Bad Pro Wrestling Gimmick Matches

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[@larkan511]

Top gimmick match in WCW was a match with a clean finish 🤡🤡

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

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[@Rob_Thorsman]

​@@marco31 Look at the adjective: "Play."

[@jonhenning]

Hilarious 😂

[@raggamuffinmcgee]

Big facts

[@jasonmartinson7758]

That only happened when the NWO wasn’t involved lol

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[@brettrossi034]

One of the gimmick matches I laughed pretty hard at was the chamber of horror match in WCW. Watching Abdullah the Butcher getting "executed" on that electric chair was pretty comical

[@badbabybear1]

i love that he was then totally fine after the match and even attacked the ghoul orderlies

[@eyeguydojima7131]

A man got executed on ppv, and everyone just kinda let it happen.

[@stujohn6569]

And then he woke up 30 seconds later and kicked a ring crew member in the head 😂

[@jvharbin8337]

When I was a kid I LOVED THAT MATCH!

[@thancrus]

i was gonna say that one

[@mischiefwargaming]

Pretty much any Bray Wyatt themed gimmick match. Spooky projections on the ring!

[@scudman51]

The one with John Cena was okay. That pitch black match though...oof

[@pinealdreams1064]

Firefly Funhouse Match is one of my all-time top 10.

[@tylerlarsen1842]

The Firefly Funhouse match where he basically gave two middle fingers to the 4th wall and picked John Cena's character apart was a damn good match.

[@ZeroSA]

The "cage in a cage" idea seemed so good until ya know it actually happened in both the Kennel from Hell and the Punjabi Prison.

[@InsomniacRocker]

I completely agree. I love the idea of the double cage gimmicks... both of those matches looked so fuckin cool. IMO the main problem with both of these was the bigger wrestlers they had in them. Should have been some high flyers in there!

[@undertakernumberone1]

@@InsomniacRocker I'd argue the main issue of the Kennel match were the dogs. Should've just been "themed" on a "kennel" and then been a bloody hardcore brawl through the structure.

[@ajk]

@@InsomniacRocker The other issue with the Prison match in particular is how hard it was to see into it, especially for the live crowd. Great concept on paper, but not so great in practice.

[@tafua_a]

It sounds like something you really wanna see, until you remember one tiny flaw: you can't.

[@MidwestMachete]

Scaffold matches, to me, worked the same way as a blindfold match. It felt very limited on what the competitors could do up there, plus it was really dangerous too.

[@ferox965]

Cornette taking that scaffold fall makes me cringe.

[@kevinpayton2664]

New Jack and Vic Grimes

[@StageRight123]

@@ferox965 Blew out both of his knees on that landing.

[@ShaunInce123]

You know, Dustin Rhodes being fired for the King of the Road match turned out to be a blessing in disguise, since not too long afterwards, he would become Goldust.

[@mikemccoy5092]

After the way he was used in wwe as golddust not really

[@zemox2534]

To be fair, his wwe run in the 2010s was better.

[@skyatollah2skyharder276]

@@mikemccoy5092 Uhhhh, yes it was. Dude would be Dusty's boring ass son if not for being Goldust. Goldust made him a legend in his own right.

[@dr.snakes]

​@@skyatollah2skyharder276 what's really interesting about Dustin Rhodes' career. how he debuted as Dusty's boring ass son(and tag partner), to GOLDUST, back to Dusty's boring ass son (who prayed for his opponent), back to Goldust (who wrestled a match as DustyDust).

[@Nomed38]

@@dr.snakes you forgot his Black Reign persona in TNA and his work in AEW as Dustin Rhodes though you made a good list fren.

[@sethkaplan]

Hunter Hearst Hemsley vs h.o.g. Arkansas pig pen match😂

[@michaelbusciacco9965]

I felt Jake and Martel made their match work because the crowd was into it bell to bell any other blindfold matches couldn’t recreate that magic

[@michaelward5370]

Michael Busciacco, totally agree! Jake Roberts was a total legend and could pull anything off back in the day!

[@exilhamburger4802]

@@michaelward5370 Same with Rick Martel! He also got the crowd riled up! While the whole match was at the end of the Jake has been blinded by the arrogance perfume, a non gimmick match between those two would have been much better, at least as far as I am concerned.

