10 Most Overrated (And Overused) WWE Gimmick Matches
3. Handicap Match
The Handicap Match is booked with such veracity in WWE, that the original concept beyond the gimmick is long dead, leaving behind a tragic shell that just pointlessly ensures contests between mismatched numbers of opponents will occur in perpetuity for the next thousand years.
So that's a slight overstatement, but you'll allow the mind to wander when reminiscing the latest pay-per-view offering that saw the heel Dolph Ziggler lose against babyfaces Apollo Crews and Kalisto, only to take both men out in the aftermath for the vaunted last word on things.
This inanity has become the norm in the handicap setting, with the once-heel favouring gimmick now used as a tool of vindictive authority figures, and often in a way that even doesn't get the job done.
Heel GM's set their lackeys up like bowling pins, ready for a babyface to burst down the lane and invariably score a strike. Babyface bosses 'punish' the dominant heels by feeding them swathes of idiot good guys with a collective capability in negative equity even before another pointless mauling.
No matter if you're the victim, the beneficiary, part of the bigger or smaller group, or booked the thing yourself - everybody suffers for their art in a handicap match.