Your Most Boring Matches

[EZ: Brainy Bae]

Matches so cursed trying to remember anything that happened in them is like trying to remember being in the womb.


Bobby Roode vs Drew McIntyre - NXT Takeover Brooklyn 3: 20+ mins of waiting for Adam Cole to debut

Toni Storm vs Rhea Ripley - Worlds Collide 2020: The match that finally wore my patience out on "Toni Storm is good, we swear!"

THAT Ambrose/Rollins match

[Hypnosis]

*That Orton vs. Sheamus match on Raw with "Randy Savage" and "CM Punk" chants.
*Hangman vs. Kip Sabian at Fight for the Fallen 2019 - It went on too long, and Hangman shouldn't have been going back-and-forth with a barely-known lower-card guy as much as he did that night.
*The AJ Styles/Owens matches in 2017.

[chronocross]

Tony Atlas vs. Ted Arcidi-Boston Garden show from 8/9/1986 on the Network, both guys are moving like they're underwater and Gorilla Monsoon pretty much roasts this match on commentary, it's hilarious.

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The Hell in a Cell match between Shane McMahon and Undertaker at WM 32

HHH vs. Roman at WM 32

Michael Cole vs. Jerry Lawler at WM 27

Carmella vs. Charlotte at Backlash 2018

Like 80% of Brock Lesnar matches since 2015 (love his current character, though)

[Chiral]

Triple H vs. Roman Reigns, Wrestlemania 32
Triple H vs. Randy Orton, Wrestlemania 25

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Things that I can think of that I saw live. John Cena vs Bray Wyatt Extreme rules cage match way too f***ing long. Also the DX vs Legacy (Ted and Rhodes) HIAC match at HIAC. Way too long to get to the damned point of them beating up HBK and waiting for HHH to come in and pedigree them to end the shit.

[FHgrad99]

Mar 22, 2022 12:20:57 GMT -5 chronocross said:

Tony Atlas vs. Ted Arcidi-Boston Garden show from 8/9/1986 on the Network, both guys are moving like they're underwater and Gorilla Monsoon pretty much roasts this match on commentary, it's hilarious.

I came here to post the same thing. With Gorilla Monsoon, you can sometimes tell when he knows the match he's doing play-by-play for is the shits. This match certainly qualifies. I it was a match of rest holds and little to no bumping.

[Jindrak Mark]

Austin v Undertaker. Backlash 2002.

[tafkaga]

The first to come to mind is always the WM12 main event.

Otherwise, most Flair matches range between really good (sometimes) and unbearably boring (usually), and there's little middle ground. His most boring matches are with Sting and Luger, because they were always virtually identical slogs.

[Milkman Norm]

Mar 22, 2022 12:43:21 GMT -5 FHgrad99 said:

Mar 22, 2022 12:20:57 GMT -5 chronocross said:

Tony Atlas vs. Ted Arcidi-Boston Garden show from 8/9/1986 on the Network, both guys are moving like they're underwater and Gorilla Monsoon pretty much roasts this match on commentary, it's hilarious.

I came here to post the same thing. With Gorilla Monsoon, you can sometimes tell when he knows the match he's doing play-by-play for is the shits. This match certainly qualifies. I it was a match of rest holds and little to no bumping.

Which gets back to my theory. When people say they loved Primetime they mean they loved the host segments. Because 60% of the time or more the matches were preliminary bouts from taped house shows. There are only so many Siva Afi matches one can take.

[chrom]

Jimmy Snuka vs Samu, including a chinlock spot that lasted six minutes

[Clawley Race]

Mar 22, 2022 13:04:13 GMT -5 tafkaga said:

The first to come to mind is always the WM12 main event.

Otherwise, most Flair matches range between really good (sometimes) and unbearably boring (usually), and there's little middle ground. His most boring matches are with Sting and Luger, because they were always virtually identical slogs.

I think the Iron Man match really suffers more than most any match from not watching it live.

[Mozenrath]

Undertaker's 1999 output has some really dreadful matches. Obviously not exclusively, but I do remember him having some match with Rock that was astonishingly bad.

[David-Arquette was in WCW 2000]

Shane Douglas Vs Pitbull.. the bald one as Barely Legal. Now, I'm a fan of Douglas overall. I even liked him in WCW, but holy shit this match just drags.

