5 Worst Wrestling Matches Of 2014

Sometimes the story being told in a match is so poorly done that it turns the match into a dumpster fire

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There are many ways a match can go from good to bad and from bad to worse. Sometimes this can be to mismatches in wrestler skill levels or experiences. If you put an experienced wrestler with a novice, you’re likely to get a bad match (which definitely happened at one of WWE’s Big 4 PPVs of 2014). If you have an otherwise good wrestler suffer a serious injury during a match and they try and continue, that match’s quality will surely suffer.

And if you put a pro wrestler in a match with someone that isn’t a trained pro wrestler, you’re going to have a very bad time.

Unfortunately, both WWE and NJPW didn’t learn these lessons, as they made all of these mistakes and then some in 2014. While these companies might’ve learned from these previous mistakes, there’s no denying that these dreadful matches will go down in history as some of the most disappointing and poorly-executed contests of all time.

#5 Alberto Del Rio vs. Batista – Elimination Chamber 2014

This was another great example of the crowd in attendance completely killing a match. They hated Batista and everything he stood for. They hated his return, his promos, his Royal Rumble win, and the fact that he was getting a WrestleMania main event spot, despite having left WWE and having criticized the company quite a bit after doing so. But WWE appeared to be ignoring them, so those fans trashed this match as much as they could.

While Del Rio and Batista tried to make this into something meaningful, they failed. The crowd did not care one iota about anything Batista did, and poor Del Rio became an afterthought in the fans’ verbal onslaught towards Big Dave.

Del Rio did get a few mild cheers when he was on offense – despite being the heel – but Batista was soundly booed whenever he did anything. Even though it went only seven minutes from bell to bell, it was far below expectations, especially for a wrestler that was being pushed as the expected winner of the main event of WrestleMania XXX.