HORRIBLE Matches WWE Forced On Fans
WWE honestly should've paid fans to sit through these in-ring disasters.
Nobody asked for any of this.
Sure, there might've been a time when some of the matches featured here had value on paper. One in particular would've even scored in the 'Top 10' for fans dreaming of big inter-promotional wars between the then-WWF and WCW back during the 1990s. The key phrase there is..."back during the 1990s".
Time was not kind to the workers involved, and that led to one of the most depressing exhibitions WWE has ever put on. The horror of what happened is diluted by everything else on the list though. Here, you'll reminisce about ratings-hungry "celebrity" matches, failed experiments, brawls everyone knew would suck going in and much, much more.
All of them have something in common: WWE ignored any doubts or grumbling from the audience and stuck them on the card anyway. A few even happened on traditional pay-per-view too, which means people were asked to pay a one-off lump sum to watch them stink up the place.
It's bad enough to waste one's time on free TV, but paying for these disasters?! That's a whole new level of horrible.
10. “Donald Trump” Vs. “Rosie O’Donnell”
Let's do what WWE didn't and get this out of the way quickly, shall we?
The 8 January 2007 episode of Raw was blighted by some awful attempted comedy that tried to leech off a real-life feud in the media between Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell. WWE wheeled out seriously poor impersonators to play both parties, and the live crowd sat on their hands wondering why they'd bought tickets for this.
Rather predictably, "Trump vs. O'Donnell" flopped hard and ended up being a complete waste of valuable TV time on the flagship. Keep in mind this happened mere weeks before the '07 Royal Rumble. Why build towards that when you can book this tripe, eh? Literally no-one in the audience wanted to see it.
John Cena vs. Umaga was on tap for the Rumble, but WWE elected to gift wrap minutes for a terrible "comedy" segment instead. Sadly, this was only a precursor of things to come once the Raw guest host era got started.