20 WWE Royal Rumble Undercard Nightmares
4. Dino Bravo’s World Record Bench Press Attempt (1988)
In an era where TV shows were usually an hour long and full of squashes, there was absolutely nothing wrong in an experimental segment that would now be seen as Raw filler being placed on the inaugural TV-only Rumble event.
The concept was as follows; Dino Bravo is quite strong, but because he's a lying heel, is not as strong as he thinks he is and needs to use another lying heel mate to cheat at a weightlifting feat in order to back up his lofty claims.
Maybe forty-two words used to describe that is a little too succinct, but that's probably preferable to the TWENTY MINUTES WWE gave this back in 1988.
The challenge for Bravo was to break the world record bench press of 715lbs, but rather than just going straight to this weight and getting spotter Jesse Ventura to help him there and then, the two laboriously worked their way up the scale measure by measure, as the crowd lost interest and Mean Gene ran out of superlatives nattering on with Frenchy Martin.
A torturously long slog, there's no payoff at the end, such as some babyfaces coming out to quibble the shadiness, nor ever rivalry with a fellow musclebound foe wanting to break the record fairly.
Twenty minutes.