10 Wrestling Matches Everybody Wanted (But Nobody Watched)

10. The Rock's WWE Return Match

Everybody wanted The Rock to return in some capacity after 2004. He was the Rock.

It wasn't so much the match quality that fans missed, not that Rock wasn't great and probably underrated in that regard. He was simply so charismatic, to a level very rarely seen in the history of the business, that his body of work is often overlooked. But it was just part of one of wrestling's greatest ever package. The return of the Rock would bring with it incredibly entertaining promos in his own voice (albeit penned by Brian Gewirtz), a raucous, spellbound atmosphere, and a level of buzz and intrigue not felt in years and years.

When he did return to WWE, in 2011, he worked a can-they-co-exist gimmick alongside the Rock and worked the f*cking Miz.

Dolph Ziggler could have done that, almost every wrestler in the last decade has done something like it, and he'd have come far cheaper.

The match was dire. Watching John Cena sell and sell poorly for ages before Rock did little more than he would do in a physical TV angle was hardly electrifying, and nor, evidently, was the prospect of it: Survivor Series '11 drew 281,000 buys, was the weakest-performing Big 4 PPV of the year, and wasn't drastically higher than the prior year's show (244,000), which was headlined by Randy Orton Vs. Wade Barrett.