Also, the Shawn Michaels/Triple H 3 Stages of Hell from Armageddon 2002. A few good spots strung together with plodding monotony. A shame after their incredible match from Summer slam that year.

Oh and Jake Roberts Vs Rick Rude at Wrestlemania IV. Love this show, honestly, but one thing that really sticks out as a 'wtf' is letting these two go to a 15 minute time limit draw. They clearly planned a decent 5 minute match then threw in 10 minutes of rest holds. If they wanted a draw just have them brawl to the back or a double DQ or something. Very strange how they'd book two of their bigger stars like this.

There's bound to be a lot more but these are the first three that come to mind.

[bob]

Wrestlemania 9 Giant Gonzalez vs Undertaker

Wrestlemania 34 John Cena vs Undertaker

Wrestlemania 32 Roman vs HHH

Wrestlemania 27 Jerry Lawler vs Michael Cole

Wrestlemania 25 Orton vs HHH

Wrestlemania 26 Vince vs Bret

Wrestlemania 23 Kane vs The Great Khali

Wrestlemania 21 Akebono vs Big Show

Wrestlemania 11 Bret Hart vs Mr. Bob Backlaund

Wrestlemania 4 Jake Roberts vs Rick Rude

[Mozenrath]

Mar 22, 2022 14:51:34 GMT -5 David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 said:

Shane Douglas Vs Pitbull.. the bald one as Barely Legal. Now, I'm a fan of Douglas overall. I even liked him in WCW, but holy shit this match just drags.

Also, the Shawn Michaels/Triple H 3 Stages of Hell from Armageddon 2002. A few good spots strung together with plodding monotony. A shame after their incredible match from Summer slam that year.

Oh and Jake Roberts Vs Rick Rude at Wrestlemania IV. Love this show, honestly, but one thing that really sticks out as a 'wtf' is letting these two go to a 15 minute time limit draw. They clearly planned a decent 5 minute match then threw in 10 minutes of rest holds. If they wanted a draw just have them brawl to the back or a double DQ or something. Very strange how they'd book two of their bigger stars like this.

There's bound to be a lot more but these are the first three that come to mind.

Didn't they also have Andre and Hogan double DQ or something like that? Guess they figured one of the double knockouts on the tournament needed to be by time limit, but Rude and Jake were not a good choice for that at all.

[chronocross]

Mar 22, 2022 14:51:34 GMT -5 David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 said:

Shane Douglas Vs Pitbull.. the bald one as Barely Legal. Now, I'm a fan of Douglas overall. I even liked him in WCW, but holy shit this match just drags.

Also, the Shawn Michaels/Triple H 3 Stages of Hell from Armageddon 2002. A few good spots strung together with plodding monotony. A shame after their incredible match from Summer slam that year.

Oh and Jake Roberts Vs Rick Rude at Wrestlemania IV. Love this show, honestly, but one thing that really sticks out as a 'wtf' is letting these two go to a 15 minute time limit draw. They clearly planned a decent 5 minute match then threw in 10 minutes of rest holds. If they wanted a draw just have them brawl to the back or a double DQ or something. Very strange how they'd book two of their bigger stars like this.

There's bound to be a lot more but these are the first three that come to mind.

The Pitbull/Douglas match just totally dies out there, the fans just don't care at this point. I remember looking forward to it because of their previous matches on ECW TV which were clipped heavily, so it made me think this would be a barnburner but it sucks big time.

The HBK/HHH match at Armageddon should have just been a ladder match from the start as it felt like overkill with the 3 falls, IMO.

I also hated their match at Bad Blood 2004 which felt like the story could have been told in 20 minutes instead of 40.

[Mochi Lone Wolf]

Big Show vs. John Cena in a cage at No Way Out 2012. This is the match where Johnny Ace's job was on the line. I hadn't actually seen it until after the WWE Network began in 2014. In the middle of this match, I restarted my modem and router because I thought my WiFi had cut out. That's how slow this match was.



Outside of that, a few of Jay Lethal's title defenses during his over year reign as ROH champion were a slog to get through.

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I recently watched Scott Hall vs Bradshaw at Backlash 2002 because a. i was on a Scott Hall binge. b. I've always been weirdly fascinated that this match happened. and its so dreadfully boring. Just working in slow motion, no pace or chemistry, no impact, really contrived and obvious movements. Utter dreck.

So I watched Ramon vs Michaels on Raw to feel better.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Almost every NXT title match after Joe lost it until I stopped watching