Good matches "ruined" by their endings

[KawadaSmile]

Yup. Seth was just awful as a champ and only really lost it because his dumb ass got injured doing moves he shouldn't even be doing on the first place.

[Mad Dog]

It totally shocked me when people online briefly wanted him to have the belt again in 2018-2019. His first reign was so awful that it showed he has no business ever being better than a mid-carder.

[Migs]

I don't think that match is ruined by the *ending*, it was ruined by the subsequent booking. The ending is actually an all-timer - the pop Rollins gets is insane - but of course, as is typical for WWE at this point, they killed time for months with Rollins when they needed to get the belt off him.

It's interesting that WWE has gotten so obsessed with "Wrestlemania Moments" that they can barely book in between them at times. Instead of crowning Roman a few months later by getting his revenge on Seth and maybe doing a rematch with Brock the next year, Roman just had to be crowned at Mania, as if this was some prerequisite to him being over. You know who never won the WWE title at Wrestlemania? The Rock. He did okay. 

[Mad Dog]

The problem with the Rollins cash in and reign was that it was only worth it if Lesnar or Reigns murdered him for the belt shortly after. But we got a 6-7 month run that felt like it was never going to end. 

[alexoblivion]

The hair match between Remo Banda and Comando Ruso is pretty great until the ref stoppage at the end.

[Mr Wrestling X]

Misawa vs Kawada July 18th 2005 @ NOAH Destiny

This was the last match they had together, and it was billed as such. It was a great match overall because they both got in great shape for it and were able to work a hybrid style of Classic AJPW Kings Road and the newer faster style that NOAH was getting known for from the likes of KENTA, Marifuji, etc. It was like a throwback to their classic collisions through the years and of course, Misawa was going to take the win. But the finish was a bit nuts. Misawa kicked out of the Dangeous Driver and survived multiple kicks,  Kawada kicked out of the Tiger Driver 91 and the Emerald Flowsion, they went to a trade of forearms and elbows and then Misawa just pinned him for the three count. 

I get where they were trying to go with it - they had used everything on each other that would normally end matches, and it just came down to who had the most durable chin in the classic slugfest. But, it just didn't seem to work well for what was their final encounter. In recent years in both AJPW and NOAH the theme had been that if nothing worked, a wrestler would pull out a new move (Emerald Flowsion, Shining Wizard, etc) or a devastating, rarely-used super finisher (Burning Hammer) to decisively end a match. Kobashi really protected the Burning Hammer, saving it for significant milestone encounters in which he was going over, and this trend followed suit, it allowed for decisiveness and got the audience invested for the final move.

Booker T vs Triple H  March 30th 2003 @ Wrestlemania 19

Just awful. I can't tell whether this was a booking decision, Triple H being Triple H, or they got called for time and had to wrap the match early or a combination of all three. It was a really decent match until the finish. Normally in PW, the slow crawl to the pinfall is where the 2 & 3/4 kickout occurs. It didn't and just completely ruined the leading face on Raw at that point in time. 

[Clayton Jones]

I think the point was more so that Misawa's elbow has always at the end of the day been his deadliest weapon. Fitting it's what he'd use to finish his most bitter rival one last time.