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Worst Wrestler
What does this really mean? I'm not interested in thinking about who had the worst matches but rather rather who dragged everything they were in down, or made me less interested in what I was watching in general. I can think of no worse culprit for this than Keiji Mutoh, who in February won the GHC Championship, putting an end to Go Shiozaki's title reign that had managed to drag NOAH to relevance even amidst 2020's scene, and at the same time putting an end to that momentum as NOAH's main events suddenly became extremely missable again. He's continued to drag down better and more over acts than him since and has to be a strong candidate for this category.

A last minute entry, with only one match under their belt in 2021 and it aired the day before I'm writing this, but I will drop a nod to Brandi Rhodes who despite her wishes that were made public on Rhodes to the Top absolutely has no business near a wrestling ring.

Sticking with AEW, I don't think there's anybody I think of more when it comes to dragging down the quality of something I enjoy than Matt Hardy, who has managed to not only make the people he feuds with (including an interminably long feud with Orange Cassidy that I'm still not sure is over) less interesting but also all 30 members of the Hardy Family Office and anybody else who gets in his pull.

By the criteria I've laid out here, this next candidate may initially seem less strong - the show he wrestles on doesn't have very far to be dragged down, in all honesty, but his merits as a candidate simply can't be ignored. Between his appearances on Fox News and his ongoing reign as the NWA World's Television Champion, Tyrus has been stinking up the joint in hitherto unforeseen ways in 2021. If you're not familiar with Tyrus, he's the former Brodus Clay, except he's fallen far from his athletic peak. And that should be all I need to say.

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