Ranking 2016's WWE PPV Endings From Worst To Best
14. Payback - The McMahons Take Centre Stage
It's never good when the McMahon family hog the spotlight, but that's exactly what happened at Payback. Shane, Stephanie, and Vince engaged in a horrendously overlong in-ring segment earlier in the evening, but things got worse in the main event. Much, much worse.
AJ Styles and Roman Reigns were fighting for the WWE Championship. At the midway point, AJ sent Roman (and himself) crashing through an announce table with his springboard forearm, and Reigns couldn't beat the ensuing ten count. Out come Shane McMahon to make a song and dance, and restart the match without count-outs.
Fans might have been able to stomach this one slice of McMahon family nepotism, but a second followed shortly after. Reigns struck Styles with an accidental low blow, so of course Stephanie McMahon had to come out and restart things for a second time.
Reigns eventually won after interference from The Usos and Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows. The overbooking derailed what could've been an excellent match, and after its conclusion, the cameras immediately cut to the McMahon family backstage. Vince praised his kids for both restarts, then set up a rematch for Extreme Rules: something that could easily have been accomplished on Raw the next night, but who are we to deny the McMahons their spotlight? They are the most consistently pushed characters in the company, after all...