10 Most Extreme Rules In WWE History

A match so horrible that most people, performers and fans alike, would prefer to pretend never took place. In June 2000, uber-sleaze Triple H pressured feuding Divas Terri Runnels and The Kat into participating in the gimmicked match in which they would be represented by Dean Malenko and Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler, respectively. With the two women standing on podiums on the stage, they would have to remove an item of clothing every time their guy was thrown over the top rope.

Poor old Jim Ross, alone on commentary, was forced to narrate the proceedings like the straight-laced family man he was in the absence of his lewd partner-in-crime, whose bugeyed, leering antics every time Terri took off an item of clothing amply illustrated the kind of comments he’d like to have been making.

The match would be won when one of the two women, down to her fundamentals, was forced to remove her ‘top’: an odd euphemism, but essentially what was meant was that her breasts would be exposed. Of course, the WWF/E were and are masters of the bait and switch, even in the more risque Attitude Era: Steven Richards from the Right To Censor heel stable ran out with a board to cover Terri’s modesty.

Now, we’re all adults here: and since, as adults, the idea of the naked female form doesn’t instantly devolve us into snorting, panting cartoon wolves, we can appreciate that a televised wrestling match between a world-renowned technical marvel and a genuine legend which exists purely to get two women down to their skivvies is a massive waste of everyone’s time, as well as offensive and puerile.

Back in 2000, Lawler and Malenko could go like mice on a subway line, but this nonsense was one of only three times that the two would ever face each other in the ring, and one of those was a house show. Criminal, really.