Every Cinematic Wrestling Match Ever - Ranked!

5. The Ultimate Deletion

Ultimate Deletion
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Vince McMahon wanted absolutely nothing to do with The Final Deletion, except the baffling amounts of money it was going to make. Thus he rehired the Hardy Boyz and, in 2018, begrudgingly allowed the elder to sculpt his own version for an episode of Monday Night Raw. His opponent this time was Bray Wyatt, but Vanguard 1, Señor Benjamin, and the word "dilapidated" - all staple poppers from the Final Deletion - returned for the sequel, and if anything the silliness was turned up from its starting position of 11.

After a match that included, of all things, a Benny Hill-esque chase scene through a field of handmade 6ft symbols, Hardy took Wyatt into the Lake of Reincarnation... where he vanished. While he wasn't directly reborn as The Fiend it's as good a metaphor as any I guess.

While the match divided the audience, there was at least praise for WWE sticking it in the main event slot and allowing Hardy and Wyatt near-total creative control over the thing. They hired a man to enact a vision, and then eventually got out of his way to let him do it. Surely if they could do that for Hardy, they could do that for Wyatt as well somewhere down the line...

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