10 Terrible Wrestling Matches (That Should Have Been Great)

3. Triple H vs. Scott Steiner (WWE Royal Rumble 2003)

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Retooled, restyled and ready to become WCW's new main event player, Scott Steiner's 'Big Poppa Pump' character also reinvigorated his career in the late-90s. Fans at the time couldn't help but wonder just how great Steiner's loudmouth gimmick would be in the WWF, and that same excitement carried over when Scott joined WWE in 2002.

Fans amped up by hearing Steiner shout, "gimme' the f*cking mic" at Survivor Series '02 must have cursed the wrestling Gods when his first WWE feud with Triple H was an infamous catastrophe. Steiner was suffering from several niggling injuries as 2003 dawned, and both his World Title challenges at Royal Rumble and No Way Out fell apart. Don't get us wrong, nobody believed Steiner vs. Triple H would be a technical wonder, but it was expected that the first match (at least) would be decent. It wasn't.

Without the injuries that plagued him, Scott might have been able to prove why WWE had wanted him so badly in the first place. He was a world-class worker in the early-to-mid-90s, after all.

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