10 Best Wrestling Matches NOBODY Watched
6. Bret Hart Vs. Diesel (WWF Survivor Series 1995)
If 2000 hurt WCW and 2010 hurt TNA, then call 1995 their Ugly Stepsister because Christ, the WWF was unbearable.
The entire New Generation Era was. It was Vince McMahon's empire at its cartoonish worst and the '95 Survivor Series was financially the worst. With just 128,000 pay-per-view buys, the event is the worst-performing Big Five event in history, performing worse, somehow, than the prior summer's King of the Ring that ended in a King Mabel coronation.
The card's most redeeming artistic highlight was its blistering headliner between Bret Hart and Diesel, in which Hart brought the seven-footer to his best performance. Nash wasn't known for being the Match of the Night guy - if he ever was, it's because he was dragged there by an advanced colleague - and his year-long tyranny as WWE Champion was the era's biggest failure, business-wise, so WWE desperately needed someone else to fill the gap.
Bret was aware of the fact that he was a transitional champion before Shawn Michaels' ascension, but the 24 minutes he spent wrestling Diesel were like something out of an adjacent era. The pair took turns practising their aim by laying in some stiff shots before they caused the first breakage of the Spanish announce table in a spot, at the time, so absurd the live audience was stunned.
On an innocuous night, Hart and Diesel inadvertently started a trend in the middle of a New Generation classic.