Aksana & Kelly Kelly vs The Bella Twins

NOT the men who inspired Good Championship Wrestling, but holy hell, they could be on the show. But they'd be worse than Bruce. Bruce wrestling with an empty Mountain Dew bottle (his heart wouldn't be in that encounter).

Once more:

The Equalizer vs The Shockmaster

Two of the worst, in the same match. Only in WCW.

And the Shockmaster's music has to be the least exciting theme ever.

Nepotism presents: Angelo Mosca Jr

Angelo Jr was the son of "King Kong" Mosca, a former star Canadian football player and big-time wrestling bully. Angelo Jr was fast-tracked to the big time, but was clearly not ready. Hell, he was barely ready for a GCW match on Mum's lawn. We'd love to have him though.

Here he is in "action" in two bouts.





Angelo Jr was not the first, nor was he the last to get a break in the wrestling business due to his name.

Mad Man Pondo vs Super Ninja

This is a portion of a broadcast of Herb Abram's UWF promotion.

The group featured former stars who were able to make decent money on a limited basis.

Possibly because the other matches, such as this one, featured 'talent' that was very inexpensive.

That and the pay-per-views that drew 400 paid to 6,000 seat arenas and drew buy rates so low they make the Marianas Trench seem like K2. But enough, let's not put boot in on the product.

Because Capt Lou Albano and Bruno Sammartino, the commentators and money-making legends, put the boots to this for us.

And they were paid to do it.

Only in UWF.

Road Warriors vs Ken Lucas & Zulu

At 2:54 you will see a beautiful GCW-like moment.

Wrestling bears~!

Wrestling formerly being a weekly attraction in most towns within the Unites States, often called on some more unusual gimmicks to get people through the gates. Often they would be things like "Death matches" or "Cage matches", or lady wrestlers and midgets wrestlers. One staple of the olden times however was the Wrestling BEAR.

I have to say that one of the worst matches I ever saw involved a bear, but it did draw the crowds, so what can I say.
Anyway, here are some matches of man and bear....


Gordon Solie: "550 pounds of supple muscle..."


The Destroyer commentates his own bout against Viktor the wrestling bear.


Terrible Ted, probably the most famous wrestling bear. Terry Funk once famously painted Ted white after the athletic commission said "you can't bring Terrible Ted to the building", so Frosty the Polar Bear turned up as a substitute.


Promo involving Ginger the Bear, sadly no, the bear does not talk.


Some old footage of the Bear taking on ALL COMERS.

The won't let me embed the worst one i've seen, but this might be it here. (No disrespect intended to the late Mr Hart)
BEAR IN A CAGE

I am disappointed I could not locate any footage of Gentleman Ben, perhaps the best named of all the bears.

Sid Vicious vs The Night Stalker

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Clash 13- Sid Vicious vs Nightstalker- Freebirds Interview and Missy Hyatt Promo. This match is universally considered one of the worst matches in the history of professional wrestling"

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: Part of the WCW "Clash Of The Champions XIII" event, the numbering proving indeed unlucky, for the viewer who tuned their television in or showed up to watch this. The Night Stalker later wrestled as "Adam Bomb" and "Wrath" but here he has just started. He doesn't seem to understand the point of selling moves. Or how to run the ropes. There is a very long bear cuddle. The crowd turns on the match after 4 minutes of non-action. The Big Cat (Mr Hughes in red underpants) does a run-in. More of jog-in. Jim Ross calls the Night Stalker's prop axe "that metal club thing". The referee allows blatant interference and the use of foreign objects without disqualifying anything.

This match truly has everything. Everything that is awful and nothing that is good. Bless.

Giant Baba vs. Raja Lion

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "1987/6/9日本武道館" (Erm, great)

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: Raja Lion I do not know, but he is very, very tall, and resembles one of the bad guys from "Bloodsport" - maybe not the original, but one of the straight-to-video sequels. His move is the kick, although the second time he tries to do the kick, he falls down.

Rocky Mountain Thunder vs The Surfer

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "The Surfer vs Rocky Mountain Thunder March14,1988"

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: If Lou Thesz considered Hulk Hogan to be "a non-wrestler" imagine how he would describe Rocky Mountain Thunder, who appears to be a large man someone saw at a truck stop and convinced to get in a wrestling ring. Egad.

But on the upside, this match has all the ingredients for "so bad it's almost good" - Contradictory information between the graphics and the ring announcer. The job guy has a gimmick (despite not having the gimmick, i.e. a surfboard, surf clothes, anything vaguely surfing-related). Ron Trongard and Lee Marshall commentating. Blown moves. A finish out of nowhere. It's quite the 3:49.

Bless.

Giant Baba & Hiroshi Wajima vs. Rusher Kimuara & Colt Steele

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "1987"

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: If you can stand to watch more than a minute of this, you're a braver man than I. Or just crazy. The "clubbering" is quite amusing until you sense that nobody in the match even cares. I became aware of this sense at the 45 second mark.

Okay, skip ahead to about 2:40, that bit's quite funny too.

Heroes Of Wrestling

BUSCHWACKERS vs IRON SHEIK & NIKOLAI VOLKOFF


DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Part 11: Jake Roberts' antics may be the most memorable part of this show, but this match deserves just as much infamy, the legendary "-459 stars" match.

"Dave Meltzer, of Wrestling Observer Newsletter, gave this the number of absolute zero, which is like -459 or something. Bryan Alvarez, of Figure Four Weekly, gave it "minus more stars than there are stars in the universe, and the universe is infinite"."

PART 2


COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: There's a drinking game for this match. You don't have to drink when you see something that looks like it hurt.

JAKE ROBERTS INTERVIEW


DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Part 22: Yeah, you may have heard of this bit.."

JIM 'THE ANVIL' NEIDHART vs JAKE 'THE SNAKE' ROBERTS then ends up being JIM 'THE ANVIL' NEIDHART & KING KONG BUNDY vs JAKE 'THE SNAKE' ROBERTS & YOKOZUNA





DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "The title should probably involve Yokozuna and King Kong Bundy too.

Witness the hilarity of substance abuse in all it's glory...

The PPV just ended (or more likely, the Director screamed "Fade to black! Fade to black!!" as Jake motioned to pull his tights down)."

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: Jake's had a few, but he's sweet.

Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Chris Nowinski & Jackie Gayda

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Raw tag match"

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: Amazing. This might be more GCW than GCW could ever be. Jackie didn't know a thing, got nervous, which compounded her inability, meaning she just kept making mistake after mistake.

If you can't bear to watch the whole thing, here are the highlights, grimly condensed into 35 seconds:

Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Tom Magee is the guy mentioned in Bret Hart's book. Great look but horrible worker."

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: Bret Hart made Tom Magee look like a million bucks and thus the WWF thought they had the next big thing to follow Hulk Hogan. But they soon realised they didn't. Mr Magee had a great physique, and agility, but overall gave the impression of a camp Connan. This match makes him look even worse because he's wrestling an ex-Sumo old Japanese guy who has been taught not to sell anything that doesn't look believeable. So he doesn't sell a thing, then ends the match about 2 minutes in. This won "Worst match of the year" back in 1988. It is less entertaining than every Big Jobs match.