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00:00 "Everybody likes to win. I like to win. But I don't always win. And that makes me

00:05 sad. Wrestlers like to win too, but weirdly it's not actually up to how good they are

00:10 at things like being really good at Connect 4. Yes, I'm still sore about that little

00:14 nephew Benny. You know I didn't mean to put it there."

00:18 For wrestlers, the decision about whether they win or lose is made for them. And sometimes,

00:24 that decision is very, very wrong. Many careers have been derailed by a steady stream of bad

00:29 WWE booking over the years. But sometimes, you can isolate one specific match where it

00:36 has ended any chance of that character ever working again.

00:40 I'm Oli Davis hailing from PartsFanone, and these are the 10 most harmful losses in

00:46 WWE history.

00:47 Before I get into the list, please do give us a subscribe at PartsFanone for lists, quiz

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02:00 10. Alexa Bliss beats Bayley - Extreme Rules 2017

02:05 Not every entry on this list completely kills the career of the person losing. In this case,

02:10 it was just enough to kill their massively over babyface character and push. There have

02:15 been few rivalries quite as damaging to a babyface as the Alexa Bliss feud was to Bayley

02:20 in 2017. Despite being the shining beacon of sunshine smiles and rainbows in NXT, and

02:26 probably the easiest babyface to book in years, Bayley was having a hard time on Raw. She'd

02:31 openly admitted that she didn't deserve to be the Raw Women's Champion, and then after

02:36 that she lost the title to Alexa Bliss in her hometown. It was under the good old fashioned

02:41 'Kendo stick on a pole match' rules. Taking place at Extreme Rules that year, the story

02:46 of the match was meant to be Bayley finding a way to overcome her self-imposed moral disadvantage

02:51 that she wouldn't use a weapon to win to regain her title from the dastardly Bliss.

02:56 Instead, she lost. Because in WWE, babyfaces lose. Remember that, kids. Your heroes lose

03:04 here.

03:05 9. CM Punk beats Ryback - Hell in a Cell 2012

03:09 By itself, in a vacuum, this match actually feels like a bit of a success. And a vacuum,

03:14 funnily enough, is an appropriate place to put this match, because it sucks. Ryback had

03:20 been WWE's latest big muscle man to squash his way through jobbers all summer, and by

03:24 the time Hell in a Cell rolled around and John Cena's injury meant he couldn't face

03:28 Punk at the pay-per-view like originally intended, Ryback was their choice for a replacement,

03:34 suddenly igniting the push powder keg they'd been fuelling.

03:37 The match pulled a huge buy rate for the time, pitting Ryback's undefeated streak against

03:42 the year-long reign of CM Punk in a Hell in a Cell stipulation that must have a finish.

03:47 This was in a more innocent time, when Hell in a Cell matches had actual finishes, but

03:52 WWE had booked themselves into a corner, not wanting to beat either guy, so they instead

03:57 turned the Mad Ox Brad Maddox into a heel referee, pinning Ryback and forever halting

04:04 whatever momentum he had going for him.

04:07 8. Triple H beats Booker T - WrestleMania 19

04:11 This one is harmful for an entirely different reason. Not only was the story naturally set

04:16 up for Triple H to lose the World Heavyweight Championship to Booker T, but it was kind

04:20 of the only morally just way to go as well. The build to their match at WrestleMania 19

04:26 has remained one of the most infamous ever because this is the story where the bad guy

04:30 says racist things and then gets away with the racist things because in WWE, your heroes

04:36 lose. Remember kids, your heroes lose here. And as if screwing the easy moral victory

04:42 over the bad guy story wasn't enough, Triple H took forever to pin Booker after his pedigree,

04:48 making his opponent look even weaker. Booker T would never be taken seriously again as

04:52 a top talent in WWE, only winning the title years later as King Booker.

04:57 7. Goldberg beats The Fiend - Super Showdown 2020

05:02 At one point, The Fiend wasn't just the hottest act in WWE, he was the hottest act

05:07 in wrestling, his Hell in a Cell anticipation arguably overshadowing AEW Dynamite's debut

05:13 on TV that same week. Just five months after that, Goldberg beat The Fiend for the Universal

05:19 Title at a show in Saudi Arabia. If you ever needed a visual representation of WWE choosing

05:25 the then over elevating a star of the now and the forever, this was it.

05:31 Goldberg didn't just beat the previously invincible Fiend, he beat him incredibly decisively,

05:36 with somehow only the second worst jackhammer performed in Saudi Arabia. If Hell in a Cell

05:41 2019 was the first nail in the coffin, this was one of the most over gimmicks in recent

05:46 times, fully being slain.

05:49 Speaking of Saudi Arabia, the place where nothing good happens in wrestling…

05:53 6. Brock Lesnar beats Ricochet - Super Showdown 2020

06:00 Now Goldberg beating The Fiend wasn't the most damaging loss to come out of Super Showdown

06:04 2020. Because even though The Fiend lost to Goldberg, his next appearance was staring

06:09 down John Cena with the WrestleMania sign in view, which was followed up by the genre-breaking

06:14 Firefly Funhouse match.

06:15 The same can't be said for Ricochet. Brock Lesnar broke and ripped him apart like a deer

06:20 carcass at Super Showdown, and a few days later, Ricochet lost to Riddick Moss for the

06:25 24/7 title. Ricochet could be the best WWE high flyer ever, but this match clipped his

06:32 wings. The term 'burial' is thrown around a lot these days, and more often than not,

06:36 it isn't used appropriately. This, however, was a burial six feet deep that Ricochet has

06:41 never been fully able to flip out of.

