Welcome to the results of the 2020 Theszies / Rec.sport.pro-wrestling Awards.
Anyway. Here, we present the “worst” Awards – those Awards which celebrate the awfullest things in wrestling during 2015. If this disturbs your sacred chakras, you can go read the “best” Awards here.
This year we had 212 voters participating. As always, for next year we encourage all of you wrestling media people to nominate yourselves and your favorites, and try to get your fans out to vote for you. Fair is fair!
As always, thank yous to Justin Henry, Christopher Robin Zimmerman, Herb Kunze and all those who have previously run the Awards and contributed to their legacy; everybody who chipped in to promote the awards; all of you voters, of course; and finally and most importantly an extra-double-sized thanks to mgkdotcom’s Tech Guy, James Young, without whose invaluable assistance these Awards would almost certainly have failed to be anywhere near as successful and user-friendly as they in fact were.
And without further ado…
| NOMINEE | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NIA JAX | 34 | 21 | 22 | 277 |
| Goldberg | 26 | 18 | 14 | 212 |
| Joey Ryan | 19 | 14 | 1 | 139 |
| Tamina | 15 | 7 | 14 | 124 |
| Jaxson Ryker | 11 | 13 | 7 | 108 |
PSYCHO GOLDFISH: I swear to God that if I have to see Goldberg wrestle again I am going to throw myself into the sea.
GIGGA B.: That thing where every so often you think about getting back into NXT, but you remember they still employ a pedophilic groomer and you just can’t do it. Doesn’t matter how good he is in the ring, if Velveteen Dream the man is actual poison.
WOODSY: I love AEW so far, but their insistence on using Marko Stunt as a legitimate wrestler really brings them down. They can’t rip on WWE for all the stupid shit that WWE (rightfully) does, try to present themselves as a more legitimate sport, and then use a 5 foot guy in matches other than midget wrestling.
CINCY: Goldberg is still wrestling? His spear and jackhammer are atrocious now.
HEARTBREAK SQUID: The thing about Nia Jax is that she gets more online hate than she deserves, much of which is obviously rooted in some combination of racism, misogyny and fat-shaming – but even after all of that, she’s boring and sloppy in the ring and a dull, uninteresting promo. She doesn’t deserve half the hate she gets, and she’s still lousy at wrestling. Plus she might be a Q-head, which… ugh.
D. GLIDE: Want to give props to Murder Clown for nearly living up to his gimmick every time he’s supposed to catch Aerostar on a dive (note: my Spanish is not the best, and I don’t know if “Negligent Homicide Clown” would sound cool in another language, or if it would just be clunky).
| NOMINEE | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FORGOTTEN SONS: JAXSON RYKER AND STEVE CUTLER AND WESLEY BLAKE | 39 | 18 | 13 | 275 |
| Retribution: T-Bar and Slapjack and Mace | 29 | 20 | 12 | 229 |
| Nightmare Collective: Brandi Rhodes and Mel | 16 | 14 | 21 | 164 |
| Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler | 13 | 9 | 11 | 114 |
| Peyton Royce and Lacey Evans | 4 | 17 | 15 | 101 |
LAWTHER4242: “Mom, can we stop for tag teams?” “We have tag teams at home!” The tag team at home: Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode.
WORMHUT: So lemme get this straight. They split up the Iiconics…. just to pair them off with different people? That’s almost as bad as busting up Heavy Machinery.
WOODSY: It should have been no surprise that Vince would debut an Antifa team and make them lose all the time, but at the very least he could have used jobbers for them instead of sending Ali and Dijakovic and the others to the shitpile.
D. GLIDE: I voted for Chaos Project, and I feel a little guilty about it, but I want to give Serpentico props for being the dedicated bump guy that seems to exist so that Jericho’s weird friend you’ve never heard of has something to do and has a job, even as they move into 2021 as two guys getting regularly buried by a 10 year old.
TENKEN: Not only is Nia Jax bad and dangerous, her team with Baszler doesn’t even make sense. They just put the mean girls together, even though they don’t even like each other.
