10 Wrestling Gimmick Matches That Only Happened Once

In his capacity as a complete lunatic (whose finisher is a DDT variation), Dean Ambrose personally invented his own gimmick match back in 2016 as way of settling the score with long-time adversary Chris Jericho at Extreme Rules.

In essence, the Asylum Match - so named because Y2J had put his opponent in a straight-jacket in the build-up - was just a Steel Cage with a roof, except that hanging from the roof were some of the most dangerous weapons you can get in WWE.

Comparisons between this and TNA's Lethal Lockdown variant were drawn, but the latter actually works much better. Since it features teams rather than singles competitors, wrestlers can scale the cage to collect weapons while their colleagues hold the crowd's gaze down in the ring.

With Ambrose's match, however, there were several prolonged sequences where we were literally watching nothing but the competitors trying to retrieve the things with which they would then be hitting one another. It ended up being more than 25 minutes long in total, and you felt every second of it.