Most Humiliating Losses

[Enigma 0]

Damn, I totally forgot about The Godfather pinning WWF Champion Triple H in a non-title match.

 

Even Vince had a great setup for the match: "Triple H, you'll be wrestling someone tonight that can relate very well to your wife."

 

*cue Godfather's theme*

 

My nomination goes to Reverend D-Von defeating Triple H on Smackdown in between HHH losing the WWF Title to Hulk Hogan and his jump to RAW.

[Betty Houle 0]

Anyone jobbing to Hogan's legdrop.

I've never understood that. A 300-pound man crashes down on your neck. You'd get pinned, too.

[Guest The Mandingo Warrior]

Agreed about the damage that Hogan's legdrop would cause. He was way too big for that move to NOT do massive damage.

 

I always thought that Booker T loosing to HHH at wrestlemania 19 was humiliating, since the racial angle that was built around the match indicated that Booker must have lost because he was black (and therefore not good enough). Booker should have gone over...

[Epic Reine 0]

That made him look like a bitch when HHH hit him with the Pedigree and layed on the mat for about 10 seconds because making the weakest cover ever and beating him.

[Ripper 0]

Um...didn't Vader job to Mark Henry and had to be stretcher'd out?

 

I think that wins.

[MARTYEWR 0]

That made him look like a bitch when HHH hit him with the Pedigree and layed on the mat for about 10 seconds because making the weakest cover ever and beating him.

Not to nitpick, but it was more like 23 seconds.

[Epic Reine 0]

Even worse.

[Guest The Mandingo Warrior]

At the same card, I also thought that Jericho loosing to Micheals was humiliating..but then again Jericho loses to everyone...

[Dobbs 3K 0]

One thing people don't know is that Renegade worked for WCW for like 2 or 3 years after getting de-pushed. He was on WCW Saturday Night often and actually got halfway decent as a worker before WCW fired him as a cost cutting measure.

[Guest Duncan Eternia]

Didn't Jericho job to Gangrel a little while after he debuted? That was just beofre his *awesome* program with Chyna. God...how am I still a Jericho fan???

[Guest LooneyTune]

Goldust/Dustin Rhodes jobbing to GILLBERG. Sure it wasn't clean... but Lna Vachon even whooped his ass like a Jobber.

[Just John 0]

Jeff Jarrett losing to Chyna in a "good housekeeping" match. I know Jarrett was just being jobbed out before he went to WCW, but this was awful. Not only did he lose to Chyna, but he had to roll around in cake and get beaten with various kitchen appliances first.

 

Also Jericho's clean loss to Chyna at SS 99 was the lowest point of his WWF/E stint. Though, losing more than once to a very green John Cena was a close second.

 

Anytime someone has to job to the worm is a potential career low.

[brighty 0]

Jake Roberts getting squashed by the Undertaker.

losing to The Undertaker is not something humiliating. even at the time, Taker was a former WWF Champion who had beaten everybody, including Warrior and Hogan, and had recently turned face and needed somebody to put him over.

 

there are several things Jake Roberts has done in both wrestling and his personal life that are a million times more humiliating than losing to Taker and helping get him over as a top babyface.

[Guest LooneyTune]

Jeff Jarrett was payed a shit load of money before the show because his contract expired the day before. I would've done the job clean in 5 seconds for $250,000 (or is that an exagerated number).

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Arn and Tully doing clean jobs around the horn to the Bushwackers in 1989.

 

Benoit losing to David Flair

 

Hennig's job to Brutus Beefcake at WM 6, yes it was a fluke ending, but it killed any momentum or credibility Hennig had towards being a top guy.

[Some Guy 0]

At the same card, I also thought that Jericho loosing to Micheals was humiliating

Why? It could and should be argued that it was poor booking but by no means would jobbing to a former 4 time champion who could still go in the ring be humiliating. Especially since it was to a roll up as opposed to elbow drop, tune up the band, superkick. Had it beent he latter I could buy that it would be buryign him and a bit humiliating, but it wasn't. Jericho should have won clean with the Lionsault but that's not realistic given Shawn's penchant for not jobbing much and especially not on big shows.

[Guest jumpingbombangel]

I dunno if you'd call him a "name" wrestler, but Chris Candido (Skip) getting beat clean OVER and OVER by Barry Horowitz was sure damage to his WWF run. I know it pissed me off because I'm from the South and I knew of Candido's great Smoky Mountain run. After that program, if he wasn't known as Sunny's boyfriend he was known as that guy who kept losing to that one jobber.

 

Now he's just that one guy trying to get clean and find steady work.

 

losing to The Undertaker is not something humiliating.

 

...because it's so commonplace?

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Benoit losing to David Flair

Benoit lost to David Flair? When was this? I know Dean Malenko lost to Junior Flair at Bash at the Beach 1999 and I thought Benoit ended up beating Flair for the U.S. Title. Then again, I wasn't a dedicated viewer of WCW in 1999 anyway.

[Jingus 0]

The Renegade's story is indeed a sad one, showing how a big corporation can unthinkingly murder somebody.  You take some muscled-up young jock right out of school who doesn't know anything about wrestling, you make him watch every Ultimate Warrior match, you make him train for a couple weeks in the Powerplant, you give him the Renegade gimmick.

Rick Wilson had been wrestling for at least 2 years before he arrived in WCW.

Shhh, you're ruining my creatively licensed sob story.

