10 Most Bizarre Hardcore Matches In Wrestling History
1. Invisible Match
A new trend developed within the late 2010s indie boom: the irony match.
Pioneered by Game Changer Wrestling, these matches were largely a visual gag. The match graphic acted as the punchline to such an extent that the match itself was often immaterial. Scott Steiner once wrestled Hornswoggle, to provide an example of the genre. The promise was never really delivered. You were meant to laugh at the idea and get conned into paying for it.
Except, GCW did deliver on at least one occasion: a match wrestled between two “invisible” wrestlers, the Invisible Man and Invisible Stan.
This was actually a triumphant experimental piece of comedy masterminded and performed - incredibly - by referee Bryce Remsburg.
Almost as good a one-man show as Bret Hart at SummerSlam 1992, Remsburg was great - but the fans also played an instrumental role, picking up the cue of a camera operator retreating backwards to know when Invisible Stan was “passing” them and reacting accordingly.
Remsburg summoned the illusion by frantically pounding the mat with back-and-forth two counts, giving the impression that the two wrestlers were engaged in a scorching duel of cradle attempts.