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Worst in the World: Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)

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Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man...that's all I've really got. I'm not really sure what to say. Neither are terrible workers or terrible characters, so there's not much to slag them for. Yeah, I guess they just don't work well together. Anyways, this match comes from the November 25th, 1989 edition of Saturday Night's Main Event, the same show that featured Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant, which is currently in the bottom 10 of my rankings. Man...this was a rough episode.
Before the match starts, Dusty immediately gives out to the referee about Boss Man's manager Slick being at ringside, and demands he leave ringside. Umm...you can't just kick someone from ringside because they might cheat. It would be like calling a foul on someone in basketball because they were guarding a person and they might foul them. Also, this doesn't make Dusty look like a fighting babyface at all. The minute he's in a disadvantage, he cowers and demands it be made fair. What a face! Slick responds to Dusty's demand by busting out his Manager's License, which gives him the right to be at ringside. The referee shows this to Dusty, and he TOSSES IT OUT OF THE RING! ARE YOU A BABYFACE?! That's a serious question. How can someone who acts like rules don't matter be a face. Why would you cheer this guy?
Anyway, Boss Man blindsides Dusty, but Dusty gets out of the jam and hits a few punches before going over to Slick, who hopped up on the apron (NOW you can complain and ask for him to be ejected), which allows Boss Man to blindside him again. Boss Man and Slick beat down Dusty, who is unable to get any offense in due to the 2-on-1 disadvantage. Boss Man throws Dusty into the ring post, barley grazing it with his shoulder, and rolls back in the ring.
The two trade punches until Boss Man goes to work on Dusty's arm, locking in a wristlock, which Dusty COMPLETELY NO SELLS and hops up to his feet, even no selling two more wristlocks by Boss Man. And not in the Hulk Hogan way where he starts shaking around because he's Hulking Up and making his comeback, but instead doing nothing as Boss Man does moves around him. You know, for a guy as charismatic as Dusty Rhodes, you'd think he'd, you know...show it. Boss Man stops a Dusty comeback before it starts and goes back to work on Dusty's bad arm with another wristlock, Dusty no sells again by hopping right back up to his feet, and Boss Man knocks him down with a back elbow.
Dusty dodges a corner splash and Dusty runs wild, hitting his Bionic Elbow in the process. Boss Man dodges an elbow drop and hits a body guillotine into the ropes. Boss Man calls for his nightstick from Slick, which makes absolutely no sense. He's got the match well in his favor right now, why would he risk getting disqualified? Slick argues with a woman in the audience (Sapphire), which distracts Boss Man long enough for Dusty to perform a terrible roll up for the three and the win. Post match there's a lot of yelling and arguing and it doesn't lead to anything except Dusty and Sapphire dancing in the ring.

The Verdict

Look, I don't like saying bad things about Dusty Rhodes. He's a legend in the business and has done so much to help the next generation of WWE superstars...but what the hell was this match? Dusty not only acted heelish to start the match, but completely no sold a lot of Boss Man's offense. Aside from the terrible roll up, there wasn't much actually bad about the match wrestling wise, but it still wasn't that good.

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. T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000
  4. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
  5. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
  6. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
  7. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
  8. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
  9. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
  10. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
  11. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
  12. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
  13. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
  14. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
  15. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
  16. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
  17. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
  18. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
  19. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
  20. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
  21. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
  22. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
  23. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
  24. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
  25. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
  26. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
  27. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
  28. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
  29. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
  30. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
  31. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
  32. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
  33.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
  34. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
  35. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
  36. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
  37. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
  38. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
  39. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
  40. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
  41. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
  42. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
  43. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996 
  44. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/10)
  45. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
  46. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
  47. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
And up next on the list is...

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Oh boy. I have a feeling this match won't be (puts on sunglasses)...awesome.
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