[@michaelward5370]

@@exilhamburger4802, agreed! I think Rick Martel was really good at being a heel, and you're right, a straight up match between the two of them would've been awesome!

[@kvsimagination7299]

They did the same match in NWA years earlier with Jimmy Garvin and Kevin Sullivan. Think there was also one in WCCW with Chris Adams. If the babyface is really over, the heel is really sneaky, and the match is fairly short, then the crowd gets into it, and it works. After that, it should not be attempted by anyone anywhere for 10 years.

[@MrBeardsley]

I recently learned that the Punjabi Prison Match’s rules are so excessive because when they were developing the first one for GAB ‘06, they figured out the finish then worked backwards from there to make the rules. Apparently Pat Patterson and Undertaker spent a week brainstorming ideas, just tossing out whatever popped into their heads, and that’s how they came up with the whole “doors that only open once for 60 seconds” thing.

[@MongrelWarrior]

3 terrible gimmick matches come to mind for a future video: 1. Human Torch match from Great American Bash 2000. 2. 'Boxing match' in general (If I had to choose one, maybe Mr.T vs. Roddy Piper. 3. Wyatt Swamp match from Extreme Rules 2020.

[@billhicks808]

How has nobody brought up the Electric steel cage match between the Dudleys and LAX in TNA?

[@xbigwormx]

@@billhicks808 go to 19:30

[@billhicks808]

@@xbigwormx gotcha, thanx.. but I meant mostly in the comments.

[@ferox965]

In all fairness, the blindfold match between Jake and Martel makes total storyline sense.

[@michaelward5370]

Yeah, it was part of the storyline where Rick Martel had blinded Jake The Snake Roberts with his Arrogance fragrance spray! Good story!!

[@airfixx_8952]

The way they worked the match worked too in that era.... If only Jake hadn't ruined it for the TV audience before the bell. LOL

[@airfixx_8952]

@@michaelward5370 They did a great job with Jake's eye too. :)

[@crisistian_]

Well, technically also the Storm vs Harris one did

[@alexandertroy9621]

I have some love for the Robert's vs. Martel blindfold match because it was on the first show that I ever watched.

[@undertakernumberone1]

Might be unpopular, especially with the hardcore/Deathmatch fans, but... I'd just put any of those "Explosives (as in C4 and so on)" match types on this list. Dangerous and stupid. And if the final explosion gets blown, like in the AEW match, it's not even a visual moment.

[@TheSuckoShow]

Kingston got robbed of an iconic moment in that sparklers match. But he's got plenty of iconic moments ahead of him, and all the best wrestlers have their unintentionally hilarious clips.

[@bazookajoe6133]

Punjabi cage match could of been a great gimmick match, but the overthinking of the concept is what killed it.

[@EmperorGoliaththeEverliving]

@@marco31 And actually booked Khali to win them. It was allegedly his best type of match, but he never won any of them.

[@HyperAshhPlays]

Yes, all they had to do is to simplify the rules, like instead of the doors opening for those god darn 60 seconds, if wrestlers have to manually open the door which is heavy and try to escape that, and if one escapes, another would be locked and he'll have to break the cage or escape by the smaller spaces of the first bamboo cages

[@christopherwall2121]

​@@EmperorGoliaththeEverliving That's usually how it goes with "specialty matches"; the opponent is the one who is usually booked to win, to put over their skill and ability to even or beat the odds.

[@Drekal684]

I did have this one idea for a gimmick match I kind of wanted to float by someone in the industry, see what they made of it. Basically, it's a variaton on the 2/3 falls or Iron Man multifall concept. In order to win the match, you have to score two falls *in a row* over your opponent. Not got a name for it, but it does sound like something that could invite interesting psychology.

[@henri6207]

A Duece Match? That's what that's called I'm Tennis I think

[@Drekal684]

@@henri6207 The idea I had in my head was that it would be inspired by tennis in kayfabe, so that could work. Imagine a pair of wrestlers have been trading wins, and the authority figure comes out and compares it to watching a tennis match. He wants them to have a definitive win, once and for all and sets this up.

