10 Weirdest WWE Matches Ever

3. Gimmick Battle Royal (WrestleMania X-Seven)

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WrestleMania X-Seven remains the best Pay Per View event of all time.

The card was peerless in its scope, brilliance and variety. Epic, literary storytelling was represented in the stunning Steve Austin Vs. The Rock main event. Believable technicality was provided by Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit. The high octane stunt show that was the Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match provided ultra-violence and white knuckle thrills.

And, with the Gimmick Battle Royal, the WWF even indulged in some intentionally naff comedy. A technicolour rib, it celebrated with postmodern and self-depreciatory glee the awful creations of the days of yore. It worked because the WWF went the whole hog with it; introduced by Howard Finkel and commentated upon by Bobby Heenan and Mean Gene Okerlund, it was the very definition of so-bad-it's-good. The unmotivated Heenan lost a step in WCW - but he was bang on form here. "By the time the Iron Sheik gets to the ring, it'll be WrestleMania 38!"

It was Sheik who emerged victorious, besting the likes of Duke 'The Dumpster' Droese, wrestling's best ever garbage man, and Tugboat, its most beloved sea captain - but only because he couldn't take a bump to the outside.

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