10 Great Wrestling Matches (That Ruined Everything)
9. Steve Austin Vs. Dude Love - WWF Over The Edge 1998
On the April 25, 2022 Monday Night RAW, Sonya Deville invoked her match-making powers to wrestle three separate matches with Bianca Belair. Every time she lost, she simply made another match preventing an identical result from reoccurring. She lost by count-out, then disqualification, and subsequently by pinfall.
It was sh*te.
At least Belair holds a title, something she'd actually want. She hated Naomi for no discernible reason. Actually, there was a discernible reason: heel authority figures automatically hate babyface because that's how matches happen.
Competition is how matches actually happen, but this sort of sporting nonsense doesn't matter - unless of course WWE are negotiating a televisions rights fee, at which point Vince suddenly becomes Antonio Inoki at the table.
8,730 days, 209,520 hours, 12,571,200 minutes or 754,272,000 seconds prior, the on-fire, super-creative WWF promoted Steve Austin Vs. Dude Love. It was a masterpiece of match that fused together a world-class brawl with episodic TV beats. The structure of the match essentially allowed Steve Austin to make a million comebacks, all of which made the fans go apesh*t.
A seminal and unique blend of comedy, violence, tension and catharsis, it was so good that WWE ruined its entire storytelling model for almost a quarter of century.