10 Superstar-Centric Gimmick Wrestling Matches
Asylums, hog pens, and boiler rooms are among the strange locations hidden within.
The world of professional wrestling is full of weird gimmick matches. We are all familiar with the more standard ones: your ladders, tables, steel cages, and the like. When a feud has reached the point of no return we often see competitors face off with stipulations aplenty, and these classic matches are often booked.
A number of gimmick matches are closely tied to a single competitor, however. Heck, I could stretch this further and say that the classic TLC matches are something of a rock, paper, scissors of this idea, but there's a difference between a trademark ladder match and a trademark Punjabi Prison match.
Unsurprisingly, The Undertaker has a whole host of these. As well as the two that make it onto this list, the Deadman has also taken part in a couple of 'Last Ride' matches, where the aim is to force your opponent into the back of a hearse and drive it out of the arena.
It isn't all about 'Taker though. A number of WWE and WCW stars past and present had gimmick matches created purely for their characters. Here are a whole load of them.
10. A Variety Of Street Fights - Chicago, Belfast, Philly Etc
I'll start off with one that doesn't really fit the list, but at the same time always does. The Street Fight is one of the most frequently used gimmick matches in professional wrestling, wheeled out when the beef between two individuals is so strong that a traditional wrestling match can't contain it.
The beauty of the street fight is that its location can always change depending on where the match is taking place, and certain individuals will take the location on their shoulders to mean home turf. The first example of this was the Chicago Street Fight at WCW WrestleWar in 1990, where the Road Warriors defeated The Skyscrapers (a young Mark Callous and a masked Mike Enos).
Another example would be Finlay's Belfast Brawl. This is just a Street Fight, albeit one with Irish overtones. Finlay has competed in all of these, defeating The Great Khali and Mark Henry but coming up short against JBL at WrestleMania XXIV.