Even the very best wrestlers have their bad nights.
Here’s a list of the worst of the worst from the sport’s greatest superstars…
The big names inwrestlinghave gone through hundreds, sometimes thousands, of matches.
But they cant all be winners, and even the most decorated wrestler has an off day.
Either way, were looking back at some of the worst matches by some of the sports top stars.
Just some ground rules first.
No matches based around someone enduring a career-ending/threatening injury (e.g.
Steve Austin vs. Owen Hart or Bret Hart v. Goldberg).
Lastly, no matches with more than four participants.
What could have been a solid tag match was dead on arrival thanks to being a team scaffold match.
Usually, these kinds of matches end when one guy gets knocked off the platform,Mortal KombatPit style.
This one was instead a game of Capture the Flag.
Because nobody involved wanted to take such a stupid bump.
The extra-large PN News probably would have died if his footing was off.
Then everyone just awkwardly climbed down with Bobby and PN News announced as winners.
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Rocky Maivia vs. Just Rikishi in a mask, not yet big enough to be booked as a monster.
Unlike a few years later, Rikishi just didnt do it for The Rock.
No, for this one were going to the dark era of 2000WCW.
Not just any Strap Match, but a Yapapi Strap Match!
What does that mean?
It means that Hogan got to do some hilarious and unhinged promos to build to this PPV main event.
It was a big slog of a match where nobody seemed to know what to do.
Jerichos been in some awesome matches throughout the decades, but he was wasted here.
Luckily, he got to duck out of what became a gradually worse storyline.
It certainly wasnt good, but at least he could work the match!
That meant his grudge match with Vince had to be entirely smoke and mirrors.
This would have been fine, but it kept going.
It went from, Stop!
to Okay, we get it!
Theres a reason whyWWEs YouTube only shows the post-match celebration.
It was divisive footage, as a lot of peoplenamely older wrestling folkthought it was an affront to wrestling.
There were too many acrobatics and it was unrealistic.
One of the more outspoken people during this fiasco was Big Van Vader.
Jumping on the controversy, Revolution Pro Wrestling decided to bring in Vader for a match against Ospreay.
That meant it was a whole lot of Ospreay bouncing off him.
Vader offered to make this a trilogy, but Ospreay declined.
Still, its somehow not the worst match of Bryans career.
Bryan has wrestled several uncoordinated giants over the years, like Great Khali and Satnam Singh.
They did the best with what they could, but then there was his match against Big Cass.
This was right after Bryan came back from retirement and WWE was intent on making Cass a big deal.
He lost to The Undertaker in what remainsone of the greatest matches in WWE history.
Michaels was very adamant about committing to his retirement, refusing various opportunities to come back for a one-off.
The match was nearly a half hour of utter garbage.
49-year-old Triple H was the youngest guy in the match and tore his pec almost immediately.
We have another one of those in a little bit.
Surely, there was a great wrestler to complement him in his one last go.
Maybe put him up against his old rival Samoa Joe.
Perhaps John Cena to bring their relationship full circle.
The two did not mesh well at all.
Angle was too broken down and Corbin wasnt the guy to make it work.
It didnt really last.
It was an absolute dream match.Was.
Both wrestlers were very much over the hill by this point.
This match went for nine.
But it gets worse!
On top of that, Goldberg accidentally gave himself a concussion during his entrance.
Undertaker got him back with a botched Tombstone.
