10 Over-Hyped Wrestling Main Events NOBODY Even Remembers Now

3. Triple H Vs Goldberg (WWE Unforgiven 2003)

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It's tragic enough that any over-hyped main event could be forgotten, but when the very purpose of the match is supposedly to give one of the combatants the spotlight they deserve, the failure is doubly bruising.

Fairly par for the course for Triple H during his infamously boring reign of terror in the mid-2000s, the "payoff" to his summer series with Goldberg was the drizzles, adding more fuel to a political fire that had been raging since 'The Game' defeated him in pathetic fashion at SummerSlam one month prior.

There, the injured Champion was kept out of the Elimination Chamber match entirely until smashing Big Bill in the head with a sledgehammer to fortuitously retain. The finish came after WWE had presented the WCW World Champion effectively for maybe the first time ever, but the air left the balloon when Hunter picked up yet another win.

The title trade at Unforgiven wasn't even a case of better-late-than-never, because it wasn't better at all.

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