20 Dumbest Gimmick Matches In WCW History

For the record, I kind of like the idea of BattleBowl. Basically, all the entrants get "randomly" split into teams and placed into a single elimination tournament, with all the winners advancing to a big, show-ending battle royal. WCW did tons of these back in the day, and sometimes they'd be cool, but sometimes not so much.

Part of the problem is that you're necessarily going to have a few first-time tag teams who may have no chemistry whatsoever; a great example of this occurred in the 1991 edition of BattleBowl, when junior heavyweight sensation Jushin "Thunder" Liger teamed with human beef slab Bill Kazmaier. You haven't lived until you've seen Liger try to make a silk purse out of the sow's ear that was Bill Kazmaier, a man so muscular he couldn't tie his shoes without the aid of a series of pulleys.

Plus, this stuff is time-consuming, and often took up entire major shows. WrestleMania is like 13 hours long these days, and WWE wouldn't consider devoting any of that runtime to Braun Strowman/Tyler Breeze tag matches, you know? Plus, the payoff is a battle royal with a trophy as a prize. WWE already does that without the goofy tag tourney.

Defining Moment: The impossibly depressing jobber fight pitting Johnny B. Badd and Brian Knobbs against Erik Watts and Paul Roma.