10 WWE Matches Doomed From The Start
8. The Grand Finale Match Of Survival (Survivor Series 1990)
Once and never again, the Grand Finale Match Of Survival sort of made sense before the realisation hit that every single match at the Survivor Series 1990 would have to be booked around a conclusion that was actually meaningless.
It still has charm now - the sight of Tito Santana trying to exist in the same orbit as Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior is sweet, and the very idea that heels and babyfaces can be so clearly divided is tragically novel in the modern age - but it's hard to imagine how it would ever work in repeat usage with Survivor Series elimination matches so often used to protect pairings. Cheap jobs often helped preserve rivalries for house shows and future pay-per-views. This unnecessarily grandiose conclusion did away with any remaining shred of doubt.
The heels in particular were bound to suffer beyond reasonable defeat. Dibiase and Rick Martel's 'Visionaries' team had all already won for the night, but their loss here to the Hogan/Warrior super team (and in elimination format, no less) resulted in the victories being undone by substantially more memorable, show-closing losses.