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Worst in the World: The Fatal 4-Way Tag Team Match-WrestleMania 13

It's back to multi-tag team action I go. Recently, I took a look at the 15-tag team battle royal that opened WrestleMania XIV, and that was a clusterf*ck. This time, thankfully, there's only four teams to focus on, so that's a plus. It's The Headbangers Mosh & Thrasher vs The New Blackjacks (Barry) Windham & Bradshaw (JBL) vs Henry & Phineas Godwinn with Hillbilly Jim in their corner vs Doug Furnas & Phil Lafon in an elimination fatal 4-way tag match to determine the #1 Contenders for the Tag Team Championships. The Headbangers AND JBL in the same match? That just sounds like a winning combination, doesn't it? Let's get into this.
Kick off with a brawl, ending with Bradshaw & Henry Godwinn in the ring. Godwinn floors Bradshaw with a clothesline before Thrasher tags in to take a big boot from Bradshaw. Bradshaw hits a pumphandle slam and tags in Phineas Godwinn. Phineas hits a backbody drop on Thrasher before tagging in Mosh. Since they're on the same team, they joke around before Thrasher tags in LaFon and the Headbangers hit a double flapjack. Standard stuff so far.
LaFon suplexes Mosh before hitting an overhead belly-to-belly suplex on Windham. Furnas tags in and hits a hurricanrana. Furnas & LaFon are by far the best wrestlers in this match. Windham responds by catching Furnas off a leapfrog and hitting a powerslam followed by a leg drop. The Blackjacks double team Furnas before he dodges a clothesline from Bradshaw and dropkicks him out of the ring. Furnas tries to suplex Bradshaw back in the ring, but Windham stops him, causing Bradshaw & Furnas especially to take a nasty fall to the outside. LaFon runs over and he & Furnas brawl with the Blackjacks. Bradshaw shoves the referee, getting the Blackjacks disqualified and eliminated from the match. Also for a reason not explained, Furnas & LaFon get eliminated too, leaving the Godwinns & The Headbangers.
The Godwinns double team Thrasher, with Henry bodyslamming Phineas onto Thrasher. Phineas then does this odd move where he sets up Thrasher for a powerbomb, but instead hits something like a Pedigree, except instead of landing on his knees, he just jumps up. Doesn't even look like it would have any effect whatsoever. The Godwinns continue to beat down on Thrasher before Thrasher no sells a headbutt. Thrasher & Phineas spit on eachother (gross) before the two punch it out, ending with Phineas hitting a corner splash.
Mosh & Henry both tag in and Henry clotheslines Mosh out of the ring, sending himself out of the ring in the process. Mosh hits a springboard tope clothesline before the Headbangers hit the Rocket Launcher on Henry. The Headbangers hit a double clothesline on Henry, but Henry dodges a moonsault by Thrasher. Phineas gets the tag, bodyslams both Headbangers and calls for the Slop Drop on Mosh. Thrasher stops him, and Henry enters the ring to brawl with him. The ensuing chaos allows Mosh to hit a diving seated senton for the win.

The Verdict

Pretty nothing match, not much really notably bad.

Rankings (Best to Worst)

  1. Rick Rude vs Jake Roberts-WrestleMania IV
  2. Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
  3. Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
  4. T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000
  5. Triple H vs Sgt. Slaughter-D-Generation X: In Your House
  6. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
  7. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
  8. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
  9. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
  10. Steve McMichael vs Reggie White-Slamboree 1997
  11. The Tag Team Fatal 4-Way Match-WrestleMania 13
  12. Tag Team Battle Royal-WrestleMania XIV
  13. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
  14. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
  15. Ivan Koloff vs Paul Jones-Clash of the Champions IV
  16. ODB, Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi vs The Kongtourage-Genesis 2009
  17. Ivory vs Tori-SummerSlam 1999
  18. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
  19. Alex Wright vs Steve McMichael-Halloween Havoc 1997
  20. Savio Vega vs Crush vs Faarooq-Ground Zero: In Your House
  21. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
  22. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
  23. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
  24. Paul Ellering vs Teddy Long-Capital Combat
  25. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
  26. Tyson Tomko vs Stevie Richards-Unforgiven 2004
  27. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
  28. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
  29. Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
  30. Finlay & Little Bastard vs The Boogeyman & Little Boogeyman-No Way Out 2007
  31. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
  32. Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4
  33. Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
  34. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
  35. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
  36. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
  37. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
  38. Stevie Ray vs Konnan-World War 3 1998
  39. Vampiro vs The KISS Demon-Bash at the Beach 2000
  40. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
  41. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
  42. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
  43. Van Hammer vs Terrance Taylor-Clash of the Champions XVI
  44. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
  45. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
  46. Jim Duggan vs Big Boss Man-Royal Rumble 1990
  47. Meng vs Jim Duggan-Uncensored 1995
  48. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
  49. Wendi Richter vs Leilani Kai-WrestleMania
  50. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
  51. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
  52. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
  53. Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
  54. PN News & Bobby Eaton vs Steve Austin & Terrance Taylor-Great American Bash 1991
  55. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
  56. Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
  57. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
  58.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
  59. Super Invader vs Todd Champion-WrestleWar 1992
  60. King Kong Bundy & Jim Neidhart vs Yokozuna & Jake Roberts-Heroes of Wrestling
  61. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
  62. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
  63. The Fabulous Freebirds vs The Renegade Warriors-Halloween Havoc 1990
  64. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
  65. Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
  66. Bray Wyatt vs John Cena-Extreme Rules 2014
  67. Brothers of Destruction vs KroniK-Unforgiven 2001
  68. Mabel vs The Undertaker-King of the Ring 1995
  69. Wendi Richter vs The Fabulous Moolah-The Brawl to End it All
  70. David Flair vs Kimberly Page-Mayhem 1999
  71. The Truth Commission vs The Disciples of Apocolypse-Survivor Series 1997
  72. The Bushwhacker vs The Fabulous Rougeaus-WrestleMania V
  73. The Beverly Brothers vs The Bushwhackers-Royal Rumble 1992
  74. Teddy Long vs Eric Bischoff-Survivor Series 2005
  75. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
  76. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
  77. Major Gunns vs Miss Hancock-New Blood Rising
  78. Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Christopher Nowinski & Jackie Gayda-RAW (7/8/2002)
  79. Triple H vs Scott Steiner-Royal Rumble 2003
  80. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
  81. Mr. T vs Roddy Piper-WrestleMania 2
  82. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
  83. The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes-Uncensored 1995
  84. Pat Patterson vs Gerald Brisco-King of the Ring 2000
  85. The Four Doinks vs Team Bigelow-Survivor Series 1993
  86. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
  87. Oz vs Tim Parker-SuperBrawl
  88. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
  89. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996
  90. Kane vs The Undertaker-Judgement Day 1998
  91. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/10)
  92. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
  93. The Bushwhackers vs Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff-Heroes of Wrestling
  94. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
  95. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
  96. Ultimate Warrior vs Goldust-In Your House 7
  97. Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
  98. Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell-Victory Road 2009
And finally, the last, but certainly not least, the final entry (for now) in the Worst in the World is...

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