10 Dumbest WWE Match Finishes This Decade

4. Inexplicable Big Show Turn No.362 (Over The Limit 2012)

Why was John Cena the only person in the entire building not expecting The Big Show to turn on him?

Show has turned heel so often that he's barely even a character at this point - he's a plot device, used only to further storylines written for other stars.

Despite being the victim of and reason for more than one Show turn, Cena here greets his arrival in that garish yellow shirt with a smile, thinking that he has a chum with whom to happily eviscerate retired non-wrestler Big Johnny. To the surprise of nobody, Show delivered a knockout punch to Cena, enabling 'Johnny Laryngitis' (even the usually witty CM Punk has dropped some clangers) to pick up the win.

Even dumber still, this was the origin point of Show's 'ironclad contract', an unnecessarily constrictive detail that would continually plague the writer's room when writing future storylines, not least of which the whole sorry Authority angle.

Inexplicably, given how unbelievably dire and embarrassing this match was, and despite awarding less than 100 matches with the full ***** rating in its thirty-plus years history, both Cena and Laurinaitis had previously been given the Wrestling Observer Newsletter's highest honour.