10 Best (Worst) Wrestling Horror Matches

1. Chamber Of Horrors Match

Again, there's no telling what the House of Horrors Match between Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt will look like, but one thing's for sure - if it turns out to have anything in common with WCW's Chamber of Horrors Match, people will be talking about it for a long time... and not for the right reasons.

At Halloween Havoc 1991, Sting, The Steiner Brothers, and El Gigante took on Abdullah the Butcher, Vader, Cactus Jack, and The Diamond Studd in an eight-man tag cage match. The structure had a special roof piece attached, making escape impossible. So far, so good, right?

The problem is that the match could only end after a second, smaller cage - with an electric chair inside - was lowered into the ring. Then, one team would have to force an opponent into the chair and throw the switch, "electrocuting" him. If that weren't bad enough, the switch kept falling down during the bout, hammering home that the whole thing was fake.

Abdullah the Butcher ended up strapped to the chair for a lame fireworks display, ending the bout. In the 26 years since, nothing similar has been tried... except, perhaps, until April 30?

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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013