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Worst in the World: Stevie Ray vs Konnan-World War 3 1998

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We finally get to come back into some nWo in fighting. We've already looked at the terrible three team WarGames match and the Hulk Hogan/Randy Savage match where Savage both sided with and turned his back on the nWo, so now we get another, much lower-profile match-up between nWo Hollywood and nWo Wolfpac. It's Booker T's much less talented brother & slap jack enthusiast Stevie Ray of Hollywood taking on Konnan of the Wolfpac at World War 3 1998. Let's get into this.
The match kicks off with lots of posing before Stevie Ray starts beating down Konnan in the corner. Stevie Ray definitely exceeds a five count, but the referee doesn't disqualify him because "WCW." After almost 40 seconds of that, Stevie Ray throws Konnan into the other corner, but Konnan gets his feet up and hits a somersault clothesline. Konnan stomps away at Stevie Ray before locking in an armbar. Stevie Ray fights back up and takes Konnan down with a superkick. Tony Schiavone says that Konnan "blocked that kick, but he still went down." Go home, Schiavone, you're breaking kayfabe.
Stevie Ray tosses Konnan out of the ring, allowing Vincent to hit Konnan in the back. Stevie Ray continues to beat down Konnan and distract the referee, allowing Vincent to beat down Konnan. Stevie Ray locks in a chin lock and the referee does the raise the hand spot. Konnan keeps the hand up on the third drop, fights out, and counters a hip toss with a backslide. Stevie Ray clotheslines Konnan to the ground and body slams him, but Konnan dodges an elbow drop and hits a facebuster. Stevie Ray pokes Konnan in the eye and calls for Vincent to use the slap jack. Konnan reverses an Irish whip and sends Stevie Ray into Vincent, causing him to hit the slap jack. Konnan starts beating down Stevie Ray, and the referee tries to stop him because "reasons." Konnan shoves him off and gets DQ'd. After the match, Booker T runs out to help  his brother, but Stevie Ray rejects his help.

The Verdict

It's lame, not much else to say. Neither man's offense or selling looked good and that's about it. Far from the worst, but still 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 Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
  12. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
  13. Ivan Koloff vs Paul Jones-Clash of the Champions IV
  14. ODB, Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi vs The Kongtourage-Genesis 2009
  15. Ivory vs Tori-SummerSlam 1999
  16. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
  17. Alex Wright vs Steve McMichael-Halloween Havoc 1997
  18. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
  19. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
  20. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
  21. Paul Ellering vs Teddy Long-Capital Combat
  22. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
  23. Tyson Tomko vs Stevie Richards-Unforgiven 2004
  24. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
  25. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
  26. Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
  27. Finlay & Little Bastard vs The Boogeyman & Little Boogeyman-No Way Out 2007
  28. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
  29. Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4
  30. Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
  31. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
  32. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
  33. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
  34. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
  35. Stevie Ray vs Konnan-World War 3 1998
  36. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
  37. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
  38. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
  39. Van Hammer vs Terrance Taylor-Clash of the Champions XVI
  40. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
  41. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
  42. Jim Duggan vs Big Boss Man-Royal Rumble 1990
  43. Meng vs Jim Duggan-Uncensored 1995
  44. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
  45. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
  46. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
  47. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
  48. Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
  49. PN News & Bobby Eaton vs Steve Austin & Terrance Taylor-Great American Bash 1991
  50. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
  51. Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
  52. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
  53.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
  54. Super Invader vs Todd Champion-WrestleWar 1992
  55. King Kong Bundy & Jim Neidhart vs Yokozuna & Jake Roberts-Heroes of Wrestling
  56. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
  57. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
  58. The Fabulous Freebirds vs The Renegade Warriors-Halloween Havoc 1990
  59. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
  60. Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
  61. Bray Wyatt vs John Cena-Extreme Rules 2014
  62. Brothers of Destruction vs KroniK-Unforgiven 2001
  63. Mabel vs The Undertaker-King of the Ring 1995
  64. Wendi Richter vs The Fabulous Moolah-The Brawl to End it All
  65. David Flair vs Kimberly Page-Mayhem 1999
  66. The Truth Commission vs The Disciples of Apocolypse-Survivor Series 1997
  67. The Bushwhacker vs The Fabulous Rougeaus-WrestleMania V
  68. The Beverly Brothers vs The Bushwhackers-Royal Rumble 1992
  69. Teddy Long vs Eric Bischoff-Survivor Series 2005
  70. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
  71. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
  72. Major Gunns vs Miss Hancock-New Blood Rising
  73. Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Christopher Nowinski & Jackie Gayda-RAW (7/8/2002)
  74. Triple H vs Scott Steiner-Royal Rumble 2003
  75. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
  76. Mr. T vs Roddy Piper-WrestleMania 2
  77. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
  78. The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes-Uncensored 1995
  79. Pat Patterson vs Gerald Brisco-King of the Ring 2000
  80. The Four Doinks vs Team Bigelow-Survivor Series 1993
  81. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
  82. Oz vs Tim Parker-SuperBrawl
  83. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
  84. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996
  85. Kane vs The Undertaker-Judgement Day 1998
  86. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/10)
  87. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
  88. The Bushwhackers vs Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff-Heroes of Wrestling
  89. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
  90. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
  91. Ultimate Warrior vs Goldust-In Your House 7
  92. Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
  93. Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell-Victory Road 2009
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  1. UnknownApril 27, 2021 at 10:26 AM

    Stevie waa only good in Harlem Heat. The guy has AWFUL embarrassingly bad solo matches. If you think the ww3 match it bad they met again at uncensored 99 and it was even worse. Stevie flat out can't work his way out of a wet paper bag. I blame stevie more than konnan because it looked like Konnan was trying to carry him.

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    1. CJ BiddleApril 27, 2021 at 4:34 PM

      Agreed. Even in Harlem Heat, you could tell that Booker was the one who could really work.

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    2. CJ BiddleFebruary 2, 2022 at 11:03 PM

      Hey, sorry I'm replying again so long after you commented, but do you mean their match at Slamboree 1999? I looked up Uncensored 1999 and the card doesn't say they wrestled there.

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  2. UnknownMay 3, 2021 at 12:35 PM

    It was tolerable in Harlem heat but by seeing him solo was sad. Not that he was anything special in Harlem heat but it was a great tag team. Seems like had hit a power decline as he aged and accumulated injuries that really became noticable sometime in the late 90s. He was never a worker but he at least was strong enough to be the power house in a good tag team. I believe he had some muscle injuries that legitimately zapped his power.

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