Top 5 Worst of the Week: Stephanie McMahon, Chavo Guerrero and More!

We had a big week in wrestling last week.

Raw had a great week, as their 1000th show had their highest ratings in years.

It was a celebration of the past, the present and (supposedly) the future.

It was cool to see DX back together, the APA kicking ass and Lita moonsaulting again. CM Punk also left a lot of storyline possibilities open by turning his back on the WWE.

Impact continued their roll with another pretty good show. The Aces and Eights storyline took another interesting turn, James Storm and AJ Styles had a great match, and Claire's ridiculousness was kept to a minimum.

Things weren't all great though. After all, we had seven hours of nationally televised wrestling to digest with Raw, Smackdown and Impact.

A lot of things can go wrong in that amount of time, but which angles were the worst offenders? What may have made us question the reason we watch, even for a moment? Which wrestlers need to apologize to every wrestling fan personally?

Here was the top Five Worst Wrestling Moments of the week (July 22-28).

5: At a Cross Rhodes

At a time when WWE is adding an extra hour of television every week, they've chosen an odd time to demote Cody Rhodes' push.

Ever since WrestleMania, Cody has been in a downward spiral.

The Big Show beat him, then he humiliated him, then he poured mustard on him and tried to eat him (I think that happened anyway).

Cody hasn't recovered since.

Friday Night Smackdown had Rhodes taking on Sheamus without any build-up. After a decent match, Sheamus beat him cleanly.

Where does he go from here? He keeps sinking, and his matches don't mean anything anymore.

With such a weak roster, Rhodes vs. Sheamus could have easily been a pay-per-view match, or at least a Smackdown main event.

Instead, Sheamus won another match, the announcers didn't care, and now we have to get ready for another Del Rio/Sheamus match.

Maybe that proposed feud with Goldust wasn't such a bad idea after all.

4: Jericho Can't Handle the Truth

Chris Jericho turned face this past week. While he's better as a heel, a face turn could be fun.

The problem isn't that he turned face, it's how he turned.

He basically switched to a good guy again, because Dolph Ziggler pointed out what a big failure he has been since he returned to WWE.

The thing is, Dolph was right.

Jericho hasn't won any pay-per-view matches since he came back. He didn't win the Royal Rumble like he promised, and he failed multiple times against CM Punk in his title matches.

So instead of Jericho proving that he's a guy that can actually win a big match, he decides to beat up the guy that loses to everyone.

I'm still not sure how that makes him a good guy.

3: Chavo the Legend?

Chavo Guerrero made his much anticipated... anticipated?... um... his debut on Impact wrestling.

The entire segment was just weird.

Chavo talked about his family, and then Kid Kash and Gunner interrupted (which could be a pretty solid tag team), but all Kash had to ask was things like "Where is your family? Where are they?"

I'm not sure why.

The worst part came when Chavo said he didn't call himself a legend, but the people call him a legend. The crowd didn't really cheer at this. They were either confused or holding back laughter.

Chavo is not a legend.

He's the guy that lost to Kane in 8 seconds at WrestleMania, he's the guy that couldn't beat Hornswoggle, he was Kerwin White.

Chavo was a solid mid-carder in WCW and WWE, but that was about it. He was always in the shadow of his uncle.

He could make a fine addition to the X-Division if TNA decided to go that route (though it looks like he's in a tag team with Hernandez), but implying that he's a legend is going a touch too far.

2: Don't Talk About My Kids! Your Kids, on the Other Hand...

Did Stephanie McMahon realize that she said worse things about Paul Heyman's kids than he did about hers?

She shouldn't be talking about how ashamed that Paul's kids are of him. That's none of her business.

Did she realize the hypocrisy of what she said?

She said that Paul's children were ashamed of him, well unlike Stephanie, Paul wasn't handed the keys to an empire. He worked his way up from a manager in WCW to running his own nationally televised wrestling show.

I hope they're proud!

Anyway, that rant aside, the inclusion of Stephanie in this story was completely unnecessary as it distracted from what people are going to pay to watch: Brock vs. HHH.

If they're going to set up Paul Heyman's kids versus the McMahon children at SummerSlam, I'd say that's probably a bad idea. But at least it would make sense why they have to talk about the old "don't talk about my children" cliche.

1: I Don't Give a Tout What You Think

People that Tout. Who are you? Why should I care? Why would I rather watch you when I could be watching an actual wrestling match?

Go away. Leave me alone. I don't go on your television screens and Tout at you.

WWE has done this for a couple weeks now, but it's just getting to be overkill. On Raw 1,000, and Smackdown, we watched a bunch of people we don't know talking about the wrestling they're watching, when we're watching the same program.

If it was a celebrity, I still wouldn't enjoy it, but it would at least be understandable. But completely random people chosen for some arbitrary reason to be on WWE for 15 seconds is annoying.

If I wanted to watch strangers talk about wrestling, I'd go to that website and watch people Tout.

I don't want to watch that, though, I want to watch wrestling. I'd rather watch anything that WWE throws at me that has to deal with their actual show.

I'd rather watch Santino and The Great Khali in a 60 minute Iron Man tickle fight match.

Well... maybe not that far.

Why should a television show that is watched by millions of people show footage on TV that wouldn't be watched by 25 people on YouTube?