10 Forgotten WWE Matches That Had To Follow Something Infamously Terrible
WrestleMania rematches and WWE Title changes that failed to rebuild in the wake of a total disaster.
"Follow THAT" was once the call of Shawn Michaels at his most obnoxious mid-1990s peak.
'The Heartbreak Kid' was virtually peerless in the entire industry (let alone WWE's barren and star-starved locker room), and knew just how powerful his in-ring prowess was during a time of change and managed decline for the product. A bad attitude was tolerated by Vince McMahon because he was a diamond in the rough when the red light was on. Or a rough diamond at least.
The comment has made a comeback under 'HBK's watch on NXT too, with company shirts often coming emblazoned with "#FTMF" on the back as something of a calling card for the black-and-gold brand. The ambiguity is by design too. Is it directed at an individual match on a loaded TakeOver card, the wrestlers on the main roster the night after one of those shows, or even AEW, the rival that has taken a firm ratings lead in wrestling's new war?
Even the abbreviation plays to those crass DX skits between Triple H and born again Christian Shawn from 2006. It's "motherf*cker" to 'The Game' but "my friends" from the more convivial 'Showstopper'. Hunter's might have been more appropriate, had the pair been forced to go on after any of these...
10. Tommy Dreamer Vs Al Snow Following The Triple H "Katie Vick" Video
It turns out that drinking from The Undertaker's tobacco spitoon was only the second worst fate Tommy Dreamer had to face during a 2002 in which he almost literally ate sh*t (urinal cakes) in order to stay over and employed after the 2001 WCW/ECW Invasion.
'The Innovator Of Violence' was anything but as he went to war with fellow former Philadelphia favourite Al Snow in a Singapore Cane match that was surely included in its exact spot to give fans a let me up after the end-of-the-world awful vignette featuring Triple H pretending to hump a cadaver.
The pair went two minutes, (which, to be fair, was longer than Hunter needed with that dummy) smashing each other with the weapons as well as the odd suplex before a Chris Nowinski run-in shot apparently packed more punch than the other shots they'd absorbed.
His errant swing left Snow down for the count, but at least it didn't make for two f*ck finishes in a row.