10 Worst WWE Saudi Arabia Matches

3. Goldberg vs. The Fiend – Super Showdown 2020

I mean… what do you even say about this that hasn’t been said in a thousand ways, in a thousand songs, all of which have the same lyrics, which is just grown adults sobbing into their hands, wondering why they pay their monthly subscription to the stupidest wrestling company in the world.

What else can you say about a match where the unstoppable final boss you’ve been building for half a year, even booking that terrible Hell in a Cell finish to showcase his unstoppability, just so that he beefs it when confronted with the world’s most redundant gimmick and gets fed his own giant clownshoes the month before WrestleMania.

Please what is the point? Please? Even without the worst booking decision of the year, the match is bad.

Spears, mandible claws, and a botched jackhammer.

That’s your lot, that’s your main event, and somehow, someway, it’s not Goldberg’s worst Saudi Arabia match. That would be…

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2. Goldberg vs. The Undertaker – Super Showdown 2019

There are sentimental reasons keeping it off the top spot, but really this should be number one.

It is one of the worst matches of all time. It’s a match so bad that even WWE have included it in documentaries that THEY HAVE MADE, talking about how truly, overwhelmingly awful it is.

The type of bad where it transcends just lack of heat, lack of logic and crosses over into the very worst place, where it’s simply f**king dangerous.

Genuinely really dangerous wrestling, and no wrestling fan in their right mind wants to see that.

Goldberg concusses himself then nearly breaks The Undertaker’s neck.

It’s not hyperbolic to say that this was a few rotations away from being The Phenom’s last match, and ending his career in the most horrific way possible.

Undertaker hates it, Goldberg hates it so much he needed to eat Ziggler at SummerSlam as a form of redemption, even WWE hates it. But me personally, there’s one match I hate just that little bit more…

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1. DX vs. Brothers of Destruction – Crown Jewel 2018

They brought Shawn Michaels out of retirement for this.

No look, I know, I KNOW that wrestlers retire and unretire and it’s not a big deal, but HBK had one of the few perfect retirements in professional wrestling, something actually inspirational.

He went out after the main event of mania, still reasonably physically fit, with plenty of dream matches still technically possible, but no, the stipulation was honored.

Wrestling is just storytelling at the end of the day, at least that’s the part of it I care the most about, and Shawn Michaels actually managed to have a story with a beginning, middle and end, and then there’s this.

This grotty little epilogue, paid for by bad people, where he broke retirement for a terrible, terrible match. Leave the memories alone.

No one came out of this looking good. Not the geriatric rebels DX who looked like they’d gone to their first leather bar to support their sons’ band and had to hide the fact they hated it there.

Not Kane who gets his bloody mask knocked off at one point, and not Taker, once again frustrated in his quest to have one more classic before he hung up his hat.

Like, I’m not made of stone, Taker tagging in to square up to HBK is a legit nostalgic moment, but Christ that’s five minutes into a match that is HALF AN HOUR LONG.

Shawn gets you still got it chants that slowly, over the course of the match, fade to grim silence, and if that doesn’t sum up the ugly, dark side of nostalgia that bleeds all over these cash-grab shows, what does.

See you all at Crown Jewel everyone!!!

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