10 Worst WWE Pay-Per-View Matches Of 2020

4. Edge vs Randy Orton (WrestleMania 36)

And speaking of match length, oh man. This one hurts. It really does. Edge is so great. Orton’s had one of the best years of his career. For a match kneecapped by insane marketing the greatest match ever was pretty damn good.

This was a 35 minute slow-moving, loud-grunting exploration of the performance centre with a brief visual echo of Chris Benoit’s suicide that god, let’s just hope it was unitentional.

The whole thing is walk and brawl and honestly, before you get to the emotional ending, with both men weeping like they’re in a school production of f**king Mice and Men, here are the memorable moments, RKOs at the beginning, that was good, the Chris Benoit thing, Edge doing a weird d**k-first jump onto Orton from a bit of gym, a table spot and… that’s it!

35 minutes and that’s it, the rest is just so boring, watching it ABC I just kept clicking the advance 10 seconds button on the Network, just kept clicking and nothing was happening

I’m sorry. I really wanted this to be good too, I really did. But goddamn.

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3. The Stupid Viking Profits Things (Backlash)

I promise that I have a sense of humour. I super duper promise that I do.

This is the worst cinematic match of the year by a lightyear, and probably the one to make everyone think we’re done with this.

In NXT the Viking Raiders were hugely dominant and hugely brilliant, they vacated the belts and the Street Profits won them. The Profits never beat the Raiders in NXT, then they became Raw tag champs on the main roster, again without beating the Raiders, there’s your feud.

Both these teams can go, what happens? WWE makes them do a series of skits on Raw where they compete is ass challenges like bowling and golfing, and then when it comes time for them to wrestle on pay-per-view, they sack off the match for an extended comedy skit featuring ninjas, swords, bowling balls before everyone ends up  in the literal dumpster, subtle visual storytelling that.

And honestly the recap on Wikipedia sums it up better than I ever could. “The segment ended after both teams were spooked by a tentacle creature. The announce team then confirmed that the Raw Tag Team Championship match would not be happening.”

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