10 Wrestling Matches Everybody Gets Wrong

1. Finn Bálor Vs. AJ Styles - WWE TLC 2017

Finn Balor AJ Styles
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Yes! What a replacement! That Sister Abigail match was gonna be a train wreck, and now we're all but guaranteed a classic!

Kane effectively killed Finn Bálor off just 24 hours later. That's not an exaggeration; his decline on the main roster can be traced from that very Monday Night RAW; with the sole exception of his very good showing against Brock Lesnar, and that blistering WrestleMania 34 opener, Bálor was a bland, unmotivated 50/50 guy struggling to extract anything from Baron Corbin.

This match did nothing for him, and while it was really, really good, it wasn't truly great, and F-grade WrestleCrap is better than a a B+ match that didn't mean anything.

Come on.

Sister Abigail was going to bleh! from the Titantron and into the actual ring, shawl and all, jaw-jacking Bálor with that lisp Wyatt inexplicably adopted. The process undertaken to depict Sister Abigail as a feminine presence was so hilariously bad - just do a lisp and we'll add some helium voice effects, pal! - that they'd have inevitably dressed him up in something guaranteed to trip him up. And the Wyatt character was dead, anyway.

Goddamnit, we deserved a pint at the wake.

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