10 Wrestling Matches That Were Sent Out To Die

6. Heath Slater Vs. Curt Hawkins (WWE Great Balls Of Fire 2017)

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You'd be forgiven if you looked at this entry and said, "Don't remember that one."

Back at WWE's Jerry Lee Lewis-inspired Great Balls Of Fire pay-per-view in 2017, Heath Slater and Curt Hawkins were senselessly tasked with working a two-minute match no-one would've missed. Meanwhile, fans craned their necks up at screens to see the fallout of an Ambulance Match between Roman Reigns and Braun Strowman.

They worked a backstage angle that had Reigns attempting vehicular homicide on the big man, and that was all anyone cared about. It was a pitiful sight to see cameras cut back and forth between that and a dark match quality afterthought, then somehow more depressing when Kevin Dunn's crew ditched Slater and Hawkins altogether in favour of watching Braun get cut out of the wreckage.

No-one would've complained had WWE ran this footage on the tron without the distraction of a match happening in-ring. The cams didn't even catch the finish (a Slater win), rendering this one even more pointless than it would've been without the Braun bit.

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