10 Best WWE Arm Wrestling Matches

6. Bayley Vs. Dana Brooke

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Millions upon millions of people love arm wrestling.

None of whom were in attendance on the October 24, 2016, RAW, because the arm wrestling match between Dana Brooke and Bayley generated booming chants of "Boring!", "This is stupid!" and "We want wrestling!"

"Arm wrestling, gotcha!"

Have you ever stepped on a plug? Have you ever walked shinbone-first into a table leg? Have you ever spontaneously combusted? Because you're still nowhere clear close to the agony that was Dana's pre-match promo. "Being the nice girl that I am," she said, "I got a rematch approved".

A WWE performer could sneeze on a Konstantine Kyros legal pleading, throw it in Vince McMahon's face, and still get a rematch on RAW.

"But it's not like any other rematch," Dana continued. "No: it's an arm wrestling match, hahaha, oh, ye- mmmhmmm. Yeah."

She might have forgotten a line there.

As for the content of the arm wrestling match itself, Dana quickly thrust Bayley's injured arm to the table. The trademark left arm rematch resulted in a babyface near-win and a cheap shot, after which Bayley got the upper hand and stood tall as RAW rolled on.

This ranks so highly because A) arm wrestling matches are awful and B) Dana's promo truly was so-bad-it's-good gold.

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