5 pairs of wrestlers with no in-ring chemistry

#2 Jake Roberts and Rick Rude

Rick Rude vs. Jake Roberts got plenty of time at WrestleMania 4, but the match flopped.

WrestleMania 4 tends to get a bum rap. The tournament structure invited short matches that saved top performers to work multiple matches, not to mention that wedging sixteen matches on the card didn’t leave time for any half hour classics.

When you look back at a summary of the card, though it stands out that Rick Rude and Jake Roberts worked a fifteen minute limit draw, and you have to assume that giving those two talents fifteen minutes to work would easily result in at least a three star match.

Maybe Roberts and Rude were upset that they were both going to be eliminated in the first round of the tournament. Maybe the felt hamstrung by the time limit draw finish.

Whatever the combination of reasons, the match was an absolute bore-fest, for which Rude spent a disproportionate amount of time holding Roberts in a chinlock, and we never got any real sense of urgency out of these two guys, even as time was about to expire.