10 Embarrassing Matches Wrestling Stars Want You To Forget

3. D-Generation X Vs. The Brothers Of Destruction - WWE Crown Jewel 2018

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In which Shawn Michaels tried to get away with it.

This, you see, was not a real comeback. It wasn't canon. He was simply playing the hits with old friends in a best-of compilation you buy your da at Christmas sort of way. What happens in Saudi Arabia stays in Saudi Arabia - much like Kane's sweat-caked mask somebody he did very well to scrape off the ring mat.

In reality, certain music stars perform private concerts for royalty at an astronomical cost. But the difference is that those performances are not broadcast globally on the award-winning WWE Network, and Dido or whoever never trusted their drummer to base for a moonsault they were too gassed to catch.

The match was hilariously bad because it soon became achingly clear that all four men involved were unequivocally not up to the task. Kane was knackered, too tired from carrying bags of dirty money to put in a respectable shift. The Undertaker couldn't muster up the energy to blow the hair away from his eyes. He looked to have more life in him when he wore corpse make-up in 1991, and he moved just as slowly - just not on purpose this time. Triple H tore his pec, rendering him a passenger, and it was left to Shawn Michaels, looking halfway respectable if brittle, to keep the wreck on the tracks.

"We're too old for this," he told Triple H in a candid post-match moment.

Triple H disagreed, and went on to work the - for f*ck's sake! - the longest match at WrestleMania 35.

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