15 Wrestling Nightmares Somehow WORSE Than Imagined

Every wrestling fan has been there.

WWE, TNA, AEW, WCW or any other company under the sun announced a match, and you turned to your buddy with a knowing smirk. 'This will be bad - we can't miss it', you say. Then, everyone starts making plans to chortle or cringe at some poor wrestling, but jaws hit the floor. Somehow, someway, this...this abomination you knew would be crap going in turns out to be even worse than predicted.

There's something oddly charming about frankly rubbish wrestling. A certain, unmistakable joy comes from seeing things go wrong. Slightly cruel? Sure, but so long as nobody gets badly injured and their careers recover (in some form or fashion), then it's relatively harmless to sit there in disbelief as the world burns to ash.

Nobody is safe. Top stars and legends like Ric Flair, The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, Hulk Hogan, Brock Lesnar and Bret Hart are all included in this calamitous collection. All have been fine WWE Champions in the past too, but let's assume they don't look back on some of the matches featured with much fondness. Or, perhaps they don't really care and received a pat on the back from Vince McMahon afterwards anyway.

WCW has a few mentions, because of course it does. The fading days of that promotion should be studied in-depth, because they produced the most bizarre mixture of entertaining nonsense and outright trash. Often in the same two/three hour show!

Yes, you knew these wrestling nightmares would suck, but they were somehow even worse than anybody imagined.

What's worse than one babyface Doink The Clown? If you answered, 'Four babyface Doink The Clowns' then congratulations. You win a prize, and that prize is never having to watch this eight-man tag from Survivor Series 1993 ever again. It looked bad on paper, but no-one was prepared for some of the hijinks on offer in Boston in November, '93.

Bastion Booger was far too busy trying to stuff turkey into his face, so he wasn't really interested in wrestling. Afa, who was managing The Headshrinkers, thought big Booger looked lonely. So, he joined in, and the WWF made sure to get some disgusting close-ups of both guys feasting on a dead bird's carcass. Oh yes, pay-per-view dollars were worth it back then.

The Bushwhackers decided to ride around on scooters, there was a literal banana peel slip spot, and poor Bam Bam Bigelow could be found crying in the corner as he reminisced about earlier PPV scraps vs. Bret Hart that tore the house down mere months before. OK, that last bit didn't happen, but Bigelow was surely already sick of clowning around with the Doink stuff.

Mabel, Mo, Luke and Butch were all in greasepaints for the occasion. Granted, any match starring that quartet on the same side and Bastion Booger on the other was hardly going to be a mat classic, but the bout even erm...succeeded in tanking below expectations. On commentary, Vince McMahon went into forced 'nyuk nyuk' mode and claimed everyone was having a great time.

Yeah, maybe not the punters who plonked down hard earned cash to watch this hoover up no less than 11 minutes of screen time.