10 Great Wrestling Matches (That Ruined Everything)
The Undertaker and the Young Bucks do have something in common after all...
Usually, terrible wrestling matches ruin everything, or at least a terrible finish to a great match does. That's how it works.
In 2002, WWE, having been forced to change its name, devised the inspired marketing slogan 'Get The F Out'. An equally accurate tagline would have been "Get The Second W Back In, Because Triple H Is Working Matches Like We're Back In The '70s, Only Without The Heat".
His lethargic, never-ending run of slogs did at least in part ruin everything, because business nosedived during the early-to-mid 2000s; indeed, what was effectively a cast-iron promise to bring an end to the 'Reign of Terror' actually generated the company's record PPV buy rate at the time. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter award for Best Box Office Draw was won in 2005 by Kenta Kobashi, but 'The Concept of Relief' ran him a close second.
A terrible match can ruin a career. After a promising start at SummerSlam 2019, highlighted by the best new WWE entrance in years, it was thought for a brief time that the promotion might not have f*cked the Fiend. They did f*ck the Fiend, at Hell In A Cell, but at least you could barely see it.
A great match can somehow ruin wrestling, because...
10. Shawn Michaels Vs. The Undertaker - WWE WrestleMania 25
Yes, this point has been made on this author page before, but it bears repeating.
If anything, it should be printed on a big, massive piece of f*cking paper and taped to every dressing room wall in North America. It should appear on every wall, door and window in the WWE Performance Center especially, not that they'd see it. They're too busy staring at their hands.
The text on said piece of paper should read:
It only worked when the Undertaker expressed shock in 2009 because it put over the idea that Shawn Michaels only had to beat a mere mortal after all, which informed the drama of every move that followed!
Feigning shock because your opponent kicked out of a signature is the worst thing to happen to modern wrestling. "I can't believe the thing that always happened actually happened!"
It's not just NXT. There's more chance of the world itself no longer turning than there is of Adam Cole winning a match with the Panama Sunrise - but this trope is particularly associated with Tuesday nights.
At dinnertime, does an NXT Producer tell their children not to eat their food, but to stare at it?