20 Worst WWE Matches Since 2000
7. Trish Stratus & Bradshaw Vs. Jackie Gayda & Chris Nowinski (Raw - 8th July, 2002)
There's an outside chance you might remember Jackie Gayda primarily for her Tough Enough run, but really, this intergender tag match remains her WWE career's defining moment. It's one one of the most notoriously botch-filled messes in company history, and this is mostly down to Gayda, who didn't have a whiff of chemistry with Trish Stratus (who wasn't exactly the finished article at this stage in her career either).
Murphy's Law was in full effect whenever they were in the ring together. It wasn't so much that Trish and Jackie weren't on the same page, but rather they were reading from completely different volumes, and it was abundantly clear that Gayda wasn't ready for television. Her most infamous flub came from a second rope bulldog that she sold several seconds too late, but she wasn't the only culprit. Chris Nowinski, her fellow Tough Enough alumnus, had a few sketchy moments of his own, including a baffling mid-match decision to try and attract the camera's focus outside the ring while actual wrestling was happening inside.
"Mercifully, it's over," Jim Ross sighed after the bout's conclusion - a sentiment shared by us all.