10 Worst WWE Feuds Of 2020
7. Drew McIntyre Vs Randy Orton
"Functional" isn't "good".
"Long" isn't "good".
"Bad" isn't "good".
Those were the stories of the three months Drew McIntyre and Randy Orton feuded over 'The Scottish Psycopath's WWE Championship, made worse by the company tacking on another three weeks just to flip the belt back in order to facilitate a more exciting match at Survivor Series.
This angle found a not-insignificant bit of praise online, and without the noise of crowds in buildings this metric has more value than normal. The celebration for getting a few of the basics right was an inadvertent indictment that overlooked the context that was applied to their first match and the laughable bullsh*t tacked onto the second.
With infuriating regularity, Drew told us all how WWE thought he was lower than dirt a few years ago, but shucks look at him now! Meanwhile, Orton crowed about doing what he f*cking liked in comparison. A misunderstanding of how to make rags-to-riches or class battles work in an angle, it instead just shone a light on the organisation's incompetence. As did the rematches.
McIntyre beat Orton with a backslide, but no finisher means rematch. Ambulance rematch when Orton takes out a bunch of old guys. Hell In A Cell rematch when Orton takes out the old guys again after he loses the ambulance match. Drab and profoundly uncreative, the matches never once elevated the listless plot, and it's genuinely astonishing that the thing has concluded before the global health crisis.