10 Most Ambitious Wrestling Matches Of All Time

A traditional singles match, worked correctly, presents a spectacle packed with the sort of risk and brutality welcomed by the bloodthirsty pro wrestling fan. That was never enough for Vince Russo, who is on record as stating that wrestling matches are not sufficient enough to capture the imagination of the wrestling fan—a mentality that bequeathed us b*llocks upon bullsh*t, and this utter farce may live on, forever, as his disasterpiece.

Here, the cage was fake-electrified. Why. Why did Russo do this, a fake Electrified cage match, thinking it had a remote chance of being taken seriously?

Electrocution poses a risk of actual death, and so why in the f*ck would a wrestling promoter, in kayfabe, invite criminal proceedings? But then, Russo had as much disregard for kayfabe as wrestling and women (and Japanese wrestlers not packaged problematically).

And so we arrive at the tag team specialists getting slammed, face-first, into electrified steel.

Russo, at least, worked this. Russo worked this pathetically; whenever one of the combatants met their apparent doom—somehow, several times—the arena lighting system dimmed to black, white lights flickered, and a droning noise rang out with all the authenticity of a fairground ghost train.

This looked so comical that it somehow became not funny—it was as if you could literally see Russo’s synapses firing in contempt for the intelligence of his audience.