WWE Armageddon PPVs - From Worst To Best

6. 2002

The Good: Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit stole the show with a mat-based minor classic. One for the pure wrestling fans, the two talented Smackdown men contested a tight match with the No.1 contendership for the WWE Title on the line. A great deal of the fans sat on their hands until the nearfalls, but the match itself was great. Well worth seeking out, this one. The opening four team elimination World Tag Team Title match was good, but the action was overshadowed by Goldust and Booker T's victory. It was a genuine feel good moment and richly deserved, considering how entertaining they had been for most of the year. The two World Title matches were alright, but nothing exceptional. Big Show and Kurt Angle, who had great chemistry with each other, put on a decent match for the WWE Title. It was overbooked, sure, but it was the right kind of overbooking. It added to the match, rather than took away from it. Triple H and Shawn Michaels' Three Stages of Hell (Street Fight, Ladder and Cage) match was overly long but it had its moments. The Bad: A-Train versus Edge was a snoozefest that did nothing to progress Edge's burgeoning singles career. The Trish/Jacqueline/Victoria triple threat was pretty bad. Kane versus Batista was somehow worse. As bad as those matches were, they were still better than the pathetic segment where Dawn Marie and Torrie Wilson engaging in some softcore foreplay in a hotel room. WWE hyped this up so much, and the commentators sold it so hard, that it came across even more exploitative and lame than it probably should have. Just awful. The Rest: Matt Hardy was supposed to be the man to injure Rey Mysterio and face Edge here, but John Laurinaitis (him again) lobbied for A-Train instead. Because A-Train is bigger and therefore better and more entertaining, you see.