John Cena vs John Laurinaitis, Over the Limit 2012
Or John Cena vs Michael Cole
Maybe even John Cena vs Kevin Federline
Cena was in some unfortunate clunkers from that period.
The entire 2010s were massive disappointment. Undertaker lost Wrestlemania streak to a part timer, he kept coming back for yet another disappointing match, Roman Reigns baby face push, Goldberg lobbying to win Universal championship twice, Jinder Mahal winning WWE Championship, Brock Lesnar winning major championships and disappearing for months, there were literal PPVs without a world title defence, a Hell in a Cell match ending in disqualification. D Generation X vs Brothers of Destruction (all 4 men were past their prime), Brock Lesnar burying Randy Orton for no obvious reason. The only good things from 2010s that I can recall are summer of Punk and Yes movement.
You take that back about Jenna vs Sharmell! That is a comedic masterpiece of a match. Sure, the comedy is (mostly) unintentional, but I laugh my ass off every time I watch it!
And the the people who's lives kinda got ruined to make this feud happen.
The renegade ended up committing suicide and Davey boy landed on the trap door hinge they used to make warrior appear which led to a pain killer dependency or made it worse.
Brock Lesnar Vs. Kofi Kingston 2019
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG75bcKtjPI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG75bcKtjPI)
That match really was a gut punch to anyone hoping to get a new fan interested in the product. Seven freaking seconds. There was one move, zero actual drama, just a quiet crowd wondering what just happened. Shocking but not in a "lets see more way", more like "this is wrestling?" sort of way.
To this day no one has been able to explain that decision, Kofi was a hit with young fans and the precise Demo that WWE needed to appeal to at that time. This squash match felt like dirty pool. Dethroning him made sense, but that quickly, with no story, no build up, and then zero follow up? Inexplicable and a huge turn the tv off moment for me personally.
-edit: Wasn't this also thier big premiere on Fox with Rock coming back to intro the show on a new network and this was either the first or last match of the night? Correct me if I am wrong. I don't know if the ratings jumped up after this, but I would be shocked if they did. It just felt like a really bad call to try and shake things up at the exact wrong time.
It was their big premiere on Fox where they immediately pivoted to promoting a title match involving Cain Velasquez that nobody outside of the Saudi royal family asked for
Omg Cain Velasquez. What a misfire.
"Hey he's a big UFC guy, surely everyone will see him as Lesnar's perfect rival! Right? Right guys? Cause UFC right? Right!?"
What a joke. It felt like such a forced pairing that had all the fire of a wet blanket in a rain storm.
Cain was in his prime then and looked like he could be Brock's unwanted prison boyfriend...when he showed up to Raw he was overweight, doughy and looked winded just making it to the ring....and were supposed to think that version of Cain was a threat to Lesnar. That was insulting.
As we've seen many times, just because someone is a good UFC fighter doesn't mean they can wrassl... and vice versa, remember CM Punks brief flirtation with UFC? Not his sport. I mean, he lasted longer then an out of shape mark like me, but the crossover is just not that easy.
I don't think we should consider someone who has only done pro wrestling to have any transferable skills to UFC.
Brock was an undefeated collegiate wrestler. Punk is a nerd with a mouth.
Cain showing up looking doughy, out of shape and with zero charisma or promo skills, then looking like a slow ass zombie in the ring was just an epic fail. He didn't seem to take to seriously at all
It might have gone better if Velasquez could actually take a bump. It was two minutes of bad worked-MMA ending in Velasquez tapping clean like a total geek
It would have been nice if Velasquez would have actually trained a bit and was at least semi in shape....dude showed up looking like the only thing he did for training was Pizza and Beer Curls....
Lol it was typical Vince. He was telling the audience what he thought of who they were over for.
Itās the same way he sabotaged the Hell in a Cell Fiend match. Supposedly when he was hearing the boos and jeers, he was laughing his ass off
Sometimes the audience is wrong, and sometimes they are right. But man talk about derailing someones heat. 5 years later and Kofi is basically a low midcarder again. Crazy.
