10 Most Totally Random WWE Matches Ever

4. Bret Hart & John Cena Vs. Alberto Del Rio & Roberto Rodriguez - RAW 2011

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Bret Hart's 2010 run was distressing.

He couldn't work at all, much less to his old standard. He couldn't bump, legally or physically. He couldn't or wouldn't wear the old gear. He went back to close a wound that had festered for too long, but the stench drifted across and smothered the strange and grim non-spectacle that were his matches. What might have faded from the memory is that Hart actually worked his last match a year later.

On the September 12, 2011 RAW, Alberto Del Rio opened the show. His DAP promo was interrupted by Bret Hart, who doubted his World Championship credentials. He wasn't wrong. John Cena interrupted - isn't it ironic that so many promo trains caused this sh*t-show to go off the rails? - and the segment led, playa, to a tag team match. No segment was scheduled because it never is because this show is fake. And sh*tty.

In a quasi-racist comedy match, Cena used his red t-shirt as a rag to draw the bull, the bull being Rodriguez, because Rodriguez is Mexican-American. What if Cena happened to be wearing green that merch quarter? Would he have said "Come, eat the guacamole?"

This company reeks, and so did the match, which was an exercise in bullying - conducted by a babyface - that ended with Hart applying the Sharpshooter for an easy pop.

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