10 Times WWE Gambled On A New Gimmick Match

6. Kennel From Hell

Kennel From Hell
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The build to this absolute literal sh*t-show was infamously, fantastically awful.

The Big Boss Man had taken a disliking to Al Snow's little bastard of a dog Pepper, and in the heat of their rivalry had carelessly - hilariously - tossed him aside before kidnapping, cooking, and feeding him to Al. Boss Man had such a great bastard's voice, and used it to winning effect in that motel room scene penned by Vince Russo.

Russo is a completely indiscriminate moron. He had Snow use Boss Man's shoot name, as if there were any chance of this farce being taken seriously, and it seems even fate had grown tired of his swerves. After Boss Man had revealed his scheme, a disgusted Snow fell to his knees, the chair still stuck, comedically, to his a*se. This all informed the Kennel From Hell match, which enclosed the old blue bars inside of Hell In A Cell for no other reason than Vince Russo doesn't think of a bloody thing beyond how kewl it might have looked.

Double the cages meant double the cowardly, tedious climbing in a heated grudge feud. Docile Rottweilers patrolled the space between each cage and sh*t all over the floor, because even they had realised how awful Russo's WWF had become.

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