10 Worst WWE Raw Main Events Ever

1. John Cena Vs. Michael Cole - 4 June 2012

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While 2020 may well be the most wretched year in recent WWE memory, 2012 was just as frustrating in a different way. CM Punk was in the middle of a record-breaking WWE Championship reign that should have seen him installed as the top guy in the company, but his title defences against Daniel Bryan, Dolph Ziggler and the rest played second fiddle on the card to John Cena's feud with management. It was, to reuse a term, wretched.

4 June 2012 was the apex of that misery. After swatting aside the feared (a liberal use of the term) Lord Tensai, Cena found himself doing double duty against the leader of the Cole Miners, one of the few men to remain undefeated at WrestleMania: Michael Cole.

Yes, Retribution is bad, but nothing is 'Michael Cole in main events' bad.

The match itself wasn't exactly a match, more a house show go-home segment designed to humiliate Michael Cole and plug JR's BBQ sauce. It was all cheap laughs that aren't funny, the ritual degradation of a loyal employee for the titillation of a then-67 year old man. How did this make it to television?

For the record, John Cena hit an AA and won. Who could possibly care enough to keep a record of this abomination?

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.