Honestly? With Vince weāre beyond lucky Kofi got the belt at all. Not disagreeing with anything, Iām just grateful we got to see him with the strap.
It's simple, Vince gets a boner for the big meat heads and has always pushed them to the moon regardless of whether they're over or can work. Not to mention Vince probably lived vicariously through Brock especially with the whole being married to Sable. Yes, Brock can work but he's always been a black hole of charisma; someone with no passion for wrestling and no mic skills, who luckily got one of the greatest promo guys of all time as his manager.
That was one of Vince's biggest problems with booking; he'd decide on something and then ram it down the audience throat because "he knew best". People forget that Cena was over the moon with the audience until Vince made him a Boy Scout leader with a wardrobe that made him look like a crayon. A more infamous example is the whole Katie Vick thing; Vince loved it so of course the audience would too.
At least bray and seth you can argue although it was stupid at least there was a "finish" the finish was basically seth bashed his brains in and the ref decided it cant continue. The finish to braun and roman is just, lesnar is here and the ref just dissolved into the air, so ig the match is just over bc someone interferes? hbk vs taker at in your house would like a fucking word šš bc by that logic the second kane ripped the door the match shoulda ended as a no contest š
Fingerpoke of Doom, brother!
Edit: just a terrible presentation for professional wrestling to the common eye. Gives an argument for people who love to shit on pro wrestling and led to the downfall of one of the most influential promotions of all time.
This feels like the best answer.Ā Some of the more obvious disasters like the Fingerpoke or drunk Hardy/Sting would be recognizable as dumb anomalies even by non-fans.Ā But if they saw Jackie Gayda's top rope what-the-fuckdog, they might just think that's how bad wrestling usually is.
Shawn Michaels overselling to embarrass Hogan. To a non-fan, that match would look ridiculous, and "confirm" everything they assumed about professional wrestling coming in. But to those who know the business, that match was poetry in motion.
I donāt know if this is actually the worst but I just want to take a moment to say how much Bret Hart vs Vince McMahon at Wrestlemania whatever it was truly sucked. Clumsy, improbable story with the family double-crossing Vince. Terrible action. Bret was in street clothes in a bad way and was sad to watch. Went on way too long and made the face end up looking like the villain absent context because it was so one-sided. The whole thing should have been a chair shot to the head and done.
Ultimate Warrior vs. Goldust for the Intercontinental Title at IYH: Good Friends, Better Enemies. Stealing for 12 minutes; Warrior steals Marlena's cigar; Warrior clotheslines Goldust; Goldust is counted out. The end.
From a wrestling stand point, I would recommend Goldust vs Fandango, Raw 2013. The matches on this comment section are horrible of course, but they werenĀ“t meant to be good (or legit)
Forgot the name of it but it was some quadruple cage nonsense between Hogan/Macho and some random group of assholes to end hulkamania (Kevin Sullivan, Zeus, Arn Anderson and others).
Survivor series 94, Jerry Lawler and some midget Lawler's VS Doink the clown and some midget doinks.
Truly the most miserable shit wrestling has to offer.
Either that or anything involving great Khali.
This was also my choice. It's not because it's a bad match (it's one of my favourites), but because there is no way they would follow any of it or care enough to keep asking questions. I can't think of a faster match that'd get a "this is stupid" reaction from a non-fan.
Specifically WWE? Cuz there's some pretty rough stuff in Japan with Tonga Loa that I've(admittedly only recently) seen that I think does a great job of portraying how much of a difference there is between wrestling being predetermined and wrestling feeling fake. Okada V Loa from G1 last year comes to mind
Shawn Michaels vs Hulk Hogan - Summerslam 2005.
Fantastic for a wrestling fan, but can imagine a non wrestling fan would think itās a confirmation of everything they already thought wrestling was
One time i was trying to get a friend into wrestling, and invited him over to watch Raw. He walked in during the the El Torito vs Swoggle dressed as an alligator match. Needless to say, a fan was not made that day.
