Jim Cornette on The Worst Wrestlers Ever

From Episode 451 of the Jim Cornette Experience
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[@joshuaDstarks]

When Great Khali held the belt up upside down I knew we were in for the most glorious era.

[@ganglabesh]

lol

[@KryMoore]

Didn’t Jim blow Both his knees out when he tried wrasslin, does that make him eligible for worst???

[@everybodywantstoruletherad279]

@@KryMoore he fell off a scaffold and big bubba was supposed to catch him. Lol. Didn’t go as planned. Lol

[@wake6937]

@@KryMoore he’s a Manager

[@justoneguy2487]

Ah yes, Great Khali - billed as the first and only Ultra Heavyweight in a WWE video game in SvR 2007. The irony was that Big Show weighed more than him yet was still only billed as Super Heavyweight. Edit: Andre was the first Ultra Heavyweight in the original SvR

[@thomascreech1696]

The 'bank-addicted drug robber' line gets me every time 😂

[@DemonCore618]

First time I saw him in AEW I was like "is this the entourage? Surely this guy isn't being hyped up so much. That's a crackhead! "

[@timothysmith4863]

I actually forgot who the bank addicted did drug robber is

[@bucks1216]

@@timothysmith4863 nick gage i think

[@SuperPeterok]

So he loves to work at banks and rob people of their drugs? Lol

[@timothysmith4863]

@@bucks1216 Thats right because Gage and Mox go way back.

[@nathantyler5513]

Giant Gonzalez should definitely be a nomination

[@BlessedAreTheCheesemakers]

definitely worst ring attire ever

[@NateTheGnat]

He was a bad wrestler but had he been handled better he could’ve been a good gimmick Not every day you see an 8 footer.

[@trentthrift4730]

He's widely regarded as one of the worst giants ever in wrestling. Nobody at that size and with acromegaly has any agility or mobility. Having zero wrestling background or knowledge compounded the issue.

[@wingerfan1]

He would’ve done better with proper training he was literally taken from the basketball court to the wrestling ring.

[@georgejackson4426]

@@trentthrift4730 watch the grilling with Jim Ross you'll hear how WCW totally dropped the ball. I don't care who you are you can't give someone two weeks of wrestling school and then put him in a program with Ric Flair. At least WWF knew enough to give him a manager.

[@thelowesttreeshavetops3541]

Ole Anderson wrote in his autobiography that a pro wrestler should have the ability to perform a wrestling exhibition and entertain the audience while doing it. If you focus on the second part of that equation, there are a lot of "worst wrestlers" who have technical ability. And, to many fans, being boring is worse than not being technically sound.

[@Platform246]

Amen. Church

[@FishJesus420]

Kinda my problem with ftr. In ring they are absolutely incredible but I just can’t get behind their characters (or lack their of). They’ve just never really stood out to me personally beyond making whoever they’re working with look really good

[@thelowesttreeshavetops3541]

@@FishJesus420 I agree!

[@jeffamell3501]

In ur opinion hogan is the goat i bet

[@thelowesttreeshavetops3541]

@@jeffamell3501 I don't do the whole "Who's the GOAT?" thing for pro wrestling. Who do you think is the GOAT?

[@Bigjizay]

The Warrior's promos were good and bad at the same time. Bad because they didn't make any sense, but good because this made him look even more like a crazy madman.

[@kaczok1985]

And then there is his comic book series which is a whole other level of deranged. It even had dictionary entries to better explain the inner workings of the Ultimate Warrior's mind: "Destrucity: Tri-fold in its definition, therefore meaning... 1. The name of the Galaxy in WARRIOR wherein the “Terrain of Testament” lies. 2. The Living of one’s life in the Way of a Warrior according to a Warrior’s 8 Disciplines. Those are as follows: 1) Physical, 2) Beliefs, 3) Moment of Mastery, 4) Attitude, 5) Commitment, 6) Association, 7)Integrity, 8) Wisdom. 3: The creating of a truce between one’s Destiny and one’s Reality. Promising to stay true to what one is destined to be, yet accepting what is the now … one’s reality."

[@jardinepatten]

Drugs are bad.

[@opaque4742]

Warrior did have charisma and he 'made it', but re: in-ring ability he is in the basement, for sure...bottom 5 all time.

[@42ndStreetMatthew]

"Blob around" is my new favorite term.

[@timthegem]

King Mabel. Enough said.

