WWE Worst of the Week: Del Rio, Henry and More

Welcome back for another edition of Worst of the Week.

It was a strange past seven days as Raw went old school for some reason, The Undertaker made about as anti-climactic return as you could get and Sheamus compared The Big Show to Shrek. 

First, let's give credit where credit is due: props to Brad Maddox for some surprisingly entertaining commentary on SmackDown. He had some good lines like when he promoted Josh Matthews to assistant commentator and claimed that Yoshi Tatsu was his all time favorite wrestler.  

But enough with the praise, it's time to get annoyed. Let's look back at the most horrifying, skin crawling channel changing WWE moments of the week. 

As a last note, the real worst thing to happen in wrestling the past seven days was the passing of Paul Bearer. As a kid I remember being terrified of him and Undertaker, and it was always a blast when he would show up.

Now let's switch gears now and take a look back at the worst of the week!

No. 5: Oh You Didn't Know...Yeah, I Didn't Either

With so much WWE programming every week, the WWE would be wise to give their fans unique reasons to tune in.

Having one of the company's greatest tag teams of all time, who haven't teamed up in 13 years (let's just forget the Voodoo Kin Mafia for a moment), wrestling on their show would be a good reason to watch.

WWE must not have felt that way.

Sure, we knew the Outlaws would be on the show, but we weren't told they'd be wrestling. I could understand that treatment for The Headbangers, or The Oddities, but for the NAO?

The duo was a very popular part of the Attitude Era, and even a simple promo from them earlier in the show would have sufficed. 

Instead, we got nothing. Primo and Epico had the non-televised entrance, and then the Outlaws did their normal shtick as they came out for a fight.

To all the new fans that WWE has, they had no reason to get excited about seeing a legendary tag team. For all the fans who watched them years ago, they had no reason to believe they'd be competing.

Also, isn't it odd that WWE won't let Road Dogg say "ass" in his pre-match mic work, yet they still have the two encourage an audience full of children to yell "suck it"?

No. 4: Mark Henry Likes Cake

"

Somebody gonna get their ass kicked, somebody gonna get some frosting licked. 

"

Mae Young's 90th birthday is coming up (on Mar. 12), but WWE decided to celebrate a little early. 

To the surprise of no one, a birthday party in wrestling didn't go off as planned. CM Punk interrupted the fun.

What was more noteworthy though, was the collection of superstars who attended the party. John Cena was there dressed in his finest jorts, Ryback was there in his exquisite spandex and ripped shirt set and Mae Young's former lover Mark Henry joined in with a nice sweater. 

Wait. What?

After Henry and Ryback had their staredown earlier in the show, Henry went backstage and got dressed up for Mae's party. That monster, who we're supposed to pay money to see get beat up, then embraced his old flame Young.

No, he didn't give her a world's strongest slam, he gave her the world's friendliest hug. 

No. 3: Cesaro and Barrett...of Course

It seems almost every week I'm compelled to write about how Cesaro and Barrett both lost clean non-title matches. 

WWE is just mocking us now.

It's as if they're doing some sort of weird performance art piece to see how much they can devalue their own titles and frustrate their fans. 

Wade Barrett, the Intercontinental champion, didn't just lose once this week...he lost twice.

Antonio Cesaro, the US champion, didn't just lose once this week...he lost twice. 

Cesaro has just eclipsed 200 days as the US champion. Which is really impressive...had he not lost 18 singles matches (that just all happened to be non-title) in that time!

No. 2: Painfully Predictable

Between Raw and SmackDown we had 14 matches this week.

If you've watched wrestling for more than a couple weeks in your life, the odds are you could have guessed who was going to win every single match beforehand.

Did anyone think that the 3MB would defeat Team Hell No or Sweet T?

Who thought that Zack Ryder would score an upset this week?

Did anyone believe that Dolph Ziggler was going to defeat Alberto Del Rio on his fourth attempt since Jan. 29? 

Raise your hand if you thought that The Big Show was going to face The Undertaker at WrestleMania.

Now, predictably isn't always a bad thing. A lot of times you have to go with the predictable outcome to build towards a feud. But when every match is a foregone conclusion you risk the danger of boredom stepping in.

At least Fandango gave us something new this week. Wait, that's not true either. 

No. 1: Del Rio Brings the Jokes

There just has to be a better way to promote a wrestling match than by performing terrible impressions, and talking about how Mexican food hurts your stomach.

Many historians recall how Frank Gotch vs. George Hackenschmidt explored this same theme, and how well did that work out? 

Seriously though, how on Earth did the skit of Del Rio and Rodriguez making fun of Colter and Swagger make the air?

Take any sketch show that you can think of (Saturday Night Live, The Kids in the Hall, Mr. Show), and then try to think of any segment that was ever lazier and less funny than this was.

I'm not sure it can be done.

The WWE needs to give us variety in their top babyfaces, as three out of the top five (not Orton or Ryback), have incredibly cheesy, lame senses of humor.

Del Rio obviously isn't comfortable as a comedy figure, so there is no need to force him into it. 

And lastly, what's up with the bucket of water? Triple H has the sledgehammer, Jimmy Hart had the megaphone and a millionaire has his personal assistant bring a giant bucket of water to the ring?

Well that's enough ranting for now, it's time to get a chimichanga. 

Agree? Disagree? What was your worst of the week? Sound off below!