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Worst in the World: Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling

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It was only a matter of time before I got back to the horror show known as Heroes of Wrestling. If you don't remember, this was an ill-fated wrestling show featuring some of the biggest wrestling stars of the 1980s. The problem? This took place in 1999. The stars were well past their primes, and it is widely regarded as one of the worst wrestling shows in history, with four of the matches on the card being on the bottom 100 on the Internet Wrestling Database. I've already done one (a match where George Steele was essentially defeated by a shirt), so onto the next one, a match between WWE Hall of Famer(?!) Abdullah the Butcher (who you might know as that guy who got fried in the Chamber of Horrors match) and One Man Gang.
Gang throws a bunch of chairs in the ring before the match starts, so you can already tell what kind of match this is going to be. He is looking in rough shape, and Abdullah looks even worse. Commentator Randy Rosenbloom keeps calling Abdullah "Abby the Butcher", which is about the least intimidating thing I've ever heard. "Watch out everybody, it's ABBY THE BUTCHER!" That's about as scary as something like "Timmy the Strangler" or "Daisy the Axe Murderer". Also, Abdullah has hits tights pulled right up to his nipples:
Sorry for that image.
Before Abdullah gets in the ring (which he struggles to do), Gang blindsides him. The referee starts the match, and Gang starts beating down Abdullah with a chain. Gang continues to beat down Abdullah for over a minute with the chain and nothing else, and Abdullah's bleeding after less than two minutes. Psychology, what's that?! Gang pulls Abdullah out of the ring and delivers a chair shot right to the head. After that, Gang goes right back to beating up Abdullah with the chain. This is nothing but garbage wrestling.
Gang continues to beat down Abdullah and starts using pushing a chair into Abdullah's neck, which the ref stops him from doing and threatens to DISQUALIFY HIM! AFTER HE JUST BEAT THIS GUY UP WITH A CHAIN AND CHAIRS FOR THREE MINUTES! How does that make any sense? So after FOUR UNINTERRUPTED MINUTES, Abdullah finally fights back with a punch and chops Gang to the floor. This devastating three foot high drop is so horrifying, that One Man Gang actually starts to bleed after he falls. YEAH, BULLSH*T!
Abdullah starts stabbing Gang in the head with a fork, which he doesn't get disqualified for because this both is, and is not, a No Disqualifications match. Both men are heavily bleeding at this point in the match, which, considering the allegations of Abdullah giving other wrestlers hepatitis C during matches because of blading, is terrifying. Abdullah keeps going at Gang with the fork before switching over to a chair for a bit, and going for the first wrestling move of the match, an elbow drop, which the camera cuts away from for no reason. Whew, that was close, for a second I thought we were going to see some wrestling!
Gang rolls out of the ring, and Abdullah follows him to start the slowest brawl in the history of wrestling. The ref counts them both out, and the two beat up the security guards. They brawl to the back, and that's it.

The Verdict

Garbage. That was actually worse than Valentine-Steele. Yeah, there was no wrestling in that either, but at least they didn't have to rely on weapons and blood to have an interesting match. Blood can help a match be more intense, but not when both guys bleed so easily, and it's in a sh*tty one of match with no build up. I don't even want to show any pictures from the actual match and not just Abdullah's entrance because it's so disgusting.

Rankings (Best to Worst)

  1.  Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
  2. Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
  3. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
  4. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
  5. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
  6. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
  7. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
  8. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
  9. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
  10. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
  11. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
  12. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
  13. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
  14. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
  15. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
  16. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
  17. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
  18. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
  19. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
  20. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
  21.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
  22. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
  23. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
  24. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
  25. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
  26. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
  27. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
  28. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
  29. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996 
  30. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/10)
  31. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
  32. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
I'm half way done with this show! So close, yet so far. Let's see what's up next in the Worst in the World...

Hey look, another match that was great in WWF that they f*cked up in WCW. And I'm more than half way done with Hulk Hogan matches. Woo-hoo!
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