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Worst in the World: Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX

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If you remember my entry on Hogan-Piper from SuperBrawl 1997, you might remember one of the first things I brought up was how WCW was pushing a wrestler (Roddy Piper) in the main event over a decade after he stopped being a main eventer. Well, I guess they never learned, because two years later at the exact same show, Piper is not only still wrestling, at 45 years old at the time, mind you, but is winning championships. In this match, he defends his WCW United States Championship against Scott Hall, who was 40. The midcard feud of WCW in the late 90s was two guys who combine for over 80 years of age. Can you believe this company went out of business?
After some early stalling, the match starts with Piper throwing his kilt in Hall's face and punching him. Piper tries to drag Hall to the corner by the kilt, but Hall sells it like it's a hip toss and it looks awkward beyond belief. Piper continues to punch away at Hall before grabbing Hall's Wolfpac t-shirt and starts choking him with it. HOW IS THAT NOT A DQ! You know what, it's WCW, the more I ask, the more annoying it gets.
Piper continues punching away at Hall before hitting a swinging neckbreaker. Roddy Piper has been in three matches now on this list and that might be the first actual wrestling move he's done in any match. Hall then locks in a wristlock with shoulder blocks while grabbing the hair, but Piper gets out by grabbing Hall's hair. Wolfpac member Disco Inferno hops up on the apron, so Piper knocks him down. Piper continues to control the match, hitting an atomic drop, followed by a reverse atomic drop and an eye poke right in front of the referee (...) before Hall tosses him into the ropes. Hall proceeds to beat down Piper at ringside before throwing him back in the ring.
Hall punches away at Piper before Piper delivers a low blow right in front of the referee (...why...), which Hall follows up with one of his own RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE REFEREE (...why isn't that...keep it together.) Hall puts Piper in the Tree of Woe and kicks away at him, along with Disco grabbing Piper by the face. Hall locks in an abdominal stretch and grabs Disco's hand. This prompts the commentators to bicker over what that actually does. The referee eventually catches them and Piper hip tosses Hall. Piper misses an elbow drop and Hall puts him on the top rope, but Piper jumps onto Hall and locks in the sleeper hold.
Disco runs into the ring and Piper beats both of them down before Kevin Nash runs down, but Piper catches him on the ropes by kicking them, missing two times before catching it on the third. Hall uses the distraction to pin Piper with his feet on the ropes for the win.

The Verdict

A punch kick affair that ended in a f*ck finish. Piper couldn't really do anything outside of punches, eye pokes, and low blows, and Hall didn't do much either. And of course, like with just about every WCW match I talk about, the rules made no sense. Nothing got anybody disqualified. 

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. ODB, Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi vs The Kongtourage-Genesis 2009
  11. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
  12. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
  13. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
  14. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
  15. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
  16. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
  17. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
  18. Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
  19. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
  20. Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
  21. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
  22. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
  23. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
  24. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
  25. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
  26. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
  27. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
  28. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
  29. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
  30. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
  31. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
  32. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
  33. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
  34. Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
  35. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
  36. Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
  37. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
  38.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
  39. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
  40. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
  41. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
  42. Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
  43. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
  44. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
  45. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
  46. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
  47. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
  48. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
  49. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996 
  50. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/10)
  51. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
  52. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
  53. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
  54. Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
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