10 Great Matches Starring Dud Wrestlers

10. Shawn Michaels Vs. Sycho Sid - WWF Survivor Series 1996

Sid was a guy custom-built for a squash match, and the caption for Jim Ross' famous "he doesn't get paid by the hour" cliche.

Clumsy and uncoordinated, his offence somehow didn't look too threatening for such an imposing physical specimen, but there were a few occasions on which he used his natural menace to engage the crowd over a sustained amount of time.

He did that in this WWF World title match, rendered well above passable by the preternaturally gifted 'Showstopper'. Sid was cheered at the expense of Michaels, despite being lightyears beyond him in terms of work-rate, in a crowd dynamic inconceivable in 2016.

He didn't even have to move to generate this reaction; in the early exchanges, he simply stood flat-footed and chopped Michaels on the top of the head, who bumped around the ring like his life depended on it to sell his foe as a credible threat to his hard-earned WWF title.

Michaels would later describe Sid, with some justification, as "the most expensive piece of luggage in WWF history", but it's difficult to damn him with too much in the way of faint praise here. He actually performed a more-than serviceable kip-up here before he cut HBK's own off with a brutal clothesline in the best spot of the match.

And, despite his notoriety as one of the dumbest wrestlers in history, he remembered to sell the wear-down of his legs in consistent and believable fashion in order to help craft an engaging 20 minutes.