WWE Matches That Were PAINFUL To Watch
3. The Royal Rumble Match (Royal Rumble 2015)
Will time ever be kind to the worst iteration of WWE's best gimmick match?
With the passing years and the various changes in the wrestling industry that have come along with them, the crimes committed against basic pro wrestling promotion in 2015's Royal Rumble don't seem quite as cruel, cynical and outwardly antagonistic.
It's still the work of the worst of Vince McMahon of course; a fool with money that was still years away from resigning in disgrace and digging his heels in further than ever about what he believed wrestling was supposed to be - namely Big Show and Kane destroying your faves, the manky old boss forcing his pet project on everybody, and a sentimental favourite drowning in an organisation that had forgotten the meaning of the word.
A stilted and awkward watch now, it's not hyperbolic to say it was genuinely headache-inducing at the time. It remains the best example of a match where everything - top babyfaces, earned heat for heels, the most beloved concept match in pro wrestling history, everything - dies in front of your very eyes.