The WORST Moment From Every WWE WrestleMania

33. Giant Gonzalez Stinks Up The Place (WrestleMania IX)

WWE WrestleMania IX The Undertaker Giant Gonzalez
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Next time you watch a wrestling match and think it sucked, fire up WrestleMania IX (or 'WrestleMania Niiiiii-yaaaaaaan' if you're Randy Savage) and gaze in awe at Giant Gonzalez. If anyone tells you that size didn't still capture the WWF's imagination after the steroid investigations started spooking everybody, then point to the big Argentinian as proof they're talking utter rubbish.

Gonzalez couldn't work a lick. He couldn't deliver painful-looking strikes, he couldn't move around the ring easily, and he sold every one of The Undertaker's punches like he was performing some in-ring parody protest of wrestling. It was pitiful, and this match is one 'Taker used as a means to browbeat management for years afterwards.

He knew it was rotten, and wasn't even going to try and defend the decision to put him in the ring with Gonzalez. According to Bruce Prichard on his podcast, Undertaker wanted an apology for this booking. Rightly so. He was a slow moving zombie gimmick in 1993, so he needed someone to create movement around him. Giant Gonzalez was not that guy.

Yes, this bout is even worse than Mr. Fuji's nonsensical challenge to Hulk Hogan on behalf of 'his Yokozuna' later on at the end of the night. That hurt for Bret Hart and his fans, but Hulk's blushes were spared by what Gonzalez and 'Taker produced earlier on.

Also, what was up with that outfit the federation put on Gonzalez? Airbrushed muscles?! Pubic hair?! A butt crack so big it could've been the 'Mania entrance?! Horrible.

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