[@rickyrosay33977]

@@timthegem i remember rooting for hbk to win King of the ring 95 my second choice was undertaker didn’t care about anyone else

[@aesrys]

Worst wrestlers ever = Mount Flushmore :D

[@Sky_Blaze]

When JC said "Marina Shafir..but we don't know her" I choked on tortilla chips lmao

[@Michael-cz6ob]

@@leighlowe1069 same

[@Sky_Blaze]

@@JarodJoseph why tf would I make that up dude?? Seriously I did .. enchilada tostitos dip with tortilla scoops to be specific

[@Sky_Blaze]

@@Michael-cz6ob y'all are slow then look it up

[@patrickdornoff2735]

@@leighlowe1069 Roddy Strongs old lady

[@jamesedmonds7519]

​@@Sky_BlazeLiar

[@obsoleteworlds]

Warrior's match vs Hogan at Mania was good, albeit because it was laid out and practiced multiple times. Obviously not a technical masterpiece but one that many young guys could learn from when it comes to psychology and charisma over near killing yourself.

[@janus78]

I believe Pat Patterson was the producer of that masterpiece. I mean he got the Ultimate Warrior to have an actual good match, funny thing that probably was the beginning of the end as that probably was his last good match too, and he had to still defend the title and have matches after that wonder why Ultimate Warrior failed so spectacularly as champion after that, thinking, thinking, thinking...

[@foleynj86]

His match with Randy Savage at WrestleMania 7 might be the best match of the night. Excellent storytelling and compelling until the end

[@exilhamburger4802]

@@foleynj86 Randy Savage was able to have an excellent match with an Ashtray...

[@OCB_TV]

That's a testament to Hogan's greatness as well because last I checked it takes at least 2 to tango in pro wrestling

[@iTubeYourDadsMinge]

@@janus78 absolute nonsense and drinking the kool aid. It’s ‘trendy’ to say the warrior absolutely sucked in the ring but the fact is, he was part of a fair few good matches in his time and opponents such as Macho Man and Slaughter never said he was the shits, or took credit for the good match. Neither did Patterson. Many in the wrestling business who he didn’t ‘piss off’ personally (and given, he pissed off many, such as Cornie) have never talked bad about his ability to contribute to their matches. The real fact remains though that Jim Cornette is perhaps the greatest mind in the history of the wrestling business and who has some of the greatest insights ever, yet sadly now focuses all of his time on pure negativity based on the fact that he did some highly entertaining YouShoot videos back in the day, which gained a lot of traction back then. It’s perhaps the biggest tragedy that Jim chose to profit on that first and foremost with this Podcast which seems focused on sh*tting on people, rather than using it as a tool to primarily elevate the people in the wrestling business that he could actually help invaluably. With the experience that he has, a small donation of 10% of his energy towards positive and constructive criticism would be far more productive than ‘I will piss on Russo’s grave, I hate Kenny Omega and Warrior was a terrible wrestler’ for the five thousandth time. And hence, these negative debates ↑↓ Well done, Jim 👏

[@Th0rvidTheViking]

Nia Jax. When their lasting legacy is that they injured a lot of wrestlers and once screaming "My Hole!" during a match, you know that they were truly the drizzling shits.

[@allewis4008]

Agreed

[@jeniffer9248]

"I injure most girls".

[@Mudoh415]

Was the “My hole” bit a work? I’ve never understood that fiasco.

[@Th0rvidTheViking]

@@Mudoh415 nobody knows man. If it's a work, everyone's too embarrassed to take credit for it, and if it's a shoot, Nia is too embarrassed to admit it.

[@dennisbowen452]

She's funny because she has a sus farm yet preaches right wing politics which are the same politics that keep Marijuana from being legalized country wide

[@notsteven4809]

I’m guessing the artwork is Omos, Big Swole, Moxley & Marina Shafir 😂

[@Matthew17veeran]

Good guess genius.

[@Kancerru]

🍪

[@notsteven4809]

@@Matthew17veeran He mad y’all 😂

[@nixrob6145]

Well the Marina Shafir pic before people said anything I thought it was Alundra Blayze

[@jeffamell3501]

Swoles hair never looked like that lol i was under the impression this was Lash Legend lol

[@willkenshin]

In Omos defense, they rushed him to main and didn't let him really develop but he can actually talk, Idk why they don't let him be himself on the mic but Marina was in NXT and has not improved at all. You can literally just look at majority of the AEW talent on Dark for worse wrestlers ever bcuz those are talents that's been in the indies for years doing Indy garbage matches and then go to AEW and gets exposed for being bad

[@OongTheLastAirbender]

In Omos defense...he just sucks

[@Drollpanther]

Has nothing to do with rushing him. Hes awful

[@keithwiggins3131]

Omos was the new Giant Gonzalez he was no Andre or big show at least they could wrestle.

[@ADrunkBassist]

What was Omos going to develop into? A case of the crabs?

[@decepticonxhunter4850]

If AEW's promo segments over the past few months taught us anything, it's that everybody shouldn't be allowed to "be themselves" on a mic.

