10 Worst Ideas That Actual WRESTLERS Came Up With
9. Jeff Hardy's Insane Gimmick Match Idea
Jeff Hardy is an unconventional thinker, which, at least with the following pitch, is a euphemism for "a bit thick at times".
Wrestling has a problem with gimmick matches in general. The old standards have succumbed to excess. The ladder match is no longer thrilling. WWE has bastardised the cage match beyond logical recognition. The WarGames revival never asked fans to invest in the core idea; it was literally littered with pointless extra weapons from the first WWE reboot.
Moreover, there are few new gimmick matches that have taken their place. After Money In The Bank, not a single promotion has created a drawing attraction that combines excitement and violence without a desperate, grabby and convoluted "update" (see: AEW's Casino versions of the battle royal and multi-person ladder matches).
Leave it to Jeff to save the day with his 'Upward Spiral' match. Speaking to Alex McCarthy (h/t CagesideSeats), Hardy pitched the following:
"I have this weird idea for this Upward Spiral match...what if there was a match to where you wrestled for five minutes but then...the ring starts spinning, and then it spins at a certain speed for a certain amount of time...Naturally, you'd get dizzy, but then another two minutes or whatever it starts to spin again, but it's a little faster. I'm just curious as if you can run spots as the ring's spinning and be safe about it."
The exorbitant cost involved in creating a spinning ring, just to watch a match worked like the first few weeks of WWE Performance Center training, probably isn't worth it!
Then again, Jeff Hardy has actually taken a bump, so perhaps it might be the most lucrative idea since the Royal Rumble. Nobody else is qualified to determine this one way or the other.