10 WWE Rematches Absolutely Nobody Wanted To See

10. Triple H Vs. Randy Orton

The Triple H/Randy Orton matches were almost without exception some of the dullest main events in company history, which posed the question why WWE would repeatedly return to the stale formula year after year.

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It's a question most discerning fans know the answer to of course. Hunter was considered for many years to be the safest hand on the wheel during some challenging creative periods for the organisation, and as JBL likes to beat viewers over the head more viciously than he did The Blue Meanie, Randy Orton is what a WWE superstar would look like if you 'built them from the ground up.'

The matches never delivered on expectations, which were admittedly low in the first place. After Orton's humbling Unforgiven 2004 World Title defeat just one month after snaring the title, he lost an incomprehensibly boring rematch at January 2005's Royal Rumble.

The two clashed briefly in 2006, before engaging in actual pay-per-view feuds in 2007, 2008, and 2009. After Orton broke his collarbone in a 2008 clash between the pair, their biggest crime was saved for the main event of WrestleMania 25.

Unable to follow the scintillating Undertaker/Shawn Michaels match earlier in the card and hamstrung by a stipulation that prohibited Triple H using weapons on his so-called fiercest rival, the contest was an ego-driven 25 minute bore.

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