10 Worst Wrestling Matches Of 2023 (According To The Internet)

10. Ronda Rousey Vs. Shayna Baszler (WWE SummerSlam)

Cagematch Rating: 3.12/10.

It would have taken an impossible effort for Ronda Rousey's WWE exit to be as miserable as her UFC exit, when she was knocked out in consecutive fights, but 'The Baddest Woman on the Planet' and long-time friend-turned-onscreen-rival Shayna Baszler disappointed in a match encapsulating much of what went wrong with Rousey's second WWE run.

Worked MMA rarely works. In the context of a professional wrestling show, it asks you to believe one of two things:

1. The MMA ruleset is a shoot, and everything else is a work.

2. MMA is a work.

Neither is good. Fights are either simulated or they aren't. You simply cannot promote both things on a worked show, and WWE should have learned its lesson from Cain Velasquez vs. Brock Lesnar.

Baszler and Rousey got a scant seven minutes to throw pulled punches and work MMA-style exchanges on the mat. They did little of interest within those confines, showing surprisingly little chemistry, despite their personal history, and the WWE audience was not Sports Entertained.

If wrestling's market-leading promotion is a buffet, Baszler vs. Rousey was a dried-out tray of congealed mac and cheese the chef forgot to place under the heat lamps.