 What's good, Josh or Ross back again with another video. So I'm going to check out 10 worst wrestling matches with the best builds. Now, this is, I guess you can say a rare career occurrence. It doesn't happen often where the build to a match is really well, like the feud is intense. You're buying into the competitors, their gripes with each other, their issues with each other. You believe the story that they're telling with the feud only for the match to get there and a false flat, whatever the case may be. The match doesn't flow well or, you know, people lose interest in the match after such an amazing hype, which does happen. But it can kind of bring down the entire feud if the match doesn't live up to how good the build is. And I think a lot of times fans have gotten accustomed to buying into the build more than the actual match. I've seen it, you know, a few times where, you know, the story and what they were trying to tell leading up to the match was fantastic. And then fans kind of lose interest when the match actually happens. So it's not all the time that that does happen, but the times that do happen, the rare chances where the feud is really, really good in the match is just bad. It, you know, it's one of those things there that, you know, sometimes it occurs. So we're going to check out some of those moments when it did happen. Appreciate all of the support you guys shown on the channel. Let's get right into it. There are countless examples of hot feuds that just couldn't cut it. Come crunch time inside the ring at the best or worst of them are here. So enjoy reliving epic, well thought out story beats and cringing when remembering what happened next when you arguably counted most. So I am Gareth here from what culture wrestling and here are the 10 worst wrestling matches with the best builds. Number 10, Bret Hart versus Vince McMahon when WWE WrestleMania 26. Bret Hart's unlikely WWE return in 2010 remained one of wrestling's most obvious too late guys moments. The hitman wasn't physically the same as he'd been 13 years earlier during the Montreal Screwjob day. Wasn't even cleared to bump. But Vince McMahon was determined to put a bow on that story once and for all. So he and Bret tussled in an awkward calamity of a match at WrestleMania 26. Before getting there though, the pair worked in some wonderful dueling promos that whisked people back to the late 1990s. At times Hart seemed legitimately fired up at Vince and things looked promising if significant bells and whistles were used to help them brawl. Bret patched things up with old enemy Shawn Michaels then received a swift boot in the balls from McMahon for daring to expect the same apology. It was dramatic, it was over the top and it was deserving of better than the Hart clan almost turning Vince babyface by accident's communion. Oh, what could have been a number nine Adam Cole? Yeah, no, it's that should have been a lot better considering how real the feud and situation was. All those years ago, it did not land. It did not stick to landing. More or less, it was like a cool visual to see Bret standing over Vince triumphant. But the match itself was to be desired is being nice about it versus Chris Jericho when AWW double or nothing 2023. This is a super recent example of frankly dreadful payoff to a story that rumbled along quite nicely on television. Both Chris Jericho and Adam Cole played their roles to the hilt on episodes of Dynamite and Rampage. The latter sea show even included a thumping pull apart hockey style fight that you needed to see. Throughout, Cole played the fiery babyface who couldn't be stopped with a plumber and Jericho knew exactly when to act like a coward. His CW original Sabu even dropped by as Cole's insurance policy against the Jericho Appreciation Society. It was wrestling one-on-one, I say, but then the bell sounded at double or nothing and things just fell apart. It was a total bummer to be honest. Jericho and Cole worked a painfully slow unsanctioned match that barely made use of Sabu's AEW arrival or thrilled fans at all. The 19 minute clangor sucked and might actually be one of the worst all elite pay-per-view matches ever. They just couldn't match the hefty build come pay-per-view time. Now let's take a break from the negativity for a second and I wanna ask you what's been your favorite AEW pay-per-view match ever? Let me know in that comment section right down below this video. Yeah, it didn't, it didn't land once again. If you was, I wouldn't say it was great. It was enjoyable what they were doing. It was definitely cool. It wasn't like the best, but it was good. It's just, you watch that match. It's a lot of people just kind