Jack Swagger and Michael Cole vs. Jerry Lawler and Jim Ross Whats worse than giving two announcers nearly 15 minutes for a wrestling match at WrestleMania? How about a rematch the following month with another announcer and a former world champion thrown in? Add leather straps to the tag match and call it a country whipping match and youve got your embarrassment of an Extreme Rules PPV match. WWE fans would probably love to forget Michael Coles 2010-11 heel turn for good reason, but it was impossible to avoid since he was everywhere during that period: NXT, Raw and Smackdown. After defeating Jerry Lawler at WrestleMania XXVII, the two squared off in a tag match with Jim Ross joining Lawler and Jack Swagger joining Cole. Since Swagger and Cole had beaten Ross with his own belt, they made it a country whipping match. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac9IqGncPlE The match was about as bad as can be expected. It featured Michael Cole in bubble wrap and three announcers and a former world champ eating up nearly 10 minutes on PPV. The four whipped at each other with varying intensity, but the lowlight had to be Jim Ross slapping an anklelock on Swagger and having Jack have to sell it. In what can only be described as a cruel joke, Cole pinned Ross to win his second straight PPV match and prolong the feud with Lawler for another month.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
