25 Worst Wrestling Moments Of 2020

21. Nightmare Collective Stinks Up The Place

AEW Bash At The Beach 2020 Kris Statlander Brandi Rhodes
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Gather a group of hardcore AEW fans around you, then scream "NIGHTMARE COLLECTIVE" and watch them scatter like the old WWF Light-Heavyweight division when 1997 Kane was around. Those 2 words will drum up a lot of bad memories for All Elite's faithful fanbase, no doubt. It still sticks out as one of the group's worst ideas.

Brandi Rhodes as head of the so-called Collective in late-2019 and early-2020 was poor. A match on Bash At The Beach in January put her and Mel vs. Kris Statlander and Hikaru Shida. Originally, Awesome Kong was supposed to be in there instead of Brandi, but she was injured and had to give it a miss. The quality nosedived ahead of time as a result.

This was a thoroughly miserable 12 minutes that exposed the worst of AEW’s women’s division. Why anyone thought it was a good idea is beyond yours truly. The Nightmare Collective had been cutting off hair and cutting off interest in anything they were doing for a while, but the BATB special's bout was next level stinky.

AEW fans had already grown accustomed to match quality above all during the earliest days of Tony Khan's booking. Then, this tag effort came along to remind everyone that expecting 5-star classics across the board wasn't going to be realistic. Poor Statlander and Shida suffered as they tried to unconvincingly pull something out of Brandi and Mel.

Mercifully, Khan would eventually pull the plug on the Collective and move on. The women's division needed that respite, because it really had been naff.

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