#6 Is the House of Horrors match the worst thing the WWE has ever done?
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As much as we all love Vince McMahon and his company, even the most ardent fans will admit the WWE puts out some awful material from time to time. Payback 2017 might have seen the worst of them all, however, with Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt meeting in a House of Horrors match.
In the beginning, hopes were relatively high; this looked like it was going to be WWE’s version of the Final Deletion match between Matt and Jeff Hardy over on TNA. It was nice to see a match happen outside of the area, and there were parts of the bout that reminded me of the Boiler Room Brawl between Mankind and Undertaker in 1996. However, as the match progressed, we soon came to realise that today’s WWE just can’t be trusted to try anything too different, especially when it comes to the Wyatt family.
First of all, Bray Wyatt managed to escape from his own house after burying Orton under his fridge (what even is professional wrestling?). Bray then gets in the limo parked outside and tells the driver to go to the area. Was this Bray’s great revenge on Orton after having his house burnt down and losing the WWE Championship? After all, Orton has put him through, the best way to re-establish your dominance and credibility isn’t to get to the ring before your opponent so you can win by ‘forfeit’.
And then to make matters worse, the match finishes because of interference from Jinder Mahal. If the point of this match was to showcase Bray’s ability to scare his opponents and play mind games with them, why did it take Randy Orton’s future Opponent for the WWE Title to help Bray win? This made no sense and meant that the whole concept of the House of Horrors match was basically meaningless.
