Worst wrestler in a major promotion that you've seen

[Bad News Gertner]

I don't want to include the indies because it's the indies, and I don't mean one match in particular. I mean someone who was horrible night in and night out.

My pick despite LOVING when he sang the Russian National Anthem, Nikolai Volkoff.

People don't realize this, but Nikolai debuted in the WWWF in the friggen 60's as one half of the Mongols tag team. By the 80's he was horrific. If he had to wrestle a larger opponent it was a shit show. I remember watching a match in 84 against Chief Jay Strongbow and it was atrocious. Strongbow was too heavy for Volkoff to do his backbreaker so he pinned him with a running/sort of jumping elbow drop, but Volkoff couldn't jump so it was almost like a baseball player sliding into home. I don't even think he connected with it. Lol he beat Swede Hanson with a stomp to the chest in a match. Fuck was he ever bad. How he got another run in the mid 90's is beyond me, because Volkoff was bad in the early 90's.

[Big Vic]

Can I choose Jenna Morasca?

[Bad News Gertner]

Lol poor Jenna.

[Jazzy Foot]

Jeff Jarett and Tank Abott.

[Sepholio]

Nailz

[Vastardikai]

Randy Orton. :shifty:

I have to say Giant Gonzales/El Gigante. Lacked the presence of Andre, and was somehow less mobile. Not even Flair could make him watchable.

[The Condor]

Female: Jackie Gayda
Male: Uncle Elmer

[Bad News Gertner]

Oh fuck, Uncle Elmer was awful. Lol I remember his debut match against Tiger Cheung Lee. Elmer went to do a leg drop, got zero air, ended up stepping on Lee's face, and took 10 seconds to get up and make the pin because he was so fat.

[Emperor Smeat]

Braden Walker

[Shisen Kopf]

Great Khali. He's god awful. Plus he stinks like curry.

[Bad News Gertner]

Bret Hart is worse

[rad dggy dg]

Dean Ambrose

[Seth82]

Mike Von Erich in WCCW

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this kid right out of the gate was pushed to the moon and put in main events. He was shitty before the toxic shock syndrome. After that he was 10 times worse.

also would mention Angelo Mosca Jr

This punk kid of Angelo Mosca's got pushed heavily in 1984 in Crockett Promotions. Angelo Jr was even Mid Atlantic Heavyweight champion.

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131104160901/prowrestling/images/9/9c/Angelo_Mosca_Jr..jpg

[Bad News Gertner]

He's definitley has his dad's fur lol

[Bad News Gertner]

Baron Mikel Scicluna in the early 80's was pretty brutal as well as was Dominic Denucci. I'm obsessed with WWF between 77-84 right now and my God some of the matches are so fucking bad.

Salvatore Bellomo has become a favourite and Dick Murdoch's work in 84 is so fucking great. Lol his facial expressions when he sells a punch are as good as Regal's. You could tell he was in his element. He could act like a cartoon character and it was encouraged. Surprise he left the company. He fit right in.

[Seth82]

Chief Jay Strongbow was brutal too.

[Bad News Gertner]

Lol yeah his match with Volkoff was a fucking mess.

He wrestled Kamala in a match that I watched recently and my God.

Swede Hansen was pretty bad too between 82-84

[#1-norm-fan]

Khali is a pretty solid pick. The man can barely move.

[FakeLaser]

Khali and Giant Gonzalez probably take the cake because they could barely walk

Nathan Jones was able-bodied and terrible

[Bad News Gertner]

Nathan Jones had such a cool character. Definitely had cred.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Probably that 100 pound nothing Rockstar Spud. Not that TNA is a major promotion anymore or ever.

David Sammartino maybe if we're talking real league.

[FakeLaser]

He's not the worst wrestler ever, but Vampiro's run in WCW in 2000 was one of the worst in-ring runs ever

This might be the worst match I've ever seen:

<iframe frameborder="0" width="480" height="270" src="//www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x340bs" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x340bs_mike-awesome-vs-vampiro_sport" target="_blank">Mike Awesome vs. Vampiro</a> <i>by <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/Stinger1981" target="_blank">Stinger1981</a></i>

[Shisen Kopf]

Bret Hart is worse

Hmm now that owenbrown logged out I feel I must fill that huge void that has been left. FUCK YOU FUCKING GERTNER YOU ARE A TERRORIST BASTARD. FBI GONNA KNOCK YOUR FUCKING FUCK DOOR DOWN AND WATER BOARD YOUR ASS. EAT SHIT FAGGOT. BRET HART IS A GOD YOU FUCK!

[Shisen Kopf]

How'd I do?

[FakeLaser]

Actually after rewatching that Vampiro match I might say he's the worst ever

Legitimately terrified for both of them the entire time, especially with the Awesome Bomb off the top finish

[Seth82]

Tennessee promoter Nick Gulas' son George was the absolute shits.

