100 Worst WWE Matches Ever - 38 - Kaitlyn vs. Maxine
NXT - 19th October 2010
“There are no words,” – Josh Matthews
“Oh there are a lot of words to describe this, horrible, despicable, terrible, bad. I’ve said this three weeks in a row now but it’s very appropriate for this match. There’s a reason we’re on .com now” – Michael Cole
After taking a brief hiatus to fully enjoy the festive period, we are back to continue and power through the worst WWE matches in history. And what better way to start. After all, what sort of worst-of list would this be without a little bit of NXT Season 3. A personal favourite guilty pleasure of mine, one that I reviewed in full as part of my 30 Days of NXT series on the forum. By the time the all-female edition of NXT came around, the show had long since established itself as a joke not to be taken seriously by anyone. After Season 2, NXT was relegated to a WWE.com exclusive show, where it could be tucked away and the company could happily pretend it didn’t exist in the hopes that the fans would too.
Unfortunately for WWE, some of us never forgot.
Tucked away in the depths of NXT is an infamous match. Much like my recent review of Sable vs Tori, this is a match that should never have been allowed to happen. Two women thrust into a live televised match well before they should have been. And really it is the circumstances around this one that ultimately lands this higher on the list than Sable vs Tori. Because, for all its faults, Sable vs Tori was treated as an actual serious match that we as fans were supposed to enjoy.
See, WWE went through a strange phase stemming from either the celebrity guest host era, or the original NXT where the company would seemingly intentionally put on bad television for the sole purpose of burying it. How many times can you remember Michael Cole on commentary bemoaning that this something is “the worst thing he’s ever seen?” For several years following 2009, this felt like a common occurrence within WWE.
Given the commentary of Michael Cole and Josh Matthews, this match was clearly designed as nothing more than to humiliate these two women and to give everyone a good laugh.
If you are looking for a background to this match, it’s that Maxine’s pro (Alicia Fox) and Kaitlyn’s pro (Vickie Guerrero) both began the show by bickering, declaring that they were the superior trainer for their rookie. There’s also a love triangle storyline going on with Kaitlyn, Vickie Guerrero and Dolph Ziggler too - which is why Kaitlyn is wearing a sweatshirt for this match to cover her up. This leads to what is by far the most annoying part of the match - Alicia Fox and Vickie Guerrero standing on the apron for the duration of this match with live mics to “coach” their rookie. It’s every bit as awkward as it sounds, and akin to something we’ll see in far more egregious fashion later on this list. This coaching includes such nuanced advice as “take her sweatshirt off”.
It doesn’t take Cole and Matthews long at all to start burying the match. In fact they bury the match long before the match turns into a total disaster. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a bad bad match - both women look entirely out of their depth and in the later part of the match they are so uncoordinated that almost every move is botched. It’s odd because they’re absolutely right that the match is atrocious, but they start the burial way earlier than it was justified to say so. All that being said, Cole and Matthews shitting on this match is perhaps the only piece of entertainment to be had here and it is admittedly very funny even if mean spirited. Highlights include Cole taking a call from his mother half way through the match, and letting Tony Chimmel talk to her. To which Matthews bemoans “who would want to talk to Tony Chimmel?” On his return to commentary, Cole asks Matthews if he missed anything, to which Matthews replies “nothing”.
For Kaitlyn, she would bounce back from this, end up winning NXT Season 3 despite the fact she was a pretty awful wrestler for the duration of this Season. It’s a testament to her workrate that she ended up improving significantly and have a fairly decent main roster run that was probably a few years too early before WWE realised women were people too. I liked her, especially her personality, and it’s a shame she never came back to WWE. Maxine, on the other hand, was truly dreadful. She would often cut the same promo every week, trying desperately to get a “I always end up on top” line over in every promo regardless of whether it made sense in the context of her promo. Her wrestling skills weren’t any better, as this match makes abundantly clear.
Seconds before a sloppy rollup mercifully puts us all out of our misery, Michael Cole - who has spent the last couple minutes distracted and entertaining himself - cries out “Is this match still going on!?”
And that should tell you just how seriously this match was taken. Oh, and what follows immediately after this humiliation of these two poor women?
A Stand Up For WWE promotional advert.
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Up Next - You know it’s a bad match when the referee is the winner.
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