10 Times Wrestling Matches Got Weapons Wrong
4. COAL MINER'S GLOVE - Sting Vs. Jake Roberts, WCW Halloween Havoc 1992
That GIF^ makes the match look incredible. It wasn't.
That is just Sting, babyface super-worker, using a dumb environment intelligently, thrillingly and dramatically, because he was great. Jake Roberts was great, too, of course. He was as great a working heel as Sting was a working babyface. Together, they should have created magic, but they didn't, because the promotion that booked them was by that point mostly inept. So inept, in fact, that it contrived to ruin what was a guaranteed hit of a dynamic. Think Rey Mysterio Vs. Seth Rollins at Extreme Rules, except one promotion should know better because they've had 28 years to register the footage that they own.
This was all doubly atrocious because the 'Spin The Wheel, Make The Deal' attraction created in the mind several better alternatives. First Blood! Barbed Wire! I Quit! Several opportunities for bloodshed and drama were abound, but no: Coal Miner's Glove.
The loaded glove, used as deceptive foreign object, was now in plain sight, as if people really wanted to see it, and weren't trained for years to not want to see it, and Sting and Roberts had to climb, tediously and repetitively, to use it.