Worst Wrestling Matches

[Seth82]

A few prerequisites: No matches involving celebrities and also don't include the No Ring match from last year

Here's a few to kick things off

May 17, 1997, Midlothian, Virginia.
Big Guy Pat & L.L. Cool collided with the Intimidator and Gino Blanchard
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June 9th, 1987, AJPW @ Nippon Budokan
Giant Baba vs Raja Lion
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WCW Halloween Havoc '90
Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Rex
-JYD by 1990 was just really awful and outta shape
-He was never the world's greatest worker but he got lazy
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April 22nd 1988 AJPW Champion Carnival Day 24 @ City Gymnasium in Kawasaki JP
Tom Magee vs Hiroshi Wajima - widely considered to be one of the worst matches of all time
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WCW Road Wild '98
Steve 'Mongo' McMichael vs Brian Adams
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the god awful Heroes of Wrestling PPV
The Bushwhackers vs Iron Sheik/Nikolai Volkoff
-WWE's Zeb Colter does commentary for this btw
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World of Sport Wrestling
Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks
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[Bad News Gertner]

The Magee/Wajima match isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

I remember watching Dan Spivey/Blackjack Mulligan vs Tiger Cheung Lee/Salvatore Bellomo on Superstars and thought it was the worst thing I've seen. Fuck was it bad.

[Bobo]

Hogan v Warrior Halloween Havoc 1998. Anything in WCW after Russo and Ferera arrived except the final ever Nitro.

Chyna v Jeff Jarret for IC Title.

in fact ever match Warrior was involved in during his WCW stint.

Anything that involved the Mamalukes.

[Seth82]

The Magee/Wajima match isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

I remember watching Dan Spivey/Blackjack Mulligan vs Tiger Cheung Lee/Salvatore Bellomo on Superstars and thought it was the worst thing I've seen. Fuck was it bad.

lol is this it?

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[Seth82]

lol wow

WWC Puerto Rico 17th Anniversary Show 1990
Abdullah The Butcher vs ZEUS!
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[SlickyTrickyDamon]

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Big Al Vs. Tank Abbot the fight for the jacket.

[slik]

Really nice job with this thread Seth.

Kind of wish WWE would give Brodus Clay a 'Big Daddy' gimmick.

Anything with Nailz or Giant Gonzalez has to be up there. I'm sure a few of Khali's matches as well.

[Impeccable]

Surprised the kennel match between boss man and al snow hasn't been mentioned yet.

[Impeccable]

Or anything Nathan Jones was involved in

[slik]

Worst Starrcade Main-Event ever


Bad Match. Bad Feud. Possibly the worst chair shots I've ever seen.

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I remember as a kid seeing this and being all 'wth lol'

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[#1-norm-fan]

That match late last year on Raw where Eva Marie was in the ring for like 2 minutes not selling anything was pretty awful.

[#1-norm-fan]

I posted this in 100,001 replies a couple years ago. Took me forever to find it. Some guys in India putting on a wrestling match that looks like WWE AWESOME!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHJ3VphdmWs&feature=youtu.be

[whiteyford]

Anything in WCW after Russo and Ferera arrived except the final ever Nitro.

lol fuck off.

[Theo Dious]

There was a Kane vs Batista PPV match earlier in Batista's career that made me embarrassed to watch it. Batista was massively green and Kane just seemed entirely uncoordinated.

[Bad News Gertner]

lol is this it?

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Lol that'd be it.

[Bobo]

lol fuck off.

Are you actually saying you enjoyed the Russo Ferera period? It was mind numbingly awful. I mean the guys wanted Tank Abbott to be WCW champ and worst of all thought it made sense to book Arquette and Russo himself to win the title. Not to mention parading and hyping Jeff Jarrett out to be a bigger star than he actually ever was.

And then how can we forget Oklahoma?

[Bad News Gertner]

Yung Dragons vs Karagais/Noble vs 3 count ladder match at Starcade was fantastic.

[Razzamajazz]

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the only good thing about this was heenan on commentary

[whiteyford]

Are you actually saying you enjoyed the Russo Ferera period? It was mind numbingly awful. I mean the guys wanted Tank Abbott to be WCW champ and worst of all thought it made sense to book Arquette and Russo himself to win the title. Not to mention parading and hyping Jeff Jarrett out to be a bigger star than he actually ever was.

And then how can we forget Oklahoma?

So nothing good, except the last Nitro, came out of that entire period, that's your standpoint here? Tank Abbot the former UFC champ makes no sense as a champion? Vince McMahon has never booked a non wrestler as champion, or promoted title matches featuring them? And of course only Russo has ever had the sheer audacity to hype someone as a bigger star than they were at the time, right?

Yup, no other promotion would dare mock JR:roll:

[Seth82]

WWF Unforgiven 2001
The Brothers of Destruction ('Taker & Kane) vs KRONIK (Brian Adams & Bryan Clarke)
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[Bad News Gertner]

Lol how has JBL and Trish vs Jackie Gayda and Chris Nowinski not be mentioned yet

[Seth82]

WCW Great American Bash 2000
Sting vs Vampiro - The Human Torch Match
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TNA Lockdown 2007
James Storm vs Chris Harris
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[Bobo]

So nothing good, except the last Nitro, came out of that entire period, that's your standpoint here? Tank Abbot the former UFC champ makes no sense as a champion? Vince McMahon has never booked a non wrestler as champion, or promoted title matches featuring them? And of course only Russo has ever had the sheer audacity to hype someone as a bigger star than they were at the time, right?

