The Wrestling Section

(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...

Special thanks to Jorge Dueñas for suggesting this match. If you'd like to see a match covered on the Worst in the World, leave a comment down below. In recent years, WWE has received criticism for its reliance on old stars on their shows. Specifically, with their Saudi Arabia propaganda events, WWE has routinely booked their aging wrestlers to go out and wrestle despite being well past their primes. While this doesn't seem to have negatively affected the active members of the roster not named Bray Wyatt, the matches are still borderline unbearable, with two of these matches (DX vs Brothers of Destruction at Crown Jewel 2018 and The Undertaker vs Goldberg at Super ShowDown 2019) being considered the worst matches of their respective years. With that being said, WWE can't even hold a candle to the use of aging wrestlers in Mexico. AAA's version of WrestleMania, Triplemanía XXVII, featured the main event of Blue Demon Jr. (53) vs Dr. Wagner Jr. (54) for a combined age of ...