10 Wrestling Matches That Are So Bad They Are Hilariously Awesome
8. Jay Leno & DDP Vs. Eric Bischoff & Hollywood Hogan – WCW Road Wild 1998
I have to confess that I loved this match when it first came out. I was only 13, and wrestling (particularly WCW) was basically all I cared about.
I loved this match for two reasons – the nWo lost (which hardly ever seemed to happen), and Goldberg speared two guys at once (and Goldberg was hotter than the sun at this stage of his career).
I was so excited by these two things that I could quite easily ignore the fact that there was a doughy talk show host involved, and that he actually won the damn match.
However, at the risk of being mercilessly torn apart, I have to admit that I still think this match is awesome to watch because of the amount of weird things that happen.
Let’s just put in list form what kind of madness audiences were treated to in this match, so that we can collectively try and comprehend what on earth this match was meant to be:
· Tonight Show host Jay Leno ‘wrestles’ in a Tonight Show t-shirt and track pants because he’s way too out-of-shape to wear anything even resembling wrestling attire
· Tonight Show host Jay Leno forces Hulk Hogan, at that stage the biggest name to ever have been involved in wrestling, into an armbar, and Hogan sells it
· Tonight Show host Jay Leno repeatedly makes a joke about his own chin, by encouraging his opponents to punch it – even though that joke was stale in 1991
· Tonight Show host Jay Leno’s band leader pulls off an immaculate Diamond Cutter while the commentators wax lyrical about his muscles
· Tonight Show host Jay Leno pins Eric Bischoff with his shoulders off the mat, and everyone ignores that fact
· TONIGHT SHOW JAY LENO WRESTLES IN A MAIN EVENT OF A WCW PAY-PER-VIEW
It really doesn’t get much worse or any weirder than this for sure. Well, except David Arquette, obviously, but I defy anyone to watch this match without finding this kind of garbage entertaining in the best/worst possible way.