10 Great Matches Starring Dud Wrestlers

9. Ahmed Johnson & The Legion Of Doom Vs. The Nation Of Domination - WWF WrestleMania 13

Sid Shawn Michaels Survivor Series 1996
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A multi-man match with a shortcut-enabling stipulation is an easy method of concealing the negatives of a dud wrestler - but this Chicago Street Fight featured two, ensuring its place on this list.

Ahmed Johnson was an uncoordinated worker whose rare feats of athleticism were counteracted by frequent botches and timing issues. Crush was even more irredeemable. Seemingly kept on in myriad incarnations purely as a result of his real-life friendship with The Undertaker, his upside was nonexistent.

He couldn't wrestle his way out of a paper bag, he couldn't talk, and he didn't even possess that exceptional a look.

Even so, both entered commendable* performances in this all-action war, which did very well to sustain audience interest given the preceding all-time classic fought between Steve Austin and Bret Hart.

Johnson, on the other hand, had a fire in his belly on the night, flattening Crush with a somersault plancha over the guardrail and smashing Faarooq with a powerbomb through the announce table. It was an uncontrived-looking version of a spot which is rendered unbelievable nowadays, what with WWE talent having to politely move the monitors out of the way beforehand.

*Commendable in Crush's case meant that something he did looked like it might actually hurt.

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