10 Wrestling Matches That Pissed Off Fans
8. Roman Reigns Vs. Samoa Joe - Backlash 2018
The worst thing about WWE is that the company isn't objectively incompetent.
It would be easier or at least funny if they did bad things naively, but Vince McMahon isn't Tommy Wiseau. He's lost the plot, mostly, but he once had knowledge to lose, and he can still use what remains of that knowledge to create a specifically antagonistic product, which he's inclined to do because he won and you're a mark.
As part of what felt like an endless crusade to get Roman Reigns over as a babyface, Vince took this cynical route at Backlash 2018. In response, large pockets of the crowd took the quickest route home before the match even finished.
The premise was thus: instead of a dynamic monster mash, in which both explosive men would lob bombs at one another in a charged sprint, Samoa Joe was ordered to grind the match to an intentionally, criminally boring halt. So little happened in the first 10 minutes because the idea was that you were going to get behind Roman when he actually f*cking did something.
Seriously: they booked an intentionally dull match to make it seem better when it wasn't dull. Joe was cast as - let's just say it, Baron Corbin - to make Roman look like he'd saved you from boredom.
He only saved you from the traffic.