Ranking What Was REALLY The Worst Wrestling Match Every Year 1990-2021

7. 2015 - Royal Rumble Match, WWE Royal Rumble

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By unceremoniously and studiously tossing out the internet darlings of the day, it was as if Vince McMahon personally picked up every bit of nice food from the shelves, left only the full English breakfast in a tin, Kane and the Big Show, and told you to eat up or f*cking starve, you smark c*nt.

And you were hardly going to go with Kane or Big Show, so you ate the full English breakfast in a tin. You didn't. You stopped watching WWE at a rate well beyond normal TV viewership.

But that was the idea behind a staggeringly antagonistic Royal Rumble match that was effectively the opposite of a good wrestling match. A good wrestling match is meant to build towards a thrilling climax.

This wrestling match crawled towards spiteful, wildly unpopular disappointment.

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