10 WWE US Title Matches You Should Try To Forget
1. Orlando Jordan Vs. Heidenreich - Judgment Day 2005
In 2005 the WWE midcard was in a pretty bad way, and as such matches such as this found their way onto pay-per-views.
When lists of less than stellar United States Champions are made, Orlando Jordan is usually found in there somewhere, and Heidenreich may very well be one of the worst wrestlers ever to perform in WWE rings. Throw the two together in a championship match, and glory you do not get.
After Heindenreich reads a poem to a little girl (this actually happened), we get five minutes of punches, taunts and Heidenreich marching in that ridiculous way that he did. Nobody cares, and at times it seems that neither man does either. Some of the matches on this list have been derided as being 'basic', but this takes that to a whole new level.
If ever there was an advert for the WWE Performance Center, this may be it. This was the sort of match one would expect to see in the early days of a wrestling school, save for the ending when OJ busts out a Backdrop Driver and a DDT for the win.
Out of all the United States Championship matches that have taken place in WWE, Orlando Jordan vs. Heidenreich is comfortably the least good of them all. That little girl was pretty darn excited about Heidenreich's poem, though.