Posted January 17, 201411 yr comment_5580583 Figured this would be a fun topic to discuss. To make things interesting, I'm excluding matches that were ruined by overbooking or a ridiculous gimmick. I'm also excluding matches involving celebrities and the like. I'm looking for matches where trained and experienced wrestlers completely stink out the joint and have no one to blame but themselves.
January 17, 201411 yr comment_5580585 Don't have the exact dates, but one seriously bad match involving good wrestlers took place around 1996 that was a ladder match between Great Sasuke and Super Boy. Nothing they tried was succesful and for a while afterwards I was convinced Super Boy sucked based on this match.
January 17, 201411 yr comment_5580589 Bob Backlund vs. Harley Race (9/22/80) Rick Martel vs. Brad Rheingans (9/9/84) I kid, I kid. Though those are both E-rated matches in my book (about -**). Then of course there was this travesty: Steve Regal vs. Buck Zumhofe (11/28/85) Ughhhhhhhh Pretty much ANY match featuring Kung-Fu Billy Graham in JCP, who is just sooo shit and awful that it's actively sad to see him. But for the worst match that was so bad it almost broke wrestling my vote goes for the 3-minute atrocity that Chad and I watched recently on Clash of the Champions 13: Sid Vicious vs. The Nightstalker In the hundreds of matches we've watched on WTBBP, that has got to be the absolute worst. It's a total clusterfuck, awful, awful work, execution and so on, clusterfuck booking that makes no sense, a CARDBOARD AXE. All inside 3 minutes. If it's not the worst match of all-time, it's got at least to be a contender for worst match of the 90s and worst match of WCW period.
January 17, 201411 yr comment_5580590 11th March 1993 - Wembley Arena - London Rick Rude v Davey Boy Smith - this will haunt my dreams until the end of time. Two guys who clearly could not be bothered and subsequently decided to sit in rest holds virtually the whole match. So bad it almost stopped time itself.
January 17, 201411 yr comment_5580592 What was that lucha match from the IWA King of the Death Match?
January 17, 201411 yr comment_5580594 Zeus vs. Abby from Puerto Rico is still my clubhouse leader for two guys in a decent marquee spot that had at least some experience up to this point.
January 17, 201411 yr comment_5580601 What was that lucha match from the IWA King of the Death Match?Iceman vs Kamikaze? Though I have to say, putting a card like that almost requires booking bad matches. You need something to contrast among the seven death matches, to quiet the crowd before building them up again.
January 17, 201411 yr comment_5580603 Sid Vicious vs Nightstalker is a great pick btw. I love the concept, that two wrestlers had no excuse to suck. No bullshit or gimmicks holding them back. They just sucked.
January 17, 201411 yr comment_5580614 The most common choice for worst match on British TV: It's the blow-off to one of the few long-term TV storylines with manager Charlie McGee bringing in guys to face Daddy and eventually having to get in the ring itself. To make things better it was the last week of Joint's exclusive contract and was followed the next week by the All Star debut (including a young Jushin Liger and a wacky ladder match) and the week after that the first WWF show.
January 17, 201411 yr comment_5580618 I haven't watched it lately, but the Triple H vs. Michaels hell in a cell is the most boring piece of shit ever!
January 18, 201411 yr comment_5580620 Steiners v. Muta and hase Heroes of Wrestling: The Jake Roberts incident. If you want to give that show a pass for being a one time indy show that was in over its head, then I would say The Demon vs Vampiro BATB 2000. Really, the whole Vampiro/Sting/Kiss Demon thing around that time was one of those embarassed to be a fan type angles.
January 18, 201411 yr comment_5580621 Undertaker and Kane vs Brian Adams and Brian Clark I was there live.......Uggggh
January 18, 201411 yr comment_5580623 Does anyone remember that infamous tag from RAW with I think Trish & Bradshaw against Jackie Gayda & Chris Nowinski? That match was pretty amazing in how bad it was. Trish even mentioned it in her HOF speech.
January 18, 201411 yr comment_5580624 Sting vs. Jeff Hary when Jeff was "under the influence" is one that popped in my head. Booker T. Vs Bagwell and Goldberg vs Lesnar. Although I understand the circumstances I really dislike Hogan vs. Michaels at SummerSlam when Shawn oversold everything in the match.
January 18, 201411 yr comment_5580632 Tiger Ali Singh vs Edge from WWF Capital Carnage is pretty fucking shocking. Ali Singh was horrible, and I've never been mad on Edge. The whole card stank of boiled egg shits to be honest. The only bright spot was Jackie Moore's superduper tits. The first ever time I knew what it felt like for people in the US paying for a pay per view and wanting to put your foot through the telly and send WWF the bill.
January 18, 201411 yr comment_5580633 Oh, pretty much everything from the Sting vs Vampiro feud in 2000 WCW is worth a mention.
January 18, 201411 yr comment_5580639 Tiger Ali Singh vs Edge from WWF Capital Carnage is pretty fucking shocking. Ali Singh was horrible, and I've never been mad on Edge. The whole card stank of boiled egg shits to be honest. The only bright spot was Jackie Moore's superduper tits. The first ever time I knew what it felt like for people in the US paying for a pay per view and wanting to put your foot through the telly and send WWF the bill. Well his father was Tiger Jeet Singh, long considered one of the worst wrestlers of all time. I remember getting a batch of Japanese footage a very long time ago and there was a ton of Tiger Jeet Singh matches on them. He was a huge star over there but man did his matches suck.
January 18, 201411 yr comment_5580640 Tomko vs Steven Richards. Utterly bizarre, boring and heat-less.
January 18, 201411 yr comment_5580641 Oh, pretty much everything from the Sting vs Vampiro feud in 2000 WCW is worth a mention. FUCK YES ! Eye gouging stuff.
January 18, 201411 yr comment_5580649 Baba vs Raja Lion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsZaJqiyE54 Winner
January 18, 201411 yr comment_5580650 Tiger Ali Singh vs Edge from WWF Capital Carnage is pretty fucking shocking. Ali Singh was horrible, and I've never been mad on Edge. The whole card stank of boiled egg shits to be honest. The only bright spot was Jackie Moore's superduper tits. The first ever time I knew what it felt like for people in the US paying for a pay per view and wanting to put your foot through the telly and send WWF the bill. Rock and X-Pac was pretty good!
January 18, 201411 yr comment_5580651 Actually, it was. But I think they had pretty much exactly the same match on Raw a week or two before which took a bit of lustre off it.
January 18, 201411 yr comment_5580652 Baba vs Raja Lion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsZaJqiyE54 Somewhat recently I heard this was supposed to be a comedy match to parody Inoki's "mixed martial arts" matches but I have no idea how true it is.
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