WWE's Worst Match of the Week: The Miz vs. Brodus Clay on Monday Night Raw

Look, let’s just come out and say it—we got a lot of really short and/or bad matches from the WWE this week. 

Ryback vs. Derrick Bateman? Short and boring. 

Kelly Kelly and Layla vs. Maxine and Natalya? Two competitors in this match didn’t even tag in, and it lasted about a minute. 

But I’m not going to call either of those the worst match of the week because I don’t really consider squashes to be matches and we all knew that the Divas match was hardly going to get any time. 

Instead, I want to focus on the worst actual match we witnessed: The Miz vs. Brodus Clay on this week’s Raw. 

Up until this show, Clay’s matches had lasted roughly two to three minutes and featured him dominating his opponent throughout the duration of the bout. 

Now we know why. 

The WWE tried something a little different on Raw this time, with the match going about five minutes and Clay taking the beatdown that most baby faces typically endure during their matches. 

The problem was that the crowd didn’t know how to react to The Miz destroying Clay, and it didn’t really come off as believable to see The Miz beat him down for the majority of the match and still lose. 

Why? Because of the ridiculous ending to it. 

The Miz pummeled “The Funkasaurus” for a good three or four minutes and couldn’t get the victory, but all it really took for Clay to get the win was an overhead suplex and that splash in which he only jumps about eight inches off the ground. 

It was an odd match, to say the least. 

Like with Big Show or any other giant baby face, it’s hard to take a match seriously when Clay’s getting owned by a guy who’s seven inches shorter and 150 pounds lighter than him. 

While I liked that we got a change from the normal Clay squash match, I simply think that his match with The Miz fell flat because it was nothing but a beatdown and a really weak comeback. 

Clay had a superhero-like comeback in which it only took a few moves for him to beat a guy who couldn’t beat him with about 20. 

I hate that. It reminds me of a certain other WWE star who does the same thing.

Drake Oz is the WWE Lead Writer for Bleacher Report. You can follow him on Twitter and ask him any wrestling-related questions (to be answered in the B/R Mailbag) on Formspring.