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To close out what’s honestly been a pretty rubbish year, Adam Blampied is running down the most rubbish wrestling matches that people had to pay their hard earned money to watch.
#WWE #AEW #Top10
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00:00 Gosh, there were some good wrestling matches in 2021, weren't there?
00:03 Just a quick note that my list of favorite matches that's on PFK right now, you should
00:07 go and check it out, didn't include Hangman vs. Danielson's ridiculous 60-minute Broadway
00:12 because I wrote it before that happened.
00:14 Just know that it would have made it because holy cowboy S-word, he landed on his feet!
00:18 Look at him!
00:19 Like cowboys do!
00:20 Anyway, I'm sad to inform you that not every wrestling match was as good as my top 10.
00:24 In fact, quite the opposite.
00:26 Some were either a waste of time, laughably produced, or the old classic, a slap in the
00:30 face with a giant clown glove stuffed with rotten eggs and piss.
00:34 To close out what's honestly been a pretty rubbish year, we're running down the most
00:37 rubbish wrestling matches that people had to pay their hard-earned money to watch.
00:42 I'm Adam Hailing from PartsFunknown, here are my 10 worst PPV matches of 2021.
00:47 And hey, subscribe!
00:48 Make that your New Year's resolution.
00:50 Otherwise, the matches in 2022 will be just as bad.
00:54 The only way you can stop that from happening is by subscribing.
00:57 Guaranteed.
00:58 Not a guaranteed.
00:59 10.
01:00 Braun Strowman vs Elias - Fastlane
01:02 Hey, do you guys remember the "Braun Strowman is a dumb, dumb" storyline between the Monster
01:06 Among Men and Shane McMahon?
01:07 That was a WrestleMania feud, you guys, culminating with an admittedly very impressive spot that
01:11 seems to have finally slain the sweaty dragonite Shane McMahon's omnipresence on WWE programming.
01:17 Anyway, the storyline basically consists of Shane coming out and saying "Haduh" at a confused
01:21 and angry Braun, then dodging a fight, and it kept happening, and happening, and happening.
01:25 Part of the filler used to stretch this hot glop of nothing out for literal months of
01:29 all of our lives was Braun Strowman vs Elias - Shane's music-tinged heavy who was also
01:33 shackled by the ankle to Jackson f---ing Riker at the time - Elias, where have you gone?
01:38 No one benefited from this four minutes of dreck.
01:41 Not Strowman, mired in an awful storyline.
01:43 Not Elias, who got jobbed all the way out.
01:44 And not Shane, because he's sentient spam.
01:46 9.
01:47 Dewdrop vs Zelina Vega - Crown Jewel Ah, WWE's legacy of bad things in the name
01:52 of Saudi money continued apace with Crown Jewel, which was, annoyingly, from a show
01:56 quality perspective, pretty darn fine.
01:58 Heartbreaking, that.
01:59 Between the main, the opener, and the very good indeed women's triple threat, the show
02:02 was a giant step up from past indignities.
02:04 However, there was at least one stinker on the card, courtesy of Dewdrop vs Zelina Vega
02:08 to crown the first ever Queen's Crown... the Crown Queen of Crown Jewels in the Queen's
02:13 crap.
02:14 Just call it Queen of the Ring, Jesus wept.
02:16 Honestly, this match is partially on the list, not just because it was bad and it was, with
02:19 Dewdrop randomly wrestling heel for no reason and with no build up, but it's also here to
02:22 talk about how bewilderingly bad the entire tournament was, with the matches given an
02:26 insulting lack of ring time, both compared to the King of the Ring matches, and matches
02:30 in general.
02:31 Bell to bell, totally, every single match's run time in the entire tournament added up,
02:35 came to 19 minutes and 24 seconds.
02:38 An average of 2 minutes and 46 seconds per match.
02:42 Bleak that in the year of our lord 2021.
02:44 8.
02:45 The Pizza Thing - Survivor Series F***ing hell, WWE has really stepped up their
02:50 huckster game this year, haven't they?
02:52 Presenting to the god of crowbarred capitalist content like a cat in deep heat.
02:56 Don't get me wrong, WWE hasn't been cool in decades, but there's something especially
03:00 dispiriting about the intro package to Survivor Series, the second oldest pay-per-view on
03:04 WWE's books no less, being a trailer for Red Notice.
03:07 Vince grumbling to himself about eggs, Xavier Woods hawking water from Nestle, one of the
03:13 world's most notoriously shady companies, the army of the dead stuff which we'll f***ing
03:17 get to, and then there's this.
03:18 A pointless, heatless mess of prat falling and pizzas, a battle royal ostensibly to celebrate
03:23 25 years of The Rock, when in actuality just a platform for wrestlers to point at some
03:26 pizza, cross their eyes, smile, zany antics, I'm just so tired all of the time I legitimately
03:32 can't remember who won the match, and I refuse to look it up in case a street prophet's
03:35 reach through my monitor and slowly push an entire pepperoni through my eyeball.
03:38 7.