[@FraserSouris]

I think there’s potential. You could have a situation where a heel intentionally gets disqualified for the first fall using a low blow because he knows his opponent can’t get the second fall to capitalize. Perhaps the heel even gets a fall to reset the deuce. So you keep having situations where both wrestlers can trade falls via DQ to further hurt the opponent

[@suntanironman]

An issue I see with this match type is that the person who losses the first fall would never have a chance to take the lead (while still continuing the match) because taking the lead after losing the first fall would mean instantly winning. Once the first fall happens, the winner of the first fall will always be up a fall or tied (until the match ends) and other competitor will always be down a fall or tied (until the match ends). There would never be an opportunity for the competitors to switch being up/down a fall (without the match instantly ending once the switch happens). And easy fix for this “Two Wins in a Row” match problem would be a “Win By Two” match (like tennis). Though when I say “fix” that is assuming what I just described as a problem is even a problem that needs fixing. What I just described as a problem could be exactly what you intended from your match type.

[@jkakaqw]

I feel like this match can only work if it’s a feud ender. Like having both wrestlers keep trading wins week after week, PPV after PPV and it’s a pattern where they’re so equal that they can’t be better than the other. The winner not only will get to pin them twice but prove for sure that they are better than the other wrestler

[@AyVeeEhm]

As per stats, Great Khali was a bigger draw than Jinder Mahal, in ratings and popularity, he won a Slammy too... Cant wait for Reliving the War episode featuring the infamous Yamaguchi san's *Choppe Choppe PeePee* line

[@TheSpinbeast]

Kenny recently revealed on Renee Paquette's podcast that the pyro was working fine for the practices but then someone from the pyro company changed it all without telling anyone at the last moment.

[@TiVo67]

Scaffold matches are good on paper but always suck in execution.

[@tommycreamer2001]

I think the blindfold match between Jake the snake and Martel was decent. And made since at the time

[@Whootzie]

I'm surprised not to see that inferno match from Japan where everything went wrong, fire too big and hot, no oxygen, wrestlers almost dieing. I can't remember but didn't the arena also get set on fire?

[@Rando1975]

It took place outdoors. But the ring itself was completely destroyed.

[@kevinpayton2664]

I saw a clip of that match. The fire got so overwhelming so quickly I'm amazed the wrestlers got out of the ring when they did.

[@Rando1975]

@@kevinpayton2664 I can't imagine how hot it was in that ring.

[@kevinpayton2664]

@@Rando1975 I can't either.

[@crisistian_]

That's because no canvas barbed wire ropes & fire deathmatches have been done a pair of times in the following years, with better successes (well, the amount of fire has been reduced for safety purposes)

[@darylfarrugia9623]

The Roberts and Martel match made sense. Martel blinded Jake with his arrogence spray. So Jake was like since I was blind you have to be blind too for our match.

[@PJErvin]

I don’t recall the buildup to the Zombie Lumberjack match, but it could work. Imagine the most obnoxious heel (ok, Miz, check), and it’s revealed in storyline that he has an irrational fear of zombies, possibly from watching movies as a child or something. So the baby face challenges the cocky heel to a lumberjack match, but he gets to pick the lumberjacks… the heel accepts, and the baby face announces that the zombies will serve as lumberjacks. They aren’t portrayed as real zombies, but everyone winks at the idea that they really are zombies just for the benefit of terrorizing the heel. Someone could’ve made this work at some point.

[@Obscusion2]

Honestly, I think Triple H vs D-Lo Brown was the best example of a blindfold match you can really get. You get both guys doing all of the expected comedy spots, followed by HHH cheating by sneaking a peek & getting the win. Short & perfectly performed, though when it happened (late 2002) is definitely the shocker.

[@TheBrister]

One of my favorite things about Wrestling Bios is even if he's talked about something in another video at length, he doesn't just tell you what that upload is and move on. A true master in making each of his videos (other than reliving the war of course) at making videos unique even if he has to tell the same moments multiple times.

[@TheMistahWooseNetwork]

Where's the Kaboom...? There was supposed to be an Earth shattering Kaboom!? -My response to the AEW Barbed Wire Death Match and the lack of explosions

[@robycas4575]

Guys, Judy Bagwell on a pole match is not on this list because that's one of the best match ever!

