13 Ups And 23 Downs For WWE In 2020

20. This Is The Feud That Never Ends

Drew McIntyre Randy Orton
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It’s understandable that WWE would want to get multiple PPV matches out of a marquee feud between top stars, especially in a year like this.

But the Randy Orton/Drew McIntyre feud was easily one of the worst ongoing feuds of the year, the kind where you were just wishing someone would pull the ripcord and eject it into oblivion. McIntyre won the first match at SummerSlam clean as a sheet with a backslide – a wrestling move against the guy who was running around calling himself the greatest wrestler alive.

However, that wasn’t the end of this rivalry. Oh no, we were just getting warmed up. We would have to endure weeks of McIntyre buddying up with and sticking up for a bunch of legends who Randy Orton had previously assaulted. Then those legends bailed the WWE Champion out in what should have been their definitive match, an ambulance match. Instead, Orton stalked the legends to goad a third PPV match, which Randy won. And then that set up one last bout for McIntyre to recapture the gold.

It was brutal, bad television. Four words: Randy Orton, night-vision goggles. Somehow, this wasn’t Orton’s worst performance of the year.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.