5 Worst Wrestling Matches Of 2016

#3 Roman Reigns vs. Triple H - WrestleMania 32

Never before in WWE history has an audience hated a show conclusion more than on this night...

This match was a first in WWE history: it marked the first time that an audience attending WrestleMania went home angry. The fans in attendance were overwhelmingly opposed to a Roman Reigns title coronation, but WWE’s top brass went with that decision all the same.

The match itself was clunky, plodding and bereft of much drama, and the fans attending live did not care at all for much of it. They booed both Reigns’ and Triple H’s biggest moves for the most part, cheering only when Stephanie McMahon got hit.

But when the referee counted three, the fans – who had sat through countless hours of earlier matches, promos and entrances, voiced their displeasure with such passion that Triple H and Stephanie – the heels – had to try and placate them as they left. While the wrestlers did try their best to make this match work, it simply didn’t.

The atmosphere was tarnished by tens of thousands of angry fans that wanted something other than the foregone conclusion. As for the in-ring action, the blame falls equally on both Reigns and Triple H for failing to craft a match exciting enough to even try to mitigate the onslaught of fan anger leveled against them.