10 Wrestling Matches That Ruled With Builds That Sucked
8. John Cena Vs The Fiend (WWE WrestleMania 36)
The Fiend looked about a foot tall as he pointed at the WrestleMania sign behind John Cena's back on the 28th February 2020 edition of SmackDown, and it was more than just a framing and composition issue.
Bray Wyatt's alter ego and been humbled and humiliated by a Super ShowDown Universal Championship loss to Bill Goldberg 24 hours earlier. Just weeks before the entire world would be brought to a standstill, so too would The Fiend's fear factor. Wyatt had been hobbled by WWE's booking yet again, with this match against 'The Champ' looking as much like a marriage of convenience make-good as a long-awaited rematch.
It got no better as the pandemic tightened its grip either - Cena had to cut promos on puppets in the empty Performance Center before ethering Wyatt in a speech so close to the Goldberg defeat that it almost felt like part of a permanent binning of the gimmick.
WrestleMania's stunning FireFly Fun House match changed that of course. For like a week.