10 WWE Stipulations That Only Had One Good Match

5. Texas Bullrope (JBL Vs. Eddie Guerrero - Great American Bash 2004)

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This is a bit of a contentious one, admittedly.

The 'Texas Bullrope' gimmick is, for all intents and purposes, a 'Strap Match' that was handed the Texan tag to make it seem more dangerous. At WWE's Great American Bash 2004 show, that moniker also fit the home state of hated heel JBL and cherished babyface Eddie Guerrero.

WWE put on a few 'Texas Bullrope' spectacles over the years. JBL would have another with Batista on the 9 September 2005 episode of SmackDown, and Randy Orton tangled with Dusty Rhodes at Great American Bash 2007. Some may have enjoyed those, but they couldn't hold a candle to Bradshaw vs. Guerrero.

That, unlike those to come, had an intensity aided by the pair's bloodbath one month earlier at Judgment Day. Later 'Bullrope' battles might've been decent, but only one can claim to have been good-to-great, and it was 2004's effort.

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