Ranking WWE's One-Off Pay-Per-Views From Worst To Best

12. No Holds Barred - 1989

This WWF pay-per-view featured only one wrestling match - a steel cage tag pitting Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake against Zeus and Randy Savage - and was designed to sustain the mainstream spotlight the company received on the back of the titular movie.

No Holds Barred was Hogan’s first starring turn in Hollywood alongside Tony Lister, who brought his antagonist character of Zeus to several WWF events over the summer of 1989 to begin a programme with ‘The Hulkster’ over who should have had top billing for the film.

Vince McMahon aligned Zeus with ’The Macho Man’, WWF’s top heel at the time who had recently feuded with both Hogan and Beefcake, to set up a payoff two days after Christmas Day in 1989. The match had actually been recorded at a Wrestling Challenge taping a fortnight beforehand, and was only shown after a full screening of the Hogan-Lister film.

This was McMahon pandering to Hollywood at its worst.