06:44 5. John Cena beats Bray Wyatt - WrestleMania 30

06:48 It's not often that one guy has more than one of the most devastating losses in wrestling

06:52 history, but here we are. I guess that's a testament to Bray Wyatt's creativity, that

06:56 he managed to build a just-as-over new gimmick from the ruins of his first cult leader character.

07:02 Wyatt Family Era Bray vs John Cena felt like a perfect narrative fit. Sure, the story got

07:07 some supernatural spookiness, but it'll all be ok when Bray pins Cena at the grandest

07:11 stage of them all. Oh no wait, Cena wins LOL.

07:14 WrestleMania 30 saw Cena beat Wyatt clean, at the exact moment Wyatt needed a big stage

07:19 credible win to fully reach his main event tier. Instead, afterwards, Bray went full

07:24 spooky spooky in the aftermath, quickly devolved into a character that called upon spooky ghost

07:30 children to do his bidding. Which was not what made the original character work so well.

07:36 4. John Cena beats Damian Sandow - Raw 2013

07:40 In a two-for-one special, today you don't just get to witness the harm being done to

07:44 Damian Sandow, but also to the Money in the Bank contract - a stipulation WWE really did

07:50 not need to kill the way they did. After winning the World Heavyweight Championship

07:54 from Alberto Del Rio, John Cena was jumped by Damian Sandow, who cashed in his Money

07:59 in the Bank contract, and after some brief tussling, Cena dispatched Sandow out of the

08:04 main event scene, to which he would never return. Sandow really went from Mr Money in

08:09 the Bank to losing title shots for the Intercontinental Championship in a matter of like two months.

08:15 This loss was the end of any hope Sandow had as a main eventer, and even more still, this

08:20 was the first real and true Money in the Bank cash-in failure. WWE clearly wanted to get

08:25 to the title unification that was just down the road, and ditch the Money in the Bank

08:29 briefcase rather than complicate their storyline.

08:33 3. John Cena beats Brock Lesnar - Extreme Rules 2012

08:37 Cena wins, lol, was a meme for a reason. You might like him now because he had a few US

08:42 title matches on Raw six years ago, but suffering succotash did he hold a lot of guys down.

08:47 In this instance, Brock Lesnar had returned to WWE after 8 years away, during which time

08:53 he had become UFC Heavyweight Champion and the biggest pay-per-view box office draw of

08:57 the previous four years. You could not make it easier to print money for the 18 months

09:02 that followed his return. Think of how much bigger it would have felt to have seen an

09:06 unbeaten Brock Lesnar face The Undertaker at WrestleMania for the streak. Instead, John

09:11 Cena beat Brock Lesnar in his first match back. Never again will the stars align like

09:17 this for WWE. And what makes it worse is Cena didn't even need this win, he lost to John

09:22 Laurinaitis a month afterwards. Don't know what happened to that Lesnar guy though, hope

09:27 he's alright. Cool tats.

09:29 2. Team WWE beats The Nexus - SummerSlam 2010

09:34 John Cena wins LOL again! And it's arguably the most egregious example. Not just ruining

09:40 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 wrestlers, but 7 potential new stars all in one match. You've almost

09:49 got to admire the efficiency. John Cena led Team WWE into battle over The

09:54 Nexus at SummerSlam 2010. This 7-on-7 elimination match was the first time we had seen The Nexus

10:00 on a big stage, and had they won this match, this could have made the careers of all involved

10:06 or at the very least the top few. Instead, this mostly even tag match just shifts into

10:12 ludicrous speed and John Cena kicks out of a DDT on the floor and beats Justin Gabriel

10:17 and Wade Barrett two on one. Rarely have we ever seen such damage done to a group in one

10:22 go. Chris Jericho and Edge would later reveal how

10:26 they told John Cena this was a bad idea. They were right, never again with The Nexus

10:31 taken anywhere near as seriously. Which Cena helped again the following night on Raw by

10:35 comparing them all to fast food mascots. Honestly, this was so bad I stopped watching

10:40 WWE for half a year after it happened, where I went off to become an Ubermark watching

10:45 Ring of Honor and all the coolest indie promotions you haven't heard of.

10:48 But even despite that, the thing that nearly killed my wrestling fandom, objectively, there

10:53 is one loss that, ironically, beats all others.

10:57 1. Brock Lesnar beats Kofi Kingston - Smackdown 2090

11:02 In one of WWE's biannual moments of giving fans what they wanted, they went right back

11:07 hard to their default 'your heroes lose' booking.

11:11 After one of the all-time great WrestleMania moments, Kofi Kingston's WWE Championship

11:16 reign was ended by Brock Lesnar in just 7 seconds on the Smackdown debut on Fox, killing

11:22 Kofi so bad he fell from top champion to tag wrestler forevermore.

11:27 Kofi has barely been in touching distance of the WWE Championship since, and despite

11:32 one very effective detail where Kofi was asked about the title and he played it cool while

11:36 also crushing a pancake in his hand, really, he hasn't added any of that fire into his

11:41 character. Because in WWE, your heroes lose. They lose and it doesn't mean anything.

11:47 Remember kids, your heroes lose then, now, forever, together.

11:53 Almost ironic that John Cena says that sting, isn't it?

11:55 What do you think is the most harmful loss in WWE history? Let me know in the comments

11:59 down below. But it's not all bad. Subscribe and go watch 10 wrestlers who survived horrible

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