10 Wrestling Matches That Are So Bad They Are Hilariously Awesome
2. Chamber Of Horrors Match – WCW Halloween Havoc 1991
You literally can't get any more ridiculous than a stipulation which states that you have to kill your opponent on live TV. That's not wrestling…that's simply televised murder. A three-year-old could tell you that any match that claimed to have this as a stipulation is, of course, !*$%.
Yet, WCW went ahead and actually tried to push this requirement as a thing at Halloween Havoc in 1991. Because…well because it was WCW.
The brawling at the start is actually good, but we don’t care about that. What is entertaining is the stuff that is bad – and there is plenty of that. The design of the match, as an example, is woeful. The ‘electric chair’ gets right in the way of the wrestlers.
The chair’s ‘switch’ won't stay up. And as a final indignity, the bars are way too intrusive for anyone to see much. Not only do the cameramen actively struggle to produce anything remotely televisual, but the crowd also appear not to be able to see anything because they are as quiet as a funeral.
Well, it's either they couldn't see, or they didn't want a bar of these classic WCW shenanigans. Either way, it's hilariously uncomfortable.
Listening to the greatest commentator in the history of the business, Jim Ross, try and talk about this whole scenario, while attempting to keep his dignity intact, is also hilariously beautiful.
It would be tragic if this were where his career peaked, and there wouldn't be anything to laugh about. But we know he did okay in the ongoing years, so all the inherent pathos is absent, and we can dwell in his humiliation without guilt.
And then, of course, there is the match conclusion where the legendary Abdullah the Butcher has to pretend he is being electrocuted on live television while absolutely nobody in attendance even cares a little.
His hammy acting is the kind of thing that makes community theatre look like the West End, and makes Hulk Hogan look like Ian McKellen.
My description can't possibly do this justice. Just watch the match, and try not to laugh at the thought of people shelling out hard earned money to see this plane crash of a match.