10 Embarrassing Matches Wrestling Stars Want You To Forget

9. The Undertaker Vs. Triple - WWE King Of The Ring 2002

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In the first chapter of WWE's Ruthless Aggression documentary, the company had the gall to revise two fairly stonewall pieces of history.

Firstly, it was claimed that WWE had changed its name from the World Wrestling Federation to World Wrestling Entertainment by choice because it reflected the transformation from "wrasslin'" to openly predetermined sports entertainment extravaganza. This was objectively untrue. WWE wasn't entertaining. Also they lost a court battle and were made to.

Secondly - using footage from WrestleMania X8! - it was claimed that WWE had to build new stars because they could no longer rely on the flighty, egotistical likes of Hulk Hogan. Good job loyal, beloved legends like the Undertaker and Triple H were on board to steady the ship.

And, quite appropriately, they moved about like anchors in a beyond tedious Undisputed Title match at King Of The Ring. A first-level side-scrolling beat 'em up of a match, only with awkward collision detection, it was a tedious echo of the badly dated trademark Attitude Era brawl - an almost perversely amusing illustration, given his smug rhetoric years and years later, that Trips was a B+ player.

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