15 Worst Moments Of The WWE Pandemic Era

The last truly great moment before we lost fans in 2020 has to be the Royal Rumble, which had multiple huge moments.

Few had to be bigger than Edge returning to action for the first time in nearly 10 years. The Rated-R Superstar made a huge splash, and he kicked off an intense rivalry with former tag partner Randy Orton, setting up a big-time WrestleMania 36 match. Unfortunately, the pandemic hit just as the feud was cresting, which forced them to get creative with the match.

Rather than have a straight wrestling match, they did a Last Man Standing match, a pre-taped battle that slowly meandered all over the Performance Center. It was a boring, plodding affair that completely underperformed what fans were expecting after such a hot build.

Then we got the rematch, which was dubbed the “Greatest Wrestling Match Ever.” And while that taped and edited match was actually really good, it was nowhere near the greatest ever, and the fact it was edited together undercut the argument that they were having a great match – no one knows how many different edits were used to splice that bout together.

Worse, Edge got injured during that taping, so what started out as a monumental return turned into two disappointing matches and months on the shelf.