10 Times WWE Made A Massive Mess & NOBODY Cared

2. ECW On Pie-Fi

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This feels like one of those retrospectives that requires a qualifier or two.

In referencing how absolutely awful a segment was, it mustn't be be confused with shooting hard on the talents involved. Similarly, it's hard to target the tone with total biliousness - ECW on Sci-Fi was an out-of-date buffet, featuring wrestling matches, characters and booking that all felt from another time. Treatment of the females was no exception.

Used entirely for titillation since her debut, the "exhibitionist" Kelly Kelly had voluntarily stripped multiple times before her 2007 Thanksgiving food fight with Layla, but it was the Brit that took the worst of in their time-filling tussle.

A bad segment that drew hardly any excitement other than from the over-stimulated commentators probably trying to mimic Vince McMahon's excitement in their headsets, the two literally took turns chucking stuff on each other before a proper fight broke out just enough for referees to get in the way of giving viewers a chance to see if the women still had any integrity. A match graphic promoting a clash between the two somehow made it feel hollower still - a faked attempt at effort was far from a case of the ends justifying the means.

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