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This match raises some questions. First off, who is Tony Palmore? Well, he's a professional kickboxer who won gold twice at the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations World Championships in 1978 and 1979 in the +84kg division. He is not a wrestler. That might raise the question as to why he's not only wrestling, but wrestling one of the biggest stars in wrestling in Sting, and how a match this bad could've been held by New Japan Pro Wrestling, widely considered to have the best wrestling in the world in 2020. Well, the answer to that is simple...Antonio Inoki. Antonio Inoki loved shootfighting, so much so that he tried his damnedest to mix it with professional wrestling during his tenure as the owner of New Japan, including pushing for his wrestlers to embark on MMA careers during a boom in MMA's popularity in the early 2000s. Poor Yugi Nagata, one of New Japan's top stars in the early 2000s, was truly fed to the wolves, as his only two MMA fights were los...

...You knew it was coming. After this happened, you knew it would be showing up in a series chronicling the worst wrestling matches of all time. This match isn't even a year old, but it's already gone down as one of WWE's most catastrophically bad matches in the company's history. Seth Rollins and Bray Wyatt's Hell in a Cell match for the Universal Championship won the Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Worst Match of the Year and received -2 stars from Dave Meltzer, the lowest a WWE match has gotten since 2007. To put that in perspective, here are some matches that happened between then that got a better rating than this match: Sting and Abyss' Last Rites match AJ Styles vs Frank Trigg in a worked MMA match WrestleMania XXV's Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal Santina Marella vs Vickie Guerrero & Chavo Guerrero in a Hogpen match  The match where Jeff Hardy got trashed before the main event Santino Marella vs Ricardo Rodriquez in a Tuxedo match J...