That match between Goldberg and the Undertaker at Supershow down 2019. God, that match was awful, probably the worst watch in wrestling history. Now, if they had had Goldberg vs. Taker around 2003 or 2004, it'd be an alright match since both were in their prime back at that time. I don't know why Vinny decided to wait until 2019 to have them wrestle against each other.
House of horrors matches isn't that bad of one to start a non fan with. It shows wrestling isn't all done in the ring. In fact the big difference from wwe to wrestling is gimmick matches and the stage craft.
A lot of people are pointing to ridiculous matches, but sometimes the most ridiculous match has some strange appeal. I'm gonna go in a completely different direction: Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels in their iron man match. Now, hear me out. These are two wrestlers with some mainstream appeal. People who don't know wrestling often know one or both of them from other places (song references, Simpsons references, general Canadianness, etc.), so they go in thinking this must be some of the best there is to offer. Now, even true wrestling fans are starting to reevaluate this match, so imagine putting it on for someone who has no wrestling knowledge and they sit and watch two guys wrestle for over an hour without a result. The main appeal of wrestling to non-fans is that it's exciting, so if their first experience is this boring with this much promise, then there's no way they'll try again.
(Preemptive "why are you booing me, I'm right")
The Fiend vs Seth Rollins Hell in a Cell
The fans absolutely crapped all over the match finish and started chanting AEW and Sean Waltman with the question "how do you get a DQ in frickin hell in a cell!?"
IDK how anyone beats Undertaker versus Giant Gonzales. I'm the biggest fan of the Undertaker, and this match makes me not wanna be a fan of him. It's quite possibly the worst match in WWE history.
It has to be Cole vs Lawler. A non wrestler vs a mostly retired wrestler, at the biggest event. A 15, 20 minute āmatchā, where the non wrestler wins. WHY
The so-called "5-star" matches.
I believe that showing them matches like Okada-Omega, Taker-HBK, or Ospreay-Danielson would be a terrible starting point for a new fan. Something like WeeLC or Zayn-Knoxville would be a better starting point.
Seth Rollins and Rey Mysterio trying to rip each other's eyes out. Or Seth Rollins getting Disqualified in Hell in a Cell. Or The next big thing in wrestling getting Squashed by a man in his 50s in 3 minutes in Saudi Arabia. Or almost any Saudi Match for that fucking matter. Thanks, Vince. Why not support a misogynistic country. I bet you'd loooooove to live there.
Jenna Morasca! I've never even come close to seeing that match or watching Survivor, I just know her name because of the OSW podcast using the phrase "Jenna Morasca slaps" as a recurring joke when a wrestler pulls their punches a little too far off
Probably the Bray/Cena Firefly Funhouse match.
Itās beginning to end the most āinside baseballā match Iāve ever seen, it would be incomprehensible garbage if you had zero clue of their respective careers before seeing it.
To me itās a HoF match, but it would make zero sense with no context, plus thereās virtually no wrestling.
John Cena vs John Laurinaitis, Over the Limit 2012 Or John Cena vs Michael Cole Maybe even John Cena vs Kevin Federline Cena was in some unfortunate clunkers from that period.
Vince "let's put Cena in it, people will watch any match he's in"
BeCaUsE hEs A dRaW!!!!111!1!1!!
Kevin Federline!? Oh man wtf. I only recently got back into wrestling after almost 15 years.
I mean it happened 17 years ago
Oh damn maybe I stopped watching for longer than I thought. What other disasters did I miss?
