9 WWE Matches That Fell Apart On Live TV
4. Charlotte Flair Vs Nia Jax (Raw, August 30th 2021)
WWE's 2021 return to live crowds following the pandemic was, creatively, an unmitigated disaster.
Fans were glad to be back in buildings and wrestlers looked positively overjoyed to be free from the shackles of the ThunderDome, but Vince McMahon's rotting and rotten creative was as awful as ever and with no better direction to suit the circumstances, familiar problems bubbled to the surface. In this case, it was evident in the work of two performers who've never been shy of causing a bit of controversy.
Nia Jax and Charlotte Flair were in the middle of a match on the September 30th edition of Monday Night Raw, until...they weren't. A breakdown of communication of some description resulted in several years of a professional relationship breaking down in front of everybody, all to the tune of a host of potatoes and sandbagging attempts. It was a bit like when a match isn't going too well and wrestlers attempt to work their way out of trouble, only nothing was a work and it was as if they were looking for some kind of surrender from the other before they returned to the regularly scheduled programming.
The exchanges looked abysmal on account of them not being remotely collaborative, and they eventually pulled it around to the point where they were booked in a rematch the following week. That was the only saving grace; having generated almost zero buzz in the run-up to the Autumn series of shows, it took something that was fundamentally the opposite of pro wrestling for WWE to finally have something resembling a hot hand.