5 Worst Wrestling Matches Of 2013
DISCLAIMER: These are the opinions of the writer and do not reflect those of Sportskeeda
There’s this old saying: the more things change, the more they stay the same. That was true for pro wrestling in 2013, and especially for WWE.
On one hand, there were quite a few critical changes that occurred in 2013 that helped keep WWE in its top position in the wrestling industry. Daniel Bryan became WWE Champion for the first time, Bray Wyatt debuted on the main roster (back when that was a big deal), CM Punk was having awesome matches, and the Shield were destroying everyone.
Conversely, a lot stayed the same, resulting in some truly annoying trends and creative directions. The Big Show turned heel and face more times than could be counted, Randy Orton failed to live up to the hype as WWE Champion, the women had more 30-second matches that meant less than nothing, and worst of all, the creative focus became all about evil authority figures.
All of these bad things manifested in some really dreadful matches. Here, we’ll look at the absolute worst of the worst…
#5 Brodus Clay vs R-Truth – TLC 2013
This match was not announced before the show, so WWE wanted fans to think of it as a surprise gift. Unfortunately, that would’ve worked if this match were actually good. There wasn’t anything out of the ordinary in this match in terms of action.
Brodus hit his big moves as always and Truth sold for him as best he could. The only real story here was that Brodus wanted to throw Truth into the steps but Tensai didn’t want him to do so. Brodus got defiant, so Tensai and the Funkadactyls left Brodus in the ring by himself. This allowed Truth to pick up the victory, which didn’t mean much because, again, this match was unannounced and didn’t have any story behind it.
Worse, Brodus became yet another victim of the dreaded ‘wrestler loses via distraction’ booking. He had the match won, yet nonsense that could’ve been saved for a different time caused Brodus to ‘lose his focus’.
Stuff like this is why people think wrestling is stupid and shouldn’t ever be respected; the people involved book stuff like this to make the wrestlers look like morons.