10 Terrible Wrestling Matches (That Should Have Been Great)
This is why we can't have nice things...
Hype is weird.
We've all been there: that match you've been waiting on finally gets announced, the adrenaline starts pumping, and you can't wait to see what happens next. Pre-match excitement can be beneficial to an anticipated classic, and yet it can also end up killing a match in the long run if it doesn't live up to the billing. Wrestling history is filled with notable examples of exciting matches that, for some reason, just didn't click come bell time.
There's really no excuse; either the hype was too great for wrestlers that couldn't deliver on it, or creative had a WrestleMania-sized brain fart when it mattered most. These matches should have been great, and they should be remembered for positive reasons, not because they ended up sucking.
Yes, hype is weird, but it's not quite as strange as seeing matches you thought would rock stink up the ring...
10. Braun Strowman vs. Brock Lesnar (WWE No Mercy 2017)
If WWE were looking for a way to make Braun Strowman's (already somewhat basic) Running Powerslam finisher look weak at No Mercy, they found it. Braun hit Brock Lesnar with two of the things and still couldn't put him away. Then, as if to add insult to injury, one Lesnar F5 was all it took for the mighty monster to lose.
Seeing someone WWE had spent so much time perfecting throughout much of 2016-2017 lose within nine minutes was a major let down. Braun barely even looked competitive with Brock, and the match was missing much of the dramatic brawling style that had built excitement; where was the table-flipping goodness of SummerSlam here?
Poor decision, WWE. When fans were expecting the kind of monster showdown that'd give Godzilla and King Kong nightmares, they were given a meek main event (that made the John Cena vs. Roman Reigns match before it look like Flair vs. Steamboat by comparison) instead.
Such a disappointment.