10 WWE Matches Doomed From The Start
2. The Royal Family Vs Clowns R Us (Survivor Series 1994)
Vince McMahon left court in July 1994 a free man - exonerated of all charges brought against him by the US Government that could have seen him serving actual time in actual prison for distribution of actual drugs. This was serious, serious sh*t.
It's perhaps why he wanted such broad comedy on display in his product. Had the jury seen the ideas he'd cooked up within weeks of getting out of dodge, he might not have been so lucky on the stand.
Jerry 'The King' Lawler and Doink were having the most 1994 WWE feud of all time that Autumn, but McMahon played to his...lowest...instincts when he employed a host of wrestlers Dink's height to side with and oppose Doink's miniature associate for a Survivor Series match destined for the dump.
In defence of the performers, the match wasn't a total train wreck - the clowns and the kings did everything in their power to try not to reduce the entire industry to circus-levels of silliness. But it was profoundly lame comdey for profoundly lame comedy's sake. A reasonable roster propped Survivor Series 1994 up as a reasonable show. It's yet another McMahon mystery as to why The Chairman scraped this off the sole of his shoe and stole the soul of his show.