9 Wrestlers Who Had Their WORST Match EVER This Year
2. CM PUNK Vs. Jey Uso (WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event #41)
Infamous for the worst and funniest botch of the year, Jey Uso slowly landed on his forehead when CM Punk attempted to hit him with a neckbreaker. That was something Simon Gotch would accuse Enzo Amore of doing, but Enzo Amore never headlined a major WWE card in a match held to determine the new WWE World Heavyweight champion.
The match did get…well, “good” isn’t the word. The match did turn into something broadly competent and heated by the second half. Boasting precisely one good idea - Jey applying the sleeper was both a creative way of fooling Punk, and a suspenseful reminder that he’d won a World title with this strategy - elsewhere, this was slop. Pure slop.
It was an irritating and lazy match even if you don’t factor in Jey’s abysmal individual performance. The WWE main event formula is practically an insult to your intelligence. Finisher kick-out, finisher kick-out, opponent’s finisher kick-out, opponent’s finisher kick-out, finish. They expect to blow your mind with this every time.
Because they think you’re a goldfish.
Sometimes wrestlers just do things to do it - just to grab a pop wherever they can. Why of all pairings did Jey Uso and CM Punk need to indulge in finisher theft? Theirs wasn’t an epic rivalry forged on begrudging respect.
CM Punk should be thankful that Jey stole headlines with his even worse than usual effort; Punk’s spear was almost as bad as his Buckshot lariat. He doesn’t like the word “moveset”, but he should probably familiarise himself with it. When he gets mistaken, and thinks he’s Jey Uso or Randy Savage, the results are invariably embarrassing.
Punk used to be such a clever pro wrestler. He’s happy being institutionalised these days.