of quiet in the crowd just like there. It's never really a good sign considering these are the most over people in your company. Like people just didn't care. Video. Number eight, Randy Savage versus Jake Roberts. When WWF Saturday night's main event the 8th of February, 1992. This could be a controversial one, but here goes. Wrestling will never forget that snake biting angle Jake Roberts and Randy Savage worked on superstars towards the end of 1991. It was one of the most shocking things that had ever happened on WWF screens and it should have led to ultimate revenge for Randy. Matt Shulman and his snake loving nemesis had exactly three matches after that. One of them happened on an MSG house show special. Another came at the this Tuesday in Texas pay-per-view and the other was in early February, 1992 on Saturday night's main event. Sadly, it lasted approximately five minutes and didn't probably avenge Jake's evil behavior. The brief scuffle was heated, but there was something missing. If anything, their rivalry had become so violent it needed to peak on a big time pay-per-view. For sure. The man had other plans for both come WrestleMania though. So they were landed with an uninspiring blow off in the end. Number seven, Becky Langevers. If you let your fucking pit snake bite me and I can't escape, it needs to be personal. It needs to be... We need to have some real type of stipulation at a bigger pay-per-view. There needs to be pull-up parts. There needs to be a match that decides in all type situation, like a hell in a cell. Obviously, a hell in a cell wasn't really a thing back then at that time, but I'm saying something that lets the fans know this has gotten real personal. This is not a normal match. They're gonna try to murder each other legitimately in the ring. So it could have been handled better considering how personal the few were supposed to get. This is Charlotte Flair versus Ronda Rousey when WWE WrestleMania 35. Firstly, it's important to say that these women deserve to headline WrestleMania 35. Or to be more accurate, Becky Lynch versus Ronda Rousey deserved to main event the biggest show of the year. Charlotte Flair was just kind of thrown in there by Vince McMahon during the bill to add extra value. Fans had been teased with the man versus the baddest woman on the planet for a while though. So there was something unsatisfying about the queen just poking a nose in. Regardless, things looked promising when the trio worked a dramatic parking lot brawl skit. That shit was cool. If that WrestleMania, I think that was the WrestleMania where it was like fucking eight hours or some shit. I think that may have been that WrestleMania. I think that may have been like the last WrestleMania where it was like down to eight hours. Should have been a shorter WrestleMania, but they deserve the main event. This whole parking lot brawl, even though Charlotte shouldn't have been in the mix, this shit was cool though. This was just a cool segment. Saw Cop show up to arrest them following some seriously meaty strikes. The WrestleMania match just couldn't live up to the billing in the end. It was little more than a standard triple threat that came at the end of a long show. And the botched finish, my bad, it wasn't eight hours, it was five hours. Look at that. Five hours, bro. That's just as bad. It might as well have been fucking eight hours. That's a long ash. No, everyone's tired at that point. I think everyone's just like ready to go home at that point. That's why I'm glad they do WrestleMania two nights. At first I wasn't a big fan of it, but I've gotten accustomed to it and it works. And it gives people the opportunity to really, more people the opportunity to have that WrestleMania payday. And you can compare which night had the better night. And the past few years, they've been pretty solid. This year's past WrestleMania was pretty damn good. Still night one was fucking fantastic. Night two had some good stuff on there as well. So I'm glad they shortened it. But I mean, what can you do when you've been on your main event in the show? People were tired. Doesn't matter who was in that damn ring. People were tired just being there at the arena longer than five hours for sure. Watching wrestling at one time, it's only so much you can take. Oh, I'm the botched finish certainly didn't help. This is another what could have been situation for WWE. Bex versus Ronda would have probably been better on its own. Number six, Brock Lesnar versus Goldberg. When WWE WrestleMania 20. Yes, this belongs here. No, don't make that face. It does. It does. All right. The beauty of WWE's bill towards Brock Lesnar versus Goldberg was simplicity. Creative