10 Wrestling Matches That Are So Bad They Are Hilariously Awesome

No Way Out was, for years, the unwanted hurdle that wrestling fans had to endure to get from the Royal Rumble to Wrestlemania. Like the events that have taken its place, it always seemed rushed, poorly thought out, and relatively pointless in the grand scheme of stories. 

Nothing quite reflects this like the main event from the 1998 edition, which appeared to be booked on a napkin after the two Vinces downed a bottle of tequila in the airport bar. 

The clash of styles is ridiculous. On the one team you had Terry Funk, who at this stage of his career could barely throw a punch, while the master technician Owen Hart delivered copy book missile dropkicks with ease.

On the other team, you had the injured Shawn Michaels being inexplicably replaced by Savio Vega…despite Vega not being a part of DX, and despite the fact that literally nobody cared about Savio Vega.

The whole bout was just a thoroughly disorganised (and ‘unsanctioned') schmozz. The violence is just absurd. There are enough unprotected shots to the head with foreign objects that you'll get a concussion just watching it through the screen. 

And at one point Mick Foley gets wrapped in barbed wire (that goes in and around his mouth no less) and repeatedly hit with chairs, while wearing the wire.

All of this chaos is basically just exposition for a Stone Cold Steve Austin hot tag, which lasts all of three minutes, but still sends the crowd into the kind of frenzy that today's WWE could only dream of.

But the thing is, it all works and it is phenomenally entertaining. I remember as a 13-year-old showing this to a friend of mine who wasn't into wrestling because I thought it was the most amazing thing I had seen. 

And today I can still appreciate just how entertaining it is, despite how utterly pointless and ugly every aspect about its booking is. This one match actually is illustrative of everything that is both bad and good about the Attitude Era, all at the same time.