10 Best Wrestling Matches NOBODY Watched
7. Diamond Dallas Page Vs. Johnny B. Badd (WCW Halloween Havoc 1995)
Halloween Havoc 1995 was not a strong point for WCW.
Hulk Hogan and The Giant's overbooked headliner came after The Giant fell off a roof during a Monster Truck Sumo match in a stipulation so WCW, it shockingly wasn't reused in 2000. The YEH-TAY arrived, too, in one of the worst debuts in pro wrestling history amidst one of the worst pay-per-view endings in pro wrestling history. He literally dry-humped Hulk Hogan in one of the most abominable - incredible - WCW moments ever.
Yet, the pay-per-view wasn't a total write-off(!).
Diamond Dallas Page and Johnny B. Badd, in the pay-per-view's opener, worked a nifty World Television Championship match that perfectly blended pure professional wrestling with sports entertainment. Page's ringside seconds, Max Muscle and The Diamond Doll, worked remarkably well in their assigned roles with Muscle, particularly, delivering a solid performance that beautifully put over Johnny B. Badd as the obvious successor to DDP's throne. His victory of the title was where the show peaked.
Attracting 120,000 pay-per-views was hardly a bad number - the prior month's Fall Brawl saw only 85,000 purchases - but it was a stark drop of almost 100,000 in comparison to 1994's Halloween Havoc, itself oft-deemed a worse Halloween special than its 1995 brother.
Switch it on, watch the opener, and switch it off again before the mummified Ron Reis gets anywhere near the ring.