CHRISTOPHER BIRD: It’s very WWE that they took the Forgotten Sons off the air when the one of them who can barely wrestle turned out to be a crazy right-wing asshole, and then they fired the two guys who weren’t crazy right-wing assholes and brought back the asshole who can barely wrestle and gave him more TV time.
| NOMINEE | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BARON CORBIN | 37 | 15 | 5 | 240 |
| Brandi Rhodes | 21 | 8 | 15 | 159 |
| Tucker | 12 | 11 | 14 | 121 |
| Nia Jax | 10 | 10 | 8 | 96 |
| Jade Cargill | 12 | 6 | 7 | 92 |
DMJ9798: Lacey Evans turned heel because she lost a karaoke contest. Seriously. That’s why she’s evil.
VANDAMDAZ: I just don’t know why you’d take a wrestler who is so wonderfull predisposed to be a babyface, down to their backstory and in-ring style, only to make them a heel, but that’s what WWE decided to do with Mustafa Ali. He should be the top babyface of the Cruiserweight division, not leading a loser heel stable like he currently is.
HEARTBREAK SQUID: Baron Corbin seems like a standup dude in real life, and I’m sure with better booking I’d enjoy him as a heel. But he does what he’s told to do, and it’s just so, so bad.
WORMHUT: So lemme get this straight. They split up Heavy Machinery for stupid reasons, and there’s absolutely no follow-up? A complete waste of Tucker’s heel turn.
FLIPDAWG: Hey, do you remember the Nightmare Collective? AEW – and particularly Brandi Rhodes – sure hope you don’t!
TENKEN: Absolutely nothing about Gargano’s heel turn has worked for me. This company keeps taking natural babyfaces and turning them into completely generic Shawn Michaels clones. (See also: Bayley.)
| NOMINEE | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LACEY EVANS | 18 | 29 | 19 | 215 |
| Velveteen Dream | 28 | 12 | 12 | 200 |
| Goldberg | 23 | 14 | 19 | 195 |
| Brandi Rhodes | 24 | 9 | 15 | 177 |
| Lana | 12 | 14 | 14 | 130 |
WAR PENGUIN: Cara Noir got booed as a face in WXW’s 16 Karat Gold Tourney. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen the indies boo a face like that before.
GIGGA B.: Let me state this again for the record: IF YOU ARE FOUND SCAMMING ON CHILDREN I WILL NEVER CHEER FOR YOU. NXT not just bringing back Velveteen Dream like nothing happened, but bringing him back as a face is a staggering misjudgment of Hulk Hogan proportions.
K. QUEEN: Bray Wyatt/The Fiend, for kidnapping and brainwashing a woman and still being a babyface somehow.
MR. FAAFS: “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt, who is some type of demonic figure, corrupted adult woman Alexa Bliss and turned her into a child who may also be his girlfriend, complete with a swingset and dress. He is also the good guy.
TENKEN: Brandi Rhodes does all the same stuff that people rightly get mad at Stephanie McMahon for. At least they’ve resisted putting the AEW women’s title on her, but we’ll see how long that lasts.
TONYA HUDSON: I’m sure the kid is talented, but what is Master Wato supposed to actually be? Why should I root for him? He likes blue? I’m hoping he will improve in time but for now, it’s just not working.
CHRISTOPHER BIRD: If WWE really wants to be a global company, one of the things they have to learn is that “Former American Soldier” is not a babyface gimmick in much of the world unless you are a masterful, likeable babyface. Lacey Evans is… not that.
| NOMINEE | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOLDBERG | 54 | 22 | 14 | 364 |
| Nia Jax | 41 | 23 | 16 | 306 |
| Lana | 16 | 26 | 15 | 188 |
| Tamina | 6 | 16 | 28 | 134 |
| Brandi Rhodes | 11 | 17 | 10 | 126 |
MATTR: It’s truly amazing how terrible Lacey Evans is. She managed to have two matches with Bayley that were worse than Bayley’s matches with Tamina – you know, 43 year old, multiple knee surgeries, and was never that good to begin with Tamina. It’s unreal how horrendous Lacey is.
