5 disappointing WWE match endings

#1. Seth Rollins vs Bray Wyatt - Hell In a Cell 2019

Seth Rollins about to put the hammer down onto The Fiend

If you thought the ending to the main event of this past Sunday's WWE Extreme Rules PPV was kinda dumb, you might want to sit down for this last entry. This is a prime example of WWE painting itself into a corner - and nobody got out of this without paint on their feet.

Bray Wyatt's reinvention of himself, from swamp-dwelling cult leader with vague magic powers to a sociopathic children's TV show host version of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, was nothing short of a revelation. It didn't take long for "The Fiend" to become the most talked-about character not just in WWE, but all of wrestling in general.

After weeks of randomly attacking other superstars, The Fiend had his debut match at SummerSlam 2019 against Finn Balor - a match he won pretty decisively. So popular was the character that WWE decided to hot shot him to a match for the Universal Championship against Raw's top babyface at the time, then-champion Seth Rollins.

Now, in a normal match, there would have been plenty of ways to run this match-up and keep the title on Rollins, while still having Bray Wyatt looking strong in the end: a DQ finish or a double-countout are just two ways that spring to mind. The problem is, WWE didn't book this as a normal match.

WWE put Rollins vs Wyatt in a Hell In a Cell for some reason

The PPV this match took place on was that year's WWE Hell In a Cell event - which means this match was going to have to be a (wait for it) Hell In a Cell match. Which means those two endings are immediately moot. So, what do you do?

Well, you simply have Bray Wyatt win the match. What else can you do? Any other solution is just plain dumb. WWE went for the dumb solution.

During the match, Rollins threw everything he could at Wyatt. He hit The Fiend with his Stomp finisher eleven times - and even threw a Pedigree in there for good measure. Wyatt kicked out at one after nearly every single one. Rollins would use chairs, ladders, even a toolbox - anything he could get his hands on. And Rollins had to fight to get to that point, too.

It's not as if Wyatt didn't get any offense in - on the contrary, up until a certain point, Wyatt gave as much as he got, nailing Rollins with a giant mallet and hitting his Sister Abigail finisher.

Then, came the ending. With Wyatt laying in the middle of the ring, covered in chairs, ladders, and who know what else, Rollins produced a sledgehammer from under the ring. With the referee pleading with him to put the hammer down, Rollins could do the only sensible thing a babyface like him could do. He put the hammer down. Right on top of all the garbage piled up on top of Wyatt.

Apparently fearing for Bray Wyatt's life at this point, the referee called for the bell, essentially ending in a No Contest. In a Hell In a Cell match. The only thing that would have made this ending more absurd is if Rollins had been disqualified - which clearly isn't supposed to happen in a match like this. But, neither was how the match actually ended, either.

Fans were furious, openly booing the result and chanting for "refunds" and "AEW", as well as some other choice words we're not going to print here. #CancelWWENetwork became a trending topic on Twitter and it would go one to "win" numerous "Worst Match of the Year" awards from numerous wrestling publications.

The WWE Draft took place the next week, with Wyatt going to SmackDown and Rollins to Raw. However, they had one more title match to get through - a Falls Count Anywhere match in Saudi Arabia at WWE Crown Jewel. The match had an additional stipulation that it "could not be stopped for any reason." That bout had a much more satisfying ending, with the show ending on the image of The Fiend holding aloft his fairly won WWE Universal Championship.

Which is probably the ending they should have done in the first place.

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