[@joshsykes6231]

Doesn't get a mention because it was on a card filled with utter tripe

[@ImmortalRimas]

One way they could have made the Chairs match work is combine it with Last Man Standing by rendering your opponent unconscious especially using a chair but place them in a sat down position in a chair for a count of 10 to win

[@HyperAshhPlays]

Then what are they going to call that stipulation? Tired man match😅😝?

[@jeremywilliams5141]

Honorable mentions: 1. San Francisco 49ers match between Booker T and Jeff Jarrett 2. Shark Cage match. There has only been one match of this type and that was back in the 70s Big Time Wrestling promotion between Jay Strongbow and Don Kent. 3. WCW Chamber of Horrors match 4. Bungee Cord match from Global Wrestling Federation between Chaz and Steven Dane. 5. Any match where the goal is to remove your opponent's clothes (Tuxedo match, evening gown match, Bra and panties match) 6. Any of Vince Russo's pole matches 7. Last Rites match from TNA between Sting and Abyss.

[@Huron2010A]

1. The Scott Hall bit from that match still cracks me up

[@JenMistress]

Alright, wanted to make sure if someone didn't mention the Sting VS Abyss Last Rites Match, aka The Fire Russo Match before I did. 😉

[@6oclocknewsat8]

Countdown To Armageddon, WCW's one-time lame attempt at Royal Rumble

[@mattlewis8889]

Tell her it's Horsemen Business crack open a cold one and watch some mufuggin bios.

[@kevinpayton2664]

I heard that the reverse battle royal in TNA was Vince Russo's idea.

[@jeremyc9593]

Makes sense. Taking something that's working and completely ruining it is his forte.

[@WillsonT011]

​@@jeremyc9593 let me guess you're the type of guy they won't give him any credit because you believe everything Jim cornette😂😂😂😂

[@gumdeo]

Sounds very Russo.

[@danielainger]

It screams Russo tbh

[@stevegallo8483]

@@WillsonT011 Russo had decent ideas on occasion, but he needed someone over him to filter out the idiotic ideas before they got to TV.

[@UndergroundSkat2000]

Let's not (or let's) forget about that abyssmal "eye for an eye"match that Rey and Rollins were forced to work...

[@InsomniacRocker]

I enjoyed the Jake vs Model blindfold match. I thought it was a lot of fun. Of course, I was a kid at the time so I legit thought they were blindfolded and that it was all real LOL.

[@jamesniagu274]

Same actually and I still like that match only blindfold match I like. I think it worked for that time . I noticed my older family members liked it to so maybe that connection is contributing to my bias but it was fine for that time.

[@acuyra]

The kennel from hell is worse than the zombie match. The zombie match was dumb, but at least there’s a decent match in the middle of it, and it doesn’t have dogs pooping all over the place.

[@mikeharless4596]

The blindfold matches made me pop as a kid, but they've definitely lost their luster as an adult lol

[@vanillabeam5400]

The "Kiss-My-Arse" match definitely should be on here

[@roccojamison89gooker51]

And the Vince McMahon version

[@fergalstackstreams]

That was just a regular match that required the loser to do something gross. Not really a gimmick match.

[@vanillabeam5400]

@@fergalstackstreams True. But it also ended with the loser not even doing what the stipulation forced him to do, thus it being a waste of time. (Plus the name itself was lame)

[@sp0nge1337]

I wonder how many of these are a Vince Russo invention?

[@JSeriously]

I haven’t watched wrestling since the attitude era, so I love seeing all of these videos. Bringing back a lot of nostalgia. I also went out and bought the new WWE 2K23 because of your videos, and I’m having a blast. Thanks for the great content! I went to a world war 3 match in Michigan, and it was terrible. I couldn’t even tell what was happening.

[@Riztastic1]

All the women's matches. Bra and panties, Santa's little helper, mud pit match, swimming pool, who can bake a pie the fastest. Ect. All those old matches sucked I'm sry for the women in them

[@adventuresofwct4173]

I thought the Jake Roberts & Rick Martel blindfold match was entertaining. It was no 5 star classic

[@samclark379]

Interesting fact about the WM7 blindfold match: If you pay close attention, you'll see that the blindfolds are gimmicked. When they're putting the blindfold on Jake, you can see his hands through the mesh on the eye holes.