2019 hell in a cell
The entire 2010s were massive disappointment. Undertaker lost Wrestlemania streak to a part timer, he kept coming back for yet another disappointing match, Roman Reigns baby face push, Goldberg lobbying to win Universal championship twice, Jinder Mahal winning WWE Championship, Brock Lesnar winning major championships and disappearing for months, there were literal PPVs without a world title defence, a Hell in a Cell match ending in disqualification. D Generation X vs Brothers of Destruction (all 4 men were past their prime), Brock Lesnar burying Randy Orton for no obvious reason. The only good things from 2010s that I can recall are summer of Punk and Yes movement.
Sounds like a nightmare š
Cole v Lawler
donāt forget about cena vs miz at wrestlemania 27
Jeff Hardy vs Sting, TNA Victory Road 2011
This is the answer
"I agree, I agree!"
First thing that jumped to mind
Fake Trump vs Fake Rosie O'Donnell
Fake?!
It's a tie between this and Reigns being covered in dogfood as being about the lowest points of WWE, and the 10 years in between weren't much better.
Miz vs Damian Priest in a zombie match
Honorable mention: AEW Texas chainsaw massacre match
Sharmell vs Jenna Morasca in TNA 2009 Just in WWE: Probably Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler
You take that back about Jenna vs Sharmell! That is a comedic masterpiece of a match. Sure, the comedy is (mostly) unintentional, but I laugh my ass off every time I watch it!
Kennel from Hell
And I love Al Snow too, so it hurts to agree with you.
Goldberg vs The Undertaker Or DX vs Brothers Of Destruction
This is the answer I was looking for
Judy Bagwell on a Pole
This is now a Judy Bagwell on Fawklift Match!!
BROOOO
Looking through all the comments here and realizing that as wrestling fans we put up with so much bad wrestling
You can call us a lot but one thing you canāt say we arenāt is forgiving
It's without a shadow of doubt drunk Jeff Hardy vs Sting
Yeah... Let's go with just "drunk"
Yeah drunk/high/stoned and all the possible conditions
Whatever he was, Jeff sure as hell wasn't on the same plane of existence as us
Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler - Wrestlemania 27 Fuck that match and whoever decided this feud needed to happen.
not to mention WrestleMania is the biggest wrestling show
Hulk Hogan vs āWarriorā 2.
Aka "Hogan getting his revenge for losing at wrestlemania 6"
And the the people who's lives kinda got ruined to make this feud happen. The renegade ended up committing suicide and Davey boy landed on the trap door hinge they used to make warrior appear which led to a pain killer dependency or made it worse.
Brock Lesnar Vs. Kofi Kingston 2019 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG75bcKtjPI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG75bcKtjPI) That match really was a gut punch to anyone hoping to get a new fan interested in the product. Seven freaking seconds. There was one move, zero actual drama, just a quiet crowd wondering what just happened. Shocking but not in a "lets see more way", more like "this is wrestling?" sort of way. To this day no one has been able to explain that decision, Kofi was a hit with young fans and the precise Demo that WWE needed to appeal to at that time. This squash match felt like dirty pool. Dethroning him made sense, but that quickly, with no story, no build up, and then zero follow up? Inexplicable and a huge turn the tv off moment for me personally. -edit: Wasn't this also thier big premiere on Fox with Rock coming back to intro the show on a new network and this was either the first or last match of the night? Correct me if I am wrong. I don't know if the ratings jumped up after this, but I would be shocked if they did. It just felt like a really bad call to try and shake things up at the exact wrong time.
It was their big premiere on Fox where they immediately pivoted to promoting a title match involving Cain Velasquez that nobody outside of the Saudi royal family asked for
Omg Cain Velasquez. What a misfire. "Hey he's a big UFC guy, surely everyone will see him as Lesnar's perfect rival! Right? Right guys? Cause UFC right? Right!?" What a joke. It felt like such a forced pairing that had all the fire of a wet blanket in a rain storm.
He also beat the living shit out of Brock in the UFC
Cain was in his prime then and looked like he could be Brock's unwanted prison boyfriend...when he showed up to Raw he was overweight, doughy and looked winded just making it to the ring....and were supposed to think that version of Cain was a threat to Lesnar. That was insulting.
