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(NOTE: Hey everyone, I just wanted to remind you that, for the entire month of April, I'll be upping my schedule to once a week, starting this Sunday. With that out of the way, I hope you enjoy!) All and all, 2022 was a pretty damn good year wrestling-wise. We saw Ring of Honor return under Tony Khan's management and give us an excellent trilogy between FTR and the Briscoes, AEW and New Japan continue to put on some top-notch in-ring work, Cody Rhodes giving one of the gutsiest performances in wrestling history against Seth Rollins at Hell in a Cell, and guys like Konosuke Takeshita and Josh Alexander quietly put themselves in the Wrestler of the Year conversation. On top of that, there really weren't that many truly awful matches, as no matches got lower than a 1/10 rating on Cagematch.net, and only one match got a DUD or lower rating from Dave Meltzer. That one match was Vince McMahon vs Pat McAfee from night 2 of WrestleMania 38, which received a negative two-star rating...

Throughout the entire history of the WWE, we've never seen, and probably will never see again, a woman booked as strong as Asuka was to start her run. Coming into WWE in 2015 with over a decade of experience wrestling in her native Japan as Kana, Asuka was immediately treated like a huge deal. Hell, even from the first time we saw her on a WWE broadcast, she was seated in the crowd of NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn next to two Hall of Famers in Ric Flair & Sgt. Slaughter. Officially debuting in October 2015, Asuka would go her entire NXT career, nearly two full years, without being pinned or submitted. She was booked so strong, in fact, that instead of dropping the NXT Women's Championship in what would be her last match in NXT at the time to Ember Moon (even after sustaining an injury), an act that is almost always the case for champions leaving NXT for the main roster, Asuka retained and later vacated the title, keeping her streak intact. For a company that is more than willing t...

(Special thanks to an anonymous user for suggesting this match. If you'd like to see a match covered on the Worst in the World, leave a comment down below.) An often discussed aspect of professional wrestling is the backstage politicking of Hulk Hogan. Throughout his career as a major attraction in wrestling, Hogan's philosophy has always been to protect Hulk Hogan...OK, sometimes he'd help Ed Leslie, but most of the time it was to protect Hulk Hogan. Because of that philosophy and Hogan's influence as a top guy, there have been multiple instances where a company's booking and other wrestlers have suffered as a result. Would having Mr. Perfect win the 1990 Royal Rumble made sense and could have elevated a rising star and potentially created a new main event player? Yes, but that would require Hogan to not win, and that doesn't work for Hogan, so he wins the Rumble even though he doesn't need elevating. Would booking Randy Orton to beat Hogan at SummerSlam 20...