10 Embarrassing Matches Wrestling Stars Want You To Forget

6. Dean Ambrose Vs. Brock Lesnar - WWE WrestleMania 32

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Jon Moxley has spent his post-WWE run emphatically embarrassing his former employer with virtually everything he does. He's witty where he was once whacky; cool where he was once lame; violent where he was once silly.

In what is a massive irony and indictment, Jon Moxley Vs. Brock Lesnar is one of pro wrestling's biggest perfect-world dream matches.

Mox, hard as f*ck and so smart and layered in his in-ring strategy, has been booked so expertly as a dominant babyface Ace that it's very difficult to foresee him dropping him the AEW World Title. It's going to take yet more genius booking for the result, no matter how it manifests, to convince the audience that it is the play. This version of Jon Moxley could beat Brock Lesnar after a war, and it would be credible.

We've, of course, already seen the match. It was dire, and it was a source of great humiliation to Moxley; what did he lack that those Lesnar was willing to give something had?

Perhaps that very question fuels him now, because Lesnar didn't give him a damn thing in a bare minimum plunder brawl worked when wrestling had long descended into near-total excess. WWE teased the use of a friggin' chainsaw. Something as relatively quaint as a bag of tacks was surely going to create that sense of bloodlust, but no.

Some chairs will do the trick.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!