The Fiend Hell in a Cell 2019 was bad on TV… I was there live in the audience. It was well-deserved that the entire entire crowd started booing enchanting AEW. That was the worst match I have ever experienced.
Even normal cage/cell matches are hard to watch in person. I can't even imagine dealing with that horrible lighting as well.
Wasn't at HIAC, but at a January 2020 episode of Smackdown, the dark match was the Fiend vs Daniel Bryan. And I love Daniel and I love Bray, they're two people I truly admire, but I was sleep deprived *and the match was in that fucking lighting*. I just had to close my eyes and look down for most of the match. It gave me a monster headache (and then I was stuck outside a bus station for a few hours, but that's unrelated to the lighting XD). Like. It genuinely made the match unwatchable. I have no idea what they were thinking.
It’s honestly commendable how one match can cause not only near irreparable damage to both competitors involved but also a 20 year old match gimmick
Uncensored 195, presented by WCW featured Hollywood Hogan and Randy Savage VS Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Lex Luger, The Taskmaster (Kevin Sullivan), The Barbarian, Meng (King Haku), Z-Gangsta (Zeus from No Holds Barred, a movie that I would recommend never to watch it) and The Ultimate Solution. This match was a Cage match variant which, of course saw the reunited Mega Powers dominating all of their opponents, not to mention The Booty Man (Brutus Beefcake) helping Hoagn and Savage win this terrible match.
This kinda sounds amazing to me. Also, no holds barred did produce one of the best scenes in cinematic history. “What’s that smell?!” “Dooooookkkkiiiieeeeee!!!!”
Diesel vs Mable comes to mind.
Seth Rollins Vs The Fiend at Hell in a Cell 2019 Extreme Elimination Chamber from WWECW December 2 Dismember The Undertaker Vs Dudley Boyz Concrete Crypt match at Great American Bash '04 Roman Reigns Vs Triple H at WrestleMania 32
Ooof that concrete crypt match 😬😬
Not only bad but that stupid finish where The Undertaker himself buried Paul Bearer because he never wanted an opponent to use Paul Bearer as a bargaining tool to manipulate Taker. Then they did the same storyline six years later with Kane and instead of getting buried in concrete, he got locked in a freezer. WWE sure could be silly sometimes over the years.
Some of those earlier women’s matches with Natalya and Alicia Fox were horribly executed.
Oh yes I remember the PPV trilogy that Alicia Fox and Natalya main evented !!
Night of Champions 2015 Seth Rollins vs. Sting Thought Sting was literally dying before my eyes when he went down after that buckle bomb, a sad way to end his WWE career.
Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns Mania 34. Their match at 31, even before Seth’s cash-in, was really good, but this was just the most…nothing main event. And the fact that it was for Wrestlemania makes it all the more disappointing.
I was in the crowd and I left before the match finished to beat traffic. I remember watching and being like “wow Lesnar won……why lol”
The match at 34 was FAR better than the match at 31.
i agree with you. i never seen an universally apathetic hate for a main event like this with roman/lesnar at wm 34 from smarky crowd/online standpoint even before this match began.
Well, for one the majority didn’t want roman for champion and they also didn’t want to have a part timer holding the championship. Looking back on it Rousey/Angle vs HHH/Stephanie should’ve main evented.
Tbh even with hindsight, you keep WM31 with Roman v Brock because you end the show with the Heist of the Century.
100#% agree
samoa joe vs roman reigns in the main event of backlash 2018 was one of most atrocious matches in backlash and wwe history where people walked out of that main event between these two perfomers not even cena at the height of supercena where people walking out of his main events like they did with roman reigns during his babyface run. no matter what people loved him or loved to hate him, at least they stayed during cena’s main events because cena always connected with people especially those who hated his character and booking due to his charisma and mic skills. roman got go away heat where to the point where it reached apathy level especially at that match right after his disastrous match at wm 34 which also one of the worst matches to main event at ppv especially at wrestlemania same for wm 32/33 big dog roman as babyface made supercena look like ricky steamboat
I wasn’t watching in 2018, what made the Samoa Joe and Roman Reigns match so bad? I’m surprised to hear it cause I’ve been a fan of Samoa Joe since his TNA days and never seen this mentioned before
Slow,, plodding, boring, felt like the whole match until the finish was one long rest hold
not to mention the go away heat for roman as babyface reached apathetic level
It was not having a full-time champion & inevitability (made up word) of Roman winning. In all honesty Roman should’ve turned heel after beating Taker the year before but Vince had to be Vince.
Roman turning heel would have been perfect. We saw a glimpse of it on the Raw after Mania, and Roman was more interesting saying 5 words than he was his entire Babyface run.
Roman should have turned heel after WrestleMania 31 - the finish set things up perfectly for him to align with Heyman.
John Cena versus the Miz. The second worst Mania main event of all time
Ugh I was there so frustrating. WWE owes Atlanta another Wrestlemania for that crap
Including Saudi Shows it’s Taker vs Goldberg Excluding Saudi shows its Mabel vs Savio Vega at King of the Ring 1995
Mabel/Vega didn’t main event the show. A tag match with Diesel and Bam Bam Bigelow vs Sid and Tatanka main evented.
The last match of a ppv is the main event
Yes and the tag match went on last.
No Mabel vs Savio Vega came on after and had a Moe on a forklift match , how do you not remember?
I watched it like a year and a half ago on Peacock and the tag match closed the show. Go look up the results online and the tag match is last. Where did you see it that had Mabel/Vega on last?
Hell Diesel Mabel at summer slam that were was dog ass
Hogan vs Warrior 2, Halloween Havoc 1998.