[@swishbenoit4489]

That marina Schafer joke was Amazing a real turnbuckle kicker 😭😭😭

[@RockTumbler]

You'll be happy to hear that Moxley is apparently done with GCW

[@slayerBO2EPC]

Thank God

[@MiniLemmy]

He’s too busy being an ACTUAL world champ to be a world champ at his hobby promotion

[@heelturnsface]

@@MiniLemmy lol it’s AEW, he’s not a real champ

[@bls8959]

@@MiniLemmy it's fake

[@benjaminbremer4261]

@@heelturnsface none of these champs are real.. it’s not ufc, it’s not boxing, it’s fake. none of these guys “win” a title. guys like you and jim need to get over the fact it’s real. it’s pathetic.

[@IanSane]

I think for "worst wrestler" you have to go with a wrestler that was featured on TV, was not a jobber and got pushed, and did not get over. The Ultimate Warrior is a pretty lousy wrestler but he was over. A guy like Giant Gonzalez also got pushed and was terrible but did not get over so he's a better candidate for worst ever. It's like the discussion for worst band ever. Obviously the worst band ever is some crappy high school garage band who were together for two weeks but for the conversation you have to go with a band that was signed to a major label and got radio airplay.

[@danielhudson5186]

Even the most die hard Warrior detractor would have to admit his WrestleMania 6 match with Hogan and especially the retirement match with Savage at WM 7, were good to great.

[@fishingmule3266]

The one with Savage was probably hands down the most vomit-inducing piece of trash I ever watched in the ring. It made me reconsider watching wrestling altogether. The Hogan one was half-decent, I’ll give you that.

[@Rockhound6165]

Warrior's series with Rude were good as well.

[@xsoultillerx]

i feel like most warrior detractors were either people who were burned by him like jim was or people who didn't agree with his personal beliefs/opinions.

[@fishingmule3266]

@@xsoultillerx or people who didn’t want to watch five shoulder tackles and clotheslines each per match or the cheap trick of kicking out of everybody’s finisher

[@xsoultillerx]

@@fishingmule3266 given how alot of top guys in wrestling weren't the ring technicians that fans like to gush about that's kind of a moot point.

[@QAZ-OMEN]

I'm looking forward to JC's mission , trying to figure this out. It's gonna make for many good episodes

[@williammitchell4417]

George Kadaski comes to mind. When he worked for Verne back in day, he wouldn't know a wrist lock from a wristwatch. But he could bump around the ring like a Slinky

[@JeffreyJetsKohut]

Was he as bad as George Gadaski?

[@mrtjohnson1963]

Good ol Scrap Iron !!!

[@csnide6702]

scrap Iron ... !

[@scoh840]

Gadaski was great. He once pinned himself!

[@MGower4465]

Warror's biggest knock, in my view, is he was about three-quarters gassed when the bell rang just from his entrance. He needed a real slow start to get his breath back to even wrestle more than two or three minutes.

[@alain99v6]

Canadian man The Great Antonio was knowned as a very strong man, he wrestle too his most famous match was against the late Inoki who kocked out him after several no-sell moves

[@dewforpolitics]

You don’t know me. You don’t know me. You don’t know ME! - Marina Sharif

[@Smokey1419]

Morgan Freeman: "Little did she know, they would never truly know her"

[@RyanGRyan1985]

Without watching, nothing can convince me it's not marina shafir

[@wilcee238]

Nia Jax

[@patinconlon]

you know her... you don't know her you don't know anything about her

[@poindexterflex3528]

You'd have to make this specifically to people who've wrestled for a major promotion. Otherwise you can get guys like 'Jumpin' Jeff Farmer and Horace the Psychopath on this list and no one would know who you're talking about. Edit: Looking forward on Jim's take about Moxley's contract extension and taking on more of a backstage role as well.

[@maxxdahl6062]

I actually kind of liked Farmer as the bogus sting. lol

[@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma]

@@maxxdahl6062 Fun fact: "Jumpin" Jeff Farmer and nWo Sting Jeff Farmer are two different people.

[@maxxdahl6062]

@@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma Oh okay my bad. lol

[@johanneazcuy9997]

Jumping jeff farmer is a legend! Yep!!

[@jjthecat9692]

Speaking of Horaces, Horace Hogan was fucking dreadful too.

[@Sargebri]

George Gulas hands down. Not only was he bad but he killed a territory.

[@socialistbatman1211]

Warrior had a few good matches with great talent. He at least came out like an ultra intense super hero as opposed to just being a big bland guy and knew how to work the crowd.

[@Sickillj]

Warriors saving grace was his look, his intensity, the face paint , kids loved him and mcmahon pushed him to takeover from hulk. He couldnt wrestle, and didnt give a fck about wrestling. But at the time , fans, especially kids loved the character.

[@kyledrummond6011]

Warrior had a few great matches. Don't think he's anywhere near the worst.

[@christophercomitini8619]

@@Sickillj No one wanted to see Warrior wrestle. They wanted to see his entrance, his power moves and his intensity. That's like saying fans wanted to see Shaq shoot mid range jumpers and 3's.

[@drg5352]

He was carried by insanely capable talent, and sucked more than a $2 hooker when doing anything but being carried. And it took talent on the level of Savage and Flair to give him what amounted to only decent matches. None of his matches qualify as good.

