10 Wrestlers Who Ruined Gimmick Matches For Everybody Else

2. Buff Bagwell - Pole Match

Oh, Buff Bagwell. Whether or not Buff ever really was The Stuff, one thing is for certain: he forever ruined the match stipulation of anything on a pole.

To be fair to Buff Daddy, he wasn’t the person who went nuts with booking a Pole Match seemingly every other week – hey, Vince Russo! – but he is the person most synonymous with this particular gimmick. That, of course, is because the Pole Match that completely made a mockery of the stipulation and soured fans on these bouts saw Buff’s mother Judy as its key component.

WCW already had Pole Matches where performers had to reach for a miner’s glove, a pinata, and a jar of Viagra, yet it was August 2000’s New Blood Rising PPV that was the final straw. There, fans were “treated” to the infamous Judy Bagwell on a Pole contest.

Buff would defeat Kanyon – who had been stalking Judy – by rescuing his mom from the forklift that had her suspended above the ring. It was groan-inducing, it was outright awful, and it was Vince Russo at his most Vince Russo, bro.