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It's been almost a year since I covered the infamous Hell in a Cell match between Seth Rollins and "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt . In that review, I called the booking terrible, specifically in regards to how negatively this could've affected The Fiend, who was arguably the hottest act going in WWE at the time. Thankfully, this disaster of a match didn't kill The Fiend, as he eventually won the Universal Championship at Crown Jewel that same year. The borderline character assassination attempt failed. But of course, this is the WWE. They have a knack for fucking things up one way or another. That brings us to Super ShowDown 2020. After his disaster of a match at the last Super ShowDown , Goldberg had returned to the ring and somewhat redeemed himself with a fun match at SummerSlam against Dolph Ziggler. Goldberg then set his sights on getting the Universal Championship rematch he never got. A simple story that would be a huge win for Bray Wyatt. Beating a WWE Hall of Fam...

The 2020 Wrestling Observer Awards are officially out, and as always, a Worst Match of the Year has been voted on. The unlucky winner this year is Bray Wyatt vs Bruan Strowman in the Wyatt Swamp Fight from the oddly named Horror Show at Extreme Rules, a show that also featured a match where you could only win by extracting your opponents' eye. It was a weird show. But back to the match. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, where having fans in the stands was not an option, the cinematic style became a favorite form of match presentation for just about any company that could afford to do it. We got some great ones, like the Stadium Stampede, the Boneyard match, and the Firefly Funhouse match. However, by the end of the year, the concept was clearly starting to overstay its welcome. AEW's own chapter in the Deletion series underwhelmed, Impact seemed to just make matches like Ken Shamrock vs Sami Callihan and Moose vs EC3 cinematic for funsies, and WWE sacrificed one of its mos...