The WORST Wrestling Moment Every Year (1989 - 2025)

8. 2018 | DX Kill The Revival

Terri Runnels
WWE.com

WWE super-fans are, in a word, f*cked. 

In their hearts, bones, and guts, they could watch the greatest display of pro wrestling they have ever seen, but if this happened to be an AEW match, their brainwashed minds would deny them this feeling because a company with a different set of initials promoted it. Chris Jericho was great between 1999 and 2017, but by 2018, he was finished. Past-it. Too old. Back to his best in 2026, though!

Brian Pillman, Jr. is the next Mr. Perfect - the problem is that Tony Khan “fumbled” his boundless potential. Je’Von Evans is the future - but if he did what does in NXT on Dynamite, move for move and frame for frame, he’d be a gymnast who doesn’t sell. 

The Manhattan Center portion of Raw 25 was so bad that these WWE fans, the hardest of the hardcores, booed the show out of the building. These fans, who paid a fortune before it was the going rate, were rewarded with a terrible, nothing Undertaker promo and a micro-penised D-Generation X reunion. 

The Revival lost to Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson in one minute and 50 seconds after calling DX out. DX then smashed one of the best tag teams on the planet with their finishers because they were over once, they held power, and they’re also very cool and hard. This sort of thing was insufferable, and Raw 25 was the worst example ever. It’s sad enough when these old-timers fancy one last pop on a shindie. This was the biggest WWE TV show of the year, and Road Dogg (over in 1998 and that’s it) needed his pop.

The only word here is “pathetic”. Triple H is a pathetic man - Chevy Chase if he wasn’t funny. 

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!