10 Wrestling Matches You Should NEVER EVER Watch
6. Rick Rude Vs. Masahiro Chono - WCW Halloween Havoc 1992
Don't ask.
Don't ask yourself how bad this match could be.
You might be tempted by its intriguing, anomalous quality. Both performers were physically imposing, technically adept, and dripping in charisma, and the dynamic surely represented a very decent chance of getting the NJPW partnership over in front of a U.S. crowd. And yet, you'll read that this was an all-timer of a sh*t-show.
What gives?
Nothing. They gave each other nothing. Jim Cornette would watch this and beg for a tope con hilo after five minutes. After a collar-and-elbow tie-up that lasted an age, Rude grabbed a side headlock. Chono fired back with a suplex, about the only excitement his pinched nerve would allow, and the crowd never favoured the heel Rude through patriotism. And then the holds happened, and the holds never ended, and the crowd weren't aware of the holds, and didn't react to the holds, and if they were they wouldn't have, anyway, because the holds were exchanged at a languid pace. It even gets boring looking at Rude's stretched, ripped abs, which is impossible. This was Diesel Vs. British Bulldog if it were fought under a Submissions stip.
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