10 Wrestling Matches Ruined By One Botch

4. Ronda Rousey Vs. Becky Lynch Vs. Charlotte Flair - WrestleMania 35

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You could probably make a convincing argument that WWE botched this match before the bell even rang. Why was Charlotte Flair involved? The entire wrestling world wanted this to be a major singles match between Becky Lynch and Ronda Rousey, yet 2435-time women's champion Flair was shunted in there for what, because there wasn't a tall blonde involved?

For shame, WWE booking team, for shame.

If that wasn't bad enough, the first women's match to main event WWE WrestleMania ended with a botch, with a three-count that should never have happened and a crowd with the wind knocked well and truly out of their sails. If this is building to some sort of mega bout between Ronday and Becky, it gets a pass, but that clearly isn't the case.

Poor Rod Zapata. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, Zapata counted Rousey's shoulders to the mat despite one of those shoulders being nowhere near aforementioned mat. Zapata claimed that Rousey was in severe pain due to a broken hand and needed to finish the match but that doesn't exactly make this botched finish okay. Something about that explanation doesn't sit, in truth.

Will Becky and Ronda get a chance to right this wrong in the future? WWE's bottomless chequebook will surely do all it can to make that happen.

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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.