 

Agreed about the damage that Hogan's legdrop would cause. He was way too big for that move to NOT do massive damage.

The legdrop was legitimized as a murder-death-kill finisher forever once Hogan pinned Andre with it, period. (And did anyone else notice how Hogan absolutely squashed him with it at WMIII, landing ass-first on the Giant's face?)

 

I always thought that Booker T loosing to HHH at wrestlemania 19 was humiliating,

At Wrestlemania 19: it took 3 Rock Bottoms for the Rock to beat Austin, it took 3 legdrops for Hogan to beat Vince, it took 3 F-5's for Brock to beat Angle, but bah gawd it only took 1 Pedigree for HHH to beat Booker T.

 

Um...didn't Vader job to Mark Henry and had to be stretcher'd out?

I think that wins.

Vader was losing to EVERYONE by the end of his WWF run. We're talking clean jobs to Jeff Jarrett and Al Snow here, plus everyone from Owen Hart on down was tossing him around like it was nothin'.

 

Some Guy, I love that avatar.

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Benoit losing to David Flair

Benoit lost to David Flair? When was this? I know Dean Malenko lost to Junior Flair at Bash at the Beach 1999 and I thought Benoit ended up beating Flair for the U.S. Title. Then again, I wasn't a dedicated viewer of WCW in 1999 anyway.

CHRIS BENOIT v. DAVID SAMMARTINO - ERR, FLAIR (with Torrie Wilson & Asya)

for the United States Heavyweight Championship - Somebody seems to have

finally found the missing Benoit music, as he comes out to his own theme

instead of Malenko's for the first time in months.<!----> Ric's in Japan

tonight, we learn - with Reid at the Destroyers Invitational Amateur

Wrestling Something-or-other.  God knows why, what with Sting being the

president and all, but the official assigned to this bout is referee

"Blind" Charles Robinson.  Single leg trip from Benoit snaps Flair to the

mat.  Slow to get up, but he eventually does and we start over in the

middle again.  Benoit takes him down again there's the double Okie blow.

Lockup, knife-edge chop takes Flair down.  Flair rolls out of the ring.

Robinson follows and demands that he get in the ring - "you're a Flair!"

Yeah, Ric NEVER took a powder on the outside.  Anyway, we're all back in -

gutshot from Benoit and a gunshot chop.  Benoit picking him up and putting

him in the corner - Flair's chest already purple and Benoit chopping again

- there's another.  Hervey's hyena laughing again and I'm almost ready to

root for Flair just because Jason is SO annoying.  Belly-to-back suplex.

Benoit standing over Flair - open-handed slap.  Robinson urging Flair on -

kick to the back of the head.  Another chop and Flair falls again.

Backbreaker across the knee.  Elbowdrop.  Robinson and Benoit exchanging

words.  Liontamer!  David's tapping but Robinson isn't calling for the

bell.  Benoit walks back over to Flair, picks him up, sends him into the

corner, gutshot as he comes out.  Snap suplex.  Thumb 'cross the throat -

time for the headbutt - without a hitch from the top rope.  Benoit kicking

dirt on Flair's prone form.  Crippler crossface is on.  David tapping away

- DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE is in and he's got the belt - belt to Benoit. 

Oops, Robinson has something in his eyes and can't see what's going on! 

Flair draped over Benoit - sigh, yup - 1, 2, 3.  (4:54)

[Jingus 0]

One thing I've never understood: why losses like that are considered humiliating. Yeah, David "pinned" Benoit, but it was clearly DDP who did the damage. In fact, same thing when Sarataker pinned DDP: it was immedietly following a chokeslam from Taker on the floor, shouldn't Page have logically been knocked unconcious by that anyway?

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

You can't see anything humiliating in getting beaten in five seconds by a non-wrestler ?

[Nighthawk 0]

You know, I used to think getting pinned by the Worm was humiliating. But try getting chopped in the throat sometime, it really hurts. Dancing didn't help though.

 

Tazz losing a bunch of WWF matches was bad, but I liked his feud with Lawler other than that, especially when he no sold the piledriver and then fell on his face.

[Just John 0]

You know, I used to think getting pinned by the Worm was humiliating. But try getting chopped in the throat sometime, it really hurts. Dancing didn't help though.

Getting kicked in the stomach hurts too, but no one gets pinned from that. It's all about proportional credibility. When you see someone kick out of a powerbomb, you just can't take a move like the worm seriously as a finisher.

 

Another humiliating loss:

 

Chris Benoit jobbing to Sean O'Haire in 4 minutes on a SD in 03.

[CanadianChick 0]

Question: For it to be REALLY humiliating, shouldn't it be pretty lasting? Like, I wouldn't have remembered Benoit losing to O'Haire until I saw that post.

[Nighthawk 0]

Ken Shamrock got pinned from getting kicked in the stomach once.

 

People's Elbow would really hurt too, but it was unnecesary when he had the Rock Bottom right there. One of the few pro wrestling finishers you can use in a real fight.

[Human Fly 0]

Billy Gunn getting dismantled by Chris Benoit for the IC title (mercy killing the Ass Man's push in the process).

[alfdogg 0]

Question: For it to be REALLY humiliating, shouldn't it be pretty lasting? Like, I wouldn't have remembered Benoit losing to O'Haire until I saw that post.

What kind of smart mark are you???????

[Just John 0]

Ken Shamrock got pinned from getting kicked in the stomach once.

Was that during his internal bleeding days (or months)?

[Nighthawk 0]

Yeah.