10 Terrible Gimmick Wrestling Matches One Tweak Away From Excellence
3. Fatal Four-Way
Why It's Terrible: Hard to follow for the fans in attendance (thus impacting the viewing experience to those watching on television), Fatal Four-Ways tend to devolve into split singles matches anyway, often resulting in stars laying on the floor selling unconvincingly rather than trying to get back into the match.
One Tweak: Elimination rules only.
WWE, to their credit, have improved upon multi-person matches by making most of them elimination or gauntlets, which forces finishes and a certain sense of conclusion. For years, Fatal Four-Ways especially were used for the exact opposite reason. One warm body would be there to take the fall in place of a satisfying scenario at the end and fans could often tell at the sight of the poster where exactly the fix was in.
If absolutely forced to endure four then three before a final one-on-one, the last two combatants can at least claim survival in the face of such humiliation.