**WORST RIVALRY**

**Winner?: Hornswoggle vs. Chavo Guerrero**

This rivalry was just plain awful! Just. Plain. Awful.

Again, Hornswoggle is not a wrestler, he’s just a gimmick who only served to compliment other gimmicks (like Finley’s).

Chavo Guerrero on the other hand, is a very talented wrestler from a famous wrestling family.

But the WWE decided to put Chavo Guerrero in a different match against Hornswoggle week after week after week, every time with the same result, Hornswoggle embarrassing Chavo.

And my word, the matches were terrible. It was one slop fest after another. A plethora of goofy gimmicks thrown about with the same joke ending.

And the rivalry went on forever! There were like five different times when it seemed like it was going to end, but it didn’t! And they seemed to have no idea what to do with this mess of a rivalry. One time it seemed like Chavo Guerrero was going to become Hornswoggle’s ally or something when Chavo saved ‘Swoggle from Chris Masters… But then the next week it was back to the same thing!

What the blazes was up with this rivalry?! A real stinker this one.

**Runner-up: John Cena vs. The Miz**

It’s amazing really, the lengths the WWE will go to to bury their younger talents.

John Cena is unquestionably one of the biggest pop-culture icons to come out of the pro-wrestling world, he can deliver in the ring and has charisma and mic skills up the wazoo. And let’s not forget his now eight world title reigns. Would making this guy lose to a newer wrestler every now and then really hurt his status as a star?

Apparently the WWE must have thought so during his rivalry with The Miz.

The Miz had just broken his (great) tag team with John Morrison, and was looking to make a mark in the singles division. For storyline purposes, it would only make sense to go after the big dog, so Miz started mocking John Cena.

The Miz would call Cena a tool, make fun of his fans, his merchandise and basically anything associated with Cena’s name.

But instead of having John Cena take any kind of offense or show any real sign of acknowledgement, he just shrugged it all off as if nothing had happened. Way to sell The Miz WWE…

And then when they actually had their match, not only did the Miz not get that much needed win, he didn’t even put up a reasonable fight. In fact, the match must have lasted five minutes at most. And how did the Miz lose? By tapping out. And not just any tap out, but a frightened, crying, pansy kind of tap out.

Thankfully, The Miz somehow miraculously managed to crawl out of the hole he seemed burried in when he won the United States Title, and he is getting the recognition he really deserves.

And the WWE also seemed to learn another lesson when Shameus defeated Cena for the WWE title.

A lesson learned, but not before a bunch of really stupid stuff happened.

**Runner-up: John Cena vs. Big Show**

Okay, I’m not one of those Cena haters or anything, but seriously, why is it so long for him to lose a match every now and then to someone other than Randy Orton?

John Cena and Big Show have had good rivalries in the past, which may be one reason why this one seems even more notably bad. The rivalry consisted of three pay-per-view matches, all of which were won by Cena. Sure, Big Show got a win on RAW against Cena a little while later, but that was with some outside interference (really, is that necessary when it comes to Big Show? Would it really hurt anyone’s status if they were beat cleanly by a seven-foot, five-hundred pound man?) and the fact stands that Cena won all of the pay-per-view matches, which will be the remembered ones.

And also the fact that with every one of the matches, the commentators would always act as though it were Cena and Big Show’s first match! They would always say things like “How can Cena even lift The Big Show?!” despite the fact that he already has done that a few different times, and continued to do so during this rivalry!

What’s the point of under-selling Big Show anyway?