10 Wrestling Matches Vince McMahon Ruined
6. Bam Bam Bigelow's Team Vs Four Doinks (Survivor Series 1993)
Vince McMahon was chief play-by-play for the 1993 Survivor Series.
He sat through this - perhaps the worst excesses of the increasingly childish mid-1990s - from the best seat in the house and attempted to put over the sight of his wrestlers literally slipping on banana peels, getting beaten with balloons going off in their faces and being piled on by other wrestlers dressed as a babyface clown. He even apologetically called it a "cartoon" on commentary, as if he hadn't booked the f*cking thing.
The finishing fall on Bam Bam Bigelow (in which Men On a Mission and The Bushwhackers all clamber atop him) is a rather fitting visual for a wacky stack of wretched Sports Entertainment bullsh*t. As if to toast the bludgeoning of a once great heel in Doink, the scene manages to bury a tremendous worker in Bigelow and reduce newcomers Mo and Mabel to even bigger punchlines than their monikers suggested.
Elsewhere on the show, Bret and Owen Hart fell out in the midcard and Lex Luger served as babyface sole survivor in the main event. But the phrase is let-me-up, not out. It was this sort of sh*t that had so many casual fans making that very request at the time.