10 Great Matches Starring Dud Wrestlers

Wrestling, as we all know, is an odd old vocation.

A strange mixture of theatre, sport, magic, comedy and horror, little about it holds up to scrutiny when one really thinks about it - so it's sometimes best not to. For example: why do wrestlers suddenly become worse when they turn heel, what with their begging off and sudden inability to score clean wins? Why would they bother donning the black hat in the first place?

Another curious aspect of wrestling is how certain matches just click - despite featuring one or more wrestlers who usually bore fans to tears with their immobility or rank mediocrity. There are ten such examples featured here.

Royal Rumble matches, long the preserve of many a ham and egger, are exempt from inclusion on this list. The stipulation is sufficiently bulletproof to withstand even protracted showings from the clunkiest grapplers. So too is something like the World Heavyweight title match from WWE Elimination Chamber 2012. The Great Khali was in the match, but he was only in there for all of a minute. He didn't contribute a jot to its relatively unheralded quality.

Shockingly, however, he is included here in a singles bout. Read on to find out which...

Sid was a guy custom-built for a squash match, and the caption for Jim Ross' famous "he doesn't get paid by the hour" cliche.

Clumsy and uncoordinated, his offence somehow didn't look too threatening for such an imposing physical specimen, but there were a few occasions on which he used his natural menace to engage the crowd over a sustained amount of time.

He did that in this WWF World title match, rendered well above passable by the preternaturally gifted 'Showstopper'. Sid was cheered at the expense of Michaels, despite being lightyears beyond him in terms of work-rate, in a crowd dynamic inconceivable in 2016.

He didn't even have to move to generate this reaction; in the early exchanges, he simply stood flat-footed and chopped Michaels on the top of the head, who bumped around the ring like his life depended on it to sell his foe as a credible threat to his hard-earned WWF title.

Michaels would later describe Sid, with some justification, as "the most expensive piece of luggage in WWF history", but it's difficult to damn him with too much in the way of faint praise here. He actually performed a more-than serviceable kip-up here before he cut HBK's own off with a brutal clothesline in the best spot of the match.

And, despite his notoriety as one of the dumbest wrestlers in history, he remembered to sell the wear-down of his legs in consistent and believable fashion in order to help craft an engaging 20 minutes.