10 Worst WWE Matches Of 2018
3. Roman Reigns Vs Samoa Joe (Backlash)
Fans headed for the exits early as Roman Reigns and Samoa Joe chinlocked their way to one of the most disappointing pay-per-view main events of the year, but was the abysmal assembling down to the men between the ropes or the ones pulling the strings from the relative safety of the backstage area.
Reigns was a Vince McMahon project in such an overt fashion it ruined him for the audience, but going to bat for 'The Big Dog' was presumably an easy win for the "glad-handed Yes Men" CM Punk alluded to when he dropped a pipe bomb years earlier. It's easy to see how Roman Reigns ended up in another pay-per-view main event just a month after WrestleMania's disastrous one, and the topline spot was the least Samoa Joe deserved. But the walk-out reflected a breaking point for New Jersey fans that had literally had enough.
They'd had enough WWE - it had been a week since Greatest Royal Rumble and four since WrestleMania. They'd had enough Roman Reigns - the 'Big Dog' was a two-time loser against Lesnar and wasn't exactly wrestling here like his career depended on it. They'd had enough Backlash - the show was the worst pay-per-view of 2018 and foreshadowed a post-'Mania slump unlike any in recent memory.
Beating the traffic meant so much more than witnessing Roman Reigns beat Samoa Joe. The core value of wrestling as a form of entertainment had never been lower.