WORMHUT: Nia Jax has injured more people than she’s put over. What is she even still doing on the roster?
PSYCHO GOLDFISH: Man, it feels good not to vote for Shane this year.
JOHN A. SAWYER JR.: It hurts to vote for Goldberg for this one. I loved the guy back in the day. That being said, well, he earned it.
CHRISTOPHER BIRD: Jaxson Ryker was one of the worst wrestlers I’ve ever seen on TV when he was wrestling as Gunner on Impact, and since then, if anything, he’s gotten slightly worse.
| NOMINEE | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOEY RYAN | 33 | 14 | 11 | 229 |
| Alberto El Patron | 21 | 7 | 9 | 144 |
| Velveteen Dream | 11 | 19 | 12 | 136 |
| Baron Corbin | 13 | 13 | 6 | 116 |
| Nia Jax | 12 | 10 | 11 | 112 |
WAR PENGUIN: Is Alberto El Patron even wrestling anymore? Actually, I don’t care. He’s an awful wrestler and human being and until I get confirmation he’s out of the business he’ll always get my vote here.
WORM HUT: Joey Ryan’s gimmick is skeevy enough. Who’d have thought he was even *worse* in real life?
DESINMAN: Let’s be honest, 2020 was a year where we realized how awful tons of people were in the industry, and there’s too many candidates here. It started with Tessa Blanchard, but that was the tip of the iceberg compared to the entire Speaking Out movement. David Starr, Mike Quackenbush, Jack Gallagher, Marty Scurll, Velveteen Dream, Matt Riddle, too many others, and Joey fucking Ryan… god lots of people are tied for my least favourite here.
TENKEN: Doc Gallows is a poor man’s – no, an absolute destitute, impoverished man’s Kevin Nash. He’ll never have the effortless charm and charisma Nash had even at his very worst, and the harder Gallows tries, the more exhausted I get by him. I’m 100% done with his nWo cosplay.
PSYCHO GOLDFISH: The quarantine might have been a shot to the indie scene, but Joey was the bullet.
JOHN A. SAWYER JR.: STOP HIRING SEXUAL ABUSERS TO DO WRESTLING SHOWS. THERE IS SO MUCH TALENT OUT THERE THAT HAVEN’T SEXUALLY ASSAULTED ANYONE THAT YOU DON’T NEED TO HIRE THESE ASSHOLES. IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS. JUST STOP.
HOFEIZAI: Chris Jericho decided to team up with a plague to promote his band though it may contribute to real-world deaths, so he has a lock on this vote for the foreseeable future.
| NOMINEE | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOLDBERG | 24 | 14 | 14 | 190 |
| Baron Corbin | 19 | 15 | 9 | 158 |
| Will Ospreay | 13 | 5 | 3 | 86 |
| Randy Orton | 7 | 9 | 9 | 80 |
| Braun Strowman | 7 | 9 | 8 | 78 |
MATTR: A quick recap of Charlotte Flair’s year: Wins a Royal Rumble match nobody wanted to see her win, used that title match to completely slaughter the momentum of two actual stars in Rhea Ripley and Bianca Belair while beating Rhea clean for a belt she had no business holding, doesn’t even take a fall to drop the belt on her way out to a 6 month or so hiatus and then returns and wins the tag belts just because. Like good lord, how do you work only 6 months and be that level of damaging to everyone around you?
JONATHAN HANCOCK: Cody’s so overrated he’s got two entries in Least Favourite!
WORM HUT: Even at his prime, Goldberg had no conditioning or actual skill, and build his reputation on short, dominant matches with hardly any true wrestling moves. And these days, he is *faaaaar* from his prime. He tarnishes his rep every time he re-enters the ring.
FLIPDAWG: The time for Braun Strowman was three years ago. The magic is gone. Sucks, but that’s the truth.