[@jayharv285]

@@kyledrummond6011 Warrior had to be carried by much better guys like Savage and Rude

[@iannnCFC]

This has gotta be one of the most hilarious moments on this show 😭😭

[@mcw2553]

HEY, there's a 800lbs human waterbed! 😂

[@whosregis2000]

Give Shafer the mic! What she did was nothing short of amazing.

[@janus78]

I think if someone tries to see her for the first time as soon as her music plays you fall asleep before you would even get to her botching around whatever the hell submission she's trying for about as clunky as dropping tools down the stairs.

[@whosregis2000]

@@janus78 very true, and the more you pay attention to the match the worse it gets.

[@gaysonmartinocho5262]

shes better than bianca botch belair

[@petestepney4875]

Eva Marie was the first name that came to mind!

[@hhhhhhh5614]

She is waaaaaaaay up there

[@rickyrosay33977]

She made David Flair look like Ric Flair

[@jamesrawlins735]

Yeah I thought of her and Sable

[@ubereats3048]

Eve Marie was better than he nia jax.

[@poovanna4284]

She is good

[@friendlygiant2314]

I think if anyone should get nominated for worst wrestler who got any kind of push, it has to be Steve Mongo McMicheals. Seemed like a nice guy, actually not terrible on commentary, played off of Henan nicely, but really was not ready to be in a ring and they went ahead and made him one of the four horsemen. A massive push for someone who struggled for 30 seconds in the ring to figure out how to pick someone up for a body slam.

[@scooobydoo27]

The fact that they tried to add him to the new "Horsemen" was awful.

[@KingKhanate1997]

I honestly can’t help but love Mongo. He was the absolute shits in the ring but he always had such an undeniable sort of enthusiasm in everything he did. As if he thought to himself “I have no good goddamn what I’m doing but damn it all will I do it!” You gotta appreciate that at least 😂

[@xxxaragon]

@@scooobydoo27 imo he worked as "the muscle". because while not being a giant, he was overall larger than everyone else.

[@scooobydoo27]

@@xxxaragon That's true that he wouldn't have been able to succeed at all had he not been a big dude. I suppose the same could be said of Hacksaw Jim Duggan.

[@28098610w]

I wouldn't say Moxley's bad , but he has a habit of no selling high impact moves like he was Kane.

[@thelastmotel]

That's what makes him a bad wrestler smmfh

[@Smokey1419]

What makes him worse, to me at least, is in the beginning of AEW, he touted so loud and proudly that they were gonna bring back Pro Wrestling, but his matches legit have no storytelling or psychology to them

[@TorontoHits]

Omos isn’t even bad, he’s just big. You can’t expect him to do flips.

[@1101nz]

He's boring and looks like he has no skills. Plenty of big guys who could do a convincing match

[@maynardperalta3188]

I can and I do.

[@Charmywoo]

@@maynardperalta3188 we need proof 😄

[@hhhhhhh5614]

He is not good though either

[@rod_da_poet]

The IWC wants him to wrestle like a cruiserweight.

[@ronniejdio9411]

Aew dropped the ball by not making marina 316 YOU KNOW ME shirts

[@jjthecat9692]

"YOU KNOW ME!" *Moments later* "YOU DON'T KNOW ME!!" (kicks the ropes furiously whilst dressed like the man from delmonte)

[@adamcraven3427]

You Know Me 3:16 You Don't Know Me

[@ronniejdio9411]

@@adamcraven3427 I took a picture of a black t-shirt and added you know me in the front and you don't know me on the back. I don't see myself going to an aew show but man I wanna make that shift and wear it to a show

[@ronniejdio9411]

@@jjthecat9692 cocaine is a helluva drug

[@WrestlingDude1998]

I thought the middle one looked more like Athena than Big Swole, I was thinking that would’ve been an odd choice

[@AG00741]

True I thought they were saying Athena which isn’t true I don’t think Moxley I kinda get all he does is bleed now

[@jjthecat9692]

Red Velvet is worse than Swole imo. She is a fucking career ending botch waiting to happen. Swole was safe for the most part but moved like a shopping cart full of bricks.

[@ADrunkBassist]

Athena is terrible. It's hard to explain why she's just so bad, but watching her work, it feels like she thinks she's 4 or 5 inches taller than she really is. She moves around awkwardly at best and every move misses 5 inches above her opponents heads.

[@welowee7610]

You definitely new here, that picture always used in Big Swole review

[@WrestlingDude1998]

@@welowee7610 nah, I just don’t remember how they drew big swole, it’s been a while since she has been talked about & I’m sure whenever she was on tv she had shorter hair, to me it just looked more like Athena

[@LouSassoleSledgecock]

“Looks like a medical school skeleton.” Is the greatest insult Jim’s uttered in the past year.

