10 Perfect So-Bad-They’re-Good Wrestling Moments
1. The Doomsday Cage Match
The Doomsday Cage match at WCW Uncensored 1996 is a beautiful symphony of bullsh*t.
It pitted Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage against the Alliance To End Hulkamania, an eight man team comprised of Arn Anderson, Ric Flair, Kevin Sullivan, Lex Luger, Meng, The Barbarian, Z-Gangsta and the Ultimate Solution. If you think WWE goes overboard with their protection of Roman Reigns in 2017, you would have thrown a conniption fit at the pre-nWo version of Hulk Hogan. You might actually have stopped watching instead of impotently threatening to.
This abomination is worthy of its own mini-list, so here we go:
1) WCW had to hastily rename The Final Solution when they realised it had unintentionally glorified mass genocide.
2) Ric Flair and Arn Anderson, easily the most talented and valuable men in the match, are treated as first level Streets of Rage goons before Savage and Hogan got to the real baddies.
3) ^That isn't a metaphor. Arn Anderson dressed as a ninja for the occasion.
4) At one point, Hogan sends Lex Luger running across the cage mesh for an Irish whip, despite there being no ropes to bounce off. He merely runs into the abyss, more video game glitch than professional wrestler.
5) Heroic babyface Hogan casually attempts to murder Kevin Sullivan by kicking him off the scaffold supporting the cage structure.
6) 90% of the action, if you can call it that, was comprised of p*ss weak punches and kicks. It felt as if it was controlled by a toddler getting to grips with their first console.
7) Nobody knew the rules. Towards the finish, Hogan, Savage, Ultimate Solution and Z-Gangsta simply amble to the ring, exchange more punches, and amble back towards the cage.
8) The arena is cloaked in near total darkness. That was probably for the best.
9) Lex Luger goes to punch Hogan as Flair holds him in position. Hogan ducks. Luger stalls, botching the spot. He punches Flair anyway.
10) Ed 'The Booty Man' Leslie saves the day with a frying pan, at which point Ric Flair - not the non-wrestler Ultimate Solution - takes the pin.
Ric Flair took the pin.