10 Worst WWE Matches Of 2021 (So Far)
8. Damian Priest Vs Elias (Monday Night Raw, March 1st)
WWE can't book.
It's a truism so evident at least once a week that it barely needs justifying with examples anymore. The machine's inability to effectively craft an entire wrestling show (as opposed to a series of identikit matches and lame skits that scan as an objective success because they keep oligarch paymasters happy) is clear in the good stories let alone the bad ones.
Damian Priest is in the midst of a push in 2021, but you'd be forgiven for missing that entirely. The success of such a thing - especially when relating to an NXT call-up - can basically be judged on how quickly a performer becomes normalised by the shackles of the system, and Priest's mostly avoided the worst of it since his January arrival.
And yet. And yet and yet and yet.
Not only does he feature twice in this list in spite of all that, but in this case it's because WWE offered way, way too much of him for absolutely no f*cking reason on a random Monday Night in March.
Between the Royal Rumble and WrestleMania, Priest beat The Miz in 4:25, Angel Garza in 3:45 and 6:15 and Jaxson Ryker in 0:35. Absolutely ideal stuff for him, had the run not been poleaxed by the inexplicable 15 minute bout with Elias.
Sinfully dull, this simply couldn't have existed with crowds in attendance. They'd have sh*t on it from all heights. This was just one of the endless hypotheticals to consider during a quarter of an hour that failed spectacularly to capture or keep the attention.