10 Defences Of Horrible Wrestling Moments
3. The WCW Doomsday Cage Match
If you're going to indulge your ego, you might as well do it in the funniest way imaginable.
In a symphony of so-bad-it's-good, Hulk Hogan dreamed up the most egregious masturbatory match in the history of professional wrestling at WCW Uncensored 1996. He teamed with Randy Savage to take on no less than eight heels in a triple-decker 'Doomsday' cage match. The best and most popular and over heels of them all, Ric Flair and Arn Anderson, were treated as the weakest enemies in an omni-glitched side-scrolling beat 'em up that a kid playing his first ever game could kill with one mash of a button.
That isn't even a snarky joke; Arn was literally dressed as a ninja, and the opening phase looked like the first level of The Revenge of Shinobi.
With nobody having a clue about the rules, at one point, the cage was abandoned entirely as the most mediocre action you'll ever see unfolded in the ring before these idiots realised where it was meant to happen. Hogan attempted to kill Kevin Sullivan at one point, by dangling him over the structure. What a complete moron. He created a match to babyface himself to an unprecedented degree, and made himself a murderer.
At the finish, with no clue of what to do, Lex Luger, another heel, ran in, and tried to do the punches-his-mate-accidentally spot. When Savage slipped out of Flair's grasp, Luger hesitated and punched Flair regardless, making it look like a deliberate act. This followed the big sequence at the end in which the faces batter the heels with frying pans.
Frying pans!
This was the wrestling match of equivalent of Hogan being handed a 150 centimetre tape measure with which to measure his appendage and saying "That's not long enough for the Hulkster, brother".