10 Biggest Mismatches In Wrestling History

10. Hulk Hogan vs Billy Kidman

In its final stages WCW often found itself trying to find ways to put new people over. Constantly going to the well with aging veterans had cost them dearly, so it was only right to look to a youth movement to try and make up for what was lost. Hulk Hogan was still a main event player in 2000 but he didn't have anywhere near the same amount of heat as he did only a couple years earlier while with the nWo. At the same time, Billy Kidman was a serviceable but not terribly flashy (minus his Shooting Star Press finisher) worker who was a three-time Cruiserweight Champion. He had just never come close to really sniffing the main event. Putting them in a feud was an odd choice made even odder by the fact that Kidman came out on the victorious end of a (Handicap Tag) match where he got the pin and took Hulk to the limit in a one-on-one battle on pay-per-view. Did it ultimately do anything for Kidman's career? Well no, because just one month after feuding with Hogan, Kidman lost to Shane Douglas in a Viagra On A Pole Match and would then go back to facing random Cruiserweights for a while.
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