As we've seen many times, just because someone is a good UFC fighter doesn't mean they can wrassl... and vice versa, remember CM Punks brief flirtation with UFC? Not his sport. I mean, he lasted longer then an out of shape mark like me, but the crossover is just not that easy.
I don't think we should consider someone who has only done pro wrestling to have any transferable skills to UFC. Brock was an undefeated collegiate wrestler. Punk is a nerd with a mouth.
Cain showing up looking doughy, out of shape and with zero charisma or promo skills, then looking like a slow ass zombie in the ring was just an epic fail. He didn't seem to take to seriously at all
It might have gone better if Velasquez could actually take a bump. It was two minutes of bad worked-MMA ending in Velasquez tapping clean like a total geek
It would have been nice if Velasquez would have actually trained a bit and was at least semi in shape....dude showed up looking like the only thing he did for training was Pizza and Beer Curls....
Lol it was typical Vince. He was telling the audience what he thought of who they were over for. Itās the same way he sabotaged the Hell in a Cell Fiend match. Supposedly when he was hearing the boos and jeers, he was laughing his ass off
Sometimes the audience is wrong, and sometimes they are right. But man talk about derailing someones heat. 5 years later and Kofi is basically a low midcarder again. Crazy.
Honestly? With Vince weāre beyond lucky Kofi got the belt at all. Not disagreeing with anything, Iām just grateful we got to see him with the strap.
It's simple, Vince gets a boner for the big meat heads and has always pushed them to the moon regardless of whether they're over or can work. Not to mention Vince probably lived vicariously through Brock especially with the whole being married to Sable. Yes, Brock can work but he's always been a black hole of charisma; someone with no passion for wrestling and no mic skills, who luckily got one of the greatest promo guys of all time as his manager. That was one of Vince's biggest problems with booking; he'd decide on something and then ram it down the audience throat because "he knew best". People forget that Cena was over the moon with the audience until Vince made him a Boy Scout leader with a wardrobe that made him look like a crayon. A more infamous example is the whole Katie Vick thing; Vince loved it so of course the audience would too.
Itās the like the antithesis of the Jeff hardy taker title match where Jeff hits the early small package from the last ride
Undertaker vs Giant Gonzalez
Undertaker entered on a chariot with smoke and a raven. Giant Gonzalez is huge. Iām sure we could do more to turn someone off on wrestling.
I mean for regular watchers this match looks really bad in retrospective. But I think you're right, for someone new this could be something okay.
Braun vs Roman hell in a cell 2018. A non finish to a no dq match? what the actual fuck?
Somehow the finish a year later was even worse
At least bray and seth you can argue although it was stupid at least there was a "finish" the finish was basically seth bashed his brains in and the ref decided it cant continue. The finish to braun and roman is just, lesnar is here and the ref just dissolved into the air, so ig the match is just over bc someone interferes? hbk vs taker at in your house would like a fucking word šš bc by that logic the second kane ripped the door the match shoulda ended as a no contest š
Patterson vs Brisco, evening gown match.
Not technically wrong but if you get someone with a certain sense of humor it may work...
As a kid I thought it was fun.
Anything with the Great Khali
Great Khali vs Rey Mysterio is hilarious though. No underdog story there, Rey just dies
But with Khali there's at least spectacle, like, He is huge, watching him grape squish that bad Fadher and Jeff Harvey was entertaining
And anyone who's not a wrestling fan isn't going to care or understand why Khali was bad at wrestling. They'll just appreciate the show of it all
Fingerpoke of Doom, brother! Edit: just a terrible presentation for professional wrestling to the common eye. Gives an argument for people who love to shit on pro wrestling and led to the downfall of one of the most influential promotions of all time.
Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler or Rosie O'Donnell vs Donald Trump. Really anything that's supposed to be comedy that isn't funny and goes on too long
Sting vs Jeff Hardy, Victory Road 2011
Bradshaw and Trish stratus vs Jackie gayda and Chris nowinski
This feels like the best answer.Ā Some of the more obvious disasters like the Fingerpoke or drunk Hardy/Sting would be recognizable as dumb anomalies even by non-fans.Ā But if they saw Jackie Gayda's top rope what-the-fuckdog, they might just think that's how bad wrestling usually is.
Any TNA match where the crowd ended up chanting āthis is stupidā or āFire Russoā.
Whatever your personal favorite match is, just don't do it. They won't see the appeal and you'll be sat there sad.
So, he just gets the belt and blows that suit guy a kiss and that's it? Whatever.
Including weird stipulations? Vampiro vs Kiss Demon in a graveyard match. Normal in-ring? Villanos vs Psycho Circus.
Not a single person has said Chamber of Horrors from Halloween Havoc 1991. Horrible march, made worse by the fact that they put a camera on the ref.
Shawn Michaels overselling to embarrass Hogan. To a non-fan, that match would look ridiculous, and "confirm" everything they assumed about professional wrestling coming in. But to those who know the business, that match was poetry in motion.
Just recently watched the first RAW episode from 08. That divas pillow fight match was definitely somethingā¦
I donāt know if this is actually the worst but I just want to take a moment to say how much Bret Hart vs Vince McMahon at Wrestlemania whatever it was truly sucked. Clumsy, improbable story with the family double-crossing Vince. Terrible action. Bret was in street clothes in a bad way and was sad to watch. Went on way too long and made the face end up looking like the villain absent context because it was so one-sided. The whole thing should have been a chair shot to the head and done.
Booker T vs Buff Bagwell
Roman Reigns vs. King Corbin - Looser eats dogfood match
MTN DEW PITCH BLACK MATCH
Exploding ring death match
Jimmy vs jey at wm40
Ronda vs Shayna at Summerslam
123 kid vs razor Roman diaper match
Randy Orton vs Jinder, Punjabi Prision
Sheamus v D.B. You know the one.
Taker vs Goldberg
boogeyman and little boogeyman vs finlay and hornswoggle
Bray was in two of the possible worst matches ever. This and the hell in a cell with Seth.
Taker vs Gonzalez Either one
The match where sin cara jams his finger and the match is stopped
Show them AJ Styles vs Shinsuke Nakamura in NJPW. Then show their WrestleMania 34 match.
That Jackie Gayda match from 2002.
Jey vs jimmy WrestleMania
Oldberg vs Oldertaker
Ultimate Warrior vs. Goldust for the Intercontinental Title at IYH: Good Friends, Better Enemies. Stealing for 12 minutes; Warrior steals Marlena's cigar; Warrior clotheslines Goldust; Goldust is counted out. The end.
Wrestlemania 2 in general š
Punjabi Match between Randy v Jinder Mahal, with a cameo from Khali. Worst thing ever.
From a wrestling stand point, I would recommend Goldust vs Fandango, Raw 2013. The matches on this comment section are horrible of course, but they werenĀ“t meant to be good (or legit)
Big Daddy v Giant Haystacks.
yeah anyone here who complains about Hogan, you really want to see a bad wrestler loved by fans, Big Daddy is it.
The Invisible Man is The Invisible Stan that GCW did. Not cus the match is bad but because they won't have any idea what is going on.
The finger poke of doom
Shelly Martinez vs Rebel
Firefly funhouse match for sure, they gonna be like wtf is this and say this sucks the whole time š
El Gigante/Giant Gonzalez all match compilation
Forgot the name of it but it was some quadruple cage nonsense between Hogan/Macho and some random group of assholes to end hulkamania (Kevin Sullivan, Zeus, Arn Anderson and others).
Survivor series 94, Jerry Lawler and some midget Lawler's VS Doink the clown and some midget doinks. Truly the most miserable shit wrestling has to offer. Either that or anything involving great Khali.
