TPWW'S TOP TEN: GIMMICK MATCHES! NOMINATIONS OPEN!

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Hey friendos, we're back at ya with another round of TPWW'S TOP TEN! As always, I’ll give you a category, you give me your Top Ten nominations unranked and in no particular order. We’ll compile the lists and come up with “TPWW’S TOP TEN” for the week. One nomination equals one point. Top Ten nominees win.

This week’s topic: what is the best gimmick match in wrestling history?

Nominations are open until 8:00 am EST, on Friday July 9, 2021.


Previous TPWW’S TOP TEN LISTS:
TOP TEN TALKERS (https://www.tpwwforums.com/showthread.php?t=138283)
TOP TEN RING GEAR (https://www.tpwwforums.com/showthread.php?t=138296)

[Supreme Olajuwon]

For clarity sake, I'm treating a ladder match, TLC, and Money in the Bank as separate entries. I think TLC and MITB are unique enough to be categorized as their own thing.

[Lock Jaw]

Royal Rumble easily #1.... will think about the others and get back.... a lot of them have been "run into the ground" a bit.....

[TNARICK1]

War games 2000 triple cage
On a pole match
On a forklift match
49ers match
That penalty box match lance storm did at new blood rising
Scaffold match
Clock work orange match
The Hard 10 rules
Reverse battle royal
Tables match

[Jordan]

Hell in a Cell
War Games
Royal Rumble
3 Stages of Hell
Ladder Match
Street Fight
Barbed Wire Ropes Match
Iron Man Match
Triple Threat Match

And for my wildcard pick...

Survivor Series Wildcard Match

[drave]

Judy Bagwell on a pole. Nothing comes close.

[Lock Jaw]

Judy Bagwell on a pole. Nothing comes close.

I quite liked the Yosi Tatsu's Action Figure's Leg on a Pole match....

[Bad News Gertner]

War games 2000 triple cage
On a pole match
On a forklift match
49ers match
That penalty box match lance storm did at new blood rising
Scaffold match
Clock work orange match
The Hard 10 rules
Reverse battle royal
Tables match

No love for the Dupp Cup

[#1-norm-fan]

Steel Cage Match
Ladder Match
Royal Rumble
2 out of 3 Falls
“I Quit” Match
Hell in a Cell
Empty Arena
Bull rope/Strap Match
Last Man Standing
War Games

[#1-norm-fan]

Went Ladder Match because every other form of a ladder match is literally just a ladder match.

[Evil Vito]

3 Stages of Hell
Battle Royal
Fatal Four Way
Hell in a Cell
Ladder Match
Lumberjack Match
Royal Rumble
Street Fight
TLC Match
War Games

I love normal battle royals and think they deserve their own spot away from the timed entry battle royal (the Rumble, of course the GOAT match)

I can't bring myself to consider MITB as different from a ladder match but I can be sold on TLC being something different just because you know other weapons will be involved. That said, TLC and HIAC are both things that WERE great and the high points of those matches warrant inclusion but in the past 12 or so years WWE have driven them into the ground.

Lumberjack might be an out there choice but I do like some of the fun stuff you can do with booking those. Ie a heel "handpicks" the lumberjacks and it's heels only clearly being biased. Bonus points if they actually have leather straps to use. Also you always get a token clusterfuck brawl which I pop for.

Fatal Four Way is another out there one but I prefer them to triple threats. Triple threats often just turn into "take one guy out of the match, the remaining two do a singles match, third guy returns, another guy gets taken out etc). Fatal four ways don't always fall into that trap.

[TNARICK1]

No love for the Dupp Cup

Actually the Hard 10 is based off the dupp cup

[xrodmuc316]

The gimmick has to be done properly of course, but I enjoy the following.

Gauntlet
Elimination Chamber
Royal Rumble match
Any other kind of battle royal match
Falls Count Anywhere
Old Blue Steel Cage Match
First Blood
Iron Man
Inferno
I Quit

[Lock Jaw]

- Royal Rumble
- Submission Match
- "I Quit" Match
- Last Man Standing Match
- Steel Cage Match (somehow these feel more special than HIAC these days because you don't really know when one will be)
- 1 vs 1 Ladder Match (very rare these days)
- Survivor Series Elimination match (even though they are pretty much trash these days, but that is more to do with everything being trash. The concept is still solid)
- Gauntlet Match (When booked correctly and actually telling a story with it they can be exciting as heck... pretty much made Kofi Kingston a WM main-eventer a few years back)
- Iron Man Match
- Falls Count Anywhere (for the fun of seeing where they go)

[Lock Jaw]

Special shoutout to the 1 out of 2 Falls match.

[Lock Jaw]

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[Lock Jaw]

I remember the one time in my e-fed, I won the right to book a card.... and being an egomaniac I just legit booked every single match to do with me like...

"Who can pick up my dry cleaning first" match where the opponents raced and fought for the right to pick up my laundry and get it back to the arena.

"Who can sell the most of my merch" match where they literally just competed to see who could move the most merch with my face on it.

Then there was the straight up "build me a tribute/statue match" where they just built a shrine in my honour that I would judge.