didn't over egg the pudding by trying to squeeze in awkward comedy or too many gimmicks. Instead, they had Brock brag about being unstoppable at Survivor Series before Bill muscled in to say, ah, you think so, son? From there, Lesnar attacked Goldberg during the 2004 Royal Rumble and paved the way for Kurt Angle to eliminate him. Seeking payback, Bill interfered in Brock's to retitle the fence versus Eddie Guerrero at No Way Out. And Lesnar blamed him for losing the belt. But that's when things went south. Steve Austin was wheeled out as a special guest ref which diluted the focus slightly but was still tolerable. Then news spread that both Brock and Bill would be leaving the company immediately after Mania. Infamously, MSG fans trolled both and made it impossible for them to get on with a powerhouse showdown. Oh, well, the build was fun at least. Number five, Hulk Holt. Well, the build was really fun for that match. It's just once they found out that both were leaving, it didn't matter. The only thing that people cared about was Stone Cold being the special guest referee, but no one cared. The fans, the match went even that bad. It's just no one cared no more. It's like, well, y'all both leaving. Fuck you guys. That's crazy wrestling fans. That's how they can be sometimes. Gunn versus Shawn Michaels. WDV SummerSlam 2005. Oh, brother, brother, brother, brother, dude, brother, brother, brother, brother. This is sort of what Shawn Michaels went for when ripping the piss out of Hulk Hogan's promo style during a parody skit on TV heading into SummerSlam 2005. So good. At this point, HBK was invested in the rivalry and clearly wanted to make the most of it. That would change though. It all started so well. Michaels and Hulk had actually been unlikely tag team partners before Shawn delivered a killer sweet chin music to military in July. After that treachery, Michaels went on a rampage, ridiculing everything about Hogan's nostalgic act and things seemed set up for a winner on pay-per-view. At SummerSlam, Shawn took it upon himself to oversell like nobody had oversold before. He was mocking Hulk's favorite spot by bouncing around like a character from the WWE All-Stars V-O game and that absolutely ruined the match. Or made it if you're a Hogan hater. Number four, Triple H first. Yeah, it's obviously the infamous story of it was supposed to believe, it was supposed to be three matches and Hulk only wanted to be one and done. So he went out there and just said, fuck it. It makes, for me, it makes the match funny. I know for others it can be like, what the fuck? Like, he's really taking the piss out of it. But for me, it makes it just a little bit funny because, bro, he was overselling like crazy, bro. His Batista, when WWE WrestleMania 35. Give me what I want. Batista yelled that at Triple H countless times during the build towards their Mania 35 clash. Give me what I want. Under the volley of saliva, Big Dave got borderline comedic as he hollered with entitled Rage about his destiny and whatnot. Some might argue that the feud dipped a bit during all of that. But one angle on the 25th of February, 2019 edition of Raw was iconic. There, Batista battered a helpless Ric Flair and dragged him around the arena as Trips led Ric's birthday celebrations. That was a cool, like visual. Everyone's celebrating Ric Flair. We don't know where he's at. And then you see Batista dragging, listening to Ric Flair's corpse across in the back all because he wanted a match with Triple H, bro. That's it. All because he wanted a match with him. That's it. Live in ring. It was one of the most provocative moments I've seen witnessed in years. Should the match follow it? No, no, no, it couldn't. Their no holds barred match went 25 minutes and it was a long 25. And featured such spots as Hunter ripping out Dave's nose ring. Perhaps Batista tripping during his entrance should have told everyone what kind of night they were in for, eh? That Flair beat down was fab, though. Number three, Sting versus Ollywood Hogan. When WCW Starrcade 1997. It would have been easy for Eric Bischoff to hot shot Sting versus Hogan into the ring way earlier than he did. But Bisch knew the WCW versus NWO story with Stinger acting as the former's final line of defense against the latter should headline Starrcade 1997. So Sting stalked a faction for approximately one full year and performed several memorable backhand style suit downs to fend them off on TV. Anticipation was at a fever pitch by the time the match rolled around and Hogan beat the snot out of Sting like he was some nobody. That continued for far too long. Then a screwy finish handed WCW the world title back and fans scratched