10 Best Ever Excuses For Losing A Wrestling Match

4. The Big Show Loves To Have Fun

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It's one thing to have an excuse for losing a match because you're trying to protect your reputation or integrity. It's quite another to do so without really caring.

Such was the case with The Big Show in 2000 after a post-WrestleMania descent into comedy saw him shrugging his way through a series of demeaning displays. "Going Hollywood" and "cutting loose" was all well and good, but cribbing Rikishi's dance moves, The Godfather's wardrobe and Val Venis' entire gimmick wasn't built to last, as proven when his Tag Team Title shot alongside Kurt Angle collapsed after he worked the entire match (badly) acting the fool as Austin Powers' Fat B*stard.

Somewhat ironically, from all of these losses, Hulk Hogan still got to win out of all of this. In an inadvertent protection of a gimmick that back then served as an in-house punchline, one of Show's most dominant displays in the fancy dress gimmick was as 'The Hulkster'.

Decked in the red and yellow, he crushed Kurt at Backlash 2000 in a squash so f*cking entertaining that it was impossible to get cross at the rank mistreatment of such a rapidly rising new star.

 
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