10 Worst WWE Feuds Of 2020
Dog food, extracted eyes and Slapjack. 2020 WWE hits rock bottom without a great one in sight...
It feels worth mentioning now that this article is being written between Survivor Series and Tables, Ladders and Chairs on the WWE pay-per-view calendar. It's fortuitous and yet not unexpected that there are plenty of candidates for this list even without whatever the company choose to build for the final show of this wretched chapter of all our lives.
December is traditionally either a slow(er) month for the company, or a totally rancid one. Or just as often both. Theoretically, this could mean an absolute banker for a list like this missing out, but it can just go on a massive pile with the others that could easily fill several more articles - it's been one of those years.
It's common to see 2020 talked about online as if it were some sentient being, as though January 1st 2021 will bring with it cures on cue and a new normal far superior to the old one we've all come to miss so much. This isn't and has never been the case, but allow your writer similar indulgence here; WWE needs, desperately, to not have another 2020.
There are lows amongst this lot that rank as company all-timers, and these are just 10 that made the cut. It's maddening that wrestlers so often thing the internet is the enemy - it's far more fun to enjoy Vince McMahon's product than loathe it. But he has to stop making the latter so f*cking easy.
For example...
10. King Corbin Vs Elias
King Corbin has done so little of note in 2020, but it speaks to what his character currently offers that he appears twice on this list.
An ever-present even when he's not featured, Corbin is more bad smell than bad wrestler at this point, sticking around on the billion dollar wrestling show to have ten cent matches as and when a babyface needs a heel. Such was the case ahead of WrestleMania when, midway through a turn that hadn't taken, Elias was trying to be the life of the party rather than - very literally - the c*nt that turns up with an acoustic guitar.
In an effort to find drama where there was none, WWE tried to use the disparate Performance Center and its various theoretical advantages to justify a match between the two at WrestleMania. In a stunt too cartoonish to be good but too dangerous to have tried for real, Corbin pushed Elias off an elevated platform. Soundtracked by an Wile E Coyote "whoosh" as he flew through the air, the former Drifter was no beloved desert dweller nor Corbin his Road Runner.
Elias was fine, sadly. Not to wish ill on him or owt, but we got all this b*llocks and still had to sit through a criminal 9:00 clunker at WrestleMania. It only got worse for him too...