10 Wrestling Matches Too Horrible For WWE To Air
Vince McMahon thought these unfortunate matches were too bad for WWE TV.
What constitutes a good wrestling match is subjective.
One fan's manna is another's poison, but that's fine - variety is something this biz does very well, and it's why there's always someone who'll defend a match others decry as rotten. In WWE, it's still true that only one man's opinion really matters though: Vince McMahon's.
The boss is notoriously hard to please, and he p*sses both fans and performers alike off by often deciding things on a whim. A match that might've scraped through as passable before might not get the same mercy next time. That's especially true when Vince believes the quality of his programming is under threat.
No, don't laugh. Everyone has suffered through those interminable three-hour Raw episodes, and WWE has put on some absolute garbage over the years. Imagine what it takes then for McMahon to look at a bout and announce to his staff that it's simply too horrible to air on television in full.
Some matches here were cut from TV or pay-per-views completely, whereas others were only shown in spliced or highlights form. Their crime? They didn't please the main man.
10. The Rockers Vs. The Hart Foundation
When: 30 October 1990.
What Happened: The top rope snapped.
Bret Hart, Jim Neidhart, Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty were surely about to produce a tag-team classic when the top strand broke and turned their '2 Out Of 3 Falls' effort into a disjointed mess. The Rockers bagged the WWF Tag Titles anyway, but the company scrapped plans to show the match on TV afterwards.
Sadly, Vinnie Mac also had a change of heart about Shawn and Marty winning the belts at all. Their scheduled run as champs was suddenly cancelled, meaning this sticks out as one of the most notable "ghost title changes" in federation history.
Although everyone involved did their able to best to make the match work as a live spectacle for fans, they were right up against it from minute one. The WWF thought the match was too messy to work on programming, and that was that. No fan-pleasing win for the heart throbs.