10 Worst WWE Matches Of 2019

Best pro wrestling on the planet. Period.

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WWE is the best pro wrestling on the planet. Period.

You don't believe me? Ahhh, sorry little guy. It's pretty presumptuous to think otherwise. All we at WWE have ever done is push this goddamn business forward. Just look at NXT UK. Just go ahead and, uh, take your ball, go home and burn that ball down.

See that awesome Bayley Vs. Alexa Bliss match from Stomping Grounds, that didn't completely over-do the heat spot at all? And that's one night, one match amongst the money. It doesn't even make this list.

Find anyone else alive who does what I can do as well as I do it as often as I do it. Ya can’t. Nobody can slap hands with such friendship like I do on a suicide dive. Nobody works more matches than I do.

Fénix?

Yeah, I make Arizona. Buddy, I make all the towns. Apart from the shows that get cancelled at the last minute. I slay those towns. I burn those towns down, alright?

Still don't believe me? I’ve sat back and watched idiots with no clue talk poorly about the place I dedicate my life to EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY. The level I perform at on constant is untouchable.

Will Ospreay Vs. Shingo Takagi? Hiroshi Tanahashi Vs. Kenny Omega? Adam Cole Vs. Johnny Gargano?

Nah dawg...

10. Charlotte Flair Vs. Lacey Evans - RAW, June 3

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To put on an effective and engaging 'grapplef*ck' match, both participants must be expert technicians.

The work must be intricate and authentic. The transitions must be fluid enough to sustain interest, but masked with sufficient struggle to put it over as a battle, and not a d*ck-waving exhibition.

Charlotte Flair Vs. Lacey Evans certainly was a struggle, but *Rainier Wolfcastle voice* it wasn't meant to be a grapplef*ck match.

If you mourned the absence of backstage cameras at All Out, and missed Bea Priestley Vs. Sadie Gibbs, you're in luck: this was so poorly worked that it looked more like a furious, blurry backstage skirmish than a pro wrestling match. They brawled clumsily by the ropes for an eternity; Flair had to audibly tell Lacey to "move", because if she hadn't, the Sassy Southern Belle would have absorbed a punch plush in the face. This was a total mess of entangled limbs. A brawl erupted after Lacey returned to the ring - Flair had ejected her, shoot pissed off - but an attempt at some chain wrestling clogged like a bike in the rain. For the second time in as many minutes, Charlotte instructed Lacey to get out of her ring. Somehow, despite spending almost all of the match by the ropes, she couldn't even do that.

She couldn't even position herself to receive a Flair chop. Where does Charlotte usually aim a move her father has done since the '70s? Oh yes, the shoulder, that's right.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and surefire Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!