15 Biggest BURIALS Wrestlers Never Recovered From

You could throw your hands in the air ask "what the hell are we doing here?" at least once a week in WWE between 2017-2021. Truly the worst of times creatively, there was seemingly no end to the well of bad Vince McMahon ideas, particularly with the company so preposterously profitable thanks to the record-smashing 2018 TV rights deals and agreements with the Saudi Arabian Sports Authority.

Less pressure than ever to do anything different than what had worked (?) before. Impossible creative circumstances at the best of times, let alone with a senile lunatic at the wheel. That's a lot of pre-amble, but John Cena's back-and-forth with Roman Reigns on the August 28th 2017 of Raw simply does not work by any definition without it.

The two were set to face off at No Mercy, which itself was a weird call from a weird time. Nonetheless, it bordered on being as big as WWE were promoting it as, and a contract signing where the two could air some grievances and/or witticisms was both the natural next step and potential fuel for a match that at very least wouldn't be short on some much-needed big fight feel.

All until the fiction was peeled away immediately as the real life John Cena questioned the real life Roman Reigns' eligibility for a spot as company figurehead in his absence. Cena set about asking if shoot human Reigns was up to the challenge, naturally without expressing what those challenges are because that would deranged. With nothing but lousy scripting and in-character catchphrases to respond with, Roman had brought a knife to a gun-fight and 'Big Match John' shot fatally with his infamous "fine speech" and "it's called cutting a promo, kid" retorts. 

Fans had rejected Roman over and over and over again as a top guy, and now here was the last guy to very fortuitously break the glass ceiling telling them they were right to doubt him. Weird, weird, weird and wrong, and predictably their big match had nominal heat and achieved zero of the stated aims.