5 Worst Wrestling Matches Of 2005

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Things weren’t going well for WWE in 2005. The company was trying desperately to push new stars, which caused a lot of experiments. It was as if WWE were throwing different things onto a wall, hoping to find something that would stick.

While these things were going on, there were other companies that were competing with them (at least in the match quality department). There were so many great matches showcased by companies outside WWE that more and more people were turning away from Vince’s company. Sure, WWE still had its top spot. But the company wasn’t growing in a way that would bring back the fans that had turned away once the Attitude Era had ended.

A major reason for that lack of new fans was that WWE was showcasing bad matches. The company made questionable decisions, ranging from two non-wrestlers getting a high-profile spot to wrestle and a 500-pound man got dressed in extremely unflattering clothing. And there was at least one occasion on which WWE got such awful publicity for doing something so distasteful that they had to kill an on-screen character overnight.

So how bad were the worst matches of 2005? Read on to find out…

#5. Batista vs. JBL – Great American Bash 2005

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Batista and JBL were two big men that didn’t mesh well together. This was mainly due to how JBL wrestled. You see, JBL’s on-screen gimmick – that of a smug self-made millionaire – was so successful because it was directly influenced by his real life.

However, JBL’s in-ring gimmick – that of a roughneck Texan pretending to be Stan Hansen – was not.

JBL’s brawling, smashmouth style was supposed to be a WWE version of Stan Hansen, who is a respected veteran famous for his roughness and great matches. However, Batista was not the kind of wrestler that should’ve been brawling with JBL, and this match proved that. The chemistry was disjointed and the action was average at best for most of it.

However, like many bad matches, this one gets listed due to the combination of poor action with an unsatisfying ending. The match ended via DQ, which is WWE code for, ‘let’s extend this feud as much as possible’. That meant more bouts between two men that didn’t really mesh well together, which in turn means more disappointing matches for the fans.