And a few others that I forget.

People hated it so much.

[Destor]

1. Steel Cage
2. War games
3. Street fight
4. Rumble
5. 2 out of 3 Falls
6. Strap
7. no dq/falls count anywhere
8. empty arena
9. barb wire ropes (and NOT no rope barb wire)
10. tag team

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Tag team match lol

fucking love it

[Bad News Gertner]

Actually the Hard 10 is based off the dupp cup

Yeah but no points for having sex with a farm animal in the Hard 10

[Bad News Gertner]

War Games
Ladder
Cage
HIAC
Strap
I quit
2 out of 3
Lumberjack
Battle Royal
Scramble Match (I so wish the WWE would being this back)

[Destor]

Tag team match lol

fucking love ittotally a gimmick

[Mr. Nerfect]

Royal Rumble
War Games
Tag Team
Ladder Match
Street Fight
Hell in a Cell
I Quit
2/3 Falls
Hair vs. Hair
Survivor Series Elimination Tags

[Helmsphere]

Viagra on a pole match

[Big Vic]

Elimination Chamber
Royal Rumble match
Steel Cage Match
First Blood
Inferno
Buried Alive
Hardcore
Boiler room brawl
Strap
War Games

[Big Vic]

Wish I could put HIAC or Ladder on there but I think I might be forever worn out on them.

Honestly would rather see a Punjabi Prison match before HIAC again.

[Lock Jaw]

I specified 1v1 ladder match, cause definitely worn out on the multi-man ladder match

[#1-norm-fan]

Can’t even remember the last time I heard about a 1 on 1 ladder match now that you mention it.

[Lock Jaw]

There have been a few in NXT 1 on 1 recently

[Lock Jaw]

Last main roster WWE was Andrade vs. Rey Mysterio for the US Title on a RAW January 20, 2020

Last PPVs to have a 1v1 ladder match seem to be the TLC PPV in 2018, 2016.... etc

Money in the Bank 2015 had Seth/Dean in a ladder match for the title.... but also had a multi-man ladder match earlier in the night....

There were some 1v1 at Extreme Rules PPV events as well...

But the last non-NXT and non-gimmick PPV 1v1 ladder match seems to be No Mercy 2008 Chris Jericho vs Shawn Michaels

[Savio]

Last one I remember was Kurt Angle vs some jobber where kurt didn't even use the ladder.

[screech]

Royal Rumble
Hardcore
Ladder
2 out of 3 Falls
Lumberjack
Scramble
Fatal Four Way
Steel Cage
Gauntlet
War Games

[#1-norm-fan]

I wanna blame Covid for empty arena matches getting no love.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Missed the Rey/Andrade Ladder Match.

There’s something juicy about a 1 vs. 1 Ladder Match built right.

[Big Fat Mike]

I've always been a fan of the 'Loser leaves town' matches.

[#1-norm-fan]

I would have put that on my list but I didn’t include that or hair vs hair/mask vs mask, etc. because I put them in a different category since they don’t effect the match directly.

Also, when I was a kid, I fucking loved “Manager in a shark cage” matches for some reason. Strongly considered that.

[Bad News Gertner]

I would have put that on my list but I didn’t include that or hair vs hair/mask vs mask, etc. because I put them in a different category since they don’t effect the match directly.

Also, when I was a kid, I fucking loved “Manager in a shark cage” matches for some reason. Strongly considered that.

How about a match in a Shark Cage!

RVaTRP0-ud0

[#1-norm-fan]

... I’m now strongly considering replacing something on my list.

[#1-norm-fan]

Lol They kinda worked well for what it was sans the door constantly opening on its own.

[Bad News Gertner]

Results!

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Ugh this is a lot of work.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Hold on.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Didn’t even get to two pages. I think this is a bust.

[Big Vic]

You can do it!

[Destor]

Ugh this is a lot of work.tell me more

[Supreme Olajuwon]

I DID BETTER WRESTLER TOO

[Bad News Gertner]

Mod fight!!!!!

Come on ya whores!

[Evil Vito]

Thinking Differently is a lot of work too which is why I haven’t caved to requests

At least Survivor lasted almost a decade, although I also handed off the reigns to that after a year or so cause I had to watch every damn finish :lol:

[Bad News Gertner]

Oh hey Vito, you should bring Thinking Differently back. Just remembered that game.

[Jordan]

Oh hey Vito, you should bring Thinking Differently back. Just remembered that game.

I agree. :heart:

[Bad News Gertner]

Jacob deGrom is having a good year Vito. It would be a shame. A real shame.

[Bad News Gertner]

deGrom to the I/L

You were warned.

[Big Vic]

Oh hey Vito, you should bring Thinking Differently back. Just remembered that game.

plz

[Big Vic]

Since supreme dropped the ball just like he did in his 2013 KOTF run, here are the standings:


1. War Games
1. Royal Rumble
3. Street Fight, Hardcore, Falls Count Anywhere
4. Ladder Match
4. Steel Cage/Blue Steel Cage
6. 2/3 Falls
7. HIAC
8. I Quit
8. Strap
10. Lumber Jack
10. Battle Royal