10 Embarrassing Matches Wrestling Stars Want You To Forget
6. Dean Ambrose Vs. Brock Lesnar - WWE WrestleMania 32
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.