10 Dumbest Ways WWE Wrestlers Lost Matches

5. Catastrophic Cash-In

Dean Ambrose TLC 2014
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You were an idiot for arguing back to Medical Director Joseph Maroon, Baron Corbin. Now you must look like an idiot on television, undoing months' worth of steady build, and wasting completely the Money In The Bank briefcase. How this must have appeared to the casual audience, or the audience not yet accustomed to WWE's toxic ways, is anybody's guess.

"Daddy, why is that man not good all of a sudden?"

"He was never good, Timmy. He was never good."

Completely spiteful in nature, the Lone Wolf was booked on a howlingly bad suicide mission on the SummerSlam '17 go-home show. He was stupid enough to go after WWE Champion Jinder Mahal when PPV opponent John Cena was still lurking within the vicinity. That was strike one. Strike two was challenging a "weakened" champion in the first place. Had Corbin never watched wrestling? Cena just gets the p*ss beaten out of him for the first five minutes, at least. With the match at 08:44 in length, there's little chance Mahal broke a sweat. The second after the bell rang, Corbin was distracted by Cena, and Jinder rolled him up for the three count. Strike three.

That'll learn you.

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