[@Tearsheet]

I saw the AWA Turkey on a Pole match on cable TV back in the day. That gimmick exemplifies the AWA to me.

[@airfixx_8952]

Hahahha... You could have a meat raffle PPV where every winner wins a ticket for a big meat raffle at the end (older UK fans might get this at least!).. Give the whole night a working man's club vibe... Dig out some of Monsoon's old suits for the comms and ring announcers.... Have badly sung renditions of all the ring themes...... Get some fat middle-aged barmaids in as ring-girls........ BOOK IT!!!

[@AllieRX]

The Doomsday Cage match reminds me of the cage used in the movie Ready To Rumble, when Jimmy King dropped DDP through the cage all the way down to the ring. If that happened in real life, he'd be dead.

[@ericthomas917]

It reminds me of the Tower of Doom match from the 1988 Great American Bash which had Jimmy Garvin's team vs Kevin Sullivan's team

[@rasmusdegn9690]

Since you talked about the """""Electrified""""" Steel Cage Match i'm surprised you didn't also talk about the Last Rites match from TNA Destination X 2007.

[@aceitaliano88]

The Sting/Abyss Last Rites match should be on here and the Human Torch match with Vampiro and Sting should be on here too.

[@RuggedRunnerOverland]

Have you done your take on the best or successful gimmick matches video?! If not, that would be a good video as well, I know it's something I would watch.

[@AllTheWeirdestProject]

Gonna have to go with King of the Mountain matches & Scaffold matches (except for New Jack vs Vic Grimes in XPW).

[@TheLuchaBear]

Scaffold Matches. There's no match type as limiting for the Talent as Scaffold Matches. Even the King of the Road Match and the Steiner Asylum Matches, imo, have at least a bit more options for the Wrestlers to work with, so if you include those (and especially the Asylum Matches for how limiting that already was), than you have to include Scaffold Matches as well.

[@crisistian_]

Technically there's a type of scaffold match (kinda) that is ok, and it's the Cage of Death match

[@ericcook5745]

Just want to throw it out there that your channels extremely underrated you're definitely one of the best wrestling channels out there too many of them focus on the same things I love how you going to great detail with everything. Hopefully eventually you'll start hitting that million Mark you deserve it dude 👍

[@daoudmh1]

You forgot about the “Judy Bagwell on a pole” match!

[@tafua_a]

It barely counts. It was basically a regular match, only there was also Judy Bagwell chilling on a forklift.

[@moneymikemadness]

Correction chairs match made official because of the hardy, Dudley and edge/christian 3 way tag match. The Dudley's had tables. The Hardy's had ladders. Edge and Christian needed something.

[@SonOfRevenge2]

Battle Royale: Wrestlers in a ring throwing others out. What first comes to mind when a Reverse Battle Royale is bought up: Wrestlers outside a ring throwing others in. It never needed to be that complicated.

[@3d1k3]

Surprised the Mountain Dew Pitch Black match wasn’t mentioned

[@powerhound]

Inferno matches were never that appealing. If it’s considered a match type I’d say Brawl for All. Seems weird to do boxing matches.

[@Warmountian]

I think the shark cage and piranha deathmatch should have been on the list

[@terryeubanks8797]

I've always thought Inferno matches were pretty ridiculous. They're billed as two men putting their bodies on the line and risking being burned alive in front of a screaming audience. Instead, it's just a regular match with a couple of fire teases before someone's clothes are kind of set on fire.

[@robotrock.]

Power Move Pro Wrestling music, I haven't heard it since I was a wee boy. Smashing 👍

[@jaystreet46]

This list could be filled with Vince Russo on a pole matches

[@letsplayxboxsports]

Its sad what happend with Omega vs Mox. Like you said, the match was very solid for 99.9 % of it. just that last little part was horrific. Extremely unfortunate. I sitll say its worth going back and watching it if you havent seen it

[@_KRose]

You'd think they could've just done the old "well, the opponent has to be *thrown* out of the ring to lose the match, therefore the match is still going" spiel to recover from the last one

[@fergalstackstreams]

WCW was never really that quick on the draw. I always wondered why they even bothered to cover the Savage elimination at RR '92. That was totally in character for him, the match had more than enough star power, and there were no big spots later in the match that he was involved in.

