Worst match you've seen live

[King Kamala 0]

Reflecting on this past weekend and the Smackdown show I went to, I was thinking about bad matches that I've seen live. I saw an epic Kendall Windham Vs Jim Neidhart match at a WCW Saturday Night taping in May of 98 (Battle of the relatives of famous wrestlers). I saw a monumetous six man tag that saw Mark Henry team up with Rob Conway and Hugh Morrus to battle with D Von Dudley, Batista and Albert in 2002. This past weekend, I saw the Great Khali squash Matt Hardy like a bug.

 

 

But I think the worst match I've seen live was a match from this past weekend, Vito Vs Funaki. A good 75% of the match was stalling from both wrestlers and the wrestling that was there was mediocre at best. The crowd shit on the match and rightfully so.

 

 

So what was the worst match you guys have seen live?

[Lil' Bitch 0]

The Undertaker Vs. Giant Gonzales - WM IX

 

Heidenreich Vs. Nick Dinsmore before he was Eugene

[Jericho2000Mark 0]

Shannon Moore vs Orlando Jordan

[Dobbs 3K 0]

If indy matches count, probably the Bushwhackers vs the Southern Mississippi Militia...at two separate shows, doing the almost exact same crappy tag match.

[Black Lushus 0]

Ultimate Warrior Vs. Goldust-IYH: Good Friends, Better Enemies.

[yankovic fan 0]

Chyna vs. Ivory Royal Rumble 2001.

[iliketurtles 0]

Steiner vs. Triple H at Royal Rumble 2003.

 

Followed by the greatest match I've ever seen.

[Just John 0]

Of all the live shows, I've been to, I've seen lots of mediocrity. Little on either side of average.

 

Worst match was probably either Orton/Batista (9/27/04 Raw) or L/K vs. Gymini (4/1/06 Velocity). Orton/Batista was right after Orton had just jobbed the title back to HHH and got squashed terribly in this match, complete with a predictable fake face turn with Flair. Extremely disappointing. The tag match was pretty much just a squash with a few botched spots, so it looked really bad live.

 

I wish I could remember more about some WCW shows I went to back in the day (A Nitro in 98 and a couple house shows). I do remember a Booker/Benoit match being good, a Mongo/Goldberg and a Hogan/Savage match being bad. It's just not as fresh in my mind so I can't make a real judgment.

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seen quite a few clunkers, but the most disappoint I was had to be Steve Austin vs Barry Windham at a house show here in Evansville, right before Austin's big push

 

I was looking forward to this match more than any of the main events and it was basically a 5 minute Austin squash over Windham, just a few years removed from some good battles between the two in WCW

 

I've been a Windham fan since he turned on Luger to join the Horsemen and it was disappointing to see him jobbed out so bad in WWF towards the end of his run there

[Angle-plex 0]

A Tank Abbot "shoot" match against a jobber at a WCW house show in 2000.

[Aero 0]

I can't remember many of the undercard matches from TV tapings, but I do remember seeing a pretty bad match at a SD taping in July 2002. It was Randy Orton (fresh off of debuting a month or so prior) & Mark Henry (as a face) vs. Reverend D-Von & Deacon Batista.

 

Now, most disappointing is a different story. At a house show from October 2003, the 3-way World title match between Brock, Cena, and Angle was just finisher after finisher lasting about 3 minutes. Then the entire undercard from the 2004 Royal Rumble was very underwhelming, but the Rumble match more than made up for it.

[bob_barron 0]

Konnan v. Divine Storm from ROH.

[cabbageboy 0]

Here's one for you guys: I went to a Raw taping in July 1995. Anyway, the locally advertised main event was Diesel vs. Sid in a cage. After Raw was finished they spent 20 mins. putting up the cage, then Nash and Sid went through the motions for about 5 minutes of crap action. Then Nash hits Sid with a boot to the head and pins him. No cage spots, no intrigue.

[bob_barron 0]

I saw a Shane McMahon v. Kane cage match.

