10 Wrestling Matches Everybody Gets Wrong

9. Doomsday Cage Match - WCW Uncensored 1996

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One of the worst matches of all time. A total disgrace of over-powered babyface dynamics and terrible, campy, nonsensical wrestling, WCW reached its nadir long before they ever Vince Russo. This was atrocious.

No, it wasn't, it was incredible. It's the sort of incredible match that alters your very perspective on professional wrestling: it was probably depressing, at the time, watching Ric Flair play the Street Fighter car to the M. Bison of ostensible non-wrestler Robert Swenson, named here after the Nazi plan to kill the worldwide Jewish population. But it's gloriously awful now, and who knows? Perhaps perspective and the dulling machinations of time will one day allow us to enjoy that time the Fiend was buried at Hell In A Cell. Yes, he was the closest we ever got to the mythical New Undertaker, but get a load of that mallet lol.

For the uninitiated, Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage battled an eight-strong stable of heels in a triple-decker cage, the first two of which were legendary Horsemen Ric Flair and Arn Anderson. Arn was dressed, inexplicably, as a ninja. Later in the match, Hogan attempted to kill Kevin Sullivan, essentially, by tossing him off the cage. After a slow climb down and a nonsensical detour to the ring, the Booty Man handed out frying pans to use as weapons.

Frying pans. How in the f*ck did nobody think this was farcical?

More to the point: how in the f*ck do people not think this was incredible?

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