10 Awesome Wrestling PPVs With Only One Bad Match
WWE, AEW and WCW matches that threatened to destroy top pay-per-views!
Finding a pro wrestling pay-per-view with only one poor match is harder than most might think.
There have been some truly awful supershows from companies like WWE and WCW over the years - the then-WWF's In Your House 4, for example, was a snake-bitten disaster that trundled along before Diesel and The British Bulldog produced a main event so bad it caused Vince McMahon to throw down his commentary headset in disgust.
Fire up most WCW cards from the second half of 1999 or most of 2000 and you'll be met with some of the 'best bad' wrestling known to man. Shows like those could be considered almost iconically sh*te, but they didn't have just one terrible match.
The following 10 pay-per-views did, and those bouts in question were either so boring or foul (or both!) that they threatened to completely derail the night. Christ knows what agents and/or promoters were thinking when they booked these stinkers alongside such brilliance.
Behold some of the greatest wrestling events, then marvel at an 'odd man out'. These 10 matches might've produced the most tragic lineup ever had they been on the same card...
10. WWF In Your House 7
Match: The Ultimate Warrior vs. Goldust.
Warrior's 1996 run was a f*cking car crash of bad wrestling, man.
Things peaked by the time he was rocking a hat and smoking cigars mid-ring during this match-come-angle vs. Goldust at an otherwise-top notch 'Good Friends, Better Enemies' show in April 1996. Diesel vs. Shawn Michaels rocked the house as the main, and other bouts like Vader vs. Razor Ramon clicked too.
Before those, Owen Hart and The British Bulldog had pulled Ahmed Johnson and Jake Roberts to a remarkably fun opener, and even The Bodydonnas vs. The Godwinns proved inoffensive. The same couldn't be said for the tripe served up by (an admittedly injured) Goldust and big Jim Hellwig.
Even Bruce Prichard, who defends some of the worst booking ever, called the thing crap on his podcast a while back. That's how hopeless it was, and it stood out like a sore thumb on one of the better In Your House specials ever.