Yup, no other promotion would dare mock JR:roll:

Great UFC stars don't make great wrestlers and vice versa. Abbott was about as significant as a fart in a canyon during his WCW time. At least when McMahon booked himself as champion it was part of a decent logical storyline and not a cheap pathetic PR stunt. And even if McMahon had done all the things you say he did like Russo did but unlike Russo, it never resulted in WWE being sold on and brought to an end?

Jarrett was terrible in WWE, WCW in fact everywhere he went.

As for the mocking JR yes it was distasteful can it be justified.....I don't know. People say what about GILLBERG but that was more tongue in cheek than a personal attack on Goldberg. Ferera clearly had issues with JR but chose the wrong medium to address them.

[Corndad]

May not be WORST matches but found this Shortest Match compilation that are pretty bad.

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[whiteyford]

Great UFC stars don't make great wrestlers and vice versa. Abbott was about as significant as a fart in a canyon during his WCW time. At least when McMahon booked himself as champion it was part of a decent logical storyline and not a cheap pathetic PR stunt. And even if McMahon had done all the things you say he did like Russo did but unlike Russo, it never resulted in WWE being sold on and brought to an end?

Jarrett was terrible in WWE, WCW in fact everywhere he went.

As for the mocking JR yes it was distasteful can it be justified.....I don't know. People say what about GILLBERG but that was more tongue in cheek than a personal attack on Goldberg. Ferera clearly had issues with JR but chose the wrong medium to address them.

He was brought in as a legit fighter, the reasoning for signing him was solid enough, it was the same logic behind bringing in Shamrock/Severn. Yeah Vince as ECW champion a decent logical storyline. And yes McMahon did everything Russo did, Russo isn't the sole reason behind the collapse of WCW though.

Jarrett was over in both promotions.

Comparing Oklahoma to Gillberg is ridiculous.

[Bobo]

He was brought in as a legit fighter, the reasoning for signing him was solid enough, it was the same logic behind bringing in Shamrock/Severn. Yeah Vince as ECW champion a decent logical storyline. And yes McMahon did everything Russo did, Russo isn't the sole reason behind the collapse of WCW though.

Jarrett was over in both promotions.

Comparing Oklahoma to Gillberg is ridiculous.

Why so? Were they not both parodies of popular wrestling figures albeit one was a bit below the belt.

[MoFo]

Elijah Burke vs CM Punk

Scott Steiner vs Triple H (Rumble '03)

Any Yokozuna match

[Lock Jaw]

The Great Khali vs. _________

[Emperor Smeat]

Sting vs Jeff Hardy, Victory Road 2011

[Mercenary]

Any Bob Holly match

[Seth82]

The Great Khali vs Former WWF Oddities member Giant Silva

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[Corndad]

Elijah Burke vs CM Punk

Scott Steiner vs Triple H (Rumble '03)

Any Yokozuna match

That Steiner Match was god awful. Then to make look even worse, Angle/Benoit came out right after and had a classic.

[James Steele]

TNA World Title - Lockdown 2009
Sting vs Mick Foley

[scatterbrain28]

Goldberg vs Lesnar WrestleMania XX. What a shame, it had one hell of a build.

[Bad News Gertner]

Elijah Burke vs CM Punk

Scott Steiner vs Triple H (Rumble '03)

Any Yokozuna match

Naw, Yokozuna was the goods.

[Bad News Gertner]

El Gigante vs Sid: Stretcher Match GAB 91

[scatterbrain28]

The Great Khali vs Former WWF Oddities member Giant Silva

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0:05 Khali botched the chokeslam and I just laughed my ass off. Silva raise the leg next time XD.

[Bad News Gertner]

Or pretty much every match from the GAB 91 lol

[GD]

CM Punk vs Elijah Wood

[Razzamajazz]

wood?

[Droford]

they wrestled a match back in WCW's lord of the ring tournament

[Big Vic]

Wasn't there a sharmel match in TNA that was really bad.

[James Steele]

What the fuck is this "no ring match"? Is that referring to shit the yardtards post on here?

[Droford]

What the fuck is this "no ring match"? Is that referring to shit the yardtards post on here?

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I think Russo wanted to do away with the ring in WCW at one point but thy never went through with the idea

[James Steele]

Boogeyman vs Sharmell and Booker T. was a pike of shit on an otherwise great show.

[Droford]

I think you can just say "any boogeyman match"

[Bad News Gertner]

Bret vs HBK Wrestlemania 12. 60 minutes of boredom.

[CSL]

not the worst match ever but it's certainly hugely overrated by some

[CSL]

*12

[Bad News Gertner]

As someone who is in the business, it's the worst match of all time

[#1-norm-fan]

What the fuck is this "no ring match"? Is that referring to shit the yardtards post on here?

I think it's a reference to an indy show last year where they ended up not having a ring for some reason and just went ahead with the show anyway. Main evented by this gem:

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[James Steele]

That is fucking embarrasing.

[Corndad]

Just saw this in the Shoot Fight Thread in the Q&A Forum but feel this definitely deserves a place in this thread.

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[Anybody Thrilla]

Fuck, that Doinksaw match was uncomfortable to watch.

[James Steele]

"Doinksaw®" should be the next WWE Films horror movie.

[Curd]

Nash laying down for Hogan, Nitro after Starrcade 1998
Brad Armstrong vs. Berlyn at Halloween Havoc '99
Hogan laying down for Sting, also at Halloween Havoc '99
Jarrett laying down for Hogan, Bash at the Beach 2000
Chyna vs. anyone not Jericho or a Holly in 1999
Horace Hogan vs. anyone

[GD]

Randy Orton vs Sheamus - Episode of RAW following Wrestlemania 29

[Corndad]

Lol how has JBL and Trish vs Jackie Gayda and Chris Nowinski not be mentioned yet

That match was awful but here is another example of how much of a Hot Mess Jackie was...

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