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A bad wrestling match isn’t the end of the world, because once it’s over you can put it out of your mind and move onto the next one. A bad pay-per-view main event, however, leaves a sour taste in the mouth because that’s all you get, and you’re left reflecting on the mess that you just saw.
Bad main events can ruin careers of perfectly good superstars, and cause fans to lose faith in a promotion entirely, so it’s no small matter when one occurs that can be ranked as one of the worst of all time.
While some of the matches on this list are just bad examples of pro wrestling, it really focuses on matches that were bad examples of what we think a main event should be, and a lot of the time this is due to reasons beyond the performers’ control.
A bad wrestling match isn’t the end of the world, because once it’s over you can put it out of your mind and move onto the next one. A bad pay-per-view main event, however, leaves a sour taste in the mouth because that’s all you get, and you’re left reflecting on the mess that you just saw.
Bad main events can ruin careers of perfectly good superstars, and cause fans to lose faith in a promotion entirely, so it’s no small matter when one occurs that can be ranked as one of the worst of all time.
While some of the matches on this list are just bad examples of pro wrestling, it really focuses on matches that were bad examples of what we think a main event should be, and a lot of the time this is due to reasons beyond the performers’ control.
- 10/6/2015
- by Kieran Shiach
- Obsessed with Film
2K Sports
2K Sports has released the first additional Dlc showcase mode ‘One More Match’ and patch update 1.03 for WWE 2K15.
2K15’s latest Dlc chronicles every significant moment from Christian and Randy Orton’s World Heavyweight Championship programme from 2011 where the question was asked: Could Captain Charisma reclaim the big one?
Let’s allow the developers to set the scene for you, 2K Sports said:
“One More Match enables players to experience Christian’s triumph and heartbreak throughout the year, including winning the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at Extreme Rules, losing it one night later to Orton and turning his back on his best friend, Edge.”
During the showcase you are able to play as The Apex Predator, Captain Charisma, Edge, Sheamus and Mark Henry as you make your way through SmackDown’s week-to-week story line and pay-per-view matches at Extreme Rules, Over the Limit and Capitol Punishment.
The...
2K Sports has released the first additional Dlc showcase mode ‘One More Match’ and patch update 1.03 for WWE 2K15.
2K15’s latest Dlc chronicles every significant moment from Christian and Randy Orton’s World Heavyweight Championship programme from 2011 where the question was asked: Could Captain Charisma reclaim the big one?
Let’s allow the developers to set the scene for you, 2K Sports said:
“One More Match enables players to experience Christian’s triumph and heartbreak throughout the year, including winning the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at Extreme Rules, losing it one night later to Orton and turning his back on his best friend, Edge.”
During the showcase you are able to play as The Apex Predator, Captain Charisma, Edge, Sheamus and Mark Henry as you make your way through SmackDown’s week-to-week story line and pay-per-view matches at Extreme Rules, Over the Limit and Capitol Punishment.
The...
- 2/4/2015
- by Ross Tweddell
- Obsessed with Film
WWE.com
There comes a point, for every fan of pro-wrestling, where you look through the match card of an upcoming pay-per-view event and frustratingly come to the conclusion you can pretty much guess the outcome of every bout.
More often than not, the most predictable match is the one contested for the most prestigious title in the WWE – now the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, but formerly either the WWE or World Heavyweight Championship. Considering this match is usually the one that headlines the show, the predictability of a pay-per-view’s major title match is what can make or break the show.
Thinking back to that unforgettable Money In The Bank pay-per-view of 2011, what made the main event so captivating was that genuine sense of not knowing who would leave Chicago with the WWE Championship. In this event, Cm Punk was booked as a genuine threat to John Cena.
This article however,...
There comes a point, for every fan of pro-wrestling, where you look through the match card of an upcoming pay-per-view event and frustratingly come to the conclusion you can pretty much guess the outcome of every bout.
More often than not, the most predictable match is the one contested for the most prestigious title in the WWE – now the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, but formerly either the WWE or World Heavyweight Championship. Considering this match is usually the one that headlines the show, the predictability of a pay-per-view’s major title match is what can make or break the show.
Thinking back to that unforgettable Money In The Bank pay-per-view of 2011, what made the main event so captivating was that genuine sense of not knowing who would leave Chicago with the WWE Championship. In this event, Cm Punk was booked as a genuine threat to John Cena.
This article however,...
- 6/25/2014
- by Ryan Baxter
- Obsessed with Film
Do you remember Wrestlemania 27? Most people do, but then when they are asked to recount what they remember most about the big dance they invariably say the brutality of the Triple H-Undertaker fight, or when the Rock Rock Bottomed Cena. Well, this is not an article about either of those things. This is an article about a man who actually won the WWE Championship Main Event at Wrestlemania (albeit with a bit of help from the Rock) who now finds himself being knocked out by the Big Show and getting chewed out by Triple H and his wife for a living.
I speak, of course, of the Miz.
Since that great night at Wrestlemania 27 it hasn’t exactly been salad days for the Awesome One. He lost the title at Extreme Rules and after losing the rematch at Over the Limit, lost to his apprentice Alex Riley at Capitol Punishment.