LECO182: Saya Kamitani. I don’t understand her push. She may be great in the future (I don’t see it, though), but for now… I’m shocked she hasn’t broken her neck or hurt someone else yet. Am I the only one seeing this?
| NOMINEE | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RETRIBUTION AS ANTI-WWE REBELS WHO DON'T DO ANYTHING | 44 | 30 | 23 | 356 |
| Brandi Rhodes as whatever she’s doing this week | 28 | 24 | 12 | 236 |
| Chad Gable as Shorty G | 27 | 12 | 14 | 199 |
| Buddy Murphy romances Rey Mysterio's teenage daughter | 13 | 17 | 11 | 138 |
| Shane McMahon as the master of RAW Underground | 9 | 13 | 16 | 116 |
GIGGA B.: Miro showing up in AEW and having his whole character be “I’m friends with this couple and will kill you if you mess with my video games” is the most WWE thing they’ve done yet. He seems to be leaning toward his monster side in 2021 so I hope I don’t have to complain about it next year as well.
VANDAMDAZ: Lana going through a table every month continues to baffle me as an idea to get her over, especially as they took her out of the big climactic match so the build ended up being for nothing.
DESINMAN: Shorty G didn’t ACTUALLY happen, right? That was just a bad fever dream we all collectively had, wasn’t it?
TONYA HUDSON: Nothing about the Retribution gimmick makes a lick of sense. What’s worse is that they just keep losing. The members are great, though, which just makes the whole endeavour feel kinda depressing.
TENKEN: Retribution is bad, but what is Brandi Rhodes doing this week? Whatever it is, I’m sure it’s very important!
PSYCHO GOLDFISH: Just reading the words “Shorty G” made me unexplainably mad.
| NOMINEE | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LACEY EVANS' WOMAN'S RIGHT PUNCH | 25 | 16 | 21 | 215 |
| Goldberg's Jackhammer | 20 | 15 | 11 | 167 |
| Nia Jax's bucklebomb | 17 | 13 | 12 | 148 |
| Charlotte Flair's moonsault | 20 | 9 | 7 | 141 |
| Michael Nakazawa's underwear punch | 9 | 15 | 6 | 102 |
DMJ9798: I know a lot of these moves aren’t the best, but at least almost everyone can actually DO THE MOVE. Goldberg, on the other hand…
M.B. KERRDOG: I didn’t think it was possible for a wrestling move to get X-Pac heat. Then Kazuchika Okada introduced us all to the Money Clip.
JMAN_316: Unfortunately I couldn’t vote for “Cody Rhodes gets neck tattoo” as worst wrestling move.
PSYCHO GOLDFISH: It’s just a punch. She doesn’t use a slug to make it more powerful, it’s just a normal punch with a horrible pun for a name. How is it any more effective than any other part of her offense? At least the Big Show’s fist was about the size of my head!
| NOMINEE | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/27: GOLDBERG v. BRAY WYATT (WWE UNIVERSAL TITLE) | 69 | 19 | 8 | 418 |
| 09/05: Matt Hardy vs. Sammy Guevara (Broken Rules) | 13 | 15 | 15 | 140 |
| 04/04: Goldberg v. Braun Strowman (WWE Universal title) | 8 | 19 | 14 | 125 |
| 02/27: Brock Lesnar v. Ricochet (WWE world title) | 7 | 16 | 11 | 105 |
| 07/19: Braun Strowman v. Bray Wyatt (Wyatt swamp fight) | 9 | 10 | 11 | 97 |
MATTR: Man, I didnt want to vote Edge vs. Orton because I was happy to see Edge back but shit that match was bad. Went like 45 minutes of just regular brawling and included a spot that seemed like a tribute to how Chris Benoit committed suicide. Like, what on earth.
DMJ9798: I know it’s not their fault, but has any fantastic feud been blown off with such a whimper than Gargano and Ciampa? Just a complete slog, and you end the match to end the feud forever by having a third party interfere and turn heel… cool. On the upside, at least the Evil Garganos are hilarious.
TENKEN: How bad was Street Profits vs. Tozawa’s ninjas? Well, Matt Hardy almost died in his match, and I put that one second.
