Guest Astro Report post Posted April 11, 2004 We have all heard of Albert *** match with Kane and Warrior had ***+ matches with Hogan and Savage With those examples in mind, list wrestling's worst wrestlers best bouts Warlord, Bunkhouse Buck, Mabel, etc etc Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Choken One Report post Posted April 11, 2004 Sid ***1/2-Shawn Kevin Nash ****1/2-Bret AND Shawn Goldberg ***1/4-DDP and ***1/2-Scott Steiner Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WrestlingDeacon 0 Report post Posted April 11, 2004 It's widely pervieved that Flair carried Giant Gonzalez to at least *** and I've always maintained that Bossman vs. Barbarian from RR '91 was at least *** too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Winter Of My Discontent Report post Posted April 11, 2004 Goldberg ***1/4-DDP and ***1/2-Scott Steiner Goldberg isn't THAT bad. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Astro Report post Posted April 11, 2004 Virgil Earthquake Fred Ottman KKBundy Boris Zuhkov? etc I saw a M.Wallstreet vs Pittman match on Pro that was a quite good mat based match Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0 Report post Posted April 11, 2004 Haku - vs Sting, GAB 96 Earthquake - vs Hogan, Slam 91 Beefcake - vs Valentine, Mar 88 SNME Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PLAGIARISM! 0 Report post Posted April 11, 2004 Cena - v Angle, No mercy 2003. I like the guy well enough, but I can't recall another match he's had over ***. His offence and heel stuff really clicked in that match, all his others were nothing special, apart from the FU on show. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ray Report post Posted April 11, 2004 Cena - v Angle, No mercy 2003. I like the guy well enough, but I can't recall another match he's had over ***. Cena's match with Benoit the same night as Benoit/Lesnar was good. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spman 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2004 I'm pretty sure John Tenta had a match with Ray Trailer in WCW which went like *** or so. It was the one with the bag of quarters on a pole or something where if you get the bag you can use it on your opponent. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brocklock 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2004 I'm pretty sure John Tenta had a match with Ray Trailer in WCW which went like *** or so. It was the one with the bag of quarters on a pole or something where if you get the bag you can use it on your opponent. Add a negative sign in front of the *** and you got your match. In that match, both guys were so out of shape that neither could climb the pole and Jimmy Hart had to climb the pole to get the silver dollars. Bossman had some great matches with Vader in WCW. Bunkhouse Buck had a decent match with Dustin Rhodes in WCW 94. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WrestlingDeacon 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2004 Yeah, that was the Carson City Silver Dollar match. Atrocious match. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeDirt 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2004 Mabel's best match was probably in the tag team title match at WM10 or the tag team match ay IYH2. Nothing great by any means, probably **1/4 or so, but I can't think of anything better. Virgil/Dibiase was well booked and the crowd was really into it. Virgil wasn't a horrible worker back in the day. Haku/Sting was from GAB95, not 96. How about Crush/Brian Adams? What about Duggan? Kama/Godfather? Kurrgan? Tiger Ali Singh? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Your Olympic Hero Report post Posted April 12, 2004 I always thought Virgil was a pretty decent worker. Duggan's best matches probably happened before his WWF days, in mid south or somewhere. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2004 How about Crush/Brian Adams? What about Duggan? Kama/Godfather? Kurrgan? Tiger Ali Singh? Crush - either Savage at WM10 or Bret on Raw. Duggan - an isnae 10 gimmick match against DiBiase in mid-south. Kama/Godfather - ummm HBK at KOTR 95? Kurrgan - None but Slam 98 is a fun squash. Tiger - Owen in the finals of the Kuwait Cup he won. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tekcop 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2004 Mable vs. Moe submission match from Memphis Wrestling TV is about **1/2. Mark Henry vs. Chris Jericho from RAW a few months back may be ***. EDIT: King Kong Bundy & Kamala both had good-ish matches with Jerry Lawler. The Bundy match had a neat story with him being a complete monster who always squashes his opponents and Lawler doing everything he can not to let Bundy get his hands on him cause he's getting $1,000 for every minute he's in the ring with Bundy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ray Report post Posted April 12, 2004 Tenta had a good tag match against Kawada and Tenryu in 89. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes Report post Posted April 12, 2004 John Tenta aka Earthquake/Shark/Avalanche/Golga is hardly a bad worker. He's high on my list of best fat-guy workers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Use Your Illusion 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2004 Goldberg ***1/4-DDP and ***1/2-Scott Steiner Whether Christ appeared to both in visions beforehand or there was some cosmic disturbance in the air, something clicked and made Steiner/Goldberg one awesome fucking match. Stiff as all hell and just a good, old fashioned, tough brawl. Great, great stuff. UYI Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HurriShane 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2004 How about the other half of the Natural Disasters Typhoon/ Tugboat/ Shockmaster? I can't think of any maytches with him over ** Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes Report post Posted April 12, 2004 How about the other half of the Natural Disasters Typhoon/ Tugboat/ Shockmaster? I can't think of any maytches with him over ** Correct. I can't think of one match of his that desserves a "good" next to it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JST 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2004 Tenta is by far one of the best big guys I've ever seen. Can't really name any other off the top of my head. