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Worst in the World: Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4

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Mabel legitimately weighed over 500 pounds. Yokozuna legitimately weighed over 500. That's over 1000 pounds in the ring at once. This is scary. If anyone ever tells you that the Big Show-Brock Lesnar superplex legit broke the ring, just show them this match as evidence against that. Or just show them because you hate them and want them to watch a bad match. A big problem with putting really big guys in the ring together with no one else is that a lot of these guys are very...mobile. Sure, there are exceptions like Vader and Bam Bam Bigelow who were very agile, but no one is going to argue that guys like Mark Henry, Great Khali, or Typhoon aren't sluggish in ring. So naturally, putting the two biggest men on the roster in a match together is bound to be about as quick as a sloth waiting in line at the DMV. It's Yokozuna vs King Mabel from In Your House 4: The Great White North, which is ironic, because nothing about this is great. Let's get into it.
The match starts with the two trading punches before Yokozuna clotheslines Mabel out of the ring. Man, Mabel might be the easiest big man to knock off his feet in history. Mabel spends well over 10 seconds on the outside before getting back in the ring and the two lock up, and after Yokozuna reverses an Irish whip, Mabel ducks a clothesline and hits a big leaping clothesline, taking Yokozuna down. Mabel then elbows Yokozuna in the back of the head, sending him out of the ring. Yokozuna also spends well over 10 seconds on the outside (his was at least 20 seconds) before getting back in the ring.
Yokozuna gets distracted by Sir Moon simply yelling at him, which allows Yokozuna to hit a big splash in the corner. Mabel throws some strikes and punches at Yokozuna before dancing off, yelling "I'M THE KING!" (don't remind me) and going back. Mabel Irish whips Yokozuna into the opposite corner and goes for another splash, but Yokozuna counters with a clothesline you could see coming from a mile away. Yokozuna goes for a leg drop, but Mabel moves out of the way. Mabel then goes for a elbow drop, but Yokozuna moves out of the way. I would like to point out that the Undertaker wasn't quick enough to move out of the way of a Mabel elbow drop, but YOKOZUNA WAS! WOW!
The two trade headbutts before Mabel goes for a bulldog. This leads to an odd moment, where even though Yokozuna's head slipped out of Mabel's arms during the move and he didn't fall for the move, he still sells it and falls out of the ring. Mabel leaves the ring, which allows Yokozuna to whip him into the ring post. Sir Mo then blindsides one of Yokozuna's managers Jim Cornette, who Yokozuna then trips over ad lands on. The referee then calls for the bell, ending the match in a double countout. Yeah, so no one gets over! After the match, the two go face-to-face in the ring, and proceed to...hug.
Ehh, this doesn't have anything on the Big Show's hug:

The Verdict

It's a mostly slow match with mostly punches and a finish where no one looks strong. The leaping clothesline was pretty nice, but that was the only good spot in the match. The only real botch was the weird bulldog that didn't work at all. It's not ungodly horrible, but it's still a match to skip.

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. Ivory vs Tori-SummerSlam 1999
  12. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
  13. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
  14. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
  15. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
  16. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
  17. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
  18. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
  19. Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
  20. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
  21. Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4
  22. Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
  23. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
  24. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
  25. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
  26. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
  27. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
  28. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
  29. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
  30. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
  31. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
  32. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
  33. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
  34. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
  35. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
  36. Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
  37. PN News & Bobby Eaton vs Steve Austin & Terrance Taylor-Great American Bash 1991
  38. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
  39. Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
  40. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
  41.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
  42. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
  43. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
  44. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
  45. Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
  46. Bray Wyatt vs John Cena-Extreme Rules 2014
  47. Mabel vs The Undertaker-King of the Ring 1995
  48. Wendi Richter vs The Fabulous Moolah-The Brawl to End it All
  49. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
  50. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
  51. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
  52. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
  53. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
  54. Oz vs Tim Parker-SuperBrawl
  55. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
  56. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996 
  57. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/10)
  58. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
  59. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
  60. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
  61. Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
  62. Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell-Victory Road 2009
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Meh.
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