10 Terrible Wrestling Matches You MUST Watch!

4. Buff Bagwell vs. Positively Kanyon (WCW New Blood Rising)

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Rest in peace to Judy Bagwell, beloved mother of Buff, who passed away on Friday 5 November. Unbelievably brought into WCW before Vince Russo took the creative reigns, she was at the heart of some of the doomed company's most perversely entertainer latter-day content. This match is the apex of that.

The most legendarily bad stipulation on the most legendarily bad pay-per-view from a promotion that, at its worst, was the most legendarily bad in mainstream wrestling history, here's Judy on a forklift.

The action between Buff Bagwell and Chris Kanyon is no worse than mediocre for the most part. Instead, it's the stipulation's absurdity that demands your attention. This was the oft-mocked X On A Pole format taken to a ridiculous extreme. If Kanyon could defeat Mrs. Bagwell's Baby Boy, he'd win her services as a manager. "Why the forklift?", you might ask. "Does it matter?", your writer would counter.

David Arquette, everyone's favourite WCW Champion, ran interference for the finish. When Buff won, saving his darling mother from servitude, he untethered her from the forklift then came in for a hug, doing so as the line "I'm so sexy!" pumped out from his entrance theme. The coincidence was funnier than anything even WCW's clownish latter-day creative crew could have concocted.

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