All the gimmick matches we love

[Guest]

Remember gimmick matches?

 

No Not Hardcore cookie sheet matches

 

Nope not Cage matches...

 

I mean Gimmick Matches

 

remember, Coffin Matches, Buried Alive,  Barbwire matches, Inferno matches..... Stairway to hell etc etc etc

 

What was your favorite gimmick style matches, WWF WCW ECW or even Japanese Deathmatches

[Guest Shaved Bear]

id like to see HHH vs  Test vs Nash vs UT in a Barbed Wire match, well the workrate would be awful, but it would be worth it

[Guest]

<<~~ YES!!!!!! I made it to the Big League!!!!!! Maybe, Storm can be jobbed out to me now.  

 

 

Only Gimmick match I really wanna see brought back, and I Think the WWf should of used it at Survivor Series......

 

WAR GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest Tony149]

I miss War Games, Battlebowl featuring the "Lethal Lottery", Chain & Strap matches, Lumberjack.

[Guest razazteca]

the Strap match were the winner has to touch the 4 corners of the ring

[Guest Shaved Bear]

id hate to sound like a mark of sorts, but were the lethal lottery matches predetermined or done on the fly, because they were all really bad

[Guest Tony149]

id hate to sound like a mark of sorts, but were the lethal lottery matches predetermined or done on the fly, because they were all really bad

Supposedly the first one in '91 wasn't predetermined. I think the ones in '92, '93, '96 & 2000 were booked in advance. Battlebowl is like the Royal Rumble, in order to have a good one, you need to book it carefully.

[Guest dreamer420]

Here are the ones that I liked:

 

Wargames

Stairway To Hell

Double Jeopardy

[Guest WWF4Life]

I haven't seen a Stretcher match for ages...the last one was the Van Dam-Sabu one in ECW. What else?

 

Dog Collar Chain...haven't seen one for a few years.

 

Oh, and the Blindfold match

[Guest]

I want to see again:

 

Gimmick Battle Royale

Buried Alive

Inferno

War Games

Doomsday Cage

Hell in a Cell

Lions Den

WW3

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

Lions Den was awesome. but i really miss a good old fashioned NWA lights out texas death match. violent as hell the ones i have seen and were aewsome to watch.

i also miss just a barbed wire match. no c-4 explosives, no light bulbs, no fire. just a barbed wire match. those kicked ass.

[Guest nWoScorpion]

what was stairway to hell? Hell in a Cell i miss, Lumberjack matches happen every year now, and i think Battle Royals are rare again.

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

Ladder match with barbed wire or a singapore cane at the stop was a stairway to hell.

[Guest nWoScorpion]

OWIE!

[Guest alfdogg]

Wargames, WW3, gimmick battle royal

[Guest dreamer420]

I haven't seen a Stretcher match for ages...the last one was the Van Dam-Sabu one in ECW. What else?

Mike Awesome has a few stretcher matches in WCW.  It was part of his gimmick as the career killer, after Kanyon's bad taste fall in Kansas City.

 

I believe he even had a stretcher match on PPV against DDP, which was the show where Kanyon was sitting on the stage for the match in a wheel chair and halo.  Kanyon turned on DDP during that match giving Awesome the win.

[Guest alfdogg]

"<<~~ YES!!!!!! I made it to the Big League!!!!!! Maybe, Storm can be jobbed out to me now."

 

That's PLAGARISM, DAMMIT! lol  I posted that in different wording on the WWF forum (who should be champion) somewhere when I got to Metal, too

[Guest Some Guy]

I miss teh War Games, WWF should do this for the Survivor Series ME this year.  Strap matches were teh object is to pin, not touch all corners are cool, but require teh proper build up tio make sense, either the has to run away a lot leading ot the stip or they have to convince the fans that they have a huge hatred for wach other, like Sting/Vader.  Plus they have to whip the shit out of each other, not pussy Hogan whippings.

[Guest krambigmac]

I actually miss the scaffold match but only the Midnights could really do those without crawling around.  The Road Warriors did it pretty well with them but now, Hawk would fall off ala TitanTron.  The Rock and Rolls must have been good but I never saw the Starrcade 87 match.  However I did see the Bash 91 match and PN News had his best match there since he didn't move.

[Guest razazteca]

6 man tag team matches were fun to watch in the NWA/WCW days with Road Warriors & Dusty Rhodes vs Barbian & Warlord & Ivan Koloff

 

no rope barbwire matches

 

manager handcuff to the ring or suspended above the ring

Clash of Champion 1 Flair vs Sting

[Guest dreamer420]

World War 3 was always a pretty cool event.  Seeing three rings together and sixty men inside them is a pretty awesome visual.  I watched the one from 96 last night where Savage won the title and it was pretty good.

[Guest WWF4Life]

I haven't seen a Stretcher match for ages...the last one was the Van Dam-Sabu one in ECW. What else?

Mike Awesome has a few stretcher matches in WCW.  It was part of his gimmick as the career killer, after Kanyon's bad taste fall in Kansas City.

 

I believe he even had a stretcher match on PPV against DDP, which was the show where Kanyon was sitting on the stage for the match in a wheel chair and halo.  Kanyon turned on DDP during that match giving Awesome the win.

Yeah, you're right, although they were actually Ambulance matches, since Russo was intent on creating a 'new' gimmick match every week. The Graveyard match was brutal, as was the Viagra on a Pole match. That said, the House of Pain match was a pretty good idea, as was the three cage War Games.

[Guest dreamer420]

[faarooq] damn [/faarooq] i totally forgot that they were ambulance matches.  i think the object of the match was to put your opponent onto a stretcher and wheel him to the ambulance to be driven away.

[Guest]

Nothing is better than the good old Hair vs Hair match.

[Guest Tony149]

World War 3 was a clusterfuck. I liked the idea, and I liked the original WW3 in 1995, but the match is hard to see at home. Lots of jobbers. I always thought they should of added Battlebowl as the "newest" PPV instead of WW3. Battlebowl would of been cool to crown the new WCW Champ. Plus, the name "World War 3" would of been a perfect choice for the WWF vs. WCW PPV.

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

I agree Tony because it made a great visual but the camera angles kept screwing up when a ring emptied. The idea of3 differnent teams of announcers was an ok idea but Chris Cruise just sucks and Larry sounded like he would have much rather been in the ring than at the position. BTW, Im referring to the inagural WW3.

[Guest Sykotic2002]

I never again want to see another Inferno Match or Buried ALive Match.  Those are just horrible.  I liked the Three Tier Cage, War Games, BattleBowl, Bunkhouse Stampede, Strecher Match

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

inferno matches were just stupid. bunkhouse stampedes were awesome. the tower of doom was good at the GAB 88 and at Slamboree 99. not at uncensored 96 though.

[Guest Drury37]

How about a regular cage match in the blue cage.The blue cage just made it better.Does anybody notice that there hasn't been any good cage matches in like 5 years in the WWF.I always liked casket matches,too.

Thanks.

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

Yeah the wwf mesh cages are too loose and to me theyre not realistic enough to cause blood. The blue cages were solid steel and could definitely cause blood b/c ive been nailed with a golf club while in PE and gushed like a fountain.

Cages just arent what they used to be anymore.