[@jjthecat9692]

Van Hammer is one that instantly springs to mind when this topic comes up. He really was the drizzling shits.

[@ADrunkBassist]

That's "Heavy Metal" Van Hammer to you.

[@johneschen308]

Is Van Hammer still alive? I liked him growing up

[@jjthecat9692]

@@johneschen308 I'm not sure but the dude somehow had a lengthy 8 year career in WCW and did absolutely nothing of note lol.

[@jayharv285]

@@jjthecat9692 he had one good match and that was a hardcore match against Cactus Jack and that's it

[@dustdevil9614]

No way man

[@albertstepulevage8217]

The David Flair debut in WCW. It literally looked that he had zero training and was just thrown in the ring.

[@Guy4318]

Awful as David Flair was, I still say he seemed prouder to be US Champ more than Hangers was AEW Champ.

[@fishingmule3266]

I’m pretty sure that was the storyline for David Flair, though. He wasn’t actually supposed to be viewed as a wrestler

[@supportpatriarchyordietrying]

But he improved a lot in OVW.

[@Kaos360]

That Marina Shafir joke got me

[@crazypretzel1012]

Great Khali, Giant Gonzalez, Nathan Jones (physically all 3 of them looked menacing, but that was about it) I'm surprised Jim didn't mention Bobo Brazil. I don't think Jim felt he was good in the ring but I could be wrong. I love the Shafir jokes. I would love for Jim and Bryan to keep reviewing her stuff lol

[@jamescooper3324]

Khali was actually pretty great in new Japan. We got him post knee surgeries. He used to jump over the top rope

[@MrJjburgess11]

Nathan Jones was only in the business a year tops. So its understandable for him not being that great .

[@ubereats3048]

Khalil in wwe was booked bad and was being super careful after he killed Brian in the ring

[@footloosehobo5560]

“The bank addicted drug robber” 😂

[@XBeatmymeatX1990]

He was entertaining in the ring though

[@Danny-xm1pe]

The Ultimate Warrior did have one good match. His match with Savage at Wrestlemania 7 is great!

[@dhenderson1810]

And his matches with Rick Rude as well.

[@scoh840]

When I was growing up in Mpls, there was a barefoot wrestler named Hank Meadows. He was so thin and so pale, that he made the Mulkeys look like Hulkster.

[@patricknoll81]

I legit hated Moxley's moveset when he was Dean Ambrose. That STUPID lariat he would do when he would fall through the second rope and slingshot up was infuriating.

[@pk_1]

His moveset in the shield was good

[@JHenkel24]

Oh.....you mean the same clothesline that nigel mcguiness did every match? The one kyle o'reilly does and named it after nigel?

[@patricknoll81]

@@JHenkel24 Maybe. I didn't watch a lot of Nigel's matches. I can't say I have noticed Kyle do it, but I also haven't watched him in a while either. It is entirely possible that they just do it better, and it wouldn't bother me with them. With Mox, it was completely unconvincing. If it makes you feel better, I hate the Lethal Injection, too. It makes absolutely no sense. Edit: I just looked it up. It was just as ridiculous when Nigel did it. Kyle pulls it off better than the other two, but it still isn't great.

[@p.d.l7023]

Even The Mulkeys at least won (accidentally) one match.

[@georgenelson8284]

The Great Khali, Giant Gonzalez, Omos, Nia Jax to name a few

[@jared9962]

Great Khali by far

[@bootneyfarnsworth2844]

Is Marko Stunt and Big Swole on this list?

[@TriplomatX]

There's no list, there has to be a detailed reason why the list is called "Worst Wrestlers". These were names Cornette mentioned before as Worst Wrestlers, but he backed down saying Moxley's the worst.

[@wiseguy3675]

I liked Warrior's matches with Rude.

[@Joeybsmooth]

Omos issue is that he is trying not to hurt people.

[@jaymkuhl]

Also, when your 7'4, you can only carry yourself a certain way in the ring. Khali had the same same problem. He has to work around normal sized wrestlers, not his fault.

[@ubereats3048]

Omas is worthless.

[@ubereats3048]

​@@jaymkuhl Khalil was booked bad

[@Jwjmcc]

Warrior had good matches with macho and rude,that shows how good they were

[@ganglabesh]

i agree, even the hogan wm6 was good somehow

[@Stevenirons]

@@ganglabesh because they spent 2 weeks working on it

[@vincentgood2234]

It may come down to the dance partner in most cases (Savage and Rick Rude were certainly better partners than most), but Mania 6 vs Hogan and the program with Andre were better than they had any right to be, and neither of those partners were Baryshnikov. Charisma and packaging really can go a long way.

[@christophercomitini8619]

@@Stevenirons but it was good, that's what counts.

[@Stevenirons]

@@christophercomitini8619 for sure. It's one of my favorites.

[@kanei8521]

I’m amazed Jim didn’t mention Linda Miles once in his answer.

