9 Wrestlers Who Had Their WORST Match EVER This Year

3. TIFFANY STRATTON Vs. Nia Jax Vs. Jade Cargill (WWE SmackDown, September 26)

This was a terrible night for Tiffany Stratton, who got over in NXT through effective use of juxtaposition: she seemed like she didn’t have it in her to fight, but when the spotlight was on, her stuff looked gruesome. She’d break a nail and your skull alike. But what can you do against Nia Jax and Jade Cargill in the same match?

The scope for botches was vast. The nicest way of putting it is that Tiffany Stratton Vs. Nia Jax Vs. Jade Cargill realised its potential.

In a multifarious disaster, Jade split her head open when Nia Jax did her sadly customary spot, in which she acts as if she's angrily slamming a car door shut when guiding her opponent’s head towards the steel steps. That was the worst of it, outside the omni-botched finish, but virtually every second was undermined by some immersion-breaking moment or outright botch.

Early in the match, Nia and Jade exchanged (bad) forearm shots on the outside. Nia and Jade visibly talked themselves through the sequence. They barely looked at each other; preoccupied by the next story beat, they kept glancing towards the ring, waiting for Tiffany to hit her suicide dive. Nia Jax knowingly walked into the landing zone. Tiffany hit the suicide dive. Nia failed to catch the suicide dive. How did Nia not see this coming?

She’d been waiting for it to the point of distraction for several agonising seconds.

At the finish, Jade hit Nia with a Black Hole Slam. Nia kicked out, even though the planned finish was the finish to every WWE Triple Threat match ever: Tiffany was meant to kick Jade and steal the win. The ref failed to follow protocol; even though it made no sense for Nia to stay down, having already kicked out of the move that preceded the pin, Daphanie LaShaunn halted her count, despite Jax failing to lift up her shoulder.