10 Perfect So-Bad-They’re-Good Wrestling Moments
Where to Stephanie?
At which point does something so awful go back on itself to become entertaining?
Lord knows there are enough awful wrestling moments to hide your fandom from loved ones, even now, when someone as unhinged as Sid Vicious wouldn't be allowed anywhere near a live microphone without having to rehearse his scripted promo word for word hours beforehand. Even then, he'd probably still botch it. What a man he was.
The already infamous Bayley: This Is Your Life Promo from RAW a few weeks back was objectively dreadful. The comedy was forced, unfunny, and borderline uncomfortable. The implication was that Bayley's dad had a thing for her. That's one way of generating sympathy, I suppose.
It was bad. It never had a chance to stumble unwittingly into so bad it's good territory because Alexa Bliss, Master of Ceremonies, tacitly acknowledged that the material was rotten, and tried to overcompensate by going all in. It was so admirable it was foolish - the toe-curling antithesis of so bad it's good. The knowledge of a stinker just makes the smell waft that much more.
The essence, as we'll discover, is complete obliviousness...
10. The Yetaaaaaaay!
WCW, in the days before the New World Order, was so spectacularly inept that it confused a mummy for a yeti. And that's not even factoring in that the company thought debuting a yeti character was a good idea in the god*mn first place. Or the fact that WCW thought it was a good idea to debut someone taller than The Giant, thus stripping a greenhorn Paul Wight of his USP.
The Yeti - or "The Yetaaaaaaay!" as Tony Schiavone was fond of hamming it up - broke free from the block of ice he was submerged in during the Hulk Hogan Vs. The Giant main event of Halloween Havoc 1995. He was the "insurance policy" for the Dungeon of Doom (more on that rabble imminently) and their quest to end Hulkamania once and for all. If only they'd knew to put Hogan in a private room with a tape recorder.
The Yeti appeared during the chaotic melee of the finish, as the Giant had Hogan sapped in a bear hug. Yeti then compounded the discomfort by engaging Hogan in a light spot of frottage, as if he was on a bullet train and not in a wrestling ring.
Still, at least WCW quickly realised that the Yeti had been dressed incorrectly. It soon dressed Ron Reis up in the appropriate attire...of a masked ninja.