3. WCW Great American Bash 1991
The main event of the 1991 Great American Bash was billed as a steel cage match featuring the team of Rick Steiner and Missy Hyatt taking on Arn Anderson and Paul E. Dangerously. No, seriously. The headline bout of one WCW's marquee pay-per-view events featuring a manager, a valet and two midcard stars inside a steel cage while the heavyweight title was up for grabs earlier in the card. If the main event does not stand out as a bad decision, the opening match most certainly should. Not only was the legendarily bad PN News involved, he was involved in a Scaffold match, a legendarily bad gimmick match. Oz was on the card, as was the Diamond Studd, Yellow Dog, Big Josh, Black Blood and El Gigante as WCW flaunted some of the gimmicks that made that period of time a dark one for Ted Turner's promotion. El Gigante, in particular, was horrendous at his job and the match he wrestled against One Man Gang was as abusive to the senses as it sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkwx_O7PRBQ Chants of "We want Flair!" erupted throughout the arena as Lex Luger and Barry Windham wrestled a boring match for the most prestigious title in the sport. With the Nature Boy gone following a dispute with WCW President Jim Herd, the company was no longer the wrestling-first company it had been in the past. It was now a lighter version of WWE, relying on gimmicks and entertainment to bolster ratings and drive in business. As Great American Bash 1991 proved, that would not work without the right person at the helm. That person was coming but it would be a handful of years before Eric Bischoff arrived to save WCW from the doldrums it found itself in early in the decade.