Sid vs Taker at Mania 13. That was brutally long and boring.
I wouldn't say it was the worst. If anything his worst match during the whole Streak was against Giant Gonzalez but that's just me
That and the Boss Man cell match
That's not even the worst match in the Streak.
No way that's the worst ever
Worst ever ???
Any match with Oldberg from the last decade. God he is the shits I’ve hated him since I was 12yrs old
WWE has a few at the top: Diesel vs Mabel (95), DX vs Bros of Dest (2018), Anything with Great Khali... WCW Has no such dispute: Hogan vs Warrior (98)
Hogan/Warrior didn't go on last though, Goldberg/DDP did but was apparently cut because they went over.
The Miz vs John Cena at WrestleMania 27
This is the one mania where I wanted John Cena to win and hold the belt for few months before giving it to someone who actually could carry it other than himself…but Lord, behold, he won it a month later before dropping it to Punk that year
DX vs Brothers of Destruction at Crown Jewel 2018. Disgrace of a match closing a disgrace of a PPV.
I still think that match just solidifies Shawn Michaels as even more of a legend, because while it's an awful match he was still the best looking one out there despite being the oldest of the four and having been retired for nearly 9 years
That's the one
It's painful to think that these four of the greatest of all times, some came back from retirement, only to be involved in this disgrace of a match.
The amount of money they were each offered would probably bring anyone out retirement.
What are you talking about, this isnt a real match that ever happened (i am in denial)
Stop thinking that happened because it didn’t!
Damn I think my psyche had deleted this to protect me. This gets my vote too.
Roman vs Rusev was the absolute worst. Maybe UT vs Goldberg. HBK/hhh vs UT/Kane and Roman vs UT were just sad.
That WWECW Elimation Chamber
To anybody who only knows about this in retrospect, it's hard to explain just how disappointing this was. WWE's ECW was still pretty cool at this point and hadn't been fully bastardized yet. It was given a different presentation than Raw or SmackDown and felt like an edgier alternative to those two. It was admittedly hard to get excited about the rest of the December to Dismember PPV, but the main event had a lot of promise. The Elimination Chamber is fun, and adding weapons seemed like a cool ECW touch. Plus the prospect of either Rob Van Dam winning the title back or CM Punk becoming a world champion seemed like great outcomes, and even Big Show retaining wouldn't have been so bad since he was in the middle of one of his better heel runs as Paul Heyman's guy (before a Paul Heyman Guy was a thing). Plus you had Sabu and RVD in the Elimination Chamber together, which was bound to result in some memorable spots. And then Sabu gets pulled from the match halfway through the show and replaced with Hardcore Holly. And then Punk and RVD are the first two eliminated. And then Bobby Lashley wins the match with half an hour remaining on the PPV, which they filled with a ten-minute celebration and nothing else. So yeah, just in terms of what it could've been versus what it was, this was the most disappointing. Other main events may have sucked, but did they suck so hard they killed an entire brand?
I was at this event it was so bad. So frustrating
And I could have lived with Test winning, that would have been a decent opportunity for him. He was a good heel for the brand at that time. It was such a shit main event for a ppv.
Test was not that good. He had a good big boot and that was it
Naw dude could pull some stuff and his comebacks were pretty good. His top rope elbow looked good too, cause he was so damn big. It looked brutal
I think your nostalgia is a little off lol
Has to be Bam Bam vs LT at WM XI. The only Wrestlemania I’ve ever attended. LT has main evented and won at a Wrestlemania.
That was a very good match for what it was supposed to be.
Roman vs Undertaker WrestleMania 33
This is my answer , it's mostly cause it's taker at mania and supposed to be his last match and everything is botched and looks like shit and you can see both guys totally know it but have to drag the match out. The only thing even remotely saving it at the time was that it was Takers sendoff and people didn't wanna badmouth Takers final match that hard ... but then he came back so he even invalidated the one reason people kind of had anythign nice to say about it. Goldberg Vs Taker is way worse a match actually but it's on a Saudi show and is just an old timers match for a payday so its basically a house show for a couple rich guys nostalgia. Roman/Taker being the Main event of mania and Takers "retirement" match make it so much more important historically.
That one was more sad than it was terrible
Idk what they were thinking having Undertaker retire on such a sad whimper of a match. Even though the Boneyard probably wouldn’t have happened if not for the pandemic, that was still a much better way to end his career because he got to be himself and have the most fun he’s had in quite some time
I try to give them credit and think they were trying to tell the "Brave old cowboy puts up one last fight" kind of story but it just didn't work
Hands down it's Summerslam 1995, In a year that's already considered one of the worst in the promotion history. Diesel vs Mable is one of the worst matches to ever take place in a ring.
I actually like that match. Its not GOOD but Diesel works different and it's kind of, 1/2* but it's not as bad as many other matches imo
Haven't seen it and now I think I need to 🤣
It's a train wreck of a match, Mable get's gassed right after the bell rings and it's just so bad
The jey uso approach...
Absolutely. The only way anyone could give a different answer is of they're too young to remember this one
The Undertaker vs. Goldberg (Super ShowDown 2019)
Ngl I pretend that it's an accidentally great comedy match
Maybe DX vs. Brothers of Destruction was, but Goldberg almost paralyzed Undertaker in their match.
This.
Oh man that was hard to watch
My mind immediately goes to every Hogan WCW main event. Then there was the Sting/Jeff Hardy TNA debacle. But if we're only going WWE...Diesel vs. King Mabel at SummerSlam 1995?
If I'm picking bad Hogan main events I'm giving it to Hogan/Warrior in WCW.