[@mr._muji]

Nick Gage could be the worst wrestler ever to step on AEW, but I wouldn't even consider him a wrestler.

[@nickonite]

Honestly Nick Gage isn't a terrible wrestler. When you watch him wrestle you believe him. Like New Jack, you believe that who they are in the ring is how you would think they would wrestle. Terrible wrestlers are guys like the late Giant Gonzalez, guys like Marko Stunt.

[@danevertt3210]

That new Indian tall guy in AEW should just go away immediately

[@xxxaragon]

@@nickonite not sure about that. I mean, let's take New Jack as an example. of course a lot of what he did looked legit ... because he hit people for real (one of the horrific habits a lot of the ECW/hardcore guys have/had). but if you ain't working (your punches, chairshots etc.) are you really a "pro wrestler" to begin with? (I mean, isn't the biggest part of that +working+ the blows etc.?)

[@intelligentfool09]

His passion to give fans extreme is worthy of him being a legend.

[@GoodMorningJuiceBox]

@@intelligentfool09i agree. One of my top 10 for me. People seem to just dismiss him because “he is a bank robber drug addict” but there are so many degenerates in pro wresting its crazy. But I don’t really give a shit what people say about him he is an entertainer in the most extreme sense and some people these days just can’t take it.

[@TheTalk23]

Crazy to think that many can easily come up with their own mount rushmore of great wrestlers. But worst wrestlers that are bad. It's tough because their have been so many that have been bad. From all generations.

[@Smokey1419]

Plus with so many factors to wrestling, youd really have to think of someone bad at everything

[@danniles3315]

"Marina Shafir, but we don't know her!" 🤣🤣

[@brandontomblin8406]

I'm really surprised that Jim never thought to mention Pockets.

[@TerrickTerran]

I'll always want to give that award to Fat Gino. Anyone who can do a splash without getting up in the air at all deserves that honor.

[@fuscinula]

Do you mean "Gee! No more!"?

[@TerrickTerran]

@@fuscinula I do indeed

[@jovongarrison974]

Warrior had some very good matches With Hogan, Savage, Rude and Perfect. Two of those matches are considered two greatest Wrestlemania matches of all-time.

[@gammasmash1924]

I mostly give his opponents credit for that. I will say though, Hogan/Warrior was also Hogan's best match.

[@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma]

They were also planned out move for move (at least the first two) and rehearsed for months beforehand. Actual good wrestlers don't need to do that.

[@Devypocalypse]

@@gammasmash1924 I'd hardcore disagree with it been Hogans best match, but it's high profile as a Mania main event kind of comes into it I guess too.

[@jovongarrison974]

@@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma If you know anything about Savage's Matches, he planned alot of his matches.

[@songkongphooey]

Who exactly considers those in the running for greatest WM matches? Biggest drawing maybe, but.....really. Like.....yeah Savage carried Warrior and Rude carried him. But wouldn't you rather watch Savage/Steamboat or Rude/Roberts?

[@tanaka5395]

The Marina Shafir line was too funny 🤣🤣

[@abifan1021]

It's ridiculous to say the Ultimate Warrior never had a good match. Warrior had at least 5 good matches. WM6, WM7, SummerSlam 89, SummerSlam 92, The Main Event vs DiBiase.

[@randomfeller]

Corny could make a good living teaching those question evasion tactics to politicians…lol…Some mighty fine juking and jiving there!!

[@whatever20030]

Will just leave this name here Grado, from impact /the World of wrestling ITV tried to bring back. Only surprise is TK and The Cowamonga kids haven’t signed him to AEW

[@micjamfamflippers2191]

He needs to make that list and call it his mount flushmore....

[@jimhurd3101]

100% true.. only time I know of my dad ever sent to my high school other than graduation was a wresting call out... when found out was the amiture stuff was outa there ..I did grad high in 86 so was around 1983 or so

[@taker68]

How about the worst who ever appeared in the major promotions? That were around for awhile, known by fans. Forget short lived or unknown wresters.

[@daveconte9884]

The giant Gonzalez have to be pretty high up on the list!😊

[@barrettokarate]

All the giants (except Andre) were: Gonzalez, Silva, Khali.

[@MrMllx]

Warrior didn’t just make millions of dollars. He was iconic and fans still love him, we all have favourite matches, promos and moments

[@edophoneix1340]

True, he was epic regardless of Jim's hatred of the man he was epic.

[@jetjaguar4285]

And still sucked and was a garbage person

[@kevindouglas5333]

Still sucked

[@michaelhunziker7287]

He sucked. Period

[@davidmitchell6873]

Fanboys can't get over the fact that Warrior was horrible.

[@qmh1992]

putting out a flyer for Don Valentine :D

[@dellboy1775]

Nia Jax has to be up there

[@jayharv285]

Not really. She's hit or miss. It depends on who she's working with. These are people who no matter who they work with they will suck

[@edophoneix1340]

Mox doesn't suck bitch. When he worked with punk the match was good.