TONYA HUDSON: WWE almost ruined the best character they had produced in years. The unbeatable Fiend got squashed and pinned after a crappy looking vertical suplex from a concussed old man. Not only did it make the Fiend look bad, but it made every wrestler he had beaten look like a chump. All that in less than three minutes. Bravo.
| NOMINEE | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RETRIBUTION v. WWE | 51 | 24 | 12 | 351 |
| Lana v. Nia Jax | 18 | 23 | 22 | 203 |
| Seth Rollins v. Rey Mysterio/Mysterio Family | 16 | 20 | 9 | 158 |
| Bray Wyatt v. Randy Orton | 16 | 11 | 10 | 133 |
| Elias v. Jeff Hardy | 15 | 10 | 11 | 127 |
TENKEN: Street Profits vs. Viking Raiders seems like a can’t miss, but after the initial match, it just broke down into a series of increasingly unfunny skits, and somehow never made it back to the proper rematch that you might have actually wanted to see in the first place.
CINCY: It was established – in kayfabe – that RETRIBUTION, who wanted control of WWE, were actually NXT people wearing masks. How could you have taken this seriously when you found out?
| NOMINEE | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEATH OF BRODIE LEE | 56 | 41 | 16 | 435 |
| Just… fucking everything this year okay? | 57 | 9 | 13 | 338 |
| Hana Kimura commits suicide after being cyberbullied | 27 | 24 | 17 | 241 |
| #SpeakingOut movement reveals numerous wrestlers to be sexual predators | 19 | 28 | 18 | 215 |
| Covid-19 pandemic shuts down most live wrestling for most of the year | 11 | 13 | 10 | 114 |
MATTR: Write in for WWE’s collective actions during the pandemic. If I can’t vote for all of them in one spot I’ll go with bribing the Florida government into making them “essential” workers.
RYAN TAYLOR: THANK YOU for providing the “Just…fucking everything this year, ok?” option. So much bad shit happened this year, I damn near gave up on pro wrestling as a whole, and I doubt I’m the only one who felt that way. 2020 was a dumpster fire of a year for many, MANY, reasons.
WOODSY: I would normally consider “fucking everything this year” to be a massive copout, but 2020 deserves that. It covers a ton of things that didn’t get nominated but I would easily vote for, including but not limited to Linda McMahon funding Stop the Steal and also Bruce Pritchard’s deranged conspiracy theory that Brodie Lee had COVID and AEW lied about it to cover it up. Easily the worst of this year was Brodie Lee’s death, which is the saddest wrestling death since Owen Hart. Brodie had been completely fucked over by WWE for years and finally got out, and even COVID fucking up his push at first didn’t stop him from finally showing the world what he could do. And then his lung cancer returned. And the worst part, aside from the obvious exception of that his family won’t ever see him again, is that VInce won’t learn a thing from it.
TENKEN: I mean, I’m using the catch-all category for my number three, because we lost a lot of great performers this year. But Speaking Out revealed exactly how bad and how deep a problem this industry has with sexual assault, extending even out to the fringes with Stroud (which then also cost several talented people their gigs, despite having nothing to do with it). It’s good that it came to light, but still, disappointing to see that a problem we all kind of knew was there was worse than we thought.
JOHN A. SAWYER JR.: Hang in there, everybody. God willing 2021 will improve at some point, and we’ll all be able to see this stupid, wonderful thing we love in person again without putting lives at risk. That being said, Jesus, take your pick.
FLIPDAWG: Everything sucked in 2020, obviously, but in the end most of it was navigable. The pandemic sucked, but wrestling companies managed to rebound as safely as possible (well, in most cases) and provide wrestling nonetheless, and lots of companies other than WWE tried to support indie wrestlers in their own ways. #Speakingout sucked, but at least it’s a positive step. And then you get to the deaths, and Brodie Lee was just so savage a cut – nobody outside the business saw it coming and his loss still echoes throughout the business. So I voted for that.
| NOMINEE | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MICHAEL COLE | 28 | 33 | 15 | 269 |
| Jim Ross | 32 | 19 | 20 | 257 |
| Jerry Lawler | 28 | 19 | 22 | 241 |
| Corey Graves | 24 | 26 | 14 | 226 |
| Byron Saxton | 10 | 28 | 13 | 160 |
MATTR: Sam Roberts takes the number 1 spot due to the fact that during his one show commentating on NXT I turned the channel to AEW and I’ve stuck with them since. Sam Roberts helped AEW win the Wednesday Night War in my house at least. That’s how ungodly terrible and annoying he was during that show.
