10 Wrestling Matches You Should NEVER EVER Watch
2. Stevie Ray Vs. Konnan - WCW World War 3 1998
In peak LOLWCW fashion, the promotion booked four World War 3 shows, and the fourth was not entitled 'World War 6'. While World Wars tend to last some number of years, the comparisons end there. It wasn't as if the events of WCW were dictated by a white supremacist.
OK, so the show name was accurate in 1998.
Now, Stevie Ray was upset with Dave Meltzer, when the Wrestling Observer Newsletter editor balked at his WWE Hall Of Fame inclusion, and understandably so: Harlem Heat were a fun, and very over tag act in a very competitive and massively popular period in pro wrestling.
This wasn't a Harlem Heat match.
After the customary brawling of which they were only capable, Konnan grabbed a chinlock facing away from the hard camera. It was a magic trick, in a way; you couldn't see the match, but you knew exactly how sh*tty it was. Stevie Ray escaped, and reversed an Irish whip with a clubbing forearm to the back. That was his signature move. He immediately struck or tried to strike Konnan with a kick, and Konnan bumped despite it missing by six inches. He then stagger-bumped for a piss-weak clothesline.
It's morbidly interesting, this match, in that it contrived to fail to execute the most boring layout you've ever seen. It's almost impossibly bad, which is actually impressive.