I speak, of course, of the Miz.
Since that great night at Wrestlemania 27 it hasn’t exactly been salad days for the Awesome One. He lost the title at Extreme Rules and after losing the rematch at Over the Limit, lost to his apprentice Alex Riley at Capitol Punishment.
- 10/6/2013
- by Vectron44
- Obsessed with Film
WWE Superstar Collection: John Cena
It isn’t exactly uncommon to come across wrestling fans that don’t enjoy John Cena matches, and I would go under that description also for the most-part, but I still find a lot of interesting things about the matches that the guy has. He’s the face of WWE and the biggest wrestling star of the last decade, so suffice to say he has had some hot, high-profile feuds with some of the best in the business in the last ten years.
This new release features a collection of John Cena matches. The match choices are seemingly random and would be a perfect introduction to a new fan of the WWE product and John Cena on the whole, while also being a nice little compilation to add to the wrestling DVD collector’s library of releases.
The match quality on the DVD differs from...
It isn’t exactly uncommon to come across wrestling fans that don’t enjoy John Cena matches, and I would go under that description also for the most-part, but I still find a lot of interesting things about the matches that the guy has. He’s the face of WWE and the biggest wrestling star of the last decade, so suffice to say he has had some hot, high-profile feuds with some of the best in the business in the last ten years.
This new release features a collection of John Cena matches. The match choices are seemingly random and would be a perfect introduction to a new fan of the WWE product and John Cena on the whole, while also being a nice little compilation to add to the wrestling DVD collector’s library of releases.
The match quality on the DVD differs from...
- 9/13/2013
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
WWE was an odd beast in 2011 being at times so repetitive and cringeworthy that it made you embarrassed to be a fan and on other occasions so thrilling that you couldn’t imagine living without it. Like a relationship with a schizophrenic, the company delighted with one of its best ever years for sustained PPV quality yet one of its worse for overall direction and booking, showed signs of promoting new talent yet made a mockery of the stars it had tried to push the year before and gripped crowds with fantastic inciting incidents for feuds only to transform them into meaningless rivalries through needlessly rushing the strands of the story.
Throughout all the ups and downs of the year the superstars continued to work tirelessly to entertain the masses in arguably the most relentlessly taxing entertainment profession in the world and all deserve respect for their boundless energy and...
Throughout all the ups and downs of the year the superstars continued to work tirelessly to entertain the masses in arguably the most relentlessly taxing entertainment profession in the world and all deserve respect for their boundless energy and...
- 12/28/2011
- by Laurent Kelly
- Obsessed with Film
Everything can change in a month, two and the whole landscape of a show can be whipped clean. Go back to June and the internet, as ever, was full of rumours. Rumours not of apparent opponents for the WWE champion John Cena, not of news of who may or may not be fired or be given a job, but that a superstars contract was due to expire.
Cm Punk’s contract was apparently in its dying days, no longer months left but weeks and the wrestler was said to be taking a break due to fatigue and general frustration of where his character was heading. Punk was considered a known name on the roster but he wasn’t a “top guy”, he wasn’t a John Cena or even a Randy Orton. The months prior to these rumours popping up, Punk had been wandering aimlessly through the midcard of WWE’s flagship show,...
Cm Punk’s contract was apparently in its dying days, no longer months left but weeks and the wrestler was said to be taking a break due to fatigue and general frustration of where his character was heading. Punk was considered a known name on the roster but he wasn’t a “top guy”, he wasn’t a John Cena or even a Randy Orton. The months prior to these rumours popping up, Punk had been wandering aimlessly through the midcard of WWE’s flagship show,...
- 8/17/2011
- by Jake Anthony
- Obsessed with Film
Hollywoodlife chatted with WWE Superstar Alex Riley! Lucky for us, we learned Six new things about the next big star in the WWE!
How can you not know Alex Riley? A man who has worked in the ring with the likes of The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, John Cena and many other WWE Superstars. He has taken the WWE Universe by storm each and every week on WWE’s flagship show, Monday Night Raw. Recently he took on his former mentor, The Miz in a hard fought match at the WWE Capitol Punishment PPV on June 19 where he found himself victorious and HollywoodLife.com caught up with Alex about his dream matches, his favorite hollywood hottie and much more. Read on to learn six things you never knew about Alex Riley!
1. Would Alex Riley ever want to appear in a WWE film?
“You know that is so far ahead.
How can you not know Alex Riley? A man who has worked in the ring with the likes of The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, John Cena and many other WWE Superstars. He has taken the WWE Universe by storm each and every week on WWE’s flagship show, Monday Night Raw. Recently he took on his former mentor, The Miz in a hard fought match at the WWE Capitol Punishment PPV on June 19 where he found himself victorious and HollywoodLife.com caught up with Alex about his dream matches, his favorite hollywood hottie and much more. Read on to learn six things you never knew about Alex Riley!
1. Would Alex Riley ever want to appear in a WWE film?
“You know that is so far ahead.
- 6/26/2011
- by Russ Weakland
- HollywoodLife
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