Every WWE Extreme Rules Main Event Ranked Worst To Best
Some should be celebrated, and some should stay in the swamp.
During its 12 year tenure, the Extreme Rules pay per view has accumulated its fair share of golden moments. It also just so happens that not all of these occurred during the main event.
Furthermore, it's fascinating how WWE have, on various occasions, failed to deliver on not only a main event's own hype, but on the standards set by previous matches of the night. Surely on paper, all they have to do is stay true to the title of the PPV. They have in theory, one opportunity in the calendar year to indulge the excesses of extremity, and do it without diving headfirst into the realms of silliness.
Those that have achieved this invariably rank as better matches. In fact, the more favourable main events of Extreme Rules also qualify as outright classics.
Whilst rankings are often subject to personal opinion, Extreme Rules tends to exemplify as well as any other pay per view how certain bookings and stipulations straight-up do not work. Simply put, some main events are worthy of the mantle, and others, are not...
And right at the bottom, there's this...
12. Braun Strowman Vs. Bray Wyatt (2020)
A main event that wasn't a match… of any kind.
Abiding by the desire to never stop providing the world with wrestling television, The Empty Arena Era is done out of no other choice. The Cinematic Era is however done by choice... and it has to go.
For nostalgic purposes alone, it may have been fun for Bray Wyatt to dig out his old persona and it may have been fun to have him step into the ring as part of a long running, multi-persona, feud with Braun Strowman. 'Where's the harm if it's just a one off?' you might say.
Instead, the higher powers saw fit to drop this match in the form of a twenty minute TV movie, which took the finest conventions of horror, ignored them completely, and created a spectacle so contrived and lacking in substance that it was only enjoyable if you laughed at the sheer implausible stupidity of it.
Should arena life ever return to normal, and people look back on the year that wrestling did its damnedest to give out to the world, it's probably best to blinker this event from existence.