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b/c 5 is better than 4
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Kennel From Hell for me, followed by Reverse battle royals.... I may one of the few that actually likes the concept of "King Of The Mountain" (it shouldn't have its own championship, but that's for another thread)
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Former TPWW Royalty
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Chamber of Horrors match.
Match was really bad overall and so was the gimmick of needing to electrocute someone in order to win. Looked way too cheesy when the ending happened. |
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Best Poster
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My vote is for the Reverse Battle Royal.
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( ._.)
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The best gimmick match concept is an ERAG match.
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Is Finkle
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One time in the e-fed I used to play, I won the right to book a card, and filled it with match stips like "First to pick up my laundry wins", "Best sculpture of my likeness wins", "the one to sell the most of my merch wins", "Best sonnet written about me wins"..... etc....
That has nothing to do with anything real, though. Kennel from Hell is probably the right answer to this question. |
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boop/bop/beep
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Anything that isn't a cage match (you can include hell in a cell as a cage match), Death Match/Last Man Standing, I Quit match, Ladder Match or No Holds Barred match.
When you add any gimmick beyond that, it is just ridiculous. I know the dudleyz and hardys had a great tables match at the rumble in 2000 for instance, but the stipulation is fucking idiotic. A guy goes through the table and he loses? What does that do for anyone? It's almost completely up to chance. A Casket match? Okay well let's just murder fuck kayfabe and make our product look as dumb as possible. An inferno match? What the absolute hell is that? Why are pro wrestlers on the biggest stage lighting themselves on fire? A buried alive match?... oh wait three of these four stips have to do with the Undertaker and they're fucking stupid. When you book a gimmick match that hinders the bell-to-bell of a match in benefits nobody and makes no sense. How can these issues not just be solved at the start by a standard wrestling match and if the feud gets heated up, a classic gimmick match like I listed in the first paragraph? Nothing needs to be on a pole, nobody needs to be stuffed in a casket and people should only lose when they actually lose... not from falling through or off of something, or bleeding. God wrestling is dumb sometimes. |
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Over Like Rover
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Quote:
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boop/bop/beep
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But actually you're not wrong. I just find those matches don't add anything. I find you can add plenty of silliness, entertainment value and campiness with the bare bones stuff I mentioned. I find the problem with wrestling is that "It's all been done", so it's hard to make stuff mean anything. I come from the belief that in wrasslin', less is more. But in this case, I will have to agree, if it works it works. I just find for the most part, those cheesy shitty gimmick matches don't work, because they're too convoluted and often times ruin your suspension of disbelief. |
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Let me talk to ya
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The Champ is Here!
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TNA's asylum match comes to mind.
On their big January 4 show, when they started competing with Monday Night Raw (Hogan's debut, etc.), the first match was an asylum match. The match ended as a no contest as the guy who was supposed to climb out of the cage physically couldn't do it, and the crowd began chanting "this is bullshit". It really was not a good start to a show they needed to do well. |
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FMW's Exploding Ring matches always looked and were stupid.
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I hate fucking Strap Matches.
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The Steel Asylum matches suck too.
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Let me talk to ya
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That actually sounds pretty good. Don't really have a problem with Feast or Fired but Noids gestion does seem like it would be better.
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Over Like Rover
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yeah but he got a pretty funny story out of it
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Over Like Rover
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scaffold matches are/were always terrible tho
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Is Finkle
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Casket and Buried Alive matches always seemed "cool". Definitely Undertaker made it work.
Inferno Match was indeed a tad silly and never lived up to the hype of someone getting set on fire. |
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Shelly Martinez = Ratings
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Gonna also agree on the strap/four corners matches being shit.
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Blander Than Ever
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King of the Mountain, just an unwatchable clusterfuck in my opinion.
Inferno match is up there for me as well, I could see it as some kind of once off but beyond that I just dont get it and tbh your never going to have a satisfying wow ending to it. |
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what was the last good gimmick match?
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I liked the Raw and Smackdown Scramble they did a while back. That was pretty cool.
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refresh my memory, i probably fast forwarded through it. what was the concept?
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It was the match where Brian Kendrick won the World Title for like 5 minutes. Last person to hold the belt after 10 minutes won or something like that.
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wasn't that stoner supposed to be big time one day? like didnt internet geeks love him at a d bry level?
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In the eyes of the internet
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i was gonna say elimination chamber was the last good one if thats gimmicky
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b/c 5 is better than 4
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I liked the TNA Dome-cage one where they had to escape through the 4-foot hole on the top.... alot less climactic than the typical "no way he escapes over the cage here" spot.....
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President of Freedonia
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TNA's reverse battle royal idea is/was retarded beyond measure
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Over Like Rover
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Crawling out of a sphincter.
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Scramble Matches fucked with my autism.
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Taller than Adam Cole
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Didn't AWA have a turkey on a pole match?
Also, the piñata match. Hell, ANTHING on a pole. |
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( ._.)
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When will this one be posted?
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boop/bop/beep
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already up
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boop/bop/beep
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President of Freedonia
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I think it was Sonjay Dutt who had a great story about being outside of the ring with nobody to brawl with during one of TNA's reverse battle royals. The ring was right there with nobody to stop him, but he wasn't one of the guys scheduled to win/qualify/whatever. So he just had to pretend that he couldn't get in the ring in any way, shape, or form.
Stupid, stupid fucking match. |
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Quark is Less Impressed.
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Tank of Piranha Death Match. Not sure if it was really piranha. Still it looked really bad.
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boop/bop/beep
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honestly get sad when I hear about anything tna on your podcast. Thank god i never watched it
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Worse than I remember:
2007 In 2007, the tournament was altered to have the first stage consist of 16 competitors to begin and eight to advance to the second part, where the order of elimination will determine the sedings. All eight will advance to the second stage where the winner in the final will be the winner of the tournament, thus removing the third stage. The first stage occurred at Bound for Glory on October 14. The Quarterfinals of Stage 2 occurred on TNA Impact! on October 18 and October 25. The Semifinals occurred on November 1. The Final occurred at Genesis on November 11.
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Do Unto Others...
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I want to thank everybody for the contributions, we got to read many of them on the show, which is now available at the following link:
http://squaredcirclegazette.podbean....onceptEver.mp3 Join us our show on The Worst Gimmick Match Concepts Ever, as the panel discuss every ridiculous stipulation under the sun, including Kennel From Hell, the Punjabi Prison, TNA's multiple horrific offerings, King Of The Road, Chamber of Horrors, Inferno Matches, Scaffold Matches, the San Francisco 49ers match, World War 3, the Anus Explosion Death Match (seriously) and many, many more, in search of the very worst one ever created. A tremendously fun show this week, check it out and let us know what you think! ![]() ![]() Crazy Like A Fox - The Definitive Chronicle of Brian Pillman 20 Years Later **Featuring interviews with members of the Pillman family, Dave Meltzer, Kim Wood, Raven, Jim Cornette, Mark Madden, Shane Douglas, Mark Coleman, Alex Marvez, Les Thatcher and many more close friends and colleagues** Available on Amazon now: http://amzn.to/2h93SxL |
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