WWE Elimination Chamber: 10 Worst Matches Ever

8. Alberto Del Rio vs The Big Show - Elimination Chamber (2013)

World Heavyweight Championship Match http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVgOIh3QwKk Last year's Elimination Chamber event was a mixed bag to say the least. With the drawing power of The Rock bringing home a strong buy-rate in his second straight main event with CM Punk and the excellent, career making 6-Man Tag victory by The Shield over super-powers John Cena, Sheamus & Ryback, the event was a noteworthy one, in particular contrast to it's predecessor which remains anything but. However, two big matches on this show left a sour taste in my mouth. The first was the opener for the World Title. Del Rio was shortly into a babyface turn that even the most casual of fans could have told you wasn't going to work. Having defeated Big Show for the 'Big Gold Belt', in a great Last Man Standing Match at the turn of the year, WWE decided, as they tend to do, to milk the response for all it was worth with yet another Last Man Standing Match and then, if it weren't enough for Del Rio to keep Big Show down twice, another regular match on this event. The match was unremarkable and completely obsolete. Nobody cared. WWE, at the time, seemed determined to get Del Rio over as a top Hispanic babyface with Sin Cara and Rey Mysterio both on the shelf for the foreseeable future, as that market has always been a large draw for the company and clearly felt a submission win over Big Show would go some ways to getting him there. The problem was - and still is- that Del Rio just wasn't all that likeable. Everything from his look, his voice, his music stemmed from a stern effort WWE had previously made to establish him as a top heel; they were fighting against their own creation with this. Take away his expensive cars, try to make his music more upbeat, script his promos to sound like some pioneering, Mexican hero; nobody bought it. As for the World Title, it had been long since that belt made the man. Simply put, this didn't work. The angle, nor the match. It was a waste of time.