WOODSY: Jim Ross is the greatest announcer in wrestling history, but it’s physically painful to watch him now.
TOKYO MAGNUM: As bad as Jim Ross can be, at least he has a long history of good commentary to his name and can sometimes tap into his experience to add an air of prestige to the matches he genuinely cares about. Kevin Gill was never good, and one of the most brutal nights of pro wrestling commentary all year was the time Joey Janela’s Spring Break reunited one of the all-time great indy wrestling commentary teams in Dave Prazak and Lenny Leonard… and KG was in there with them, periodically turning up to say something palpably embarrassing.
GIGGA B.: I think I may have voted for Taz as third best AND third worst announcer this year, and I think that’s completely true somehow.
HEARTBREAK SQUID: We all know Michael Cole is capable of calling a good match and it’s mostly Vince screaming in his ear that makes his announcing so bad, but even so.
| NOMINEE | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRANDI RHODES | 20 | 9 | 10 | 147 |
| Baron Corbin | 18 | 13 | 8 | 145 |
| Lana | 13 | 16 | 11 | 135 |
| Jade Cargill | 15 | 11 | 10 | 128 |
| Natalya | 14 | 11 | 12 | 127 |
TONYA HUDSON: I am mystified that Natalya has been a wrestler in the biggest promotion in the world for so long and still doesn’t speak like a human being when holding a microphone.
LEWITT: Moose….. just…. talks….. so…. slowly…. and…. uses….. ten….. words….. when………. three……. would…….. do…… just………………………………………. fine.
| NOMINEE | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RETRIBUTION INVADE WWE AND REPEATEDLY GET THEIR ASS KICKED | 46 | 30 | 14 | 348 |
| The IIconics are forced to split up | 29 | 18 | 19 | 237 |
| Shane McMahon debuts RAW Underground | 9 | 19 | 17 | 136 |
| Murphy is dating Aliyah Mysterio | 9 | 12 | 13 | 107 |
| Nia Jax repeatedly puts Lana through tables | 8 | 13 | 14 | 107 |
LORD BENNE: 2nd place: Bray Wyatt assaults Alexa Bliss, which apparently causes her to fall in love with him.
DMJ9798: WHY DID YOU BREAK UP THE IICONICS ONLY TO PUT THEM ON DIFFERENT TAG TEAMS?!?!?!?
TENKEN: At this point, I can’t even guess at what Retribution was supposed to accomplish, or where this story is supposed to go – other than into the trash.
TONYA HUDSON: I’m not opposed to romance angles completely, but when you have a mid-30s Buddy Murphy dating a 19-year old it becomes more than a little uncomfortable to watch. Especially in a post #SpeakingOut world.
| NOMINEE | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WWE SUPER SHOWDOWN | 92 | 23 | 8 | 545 |
| WWE The Horror Show At Extreme Rules | 26 | 41 | 24 | 301 |
| TalkNShopAMania | 17 | 8 | 5 | 121 |
| WWE Money In The Bank | 8 | 12 | 18 | 112 |
| WWE WrestleMania 36 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 71 |
GIGGA b.: It’s going to be so weird for wrestling fans in twenty years watching through Wrestlemanias in order when they hit WM36, one of the least majestic, most-un-spectacled shows of all time. And there’s two nights of it!
LEWITT: The only thing worse than TalkNShopAMania is doing it again
TONYA HUDSON: Every year WWE runs a show in Saudi Arabia, it’s going on the Worst Major Show list. On principle. Luckily, this year’s Super Showdown featured the abysmal Lesnar/Ricochet match, and the somehow even worse Goldberg/Wyatt, so it would have been the worst show of the year even if it wasn’t performed for a family of human rights abusing autocrats.
