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I don't normally jump the gun on choosing matches for the Worst in the World so soon after they took place, but...man, what the fuck was this? WrestleMania 37 was actually a pretty good show despite having a very lackluster build. The main events of both nights were great, Cesaro had a killer match with Seth Rollins, and Bad Bunny heavily exceeded expectations and had arguably the best celebrity match in the history of wrestling. That being said, there were definitely some missteps over the course of the weekend. Big E vs Apollo Crews was going well, but the finish was pretty underwhelming, and the women's tag team gauntlet was easily the worst match of Night 1. Going into Night 2, it was going to be hard to be worse than that gauntlet match...and then Night 2 started. Randy Orton vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt opened Night 2 of WrestleMania 37, which proved to be a massive downgrade from the opener of Night 1. I don't mean Bobby Lashley vs Drew McIntyre, I'm talki...

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...

(NOTE: Before this post starts, I wanted to give a heads up. Throughout this review, there are GIFs that contain bright, flashing lights on repeat. If you suffer from p hotosensitive epilepsy, it might be best to skip this post) Over a year ago, I covered Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt's WWE Championship match at WrestleMania 33 , the Wrestling Observer Newsletter's "winner" of the Worst Match of the Year award. While the match was nothing above subpar, especially for a world title match at WrestleMania, and featured... whatever that was, I mentioned in my post that I didn't think that it was actually the worst match of the year. In fact, I gave not one, but four matches as examples of matches I thought were worse than it in 2017. So, allow me to put my money where my mouth is and cover those four matches over the next two months. And what better place to start than with the follow up to Orton & Wyatt's WrestleMania stinker. After Orton's victory, Wyatt wo...

...You knew it was coming. After this happened, you knew it would be showing up in a series chronicling the worst wrestling matches of all time. This match isn't even a year old, but it's already gone down as one of WWE's most catastrophically bad matches in the company's history. Seth Rollins and Bray Wyatt's Hell in a Cell match for the Universal Championship won the Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Worst Match of the Year and received -2 stars from Dave Meltzer, the lowest a WWE match has gotten since 2007. To put that in perspective, here are some matches that happened between then that got a better rating than this match: Sting and Abyss' Last Rites match AJ Styles vs Frank Trigg in a worked MMA match WrestleMania XXV's Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal Santina Marella vs Vickie Guerrero & Chavo Guerrero in a Hogpen match  The match where Jeff Hardy got trashed before the main event Santino Marella vs Ricardo Rodriquez in a Tuxedo match J...