[@yrrah123]

Vince Russo " bro bro listen ! A contract on a pole first blood iron man lumber Jack loser leaves town hair vs hair strap match in which the winner wins via count out and then turns heel in a shoot work shoot promo"

[@fergalstackstreams]

You knew the Kennel from Hell Match was in trouble when the dogs got a bigger pop coming out than either Snow or Bossman.

[@thenextsteveblackman]

I hate the "touch all four corners" strap match. They are always booked the exact same way, with one wrestler dragging or carrying the other to all four corners and not realizing the other person touched the corner after them. And then it's a race to touch the last corner. Regular strap matches can be great, like Punk/MJF and Piper/Valentine, but that one rule ruins them for me.

[@HyperAshhPlays]

I also think touch all four corners variant is maybe stupid, it can stall if done poorly and what you commented. When I think of strap matches, I usually think of it like "escape to victory" variant where the straps would be much shorter and wrestlers have to escape the ring. this one can also make some compelling storylines like booking two big men will create a hoss fight if done correctly, and big man vs high flyer also has a great storyline, in which a big man heel has trapped a smaller, high flyer face to limit his high flying abilities and get a big man advantage over him.

[@timothybarnett9515]

Was kinda surprised the “Extreme” Elimination Chamber match wasn’t part of the list. But definitely good for a future list as well.

[@crisistian_]

That's because the concept is cool. It's the same as CZW's Cage of Death

[@roccojamison89gooker51]

Would this include the Brawl-For-All Matches? Any Bray Wyatt/Fiend type of Gimmick Match.

[@undertakernumberone1]

Except that the Firefly Funhouse match was glorious entertainment.

[@countjobula]

OSW review made me LOVE the king of the road match! great video as always

[@DemonArshan]

Mountain Dew Blue Shark match would have a shark cage 🦈

[@everyonelovesmajima]

Before the blindfold match at Wrestlemania 7, there's a shot of the guys adjusting their blindfolds and you can clearly see their hands through the mesh eye holes.

[@pass673]

It’s almost like wrestling is fake lmao

[@Mr92094]

Bray Wyatt’s glow in the dark match and whatever match with Randy Orton had the bugs in the ring come to mind

[@andytierney3783]

That stairs weight has reduced drastically since the Attitude era. I remember Kane once lifting them and JR saying they weighed over 500lbs. Stair technology must have come some way since those days.

[@paulcallow3216]

Any scaffold match

[@ohkay2360]

The missed back body drop in the blindfolded match was pure gold

[@arrowdave646]

Check out some of the AWA team challenge series matches 1990

[@wawaelias8842]

Jake Roberts, killed the blindfold match before it even started. He stuck his hand inside his mask. And we were able to see his fingers, thru the mesh eye socket haha!!

[@MaskedLongplayer]

Awesome stuff. By the way, what's the song that starts upon introduction of WCW Junkyard Match (15:56)? I've heard it multiple times in your past videos, but I don't think I've heard it in any WCW or WWF shows. Is it maybe a custom mix?

[@kermitthefrogsgreenmememac6453]

I was expecting to see a coal miner's glove on a pole or a Judy Bagwell on a forklift match here 😂

[@tafua_a]

The Coal Miner's Glove match was actually a big deal in the territory days, when ladder matches weren't a thing, blood flowed like wine and most people in attendance knew what a coal miner's glove looks like.

[@chaosahoyhoy]

Surprised the Orton/Wyatt match at Wyatt's house wasn't on the list. Match had to take place at Wyatt's house but end in the ring (?), and when Orton got there the house was LOCKED (???).

[@Rollingthunder987]

Brawl for all, anything "On a pole", evening gown, hell, pretty much any WWF womens gimmick match from the 80s or 90's, loser gets their head shaved, scaffold match, backlot brawl.....so many terrible gimmick matches

[@magnion3535]

Personally, think the worst gimmick match type is the scaffold match. It’s dangerous, it’s boring, and it’s just plain stupid.

[@strikeromega]

I thought the Zombie Lumberjack match was *entertaining,* though not *good.* I don't know though as far as ones you missed...probably that time Dream and Cole had a match in a parking lot. That was...disturbingly dull.

