5 Worst Wrestling Matches Of 2015

2. The 2015 Royal Rumble Match

Reigns was so hated that the fans booed THE ROCK...who is easily one of the most beloved WWE superstars ever

This is easily one of the worst WWE matches of all time, and served as a damning indictment of WWE’s terrible creative ideas at the time. Vince McMahon was hell-bent on making Reigns into his next big star, and wanted to use the 2015 Rumble match as the main vehicle to achieve that goal.

Unfortunately, everything about this match fell apart, some of it before Reigns even entered the match. The match-makers simply had no idea how took book Daniel Bryan when he entered the match, and thought it would be safer to have Bryan gone before Reigns even entered.

Big mistake.

Once Bryan was gone, the crowd proceeded to – for lack of a better term – defecate, all over the match, booing the majority of performers and only cheering on rare occurrences. As if that wasn’t enough, the final moments of the match were downright atrocious.

Instead of creating the remote possibility of someone else winning by having a dramatic final four sequence, WWE booked Kane and the Big Show, then acting as two big goons for The Authority, to literally dump the other fan favorites out of the ring, leaving the fans to (presumably) cheer only Roman Reigns.

It was as clear a message as any: Vince wanted the fans to only accept the wrestler he wanted them to cheer, so they turned on Reigns as hard as possible.

Not even a surprise appearance by the Rock could’ve salvaged this vile mess of a match, which ranks head-and-shoulders above anything else as the worst WWE match of 2015.

But it isn’t the worst match of all of 2015, for there is one match that managed to out-do this hot mess in the bad match department…