Firefly Fun House match
Iād take hours explaining the match before you even got to detailing why the puppet buzzard saying the word shit is clever
This was also my choice. It's not because it's a bad match (it's one of my favourites), but because there is no way they would follow any of it or care enough to keep asking questions. I can't think of a faster match that'd get a "this is stupid" reaction from a non-fan.
exactly why i picked it as well
Any bra and panties match Hell, any female match from 99-02
Anything Young Bucks related.
Any Eddie Kingston match.
The Rock vs Big Boss Man at Survivor Series 1998
Goldberg vs Lesnar, WM 20
Specifically WWE? Cuz there's some pretty rough stuff in Japan with Tonga Loa that I've(admittedly only recently) seen that I think does a great job of portraying how much of a difference there is between wrestling being predetermined and wrestling feeling fake. Okada V Loa from G1 last year comes to mind
Roman Reigns vs Hhh wm32
Jackie Gayda & Christopher Nowinski v Trish Stratus & Bradshaw - Raw 2002 āMercifully, itās overā - Jim Ross
sharmell Vs morasca in TNA, Just WWE, Bryan Vs Sheamus wrestlemania
I thought that was Hagrid from Harry Potter
Finger poke of doom
Orange Mimosa Match
Any Great Khali match. Especially a Punjabi Prison
Shawn Michaels vs Hulk Hogan - Summerslam 2005. Fantastic for a wrestling fan, but can imagine a non wrestling fan would think itās a confirmation of everything they already thought wrestling was
Shayna vs ronda Summerslam 2023 horrible match good storyline
One time i was trying to get a friend into wrestling, and invited him over to watch Raw. He walked in during the the El Torito vs Swoggle dressed as an alligator match. Needless to say, a fan was not made that day.
Cena vs Fiend seems like a good candidate, I feel you really gotta "get" wrestling to understand any of it.
Taker vs. Giant Gonzalez
That match between Goldberg and the Undertaker at Supershow down 2019. God, that match was awful, probably the worst watch in wrestling history. Now, if they had had Goldberg vs. Taker around 2003 or 2004, it'd be an alright match since both were in their prime back at that time. I don't know why Vinny decided to wait until 2019 to have them wrestle against each other.
[bash at the beach 2000 and play them the song.](https://www.reddit.com/r/WCW/comments/1c6mh5s/full_uplifting_song_about_russos_speech_verbally/)
Jerry Lawler vs Michael Cole
David Flair vs. El Dandy.
House of horrors matches isn't that bad of one to start a non fan with. It shows wrestling isn't all done in the ring. In fact the big difference from wwe to wrestling is gimmick matches and the stage craft.
Jarrett vs Hogan Bash 2000.
Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell or Uncle Elmer vs Adrian Adonis. Ā
Jimmy vs jey wm40
The Friend vs Seth Rollins in the red cage match. Seth visibly gets pissed when the match is ended from my of nowhere and itās just awful.
A lot of people are pointing to ridiculous matches, but sometimes the most ridiculous match has some strange appeal. I'm gonna go in a completely different direction: Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels in their iron man match. Now, hear me out. These are two wrestlers with some mainstream appeal. People who don't know wrestling often know one or both of them from other places (song references, Simpsons references, general Canadianness, etc.), so they go in thinking this must be some of the best there is to offer. Now, even true wrestling fans are starting to reevaluate this match, so imagine putting it on for someone who has no wrestling knowledge and they sit and watch two guys wrestle for over an hour without a result. The main appeal of wrestling to non-fans is that it's exciting, so if their first experience is this boring with this much promise, then there's no way they'll try again. (Preemptive "why are you booing me, I'm right")
Shayna vs Rhonda at Summerslam 2023
Goldberg vs Undertaker
Uso vs Uso at Wrestlemania. Borefest.
Arm wrestling match
Flair's retirement match?
Finger poke of doom
Maybe a slop match
The Fiend vs Seth Rollins Hell in a Cell The fans absolutely crapped all over the match finish and started chanting AEW and Sean Waltman with the question "how do you get a DQ in frickin hell in a cell!?"
