Ranking Every Ambulance Match In Wrestling History From Worst To Best

Braun Strowman and Roman Reigns have a job on their hands to make the Ambulance Match at Great Balls Of Fire special. If the history of that stipulation match is anything to go by, it's difficult to build tension or do well when the only real objective is for one wrestler to stuff another into the back of a vehicle.

To date, wrestling has produced 10 Ambulance Matches. Don't get them confused with the similar Stretcher Match, though; unlike the stretcher gimmick, Ambulance Matches require one wrester to be locked inside the hospital-on-wheels, and that can make it hard for those involved to keep things exciting. Just ask WCW.

In typical form, WCW just couldn't get to grips with a match type they popularised. Nobody should be surprised by that, especially when considering that every Ambulance Match under the promotion's banner took place in the dreaded year 2000.

We hope you like Mike Awesome, because WCW's creative team sure didn't...

10. The Wall vs. Mike Awesome (WCW Monday Nitro - May 22, 2000)

The penultimate Ambulance Match on WCW's weekly programming carried a strange addition to the usual 'stuff him in an ambulance' stipulation. On the May 22, 2000 Nitro, WCW's brain trust decided to merge the Ambulance gimmick with a Tables Match, thrilling nobody by giving them The Wall vs. Mike Awesome for three minutes.

Most confusing of all was that Awesome appeared to win before an ambulance was even in sight by putting Wall through a table at ringside. Even the announcers seemed confused, because they had harped on about the match not ending until somebody was whisked off to hospital.

Typical WCW.

In the midst of a feud with Awesome at the time, none other than DDP burst through the doors of an ambulance backstage to attack Mike and cost him the match. This was after Shane Douglas had already interfered - but hadn't Awesome just won by putting Wall through the wood?