10 WWE Rematches Absolutely Nobody Wanted To See

As a co-headline attraction of WWE's Money In The Bank pay-per-view, Randy Orton and Jinder Mahal will face off against one another for the 'Maharaja's newly-won WWE Title.

With 52 weeks of television and a minimum of 12 pay-per-views any given year, WWE have fallen back on the automatic rematch clause as a guaranteed card-filler time after time, despite the relative lack of thirst from the audience.

In the halcyon days of the Attitude Era, performers would scrap multiple times across various platforms to pop ratings and elevate a buyrate, but the era of performers as over as Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock has long passed, and a lengthy return battle often fails even to inspire a live crowd, let alone a paying or viewing audience.

The shock of Mahal's victory already appears to have worn off, and early indications that the gamble on Jinder was shrewd are disappearing by the week. Orton is rarely the performer to aid a superstar beyond their generic skill set, and fan curiosity at this point seems to point towards the vascular champion's next challenger.

The wheel will keep turning nonetheless, and a host of rematches are likely to occur between the stars bundled together for the male and female Money In The Bank ladder matches as the company begins the journey towards SummerSlam. Here's hoping none of those retreads are as bad as some of these.

The Triple H/Randy Orton matches were almost without exception some of the dullest main events in company history, which posed the question why WWE would repeatedly return to the stale formula year after year.

It's a question most discerning fans know the answer to of course. Hunter was considered for many years to be the safest hand on the wheel during some challenging creative periods for the organisation, and as JBL likes to beat viewers over the head more viciously than he did The Blue Meanie, Randy Orton is what a WWE superstar would look like if you 'built them from the ground up.'

The matches never delivered on expectations, which were admittedly low in the first place. After Orton's humbling Unforgiven 2004 World Title defeat just one month after snaring the title, he lost an incomprehensibly boring rematch at January 2005's Royal Rumble.

The two clashed briefly in 2006, before engaging in actual pay-per-view feuds in 2007, 2008, and 2009. After Orton broke his collarbone in a 2008 clash between the pair, their biggest crime was saved for the main event of WrestleMania 25.

Unable to follow the scintillating Undertaker/Shawn Michaels match earlier in the card and hamstrung by a stipulation that prohibited Triple H using weapons on his so-called fiercest rival, the contest was an ego-driven 25 minute bore.