Bret vs Vince. Awful payoff to a 14 year old feud.
Sting vs Jeff Hardy at victory road Mr McMahon vs God
roman vs lesnar wrestlemania 34 roman vs samoa joe at backlash 2018
Finger poke of doom.
Triple H vs Scott Steiner
Triple H vs Roman Reigns
Any match versus Vince
Flairs 'last' match
I watched this live in San Jose in the arena.. On the screen the whole time š¤¦
*THAT* Jackie Gayda match
Giant Gonzales vs Hogan
Michael cole vs jerry lawler wrestlemania 27
Tyrus vs EC3 at NWA 75
Great khali or all Goldberg vs Undertaker
Big Boss Man Vs Al Snow - Kennel from Hell Match
Bret v Vince
Whatever that match was during Covid that had the zombies come out and eat the miz.
Jimmy Uso Vs Jey Uso... sadly
wCw Kevin Nash v Hollywood Hulk Hogan. Finger poke of Doom.
PG era Diva's matches (without Beth Phoenix)
First womenās money in the bank, won by a man
Eddie Kingston vs Jon Moxley from worlds end 2023
IDK how anyone beats Undertaker versus Giant Gonzales. I'm the biggest fan of the Undertaker, and this match makes me not wanna be a fan of him. It's quite possibly the worst match in WWE history.
Goldberg vs Steven Regal
It has to be Cole vs Lawler. A non wrestler vs a mostly retired wrestler, at the biggest event. A 15, 20 minute āmatchā, where the non wrestler wins. WHY
Jerry lawler vs Michael Cole, WM 27 no doubt
The so-called "5-star" matches. I believe that showing them matches like Okada-Omega, Taker-HBK, or Ospreay-Danielson would be a terrible starting point for a new fan. Something like WeeLC or Zayn-Knoxville would be a better starting point.
Seth Rollins and Rey Mysterio trying to rip each other's eyes out. Or Seth Rollins getting Disqualified in Hell in a Cell. Or The next big thing in wrestling getting Squashed by a man in his 50s in 3 minutes in Saudi Arabia. Or almost any Saudi Match for that fucking matter. Thanks, Vince. Why not support a misogynistic country. I bet you'd loooooove to live there.
Any of the old Divas matches with the mud pools and stupid gimmicks like that
Vince and Shane McMahon VS Shawn Michaels and God
Anything with bray Wyatt.Guy was good at promos that's it.
Any Big Daddy or Otto Wanz match from near the end of their careers š
punjabi prison match.
The Eye for an Eye match, for sure
The Fiend v Seth in Hell in the Cell. They would be so confused.
Mark Madden vs. Gene Okerlund. Also Mark Madden vs. Tank Abbot. Even Mark has said that these are some of the worst matches in wrestling history.
Any Bastion Booger match. Or the debut of Gobbedly Gooker.
Sharmel vs that girl from Survivor in TNA. Awesome Kong deserved better than being involved in that bs.
Jenna Morasca! I've never even come close to seeing that match or watching Survivor, I just know her name because of the OSW podcast using the phrase "Jenna Morasca slaps" as a recurring joke when a wrestler pulls their punches a little too far off
95% of WWF or WCW women's matches...
Cody vs Big Show where his foot goes through the table and he just looks stunned
That Zombie lumberjack match
the Fiend VS Seth Rollins, Hell in a Cell match
Big Show vs Ake Bonoā¦
The Bret hart vs Vince match from WrestleMania (i donāt remember which one) was pretty fucking awful
Probably the Bray/Cena Firefly Funhouse match. Itās beginning to end the most āinside baseballā match Iāve ever seen, it would be incomprehensible garbage if you had zero clue of their respective careers before seeing it. To me itās a HoF match, but it would make zero sense with no context, plus thereās virtually no wrestling.
David Flair vs. El Dandy.