10 Most Anti-Climactic WWE Moments Of 2017

If Samoa Joe's failed title pursuit was anti-climactic, then Braun Strowman's has to go down as one of the most disappointing title matches in recent WWE memory.

All of us, even wrestling purists who would normally pour scorn on the idea of two juggernaut heavyweights monopolising the main event, were super excited for this one; a match that, at the time anyway, really felt like it could go either way.

The Monster Among Men was the outsider, granted, but it had been forever since anyone actually pinned him clean, and if WWE was serious about making him the next breakout star, giving him victory over Brock Lesnar - and with it, a first world title reign - would have gone some way to accomplishing that aim.

It's not just that he lost either. It's the unavoidable fact that the match itself just didn't really deliver anything like the sort of carnage we were anticipating. It was too short, and after the pulsating four-way bout that headlined SummerSlam a couple of months earlier, too uneventful to really get us out of our seats.