 

It was Kane throwing Shane against the cage for a few minutes, and then somehow Shane won.

[JHawk 0]

Triple H vs. The Undertaker (King of the Ring 2002). So boring. I think the match went 15 minutes before the crowd popped for anything.

[Masked Man of Mystery 0]

Chyna vs. Ivory Royal Rumble 2001.

I've been meaning to ask, since I just saw a tape of that match, was Chyna's injury legit, or gimmicked? I don't remember the storyline from then.

[Bruce Blank 0]

Total gimmick

[cabbageboy 0]

I wasn't there live for that KOTR 2002 main event but I did rewatch the HHH/UT match a while back. To be honest it's not all THAT bad. It's at least competent. If you want a shitty UT match from 2002, I suggest the Backlash match vs. Austin.

 

JHawk, since you were there live at KOTR 2002 tell me this....did the crowd go totally dead after Brock beat RVD for the KOTR title?

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

I wasn't there live for that KOTR 2002 main event but I did rewatch the HHH/UT match a while back. To be honest it's not all THAT bad. It's at least competent. If you want a shitty UT match from 2002, I suggest the Backlash match vs. Austin.

HHH/UT was BY FAR worse than Austin/UT. Austin/UT was just incredibly boring, but HHH/UT was in another universe of boring and terrible.

[Just John 0]

Neither of those matches is worse than his match with Hogan at Judgment Day, though. That match moved like a slug through molasses and ended with the weakest chokeslam ever executed in mainstream professional wrestling.

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

Neither of those matches is worse than his match with Hogan at Judgment Day, though. That match moved like a slug through molasses and ended with the weakest chokeslam ever executed in mainstream professional wrestling.

I watched all three matches pretty much back-to-back-to-back, while reviewing a selection of bad matches, and I'd have to agree that UT/Hogan is the worst of the bunch. It combined Hogan's weak offense with UT's terrible selling.

[bob_barron 0]

HHH v. Taker at least has The Rock. Austin v. Taker is just...weird.

 

At least Taker v. Hogan was relatively short.

[Hank Kingsley 0]

A scintillating Big Show vs. Kane house show main event from October 1999. Included run-ins from Viscera and Mideon, too.

 

Actually, looking at the card now, I remember that the whole show sucked except for the opener:

 

Edge & Christian defeated Matt & Jeff Hardy

WWF Women's Champion Ivory defeated Luna

The Big Bossman defeated WWF Hardcore Champion Al Snow in a non-title nightstick match

Joey Abs defeated Sean Stasiak

WWF IC Champion Jeff Jarrett defeated X-Pac

Mideon & Viscera defeated Stevie Richards & the Blue Meanie

Test defeated Gangrel

X-Pac defeated Jerry Lawler

Kane defeated the Big Show

 

I got the joy of seeing X-Pac twice since he "won" the title, but Lawler pointed something out resulting in a Dusty Finish leading to X-Pac's "revenge." Luckily, I was a mark at the time and didn't walk out too disappointed, except that I didn't see Triple H or Jericho or Foley.

[Vampiro69 0]

About 2 years ago I saw a horrible match between Chuck Palumbo and Val Venis. Chuck look lost out there, and Val tried to get something out of him but the power of Chuck sucking was to great.

[cabbageboy 0]

HHH/UT was a forgettable match but I am at least willing to give HHH the benefit of the doubt there since I believe he was injured. I might need to rewatch the Hogan/UT match again. I don't recall being flat out offended by it at the time.

 

I'm telling you, that Austin/UT match is just horribly bad. Putrid on all levels. It was Austin in his ultra fast decline, it had Flair as the ref (and lord he sucked at it), and the match goes almost 30 minutes.

 

You know, UT had a weird run in 2002. He had some matches that were historically bad (the Austin match, HHH match) and yet some of his work that year was really good. The 3 way with Rock and Angle was a real good match, I also kinda enjoy the Flair match from WM. His work with RVD was good as well that year, not to mention him putting over Lesnar in the HIAC.

