10 Worst WWE Raw Main Events Ever

5. Booker T Vs. Buff Bagwell - 2 July 2001

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In hindsight, the real idiots are the fans. Us. The fools who expect better, the chumps who retain some hope deep down that maybe, just maybe, WWE can be dust off the mojo and produce good pro wrestling television.

We still love to look back at the WCW Invasion and work out where Vince went wrong, blindly assuming that his intention was ever to get it right. No, from the very moment the seed was planted, there was never going to be a credible invasion of WWE by WCW. Yes, it could have made a lot of money and Vince is a businessman, but he is a petty businessman first and foremost. Driving the stake into the heart of WCW was more important than any dollars an invasion might have made.

With all that in mind, it is no great surprise that Booker T and Buff Bagwell had a famously bad main event battle over the WCW Championship in Tacoma, Washington. A few weeks of terrible build leading to an impromptu match between two heels over a title that the audience has been conditioned to despise? A dead crowd was inevitable, but that doesn't make up for the lax work in the ring.

Booker T and Buff Bagwell should have gone out and put on a high-paced banger for the audience, although that was easier said than done. Buff was at his most buff here, and not in a good way. The crowd didn't care, the work was bad, the Invasion was dead. Mission accomplished.

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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.