their heads as to why the hero hadn't vanquished the villain when he really needed to. Enjoy the glorious build, but skip the match. Number two. Yeah, once again, politicking. It just, it's just, one thing Hogan gonna do. He gonna politic him with his, he gonna politic himself into a situation where he will always somehow look a little bit strong even in defeat. Dean Ambrose versus Brock Lesnar. WWE WrestleMania 32. Dean not quite John Moxley again. Ambrose must have been in Dreamland weeks before tangling with Brock Lesnar at Mania 32. WWE dropped the goofiest side of Dean's on-screen personality and played up to his CZW origins by letting Ambrose tease ultra-violence in skits with heroes like Mick Foley and Terry Funk. Everything from a barbed wire baseball bat to a damn chainsaw was teased during passionate skits. That's all legends encouraged Dean to literally cut down Brock on the biggest show of the year. Sadly, Lesnar wasn't really feeling the thought of working with Ambrose and he phoned in his performance overall. Their match just turned into a semi-squash. It was slow. The violence wasn't anywhere near as extreme as the build suggested it would be. And again, Brock was visibly disinterested. Let's just say this was incredibly poor leading to Dean's WWE title win later that same year. Number one. Yeah, no, that shit was, I ain't gonna hold you, bro. I remember watching this for you. I was like, I'm here for it. I'm here for it now. I'm invested. I am here to see what happens here. Because I want to say this is right around the time where, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I want to say it was roadblock. It was Triple H versus Dean Ambrose. And it looked like Dean Ambrose could have pulled off the ultimate upset and beat Triple H for the title and become the new WWE champion. People were really pro Ambrose at this time. That didn't work. He didn't win it. And then they ended up doing this Brock and Dean Ambrose thing. And people, once again, were into Dean Ambrose at this particular time. And they were wanting him to get some momentum going. And when they announced this was gonna happen, we all knew that most likely Dean Ambrose was gonna lose the match. But they sold it as a guy that will take punishment and will dish out the punishment. You're gonna have to damn near put him down to legitimately beat him. Like it was good. It was great. The build up was exciting. I was like, okay, he may not win, but they're building up this ultimate underdog babyface that's willing to go to Suplex City. He wants to go there. Like, all right, I'm here. And then once we find out that Brock didn't really want to do a damn thing, that Dean Ambrose suggested, oh, the match was dreadful. It was one of the worst matches. It was a waste of our fucking time. It was awful. And Hollywood Hogan versus Kevin Nash. When WCW Monday night showed the 4th of January, 1999. The majestic NWO story that shot WCW to the top of the industry was almost three years old by the time tensions boiled over between original members Hollywood Hogan and Kevin Nash in January, 1999. Seizing the moment, company chiefs promoted a war to settle the score between the NWO Hollywood and Wolfpack leaders on Nitro. Oh, not. You see, the entire thing was a sneaky plan whipped up by Hogan and Nash to assume total control of WCW's world title all over again. The dreary finger poke of Dune turned their hotly anticipated main event into a farce and had approximately 40,000 folks inside the huge Georgia dome wondering why they'd purchase tickets. Some say this moment started WCW's rapid decline. In truth, creative rot had started to set in before that. But dreadfully ill-advised guff like the finger poke did nothing to help fan confidence in the product. That terrific build towards an NWO implosion had been utterly wasted. And that's our list. No many other bad wrestling matches with the best builds. Imagine you paid that fucking much money for a nigga to get hit with the finger poke of Dune and then it all be a fucking ruse. Not even a good one. Not even a good swerve, a good turn. You're just like, what? Oh, fuck this. Fuck you. Politics, politics at its finest. Comment down below. Let me know some other, I guess you could say, builds to matches that like the builds itself were fantastic. But the match was not good at all. Let me know if they weren't on this list because there's a few that weren't on this list that could have been on this list. But I appreciate all the love and support you guys showing on channel Road to 150K. And I'm still here in speedy YouTube, wrestling chip of the world. Appreciate you all kicking in with me. See you on the next one. Peace.