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Worst in the World: CM Punk vs Ryback-A Trilogy of Terror

Click the link here to vote in the poll and help decide the next edition of the Worst in the World. Yeah, I was not surprised to see this one win the poll. Not one bit... In terms of match quality from American wrestlers throughout the 2000s, CM Punk has one of the stronger resumes. Whether it be his standout trilogies with Samoa Joe and Chris Hero, his pair of matches with John Cena, or his marquee bouts with guys like Brock Lesnar and The Undertaker, Punk tends to put on a good show. Even his worst-rated matches tend to fall more in the category of "unremarkable." However, if there's one noticeable blemish in the career of Punk, it's his pay-per-view trilogy with Ryback. Back in 2012, Punk was asked who his least favorite opponent was, and he answered Elijah Burke . Just based on everything Punk has said about him after he left WWE in 2014, I can only imagine Ryback has, at the very least, entered the conversation for his least favorite opponent in the years since. ...

Worst in the World: The Undertaker vs Kane: A Classic Rivalry With Bad Matches

The Undertaker vs Kane. When Kane debuted at Badd Blood 1997 to cost his brother The Undertaker a Hell in a Cell match against Shawn Michaels, it began a rivalry that would span 13 years, and multiple eras of wrestling. It was a rivalry that led to an iconic tag team in the Brothers of Destruction and saw both men involved join the WWE Hall of Fame. It was a rivalry that spanned multiple WrestleManias. It was also a rivalry that, pretty consistently, resulted in bad wrestling matches. I've said this before, but The Undertaker vs Kane's iconic rivalry tends to overshadow the fact that the matches usually aren't good. There have obviously been pretty solid matches between the two, most notably their match at WrestleMania XIV and the first Inferno match, but that's about it. Everything else has either been unremarkable or, for the topic of this post, bad. I've already looked at one of their worst matches from Judgement Day 1998, and I've got eight more for you toda...