10 Weirdest WWE Matches Ever
4. Bret Hart Vs. Vince McMahon - No Holds Barred Lumberjack (WrestleMania XXVI)
This wasn't so-bad-it's-good. It was was plain awful - but it was definitely weird.
Bret Hart was naturally positioned as the babyface to exact Montreal Screwjob vengeance against Mr. McMahon, stretching back thirteen years - but it was the fans who were sh*t out of luck. The match was dreadful, and was never going to be anything less than dreadful, because Hart was contractually and physically unable to take any bumps.
There were any number of ways WWE could have circumvented this restriction. Not booking the match in the first place would have been a start, but then where's the money in that? The Mr. McMahon character at the time was embroiled in a pseudo-feud with John Cena, who himself was warring with Batista. A suspenseful Hart and Cena Vs. McMahon and Batista tag team match, building towards the cathartic showdown, would have been exponentially better.
We instead were presented with a bizarre and unsettling ten minute long beatdown by Hart on Vince, one which contravened wrestling logic, and general dramatic principles, by surrounding the dastardly McMahon with Hart family lumberjacks.
It might have have been moderately entertaining, had McMahon evaded, with trademark camp fear, Hart's onslaught - but he instead acted as a surrogate for the audience by suffering through it.