WWE Matches That Were PAINFUL To Watch
6. Brock Lesnar Vs Roman Reigns (WrestleMania 38)
The game was gone. There’s an obsession amongst wrestling fans to categorise periods of years by “Era”, mostly because the lines of demarcation for Attitude were broadly clear enough that the most popular one could be easily defined.
The rest are a fallacy though. Nobody called it “Golden” or “Hulkamania” as it was happening - they simply lived it. “Ruthless Aggression” got said on about three shows but it came to apparently sum up most of the grotty and grimy mid-2000s. 2016 preposterously flirted with “The Reality Era”, but the only reality any of us experienced then was that all the NXT faves were going to drown on the main roster.
There are a hundred different synonyms for “worst ever” that could be applied to 2017-2019 WWE, but no one match captures the mood more than Brock Lesnar Vs Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 34. A crowd thinking it’s going one way and hating it, WWE trying so hard not be owned that they book it the other way, and two wrestlers with not a single solitary chance of salvaging it thanks to agenting that had long outlived its relevance. And all as part of, ostensibly, the biggest match of the entire year.
The farce concluded with Lesnar scooping Reigns’ brains out with the point of his elbow. Looked less painful than how being forced to sit through the rest of the match.