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WWE likes to experiment with its products and introduces different kinds of stipulations from time to time and rightly so. Otherwise we would have never got to see a Hell in a Cell, Elimination Chamber or a casket match.
It's always good to see the management trying to improve their product and taking the high road to do it. Sometimes they introduce a match stipulation based on a particular wrestler to make the fans feel like that wrestler is a big deal.
Sometimes it does not work. We as fans are left with a final product that is neither interesting nor unique.
Before reading further, remember that this is just an opinion and other people may or may not agree with this list.
3. Asylum Match - Dean Ambrose
Don't get me wrong here. The match was really good but here we are talking about the stipulation. It was more of a steel cage match but just with weapons hanging above the cage. I think match stipulation like a Street Fight or Hell in a Cell was more related to Dean Ambrose's gimmick. But since those were already introduced in order to get him over with the fans, they introduced another stipulation.
Until now, there has only been one Asylum Match, and that was in Extreme Rules 2016. The build-up and the match itself were great but not the stipulation. The creative team should have put more effort into this. Maybe they could have increased the height of weapons, used scarier weapons or made the wrestlers do something at the top. The stipulation didn't live up to what it was set to be it was very underwhelming
2. House Of Horrors - Bray Wyatt
When the “House of Horrors” match was initially announced for Payback 2017, the fans were left wondering what it would be. During that time, Bray Wyatt was a main-eventer, and going by his gimmick, fans were expecting something extraordinary. The possibilities were endless and potentially very stupid. Needless to say, WWE didn’t disappoint. It really was that stupid.
It didn’t help that Randy Orton wasn’t scared at any point in the match. He mainly just looked around the house as Bray occasionally disappeared before his next attack. The crowd then lost all the interest when the first part was over.
When they made the appearance in the actual ring at Payback after about 20 minutes, it did not get the response Vince would have wanted. It was not much different from Matt Hardy's mansion either. It is good that WWE has not booked that match again.
1. Punjabi Prison Match - Great Khali
The first time this match format was unveiled was at the Great American Bash in 2006, where The Undertaker took on The Big Show. The match format consists of two bamboo cages, the first being a 16 feet (4.8 m) tall inner cage with an outer cage of 20 feet (6 m) height surrounding the first.
The inner cage has four sides while the outer one consists of eight. Three matches have been taken place in this arrangement and none of them lived up to the expectations. The way to win this match is for one of the competitors to escape both cages and set foot outside.
It is kind of a spoof of steel cage match as in this instead of escaping one cage, competitors have to escape two. Even WWE does not like this as only 3 matches have taken place till now and there is a decade gap between the 2nd and 1st.