03:39 The Women's Tag Team Turmoil Match - WrestleMania 37
03:43 Let me just prime my hypocrisy cannons.
03:45 Remember a few entries ago when I ragged on the Queen's Crown Tournament for being too
03:48 short?
03:49 Well, WWE sure as hell overcorrected at WrestleMania, didn't they, bringing us a Women's Tag Team
03:52 Turmoil match that went 15 minutes, which felt like 90, and the only thing I can remember
03:56 from the entire thing is that Mandy Rose slipped and fell on her bum walking down to the ring,
04:00 something that affected her so deeply it changed her hair color, and won her the NXT Women's
04:03 Championship.
04:04 It was so boring it almost broke WrestleMania, even fans being in attendance for the first
04:08 time in over a year couldn't give it any juice, a drab parade of quick matches, almost
04:13 no spots to speak of, and over the course of the two-night WrestleMania, Tamina wrestled
04:17 a total of half an hour, more than all of the Queen's Crown competitors combined.
04:22 Please WWE, is there not a middle ground between a five-minute tournament final and half an
04:27 hour of Tamina?
04:28 Please WWE, is there not?
04:30 6.
04:31 Becky Lynch vs. Bianca Belair SummerSlam
04:33 Bloody hell, though.
04:34 WWE's incomprehensible booking of their women's division has been a real story of this year,
04:38 and in one of the biggest f***-cues to their fans in recent memory, this happened at SummerSlam.
04:42 Now to be clear, the concept of having beloved anti-hero Becky Lynch returning, doubling
04:47 down on the obnoxiousness that her character already had before she left to make a little
04:50 rollinch, and turning heel right in the middle of a welcome home parade on one of the biggest
04:54 shows of the year, that's a fun and interesting idea.
04:57 And indeed, Big Time Bex has been great since they clarified it was a heel turn, but god
05:01 damn did they not make that clear at SummerSlam itself.
05:03 Becky Lynch returned, cheap-shotted Bianca Belair, and ended her unstoppable run post-WrestleMania
05:08 in 26 seconds.
05:09 WWE have handled the EST with care since then, but this felt like a huge slap in the face,
05:14 making Bianca seem like a rookie for the sake of a brief pop.
05:17 And there's legitimately no reason why this couldn't have been a full match with an actual
05:21 narrative that clearly demonstrated Becky cheating to win, a potentially great story
05:26 handled in the worst possible way.
05:28 5.
05:29 The Barbed Wire Exploding Ring Deathmatch Revolution
05:32 Sorry guys, but, I mean, yeah.
05:35 Sorry.
05:36 AEW are currently the hottest fire they've ever been, thanks to a combination of huge
05:39 defections, barnstorming matches, and consistent long-term booking slowly but surely paying
05:43 off.
05:44 But that is not to say that everything's been smooth sailing this year, with AEW still trailing
05:47 WWE in terms of basic production.
05:50 For the most part, it almost works in AEW's favor.
05:53 It's less micromanaged, there's fewer camera cuts, the lack of a glossy sheen makes it
05:56 feel a bit more real, a bit more intense.
05:58 But sometimes it blows up in the company's face, especially when what they planned doesn't
06:02 blow up in the company's face.
06:03 At Revolution, Kenny Omega fought Mox in a barbed wire exploding ring deathmatch, with
06:07 the stip being that if the timer expired, the ring would explode.
06:11 The match itself was pretty good, lots of stupid barbed wire ring rope splody spots.
06:15 Then after the match, Kenny and friends left Moxley for dead in the ring, Eddie Kingston
06:18 turned face to save his best friend, the highest of drama, the countdown reached zero, and
06:23 then…
06:24 Oh no.
06:25 Oh absolutely no, though.
06:26 Genuinely, it's one of the worst bits of wrestling production… maybe ever?
06:30 And it's not about casting blame, it's just a simple fact.
06:33 This is f***ing embarrassing.
06:34 The only time to date that the ending of an AEW pay-per-view has been booed down by its
06:38 fans, ruining what could have been a moment of the year.
06:41 Sometimes a match is only as good as its finish, and this is one of the worst finishes of the
06:45 year.
06:46 It's not the worst, though.
06:47 Number 4.
06:48 Roman Reigns vs. Demon Finn Balor Extreme Rules
06:50 F*** me, Purple.
06:52 Talk about a great match that no one will ever remember because they're too busy pissing
06:55 themselves laughing at one of the worst finishes since that Hell in a Cell match.
06:58 A finish so monumentally embarrassing and character-destroying that it might just have
07:02 put an end to Demon Finn for good, old-yellow style.
07:05 Much like the exploding ring match, the actual meat and potatoes of Reigns vs. Balor was
07:09 really good because both men are really good.
07:12 Lots of big spots, crazy athleticism, and then there's this.
07:16 Suddenly the lights go red, Finn starts flopping on the ground like a salmon with a cattle
07:19 prod up its arse.
07:20 Think hulking up, but if the thing hulking up is a Newcastle man on the floor of a train
07:24 after passing out from eight pints of Newky Brown.
