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Worst in the World: Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006

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What happens when you put an incredibly talented but under-utilized wrestler in the ring with an awful but over-utilized wrestler? It ends up in this series. Today's entry takes a look at Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera at New Year's Revolution 2006. Benjamin was always considered one of the most underrated wrestlers in WWE during his time in the company, managing to snag the Wrestling Observer's Most Underrated award three straight times, the first wrestler to do so. Despite being incredibly talented, he never reached the main event in his seven year career. Viscera, on the other hand, managed to continue to be employed in WWE for years despite minimal talent. Debuting in the WWF in 1993 as Mabel, one half of the Men on a Mission, Viscera is best know for his horrendous King Mabel gimmick, which is commonly refereed to as the worst King of the Ring ever. Along with that, he's been described as incredibly reckless in ring and has a history of injuring wrestlers. Despite being a bad worker, reckless, and weighing over 500 pounds for most of his career, Viscera managed to work for WWE on three separate occasions for a combined nine years. Knowing that he has a rumored history of being reckless, it worries me going in to this match with the much smaller Benjamin.
At ringside is Benjamin's mama. There's no need to bring it up, I just wanted to remind you that that was a thing WWE did with Shelton Benjamin. Benjamin flips out of a hip toss to start, but gets mauled over by Viscera right after. Benjamin keeps trying to go for waist locks, but they don't work as Viscera continues to muscle Benjamin around. Benjamin rolls out of the ring and his mama blocks Viscera from him, allowing Benjamin to blindside him. Viscera regains control, but Benjamin hits a series of knee lifts to regain control back in the ring. Benjamin continues to work over Viscera with kicks and hits a top rope clothesline to knock Viscera off his feet.
Benjamin continues to work over the legs of Viscera, but gets booted out of the ring. Viscera hits a Samoan Drop. The entire match, Benjamin's Mama yells as loud as she can and you can hear her the entire time, even threatening to get her belt. I died laughing when she said that. Viscera runs...well, stands in place wild and bodyslams Benjamin followed by an elbow drop. Viscera hits a spinning side slam, and starts spanking and humping Benjamin's ass. Benjamin barely avoids the big splash and goes back to work and forces him into the ropes, where Mama Benjamin beats him with her purse. Benjamin hits a jumping spin kick for the win.

The Verdict

It's basically nothing. Nothing even worth talking about ever again.

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. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
  6. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
  7. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
  8. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
  9. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
  10. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
  11. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
  12. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
  13. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
  14. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
  15. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
  16. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
  17. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
  18. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
  19. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
  20. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
  21. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
  22. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
  23. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
  24. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
  25. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
  26. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
  27. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
  28. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
  29.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
  30. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
  31. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
  32. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
  33. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
  34. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
  35. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
  36. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
  37. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
  38. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
  39. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996 
  40. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/10)
  41. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
  42. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
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