10 Perfectly Over-Booked Wrestling Trainwrecks
1. The Doomsday Cage Match (WCW Uncensored 1996)
If you think WWE's endless 'overcoming the odds' angles are tedious, get a load of this big bag of baloney.
The three-tiered Doomsday Cage Match saw Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage unite against not one, not two, but eight different opponents. The so-called 'Alliance To End Hulkamania' wasn't entirely comprised of geeks either. Among their ranks were two of the greatest wrestlers of all time in Ric Flair and Arn Anderson, Lex Luger, and Meng - the consensus hardest man in wrestling. The faces defeated these seemingly insurmountable odds, of course, but that's not even the daftest thing about this triple-decker trash pile.
WCW did such a bad job of concocting the stipulation that no participant had a clue what was going on, with many looking genuinely lost at points. They were largely restricted to basic strikes and holds without the support of a ring, and the optics were awful, with the bulbous structure obscuring most fans' view. To top it all off, Anderson decided to show up for the bout dressed in his pyjamas.
This belter must be seen to be believed. It's the pinnacle of ironic enjoyment, and the kind of all-out disaster that buried WCW six feet deep.