10 Worst Botches In AEW History

9. Britt Baker - Dynamite 13/05/2020

Sydal Botch
AEW

Yeah, this match was pretty wretched, to say the least. While the reverse 'rana was nothing to joke about, this is the sort of botch that deserves all of the guffaws it gets. Sticking to the script might work sometimes, but getting confused about that script can lead to some seriously embarrassing professional wrestling.

First, we have Dr Britt Baker D.M.D spending an age feathering Kris Statlander's leg, like a tentative child approaching a ladybird. Her vague flirting is interrupted by the ghost of Penelope Ford, which distracts Baker long enough for the actual Ford to hit a pretty sweet springboard cutter, albeit one that the Dr jumps into with joyful abandon.

This is pro wrestling at its worst, unfortunately. It looks for all the world like a much-maligned glitch in a video game, where one controller is distracted by an off-camera discussion and another is in the toilet, allowing whoever is controlling Ford to swoop in and take advantage. Pro wrestling is a wonderful thing, but not when it looks like this.

Do they not teach transitions and fillers in wrestling school?

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.