10 Dumbest WWE Match Finishes This Decade
10. Dean Ambrose Loses Via Exploding Monitor (TLC 2014)
After a brutal Tables, Ladders and Chairs match, during which the two men tore strips off one another in a violent war, Ambrose attempted to maim the Eater Of Worlds with a monitor. Only, he misjudged the length of the cable attached to it, and it blew up in his face, gifting his foe the win.
This did the sum total of absolute zero for either man. Ambrose was left looking more like an idiot than a lunatic, and Wyatt more fortuitous than 'destroyer'. No one man bested the other , nor had any real case to advance further up the card.
These match outcomes have debilitating effects on future programmes, too. Wyatt was scheduled to face the Undertaker at WrestleMania - who in their right mind believed he had a chance of overcoming such steep odds, when he couldn't even beat Ambrose decisively? It's not as if Ambrose was pencilled in for a similarly important singles match (he was an extra in the Intercontinental title ladder multi-man). There were probably no plans for him whatsoever at that point, so why did he need to be protected?
Even more so than the finish itself, that there was a screwy finish at all left an awful taste. This feud was instigated by Wyatt after his interference left Ambrose and Rollins right back where they started at the close of Hell In A Cell - all three men were in roughly the same position by the end of the year, and yet, months had been spent pointlessly moving them around the chess board.