10 Wrestlers Reveal The Worst Matches Of Their Career

8. Mick Foley

This is an unusual one, as it was designed to be the worst match they ever had but ended up being the funniest.

On Talk is Jericho, Dave Meltzer and Chris Jericho recalled a story of Owen Hart and Mick Foley on a WWF house show (where wrestlers could freely mess around more than usual) purposely having a bad match to try and attain a negative star rating from Meltzer. Meltzer described the match as actually getting over with the crowd for how ridiculous some of the bumps were despite how bad Hart and Foley tried to make it. Meltzer explained:

“The story I heard later from Mick is, they knew I was there, and they wanted to have like, the worst match possible. Like, a negative star match just for their own fun. And okay, so here’s the thing. I didn’t know that they were doing this. I did watch the match and they took bags of popcorn and they would hit each other with bags of popcorn, and sell it like crazy. And it was absolutely preposterous. But it also got over. And also, even those guys trying to be bad, they were still, like it really wasn’t what I would call a bad match. It was a ridiculous match. It was like, watching two guys do a comedy match, but they’re talented guys. It really wasn’t anything resembling a negative star horrible match. It was just a comedy match that got over with the crowd.”

Foley recalled the same story in his book. Meltzer went on to say Steve Austin was the special enforcer for the match and was unable to stay in character:

“I remember, the way I heard the story, I think Mick wrote it, they went to the back. And Austin was just like, ‘That was the worst piece of s**t match.’ And they were just happy that Austin said it, they didn’t care at that point. ‘If Austin said it was terrible, that was good enough for us. Who cares what Dave says?’ But yeah, I remember them completely overselling hitting each other with bags of popcorn, going, ‘This is so ridiculous.'”