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Worst in the World: The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes-Uncensored 1995

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Even before Vince Russo came to World Championship Wrestling, WCW had a habit of booking crazy, ridiculous gimmick matches. I've already taken a look at two of their most outrageous in the Chamber of Horrors, where the goal was to electrocute your opponent, and the Doomsday Cage match, where they made up the rules as they went along, but there other matches the company did that are almost as wacky. This is one of them. Infamously known as the match that cost both the competitors their jobs in WCW, it's the King of the Road match! Consisting of Dustin Rhodes, the future Goldust, and the Blacktop Bully, the former Demolition member Smash, the match pits the two not in a ring, but in a cage on a moving flatbed truck filled with hay, with the winner being the first to get to the top of the cage and sound a horn.
This match is infamous for its completely ridiculous concept and, like I said, was the reason both Rhodes & Blacktop Bully were fired from WCW. WCW had a strict "no blood policy" at the time and after both men bladed during the match, they were sacked. It would be for the best for Rhodes, as he'd become one of the most memorable characters of the Attitude Era. How bad is the King of the Road match? Let's get into it.
So because this is WCW, we join the match in progress, with Rhodes already at the horn. He has to pretend to struggle to reach it for ages to allow the Bully to catch up to him. Bully takes the Rhodes back to the other end of the cage and throws him down. He runs back over to the other side and also takes ages to get to the horn so Rhodes can catch up and hit him with a fence post. The two continue fighting and it's boring beyond belief.
There's pretty much nothing to even say, it's just two dudes hitting each other with bales of hay and other stuff and stumbling around because, like I said, they're on a moving flatbed truck because this match is unbelievably dumb. At one point the truck has to come to a complete stop because a bus is driving by. Right after that, the feed cuts out for a few seconds a few times. This is stupid.
So after more insanely clunky offense and more horrible pretending to not be able to get the horn, Bully eventually knocks Rhodes down and sounds the horn, ending the first and thankfully the last King of the Road match.

The Verdict

Well sh*t, that was absolutely terrible. It wasn't even a fun-terrible, it was just flat out awful. Every move looked clunky and uncoordinated...because it was. How could the bookers possibly think this was even remotely a good idea? Awful.

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. Triple H vs Sgt. Slaughter-D-Generation X: In Your House
  5. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
  6. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
  7. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
  8. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
  9. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
  10. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
  11. ODB, Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi vs The Kongtourage-Genesis 2009
  12. Ivory vs Tori-SummerSlam 1999
  13. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
  14. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
  15. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
  16. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
  17. Paul Ellering vs Teddy Long-Capital Combat
  18. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
  19. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
  20. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
  21. Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
  22. Finlay & Little Bastard vs The Boogeyman & Little Boogeyman-No Way Out 2007
  23. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
  24. Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4
  25. Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
  26. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
  27. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
  28. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
  29. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
  30. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
  31. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
  32. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
  33. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
  34. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
  35. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
  36. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
  37. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
  38. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
  39. Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
  40. PN News & Bobby Eaton vs Steve Austin & Terrance Taylor-Great American Bash 1991
  41. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
  42. Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
  43. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
  44.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
  45. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
  46. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
  47. The Fabulous Freebirds vs The Renegade Warriors-Halloween Havoc 1990
  48. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
  49. Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
  50. Bray Wyatt vs John Cena-Extreme Rules 2014
  51. Mabel vs The Undertaker-King of the Ring 1995
  52. Wendi Richter vs The Fabulous Moolah-The Brawl to End it All
  53. David Flair vs Kimberly Page-Mayhem 1999
  54. The Truth Commission vs The Disciples of Apocolypse-Survivor Series 1997
  55. Teddy Long vs Eric Bischoff-Survivor Series 2005
  56. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
  57. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
  58. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
  59. Mr. T vs Roddy Piper-WrestleMania 2
  60. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
  61. The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes-Uncensored 1995
  62. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
  63. Oz vs Tim Parker-SuperBrawl
  64. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
  65. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996 
  66. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/10)
  67. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
  68. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
  69. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
  70. Ultimate Warrior vs Goldust-In Your House 7
  71. Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
  72. Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell-Victory Road 2009
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