5 Worst wrestling matches of 2008

#1 Edge vs. Triple H vs. Vladimir Kozlov

This match being listed is due to a combination of bad booking before the match, predictable nonsense at its conclusion and awful in-ring action between two wrestlers that seemed to lack all chemistry.

Jeff Hardy was ‘written out’ of the match before it started by reason of ‘stairwell attack by mystery person’. This attack was never shown, so we were left to ‘presume’ that Hardy was just gone from the match. So instead, we were given a singles match between Kozlov and Triple H, and it was so….boring.

Kozlov, despite having an athletic background, had no charisma and his moves didn’t keep the audience engaged. He kept doing traditional mat wrestling with Triple H, which would’ve worked if this was happening in Japan. But this was WWE, and the fans wanted fast-paced action, which they didn’t get from either of these two. That led to some of the loudest ‘boring’ chants ever heard on WWE programming.

To ‘save’ this match, out came then-GM Vickie Guerrero, who announced that there would indeed be one more participant: Edge. Yet despite being the heel that was getting title shots because he was the GM’s then-boyfriend, the audience cheered loudly for Edge because he was going to breathe new life into a dead match.

Shenanigans continued further as Jeff Hardy did appear for a few moments, only to get Speared by Edge. Ultimately, Edge won the match and became champion again, leaving the audience flummoxed as to why Hardy was written out of the match in the first place.