The Wrestling Section

Four years. That's how long ago I started the Worst in the World. In that time, I've covered 111 matches...but this is the one I've wanted to cover for the longest time. Back when I made the original list for this series, I came up with 115 matches based on ratings from Dave Meltzer and winners of the Worst Match of the Year Award from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. What I didn't take into account was that quite a few of those matches were house show matches that I would never be able to find...but then there's this match. Unlike those random house show matches, this match was aired on television. It took place in 2006, so there should've been some video of it somewhere. Theoretically, I should've been able to watch this match with ease...but no. It was nowhere on YouTube, nowhere on Dailymotion...this match didn't exist anywhere on the Internet it seems. I probably could've found it if I had found some shady website that would've unloaded...

Last week, I covered Sting vs Tony Palmore from New Japan Pro Wrestling's Battle 7, a terrible match that tried to blend professional wrestling with shootfighting, in this case, kickboxing. This match gave a glimpse into "Inoki-ism", a term used to describe then New Japan owner Antonio Inoki's obsession with trying to combine professional wrestling with real fighting, mixed martial arts specifically, that would ruin NJPW for years until he was forced out of the company. After how poorly this went for Inoki and New Japan, you'd have to be an idiot to try and do what they did by trying to blend MMA and pro wrestling as hard as they did...on an unrelated note, TNA. Years after Inoki was gone from New Japan, TNA tried to incorporate the world of MMA into their company, usually to poor results. Whether that be signing King Mo, who would wrestle a total of zero matches in his first three-year run with the company, to adding Rampage Jackson to the Main Event Mafia s...