10 Times Wrestlers Botched Their Biggest Moment

10. The Shockmaster

Let’s get this one out of the way: The Shockmaster’s ill-fated debut is wrestling’s biggest blooper, rightly receiving the first mention in any discussion of wrestling botches. The mere stumble is not what makes the moment. It’s the hype, the tension, the special effects, the presentation as a serious threat.

As we learned through his garbled voice box, The Shockmaster arrived in WCW with the intent to rule the world rather than blooper listicles. Nothing about him was convincing, though his “you wanna piece of me?” inflicts intense cringe, sounding like Scrappy Doo if he accidentally took a seat on Old Sparky.

In hindsight, it’s difficult to see how anyone believed The Shockmaster would get over in a debut WarGames match that featured Sting, Davey Boy Smith, Dustin Rhodes, and Harlem Heat. Even without the stumble that shocked the world, he was a costume store abomination with a cheaply bedazzled Stormtrooper helmet, which gave the big man unintentional t*t-glitter, clad in funeral home curtains fashioned into a trench-coat vest with puffy sleeves.

While his WCW career has become overshadowed and lost in legend, The Shockmaster morphed into a semi-successful klutz gimmick. Still, he never troubled the top of the card again.