10 Worst WWE Wrestlers Of 2019

9. Braun Strowman

Lacey Evans
WWE.com

2019 was a disastrous year for the Monster Among Men because he could not have looked more helplessly mortal at times.

Strowman was removed from the Royal Rumble Universal Title match because Vince McMahon felt he couldn't withstand yet another high-profile loss. And then he won no matches of any significance before losing to Seth Rollins at Clash of Champions.

2019 was also the year in which Strowman deteriorated as a performer.

Once very good at putting on blistering spectacles - those memories and the fresher memory of his incendiary sequence with Keith Lee reveal Roman Reigns' brilliance, incidentally - the Strowman routine grew tiresome. He runs around the ring and shoves people over for the shine, and runs into a post like a magnet to transition into the heat, and then kicks out of multiple finishers to get the monster act over - but that last phase feels grimly artificial now. He isn't the explosive force he once was, in part because WWE never did light the fuse.

Strowman needs a layout and an opponent to excel, and received neither at Crown Jewel, at which he suffered the indignity of performing in a worse celebrity match than Snooki.

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