10 Worst WWE Matches Of 2020
1. Money In The Bank Ladder Match - Money In The Bank
How do you f*ck up a violent and exciting thrill ride that raises the temperature even when you can see the wires?
A match with stakes that guarantees the next World Champion?
You, amid a pandemic with a terrifying financial toll, in which almost the entire employed global population has cause to worry about their job security, pen a gag in which two World Champion-calibre combat athletes sh*t themselves in fright at messing up a demented billionaire's fancy office. The billionaire - who refused to test his independent contractors for a potentially deadly virus, leading to several outbreaks - sanitised his hands afterwards. Good.
Good escapism.
A madcap chase "movie" in the cinematic genre WWE desperately embraced - because the show without the bright lights revealed the rotten stench - there was very little wrestling in it beyond some stray Yes! kicks and an actually amusing Asuka balcony dive. The match instead played out as a series of slapstick gags and nostalgia cameos.
HAHAHAHA there's Brother Love! Isn't it crazy that such a character works in Titan Towers?!
Yes, actually. He's a useless sycophantic dinosaur.
LOL that's Doink!
Well...it sure doesn't look like Doink. Not remotely. But it's still one of the all-time classic gags. Simply...looking at a clown, doing nothing. One remembers maniacally crying with laughter staring at an empty McDonald's wrapper as a fresh-faced youngster.
At one point, Dana Brooke slipped on a wet floor in a rush to the roof. She seemed to really, really hurt herself. This might have functioned as a sight gag, had the entire field stopped fighting to do the collective point-and-laugh. But instead, very dramatic music played over the oldest slapstick joke ever told. As a tonal failure, this was a bit like inserting a laugh track in Schindler's List.
An astonishing failure to craft simple comedy that had the temerity to depict WWE as a wacky and fun place to work - after firing so many people weeks prior - this was among the very worst things the company has ever produced.