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Nick pushed him so hard that it killed the Chattanooga-Nashville end of the Tennessee territory.

George was perhaps one of the worst if not the worst wrestler to ever lace a pair of boots.

Jerry Jarrett refused to book George as he knew it would kill business on the Memphis end quickly just as it had done for Nick and the Nashville-Chattanooga end.

No one in their right mind would ever buy George as a top babyface. He was no match for Memphis heels like Jerry Lawler, Mongolian Stomper and etc.

George teams with Rufus R. ''Freight Train'' Jones to take on Bobby Mayne (a young Bobby Jaggers) & Charlie Fulton
<iframe frameborder="0" width="480" height="270" src="//www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x1ed3o" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ed3o_the-legendary-george-gulas-in-tag-m_sport" target="_blank">The Legendary George Gulas in Tag Match</a> <i>by <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/NGMM" target="_blank">NGMM</a></i>

[Bad News Gertner]

Yeah George Gulas was awful. Erik Watts wasn't much better.

[FakeLaser]

was just gonna say Erik Watts

he ruled in Tekno Team 2000 tho

[Sixx]

Sid was pretty terrible.

[Tom Guycott]

Can I choose Jenna Morasca?

I'd say Lacey Von Erich was worse. At least Jenna Morasca had no expectations put upon her. Lacey was bad with a family name.

Speaking of bad with a family name... Horace.

[Sixx]

I'd say Lacey Von Erich was worse. At least Jenna Morasca had no expectations put upon her. Lacey was bad with a family name.

Speaking of bad with a family name... Horace.

Forgot about this dude. He was shit and I have no idea why they made him stick so long.

[Sixx]

Also, I didn't even realize he was really related to Hogan. Thought that was just kayfabe.

[Cool King]

I'm surprised Eva Marie's name hasn't came up yet.

Before I disappeared from here for a few months, she wasn't really well received around here.

Especially by you, STD. I'm surprised you haven't put her name forward.

[Bad News Gertner]

Sid was pretty terrible.

I'll pretend I didn't read this

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Van Hammer was pretty dreadful if I remember correctly.</font>

[Shisen Kopf]

You know who were good though? The no limit soldiers in wcw. Such talent.

[Shisen Kopf]

Kiss Demon def didn't suck.

[hb2k]

Volkoff is a great pick. I got a Mid South 84 set, and even then he was absolutely atrocious. The fact he was around in 94 is disgraceful.

Heidenreich deserves a mention. Watching him fail to put on a cobra clutch on Taker at the 2005 Rumble is one thing, but he has a PPV match with Orlando Jordan that was horrible beyond belief. Not all time worst but baaaaaad.

[Big Vic]

I'm surprised Eva Marie's name hasn't came up yet.

:y:

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Actually after rewatching that Vampiro match I might say he's the worst ever

Legitimately terrified for both of them the entire time, especially with the Awesome Bomb off the top finish

Felt bad for Mike Awesome in that match. Not the greatest worker by any means but he could go when it came down to it, and fuck Vampiro was just the drizzling shits, I don't think he did anything right the entire match. Doesn't have an athletic bone in his body.

[FakeLaser]

Mike Awesome from 2000 onward is basically the most depressing person ever

[Bad News Gertner]

<font color=goldenrod>Van Hammer was pretty dreadful if I remember correctly.</font>

He somehow got a big push in 1999 in WCW.

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>The best Van Hammer story was when he was put into the Misfits in Action in 2000 and he complained about being Private Stash, not because the name was meant to be a blunt weed reference but because he didn't want to have the lowest ranking title in a completely fake militia.</font>

[Bad News Gertner]

Haha yeah I remember that story

[FourFifty]

Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, and any other name he went by.
This was just a buddy of Hogan who followed him around like a lost, talentless puppy.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Never seen any of his matches but from what I know of him The Shockmaster seemed like he was pretty terrible.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, and any other name he went by.
This was just a buddy of Hogan who followed him around like a lost, talentless puppy.

He had a pretty ridiculous career, but had a decent enough run in the mid-late 80s before his horrible accident with matches that weren't COMPLETELY shit to warrant him not being the worst.

In saying that, he wasn't good.

[Nicky Fives]

Nathan Jones had such a cool character. Definitely had cred.

The difference with Jones was that given time, he could have been HUGE..... Khali, Gonzalez, Nailz, etc. could never have been good, no matter how much training

[Vastardikai]

<font color=goldenrod>Van Hammer was pretty dreadful if I remember correctly.</font>

Halloween Havoc 1990, Michael Hayes faked an injury to get out of working against him. Van Hammer proceeded to make that decision seem wise when he worked with a jobber and almost crippled him with a shit awful Slingshot Suplex.

[Mercenary]

Never seen any of his matches but from what I know of him The Shockmaster seemed like he was pretty terrible.

You leave Tugboat alone damn it!