 

UT's shitty matches that year weren't even really his fault. The HHH match was lousy due to HHH being injured and a generally tedious storyline. The Hogan match was bleh due to it being, well, Hogan in 2002. And the Austin match sucked due to Austin being highly unmotived by that point.

[haws bah gawd 0]

In October of 1999, I had the misfortune of seeing a WWF house show where nearly every match ended with a basic body slam. Chaz vs Crash Holly ended with Crash absolutely DESTROYING Chaz with a scoop slam the likes of which I have never seen. The main event was Kane vs Big Show which also ended with Kane slamming Show. That one was at least believable since for years and years, a body slam to a 400+ lb man has been billed as death in the world of pro wrestling.

 

Aside from that, the 2nd worst match I have ever seen was easily Scott Hall vs Lex Luger in the late Fall of 1997. The match was pretty much a squash on Scott Hall with Luger drilling him with about 8 or 9 inverted atomic drops in a row before going straight to the Torture Rack for the submission. It was a 4 minute match, tops. Luger and Hall had almost a carbon copy of this match on several Nitro broadcasts over the next year.

[JimmyHendricks 0]

At the RAW the night after Brian Pillman died in KC, they taped Shotgun Saturday Night and one of the matches was Ahmed Johnson vs. Some Jobber. Ahmed dared the guy to hit him, which he did. Then, he took off his elbow pad and gave it to the guy, and asked him to hit him again. He did. Ahmed then took off his KNEE BRACE and handed it to him, again daring him to hit him back. He did.

 

Then Ahmed squashed the guy in about 20 seconds. The weirdest and dumbest match I've ever seen live.

[Scroby 0]

This was a match that happen, while I was working for a promotion in WA.

 

Indy show: I forget this guy's name, but he was a "american luchadore" gimmick vs Sloth

 

The guy who was doing the american luchadore gimmick had been self promoting himself to us. Really selling to us that he was good in the ring. So the match takes place, and I'm going to say this now, the reason for the match sucking isn't because of Sloth, its because of the other guy. First off, this guy didn't even know how to keep his mask on, he spent the entire 5 minute match, trying to adjust it and fix it so it wasn't blocking his vision or coming off his face. Second, he fucked up the finish of the match. The finish was suppose to be a powerbomb from the top turnbuckle, given by Sloth and taken from the American Luchadore. They start to set it up, Sloth goes to lift him but the luchadore was to fat to fucking do a sit up and get himself on Sloth's shoulders and for some reason, instead of going to another finish, they keep trying to do it. This goes on for a good minute or so, then the finish changed to a sunrise flip with Sloth going over. Worse match I've seen on a indy show.

[Danville_Wrestling 0]

My worst match was at a 1999 WCW Thunder taping. They taped two shows that night and there was a squash match of Fit Finlay against David Taylor towards the end of the evening. I don't know if it was because I was tired or what but I was totally not feeling this match and the crowd didn't either. The people in front of me were shouting out WWF slogans and such. Needless to say there was nothing redeeming about that match at all.

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

A scintillating Big Show vs. Kane house show main event from October 1999. Included run-ins from Viscera and Mideon, too.

 

Actually, looking at the card now, I remember that the whole show sucked except for the opener:

 

Edge & Christian defeated Matt & Jeff Hardy

WWF Women's Champion Ivory defeated Luna

The Big Bossman defeated WWF Hardcore Champion Al Snow in a non-title nightstick match

Joey Abs defeated Sean Stasiak

WWF IC Champion Jeff Jarrett defeated X-Pac

Mideon & Viscera defeated Stevie Richards & the Blue Meanie

Test defeated Gangrel

X-Pac defeated Jerry Lawler

Kane defeated the Big Show

 

I got the joy of seeing X-Pac twice since he "won" the title, but Lawler pointed something out resulting in a Dusty Finish leading to X-Pac's "revenge." Luckily, I was a mark at the time and didn't walk out too disappointed, except that I didn't see Triple H or Jericho or Foley.

 

Card from hell. Fuck.