[@MyNameIsUnavailable]

As long as WWE Undefined Champion Alicia Fox's funny looking self is on the list, I'm in.

[@trappenweisseguy27]

I remember a jabronie back in the 70’s who was on tv regularly and never got so much as a single punch of offence in named Hutchinson. I think Ron was the first name. Looked like a 160 pound pencil neck geek. But, there were lots of punching bags like him around as all you got on tv was squash matches.

[@georgesalgado8642]

From my time watching wrestling: - Giant Gonzales - Ultimate Warrior - Great Khali - Ahmed Johnson

[@hankfarley2514]

Why jade cargill isn’t ever on a list is beyond me. Bad matches that usually include at least one cringey spot where you wonder how her opponents don’t get hurt. Bigger liability than nia Jax.

[@jessebatson]

very true

[@michaellee8816]

Giant Gonzalez, Marina Shafir, Cheex and Lacey Von Botch for me

[@willkenshin]

I saw a few matches with Lacy Von Erich yesterday on MarkyD's channel and my God was she terrible

[@kinggambino3698]

giant gonzalez was so ass like how....wasnt he a high level college athlete to?

[@jayharv285]

@@kinggambino3698 he was horrible because his size really hinders him a lot (as a wrestler)

[@daveborder7751]

Cheex only worked one or two matches didn't he? He is no more a wrestler than David Arquette or Jenna Morasca.

[@daveborder7751]

@@kinggambino3698 His legs were already shot from Basketball-why Turner switched him from his basketball team to WCW. He had no coordination, his selling/facials were worse than Tugboat's, zero promo skills, no aptitude for wrestling & what made it worse was he looked so skinny-it was pretty much Mike Von Erich if you made him 8 foot tall & even less talented.

[@RomanianAlphaDaddy]

Lol I thought the Omos in the thumbnail was Ahmed Johnson. It didn’t dawn on me until the video ended and he wasn’t even mentioned but Omos was.

[@joeybegoode9067]

To me this type of question is really referring to those who were used at least fairly prominently. As a musician myself your most hated song to play is something popular that you don’t like but everyone wants to hear. But the worst song ever, hardly anyone’s ever heard. This question is about who’s the worst out of those who were touted as good.

[@psychobluesfxt]

I wanted to like her but now that she's gone, yeah we're going to have to put Nia Jax in this convo. She hurt SO many people, there was a train of thought that Asuka was just not being used and hanging out in catering but then it was clarified that Nia Jax really did fuck her up THAT bad that she needed nearly a year off to recover.

[@christophmatthews4313]

Nia Jax isn’t even close to being in the convo.

[@TNLable]

At least Nia Jax gave me the best promo in the world which involves her Hole.

[@jonathancarlson6127]

Ahmed Johnson and Eva Marie come to mind.

[@TNLable]

Eva Marie maybe

[@socialistbatman1211]

Eva Marie is hot so she gets a pass

[@drml8224]

Eva Marie worked in 2016 - gets a pass. I would have loved to see her with a title run, would have been more interesting than Liv Morgan.

[@jonathanstempleton7864]

The worst wrestler is so dangerous that nobody will work with them.

[@jaystreet7748]

Jim does a good job explaining why he never gives an answer to this bone anyone sent him a question like this they need to list their criteria so he has the answer to that criteria whether he likes the criteria or not he could just say he doesn’t like it. For instance if we’re talking about the best wrestler ever this is my criteria The order matters too. 1. Impact on the business. When they were there at their height of popularity and when they left. 2. The ability to draw. Crowd/money 3. Mic/entertainment skills Nobody’s going to see your great wrestling if you can’t get them there 4. Accomplishments in the business. Titles big wins awards etc. 5. Actual wrestling ability. This is last but because you don’t want people putting as like Lance storm or Dean Malenko over people that were superstars in the business because they say “well he can’t wrestle as well” When in reality wrestling is an art like any other art acting singing rapping. People do that shit with rappers when they talk about “lyrical skills“ and then name some guy that 50% of the people reading the comments never heard of popularity matters in the entertainment business don’t tell me somebody is the most skilled and they never didn’t accomplish a quarter of what the other person did. I think that’s a fair list of criteria

[@paulmccartney3959]

I remember when Big Swole said they were being racist to her just because people criticized her lol

[@oatz8449]

Any thing that there is drama on Twitter big swole just tweets it happily that she is right over aew, I don’t know why she always talks about them she is not even in any other promotions

[@heisensaul5538]

I would think Big Daddy would be in the running. Corny referred to him as an "Outlaw Hulk Hogan" one time.