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Astro Report post Posted April 12, 2004 Volkoff?? Droz? Nathan Jones? Randy Culley (Moondog Rex/Nightmare) Ranger Ross? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeDirt 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2004 I think Droz had a **-ish match with Marc Mero at Breakdown in 98. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deancoles 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2004 Gangrel had a good Hardcore Title match with Road Dogg on a Raw in 99. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spman 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2004 I can't remember Nathan Jones ever exceeding DUD in the handfull of matches he had in his WWE run, and I doubt he did much better in WWA. Volkoff is a tough one, as far as his WWF run goes, the flag match with Hogan on SNME was probobly the best of the worst, but he had quite a long career in wrestling before then so I'm sure he MUST have had something atleast margainally better. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest jm29195 Report post Posted April 12, 2004 I can't remember Nathan Jones ever exceeding DUD in the handfull of matches he had in his WWE run Credit Scott Keith:- Opening match: Kurt Angle v. Nathan Jones. Another case in point: The 10-man Smackdown elimination match thrown together to give the guys something to do. What’s the issue? What do I care who wins? If someone beats Brock, so what? Hell, Undertaker did it twice in the same match a few weeks ago. Angle outwrestles Jones to start (what a shock), but gets overpowered on a wristlock. Kurt takes him down into a headlock and dodges a charge, allowing Jones to crotch himself on the middle ropes. Kurt sends him to the floor and they brawl out there. Jones drops him on the railing to take over. Back in, Angle slugs away and gets an elbow out of the corner, and a missile dropkick for two. Kurt gets caught with…wait for it…a bodyslam, which the announcers sell like a, you know, move or something. Poor Kurt. Angle fights out of a neck vice and Jones knees him down again, and it’s ANOTHER devastating bodyslam and an elbow. Cole notes that he’s impressive again this week. Well, how can you NOT be impressed with two bodyslams? And another variation goes awry, as Angle escapes a press slam and tries kicking the leg out. Forearm knocks him down and Angle hits the rolling germans, but Jones blocks the Angle Slam. NO! NOT ANOTHER BODYSLAM! Angle escapes the deadly situation and gets the Angle Slam and anklelock, and tough guy prison badass Nathan Jones is saved by Matt Morgan at 6:14 before he can tap. This was as good an example of one guy standing in place while another wrestles himself by bouncing off him as you’re gonna find. *1/2 Bob Holly makes the save with a chair, as if anyone cares. He calls out Brock. Yeah, I’d be terrified if Sparky Plugg was calling me out, too. Chris Benoit v. Nathan Jones. It’s like matter and anti-matter colliding. If you could harness the energy of awesome v. not awesome here, you could power North America forever. Benoit evades Jones for a bit to start, but gets mesmerized by his lactating man-nipples and Jones whips him around. Jones charges and misses, possibly tripping on his own feet, and lands on the floor. Brock sends him back in. Nathan uses the CLUBBING FOREARMS and a powerslam for two, and I’m shocked Benoit didn’t just laugh in his face for making him sell that for a two count. We hit the chinlock, as Jones is obviously winded from the exertion of clubbing people with his forearms, and Benoit fights free. Jones uses more forearms in a clubbing manner, setting up a sideslam that gets two. He spun around first. INNOVATION! Does being dizzy increase the force to the back? Back to the chinlock. NOT INNOVATION! Benoit fights back, but his chops slip off the milk, so he opts to dropkick the shin instead and set up the Sharpshooter. Jones powers out, so Benoit hits him with the germans instead and goes up. Missile dropkick and seated dropkick put him down again, as milk sprays everywhere and people in the front row get soaked like a Gallagher concert, but Benoit misses the flying headbutt. Jones goes for his lethal finisher, holding the guy in the air while groping his crotch, but Benoit reverses that to the crossface and gets the win at 5:46. Brock attacks, but Hardcore Holly makes the save. His new move is apparently the full-nelson. Has he not seen Brock’s NECK? Holly is arrested for running a guy over while driving drunk on the Nascar circuit in 1995, thus necessitating hiding from the police in the WWF. Okay, maybe not, but it’s more interesting than a guy getting arrested and suspended again. “This is a bunch of crap!” Holly declares, thus making one of the few insightful comments of the show. *1/2 “What kind of champion is this man?” Cole asks rhetorically of Brock. Well, he’s got the WWE title, so that should be your first clue… What about Billy Gunn, Mideon, Prince Iaukea, Bull Buchanan, Bradshaw, Faarrooq and Ahmed Johnson? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Astro Report post Posted April 12, 2004 Prince I had Regal and Rey carry him to some decent match IMO Billy Gunn's WM 14 tag match vs Funk/Foley was good shit at the time Ron Simmons' stuff in early 90's WCW vs Luger and others was perfectly acceptable wrestling, but nothing stands out Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest jm29195 Report post Posted April 12, 2004 I heard Billy Gunn had a very good match against HHH in September 1999, can anyone verify this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Salacious Crumb Report post Posted April 12, 2004 Iaukea had a pretty good match with La Parka on an edition of Worldwide during his Tv title run. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Papacita 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2004 I heard Billy Gunn had a very good match against HHH in September 1999, can anyone verify this? Yeah, it was pretty good. Also, while I don't necessarily consider Chyna a bad worker, Jericho carried her to some great matches in 99. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
