10 Worst WWE Matches Of 2018
4. Braun Strowman Vs Kevin Owens (Extreme Rules)
Kevin Owens was victorious once on pay-per-view in 2018 before a mid-year injury gave his character the escape from television it so desperately needed after years of wilful neglect.
A parody of a nickname it may now be, but 'The Prizefighter' was Universal Champion as recently as February 2017, and won a pay-per-view main event against a McMahon in October of the same year. His 2018 plunge was as figurative as it was literal - even his lone 'win' came as a result of an almighty forgotten fall.
The match was a terrible tale told terribly. Owens got his sh*t in immediately as the bell rang, before getting sh*t on en route to the most pyrrhic victory of the year. Even when he had the advantage, he was disabled by his own stupidity or too embittered to do the one thing required and leave the cage. There'd have been some sympathy for the abuse victim - and that's what Owens was - finally having control over his oppressor if the roles had been correctly assigned. Instead, Braun the babyface ripped away his handcuffs to return to brutalising 'KO' as vindication before the giant match-ending bump.
The mechanisms were knackered. The mechanisms are knackered. Braun Strowman is knackered. Kevin Owens was probably never more relieved to be knackered.