07:27 The Duracell Demon pops up, sets Roman up for a coup de grace when the top rope kayfabe
07:31 breaks and the Demon lands on his stupid face, eats a spear, main roster undefeated streak
07:35 over.
07:36 How do you get something so wrong so hard?
07:39 Number 3.
07:40 Alexa Bliss vs. Shayna Baszler - Hell in a Cell
07:42 Spoiler, the rest of this list is going to be WWE trying and failing to do spooky bulls***.
07:47 You've been warned.
07:48 Alexa Bliss has had a hell of a 2021, from her beloved pig Larry Steve passing away to
07:52 having all of the internet's worst wrestling fans coming after her for air quote "stealing
07:57 the fiend's gimmick".
07:58 If your reaction to WWE dropping the ball on The Fiend was to go after a performer just
08:02 doing the job asked of her, have a long think as to whether or not wrestling might be too
08:05 academic for you.
08:06 Anyway, most of what WWE had Alexa doing this year was dreadful, the result of an 8-year-old
08:10 being tasked with rewriting Beetlejuice in 20 minutes.
08:13 The match with Randy at Fastlane, the match with Eva at SummerSlam, the Winking Doll,
08:17 all of it a hodgepodge of hackneyed horror tropes with no actual substance, story, or
08:21 game plan.
08:22 But even worse than all of this was this, Alexa vs one of the greatest and most legit
08:25 NXT champions in history, Shayna Baszler.
08:28 All of this sucked, from Shayna being scared at the fact that Alexa Bliss is famously double
08:32 jointed, to Reginald's oh no scary horseplay at ringside, to a laughably sh*tty possession
08:37 of Nia Jax, none of which, of course, played into the finish of the match in any way shape
08:41 or form.
08:42 Don't worry though, it does get worse.
08:43 2.
08:44 The Fiend vs Randy Orton, WrestleMania 37
08:47 One year on from the Firefly Funhouse, this is what we get, this is what we deserve.
08:51 The months of The Fiend stalking Randy, Randy setting The Fiend on fire, Alexa prophesying
08:56 his return like the Hot Topic Silver Surfer, The Fiend returning like a burnt pizza roll,
09:00 this is the payoff.
09:01 The Fiend appears out of a jack in the box, which you know what could have been great,
09:04 but then gets distracted by Alexa looking like a mannequin of Hella from Thor Ragnarok
09:08 melting in the Florida heat.
09:10 Randy hits the RKO, that's your lot.
09:12 Five minutes.
09:13 One promo aside, that was a wrap on Bray Wyatt in WWE.
09:18 One year removed from the Funhouse, one of the best things WWE ever produced, what a
09:22 clear statement they had no f***ing idea what they had in their hands.
09:26 What a waste of time, money, fan investment, Bray's creativity.
09:30 When John Cena's dad cuts a promo on how s*** your booking of a match is, that is saying
09:36 something.
09:37 I don't know man, I'm sure someone out there liked it.
09:38 Maybe Randy's kids?
09:39 I'm just tired of hoping for the best.
09:41 And number one, those f***ing zombies, WrestleMania backlash.
09:45 Army of the Dead is a terrible film, Army of the Dead sponsored WrestleMania backlash.
09:49 That sponsorship took the form of zombies appearing on the Thunderdome screens, okay
09:52 that's a bit clever.
09:53 Zombies appearing backstage in the locker rooms, okay that's some cornball s***, but
09:56 WWE has done worse.
09:58 And then WWE did worse.
09:59 The Miz fought Damien Priest in the Lumberjack match, and all of those Lumberjacks were zombies,
10:04 and all the wrestlers had to pretend to be afraid of them.
10:06 It's worse than Robocop, it's worse than Chucky, it's the worst example of WWE being
10:11 a baby show for f***ing babies.
10:13 John Morrison did the parkour stuff with zombies.
10:15 The Miz got killed and eaten by zombies after suffering a major real life injury and wrestling
10:20 on like a f***ing hero.
10:21 Damien Priest continued his run as WWE's pop culture liaison after the Bad Bunny stuff.
10:25 What's worse is that literally every other match on the backlash card was great.
10:30 Reigns Cesaro, Ripley Sharla Asuka, Lashley, Strowman, McIntyre, all shown up by the presence
10:34 of this clown car pootling down the ramp, exploding and dominating the conversation.
10:39 The E in WWE stands for Entertainment.
10:42 WWE have produced some absolute classics this year, and almost every single PPV they've
10:47 put out, there has been a potential match of the year candidate, and there's also
10:50 been one of these.
10:52 Happy New Year everyone.
10:53 Can't wait to do this again next year.
10:55 And that's our list.
10:56 What's been your least favourite match of the year?
10:59 Let us know in the comments, and don't forget to like and subscribe to partsFUNknown if
11:02 you want more silly wrestling content in 2022.
11:05 Happy New Year everyone, and Jam That Jam.
11:08 (Outro)