[@plannein]

The Firefly Fun House match between Bray Wyatt and John Cena. Having a "match" inside of Cena's mind was bloody stupid. Also the Tooth & Nail match in AEW was one of the worst things I've ever seen in wrestling.

[@drsteele]

From the reliving the war video the other week - the Stone Cold v Kane "First Blood" match where they blatantly ignore that Austin is bleeding from his lower back just so they can get to the pre-booked ending.

[@jamieroy3494]

Bucky bottle on a pole match. It was wild drunken and rainy Wrestlemania Sunday night in Glasgow, Scotland...2 best friends decided to duke it out in a living room with more classic finishers than a full1998 PPV. One man ended up with an egg shaped lump on his head...it was not me

[@joshsykes6231]

I don't know about the rest of you but the "Strange Bedfellows" matches at Raw Roulette never hit the mark with me. You had 2 guys that were feuding and then they were tagging with generic lower midcarder #1 in a match that didn't make no sense even for the undercarders. HBK & Mr Kennedy vs Charlie Haas and Trevor Murdoch springs to mind. This was January 2008. Other than "ooo anything can happen at the rumble" this was a 6 minute match that served no purpose

[@danev2001]

How can you put blindfold match in without mentioning TNA James Storm vs Chris Harris? The blindfolds fall off multiple times during the match

[@perfectx13]

If you do another video you need to put WCW’s “4 Way Tag Team Caged Heat Match” on the 7/24/2000 episode of Nitro. It’s easily the dumbest, most convoluted match of all time! It was so convoluted that it seemed no one including the commentators, ref and wrestlers understood the rules of this match. Must be seen to be believed

[@marcusgray2910]

Watching this on a Monday morning with a cup of ☕️ and a blunt ⛽️…. Thank you 🙏🏾 wrestlingBios

[@jamaalmoses8821]

Rey vs Seth-Eye for an Eye . Stone Cold vs Kane- First Blood(most of Kane's body is covered). Kane vs Vader - Mask Match

[@Insomniaaron]

After seeing Wrestling With Wregret cover it, I suggest the Yappapi Strap Match between Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair at Uncensored 2000.

[@frickaaron]

I appreciate when you let us know things like “last time we will see bart Gunn on reliving the war” and “highest rating wcw will receive for the remainder of the war”. Helps put things into perspective. Also, Norman smiley shirt!!!!

[@JohnDoe-ym5ly]

You could've just made this a compilation on TNA from its start to the twenty-teens. Lol. A good gimmick match either allows the babyface to overcome obstacles against them, or a heel steals a victory by exploiting the gimmick to win. That allows the babyface to lose strong. It's not rocket science but I don't know, I don't book anything.

[@kristen8701]

I was going to start watching wrestling again after about 10-15 years out during covid however after watching the zombie lumberjack match and the exploding ring match in the span of a few months i just gave up. Now i just go back in time and watch Mid south, smoky mountain and memphis.

[@dustincongello5802]

2 different occasions i wondered why i stopped watching wrestling it was seeing zombies that reminded me...the zombie from wwe's ecw and the zombie lumberjack match...

[@blmareterrorists]

I love the idea of WW3 matches. But, goddammit hogan

[@samuraicer317]

Honestly that triple cage match that WCW tried to implement with Ready to Rumble was just a hard one to watch

[@Jamessmith-xk3fh]

I don't know if you are old enough to remember or ever saw the DVD or VHS tape but I think the NWA when it was part of what became WCW had a triple catch match it was good

[@innocentorphan1213]

I dig how in the picture of Big Show for the match, you can tell he's a babyface at the time because he's smiling.

[@retsamcm]

Watching wresting in the 90s when Mick Foley was in his prime, I thought a backyard wrestling match would be cool. You'd have a little yard with grass and a shed in there. I'm sure you could throw some other interesting stuff in there.

[@mcj88]

I actually feel like World War 3 would work a lot better these days; the biggest problem with it was the fact that the 3-way picture-in-picture TV format of the matches would wind up leaving the action too small and grainy to really make out much on TVs of the time, but here in the widescreen HDTV era, those issues would be mostly if not completely eradicated.