10 Terrible Gimmick Wrestling Matches One Tweak Away From Excellence

1. Triple Cage

Sheamus Steel Cage
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Why It's Terrible: Because both times a three-floored cage existed, WCW did too. The company, far more experimental than WWE but often to a fault, couldn't help adding all sorts of b*llocks and b*llshit to a structure that did enough simply standing there. In 1996, Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage conquered eight men, attacking with frying pans and working downwards.

In 2000, David Arquette surrendered his World Title to Jeff Jarrett just to swerve turn on Diamond Dallas Page. None of those three even took a big bump - that fell to Chris Kanyon.

One Tweak: It's three f*cking cages on top of each other, that's actually enough. Only pro wrestling operating at peak insanity would feel the need to staple more silliness on to something that had every chance of being a fearsome spectre all by itself. Produced by WWE, a triple cage would at least look amazing, and would hopefully deemed dangerous and devastating without the need for ludicrous odds or hampering additional stipulations.

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