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WWE presented 16 live pay-per-view events in 2017 with the final one of the year being Clash of Champions. Whilst the main event of Clash of Champions saw AJ Styles take on Jinder Mahal in arguably the match of the night, it seems that not all of the main events on pay-per-view this year have been the same calibre.
Sometimes the company put forward a match for the main event of the show that isn't the right choice. It seems that this has happened a number of times this year, which has seen many fans leaving the events unhappy because that's the final piece of action they are able to see.
Here are some of the worst pay-per-view main events that WWE chose over the past twelve months.
#5 Survivor Series Traditional Elimination Match - Survivor Series
Survivor Series as a whole wasn't a great event for WWE, but there were chances throughout the night where WWE could have saved the show.
The elimination match was one of these moments, but it seems that WWE went with a tease of a match between Kurt Angle and Triple H as well as one between Shane McMahon and The Game, but more than a month after the event, neither of these teases have been capitalised on.
This would have been the perfect time for a younger star to have benefitted from that exposure, but once again Triple H was brought into the match to steal the show and the spotlight. With many of the former NXT stars eliminated early on, there was only Braun Strowman who was able to take anything away from this match as many fans reacted negatively to the event due to the ending of the match and finish of the pay-per-view as a whole.
Luckily, Triple H walked into the entrance screen on the way out of the arena and that seemed to balance out karma.
#4 Jinder Mahal vs. Randy Orton - Battleground
Jinder Mahal won the WWE Championship at Backlash from Randy Orton and the duo then embarked on a feud that lasted a number of months throughout 2017. This included Orton allowing Jinder to pick the match at Battleground and he decided to bring back the Punjabi Prison match.
The match made it hard for many fans in the arena to see the action inside the ring because of the design and was one that heavily favoured Jinder with the no-disqualification rules. The parts of the match that were watchable were heavily outweighed by the fact that WWE thought bringing back The Great Khali to attack Orton and then never be seen again was the best option they had for the finish of the match.
#3 The 30th annual Royal Rumble match - The Royal Rumble
It was the 30th annual match and WWE fans were told to "Remember The Rumble" for weeks before the event, but somehow WWE made it an event that the WWE Universe couldn't wait to forget.
The only real surprise was Tye Dillinger at the Number 10 spot before it seemingly went downhill from there. Roman Reigns had been put through a table earlier in the night by Braun Strowman but was still able to shuffle out to the ring in the number 30 spot and eliminated The Undertaker.
Brock Lesnar and Goldberg continued their feud with the WCW star once again making Brock look like a joke before it was made obvious that Randy Orton would be winning the match.
Orton and Wyatt didn't even main event WrestleMania which was the entire point of The Rumble match to begin with, and their match on The Grandest Stage of Them All was another disappointing match. Hopefully, 2018 starts the road to WrestleMania in a match better way that 2017 did.
#2 Kevin Owens vs. Goldberg - Fastlane
Many fans are unfortunate enough to remember the run of pay-per-views ahead of WrestleMania this year where WWE was attempting to put Goldberg over so that he could go on to be defeated by Brock Lesnar at the biggest event of the year.
This included just his second match in more than a decade when he took on Universal Champion Kevin Owens at Fastlane, where the title managed to change hands thanks to a distraction from Chris Jericho. This was merely weeks after The Festival of Friendship beatdown that Jericho endured at the hands of his former friend Kevin Owens and was his version of revenge. Whilst it was a decent twist it wasn't worth allowing WWE biggest Championship to change hands in a matter of seconds.
Goldberg defeated Kevin Owens in 20 seconds to become Champion and poor Owens was never even given a rematch since Brock was the next one on the list to face the former WCW star.
#1 Undertaker vs. Roman Reigns - WrestleMania 33
The biggest event of the year didn't manage to escape some of the worst creative decisions either, since The Undertaker and Roman Reigns were booked to collide one-on-one for the first time at WrestleMania 33.
Reigns had previously eliminated Undertaker from The Royal Rumble match and left the door wide open for this match to be booked, so it was inevitably going to be Undertaker putting over The Big Dog on on The Grandest Stage Of Them All.
There were a number of botches throughout the match that seemingly ruined it and even with Jim Ross back in the hot seat calling the action, it didn't feel the way it should have.
After Undertaker left the arena that night, Roman became the most hated man in WWE and a heel turn would have been perfect. WWE didn't equalise on the momentum Undertaker had given to them, which essentially made his contribution pointless.