[@user-pt7mx5ct2t]

1 ultimate warrior 2 bill Goldberg 3 great khali 4 giant conzalez 5 kevin nash

[@randyruger9063]

Artist had a shot to do a Sgt Pepper parody of bad wrestlers. Would have been one for the portfolio

[@janus78]

I like how I know there are a lot of rotten wrestlers who Jim personally hates, but for this question he is legit fair as can be. There are 1000's of wrestlers whose training school was literally their mom's basement, so when being fair worst wrestler is much harder than best wrestler and Jim legit took this seriously. Though I believe other people would mention this Giant Gonzalez is probably as bad as any untrained wrestler ever, he probably makes Jim Helwig look like Buddy Rogers in comparison. I mean Ultimate warrior sucked too, but I think with a lot of these famous bad wrestlers they still had to have something to get them over in spite of how bad they sucked, but the true sucky wrestlers like turds stayed at the bottom of the barrel and only made a tv camera in the audience of shows.

[@_NoDrinkTheBleach]

I managed to see Giant Gonzalez do his thing once. I inexplicably saw Bastion Booger at least three times. And I was privileged to see Mantaur on one occasion. My reverse Mount Rushmore.

[@Rockhound6165]

Mike Shaw(Bastion Booger) was actually great as Norman the Lunatic.

[@madbrowniac7871]

NJ CardFan: And as Makhan Singh and Mike Shaw in Stampede. And he had a Makhan Singh stint in Global on ESPN. Trucker Norm for awhile in WCW as well. Pretty impressive work by the late great Mr. Shaw. Always reminded me of a fine Comic Character Actor named Walter Olkewicz. Ironically the appearance of Walter Olkewicz on "Cheers" cast him as a frenemy of "Norm Peterson" going back to their days on The High School Wrestling Team together!😂😉🎤🤼‍♂️B.W.

[@raydiabolico]

Ultimate Warrior, Goldberg, Ryback and New Jack. Mount Rushmore of most unsafe in the Ring.

[@tomtalker2000]

Oh and i forgot too mention WWE'S "new giant" Omos who makes Great Khali look like The Undertaker.

[@firepenguin38]

I know Vince Technicallt wasn't a wrestler, but the time he blew both quads out running to the ring because of a botch

[@superballsfour20]

Giant Gonzalez, Eva Marie, Great Khali, Lacey Von Erich

[@stevehogan9958]

I've never seen Lacey wrestle. She was that bad?

[@PunkRJH90]

@@stevehogan9958 Yes, she was awful. I also seem to remember someone asked her to study some of her father's matches to understand how to work better, bit she claimed she didn't want to because it upset her.

[@MikePetett]

How about just the worst to ever hold any belt in one of the big promotions? Like WWE, WCW, ECW, TNA, AEW, etc, or even some of the more famous territories

[@crunkybrewster]

I think a list like this wouldn't be as hard to come up with as Jim thinks. Sure, you'd have to put some work into it of course. But I feel it could be done. Like off of the top of my head I could I name a few candidates. The Renegade Glacier Anyone who "graduated" from The Power Plant. Jokes aside, if you get say the guy who makes the Botchamania vids on here, you could probably go through some of those videos and make a list out of people. I would determine this by Bad Gimmick, Bad Mic Skills, Bad Ring Performance. Whether they drew a buck or two shouldn't matter so much. But they'd have to be a name people would at least say, "Oh yeah! I remember that guy! LOL!".

[@Smokey1419]

How DARE you besmirch the legacy of Glacier!! His rivalry with Mortis is second only to Sub Zero vs Scorpion!! For real though, at 10, i loved Galcier in 97, but i can see why you pick him. RIP Renegade, but yea, he was bad all around and never really showed much improvement.

[@kevinr49]

Nia the whale Jax has to be on that list. Just horrific.

[@icalloutshittymusic7396]

As much as I hate garbage wrestling, Moxley is far from a bad athlete lol

[@JW0082]

Warrior. Kozlov. Khali. Nia Jax. Sandman. Brie Bella. To name a few....

[@garywest2250]

lol the plumber

[@sgtpecker07]

How he didn’t immediately say Luigi Primo is beyond me.

[@juniorkhomari1850]

He just juggles pizza dough around. How does that make him the worst wrestler ever ?

[@thorman638]

1. Nyla Rose - complete fuckin abomination 2. Nick Gage - absolute trash 3. Luchasourus - botch and injury machine 4. Omos - can barely move 5. Luther - need I say more?

[@mirwaissnajibi]

Giant Gonzalez was just too clumsy.

[@misham2563]

Love how the artwork for Moxley always has him crosseyed or looking like a Special Ed short yellow bus student

[@joeramos4489]

Anna Jay should be in the conversation

[@tripvic7629]

Shows ur age 🤣🤣

[@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma]

When you look like that it doesn't matter if you can work.

[@marlonmontelhiggins8570]

Be careful, Joe. She could find you and choke you out.

[@joeramos4489]

@@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma so true

[@darrencampbell5145]

Anna Jay is nowhere near the worst wrestler ever she's not even the worst we have seen on AEW

[@vonVile]

Brandy Rhodes is worse than Big Swole by miles.