10 WWE US Title Matches You Should Try To Forget

7. Rusev Vs. Jack Swagger - Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2014

World Wrestling Entertainment has something of a tendency of booking championship matches where it is overwhelmingly obvious that the challenger has little chance of picking up the win. This is common in wrestling, in fact, and the challenge then comes in making the audience believe that something special could happen.

John Cena's US Championship Open Challenge was a good example of this. Zack Ryder's challenge showed this. Ryder wasn't going to beat Cena, but as Long Island Iced Z went to the top rope and went for a 450 Splash, there was a moment where the audience believed.

Rusev vs. Jack Swagger at TLC 2014 was the opposite of this. Rusev and Swagger had just completed a program that produced some truly fun matches, but by this point it had been established that the Bulgarian Brute was well and truly the All American American's superior.

Some of the blame here can be put down to Swagger being a late replacement for an injured Sheamus, but I can only judge what is in front of me. Nobody was interested in Rusev vs. Swagger at this point, and the proof was in this particularly bland pudding.

At least it was better than the Ryback/Kane chairs match it followed, I guess.