10 Worst WWE Matches Of 2019
4. Lars Sullivan Vs. Lucha House Party
Dave Meltzer put it best, when articulating Vince McMahon's creative decline: we're talking about a man who has forgotten how to ride a bike.
If Vince could do anything, it was booking a monster. The famous André camera angle framed giants as behemoths, his awe-struck rasp put them over as Lovecraftian horrors, and he actually booked monsters to defeat significantly smaller men.
At Crown Jewel 2, Vince's next big monster - a monster he loved so much he proceeded with his push in spite of sponsor backlash - faced off against the Lucha House Party, whom he effectively referred to as vermin in the build, which was ill-advised. As was the layout: this wasn't a quick slaughter, a flash killing spree. WWE tripled down on a tedious methodical squash in which Sullivan sold more for jobbers than he did allegations of racism. Punishingly dull, the match made zero use of any dynamic it might have possessed, and it ended via disqualification. Lars Sullivan went 50/50 with the Lucha House Party on his pay-per-view debut. It was worse than that; mathematically, he went 33.3 with Lince Dorado, Kalisto, and Gran Metalik.
It wasn't even the worst match on the show...