Worst in the World: Victory Roadblock

(Note: I began writing this post last week. In that time, the Dark Side of the Ring episode on the infamous Plane Ride from Hell has released. I bring this up because one of the matches I cover here (a match that I enjoyed) involves Tommy Dreamer, who made disgusting comments regarding & defending an alleged sexual assault by Ric Flair. Any positive comments I make regarding the match are by no means support for Tommy Dreamer as he faces the consequences of his own actions)

(Special thanks to Frost for suggesting these matches. If you'd like to see a match covered on the Worst in the World, leave a comment down below.)

When you see the words "Victory Road 2011", what's the first thing you think of? I can bet with almost 100% certainty that it's the main event, where Jeff Hardy walked down to the ring, clearly in no condition to compete, before Sting quickly gave him a Scorpion Death Drop and shoot pinned him to end the match in under 90 seconds, which was so bad even Sting himself commented on it when the crowd chanted "BULLSHIT!" It was actually one of the first matches I ever covered on Worst in the World (which, as it was early in this series, is not my best work, I'll admit.) However, what the main event also did was make everyone forget that the majority of this show is also very bad. As bad as the main event? Not quite, but still bad enough to find a place in this series. Today, I'll be looking at four matches from Victory Road 2011, all of which were rated one and a half stars or lower by Dave Meltzer. Also, since I've already done the main event, it will not be re-covered here. And if you want to judge any of these matches for yourself, you can, because for whatever reason, Victory Road 2011 is available on Impact Plus, in its entirety, completely for free. I have no idea why. I can't imagine this was done so people could get a taste of what TNA has to offer when the offer in question is this pile of a show. So with all that out of the way, let's get into this.

Also, bonus note, the fact that the theme for Victory Road 2011 is "All I Want" by A Day to Remember is already bumping up my opinion of this show.

Match #1: Tommy Dreamer vs Bully Ray

The first match I'll be taking a look at is the show's opening contest between Bully Ray (Bubba Ray Dudley) and Tommy Dreamer. And just like the last time I looked at multiple matches from one show, this show also features the post-break-up feud of a legendary tag team. Ray is just four months removed from turning on his longtime tag partner and kayfabe brother Devon (D-Von Dudley), beginning his change from Brother Ray to Bully Ray. Unlike with Scott Steiner, however, Brother Ray & Bully Ray aren't really that different...or any different. The former Team 3D/Dudley Boyz teammates would feud for several months, with Devon's sons Terrence & Terrell even taking some abuse from Ray. This all set up a match at Victory Road between Bully Ray and...Tommy Dreamer. I'm not really sure how Dreamer found his way into this feud, but if Lucha Underground taught me anything, it's that Tommy Dreamer is always around, even if he has no business being there.

Before the match, Bully Ray demands a microphone from SoCal Val before screaming at her to get out of the ring. I laughed. Bully thanks God for Eric Bischoff & Hulk Hogan for seeing the potential in him as one of the greatest wrestlers right now. He is interrupted by Dreamer, who Bully taunts by mentioning how many times he's kicked his ass over the years and the time he broke Dreamer's wife Beulah McGillicutty's neck back in ECW. I wasn't gonna mention it, but since they did, it is very weird that they would use that angle as heat for Bully when he's about to face Dreamer, who is fighting on behalf of Devon...who also took part in breaking Beulah's neck. Just a weird little detail. Bully announces that thanks to his friendship with Hogan & Bischoff, that this match is now a Falls Count Anywhere match before calling Dreamer a fat ass. Dreamer immediately takes the fight to Bully, laying into him with punches before hitting a crossbody.

After some ground and pound, Dreamer goes for a bulldog, but Bully blocks it and hits a clothesline. Bully goes for an elbow drop for the follow-up, but Dreamer avoids it and tosses Bully out of the ring. Dreamer beats down Bully at ringside before stealing a woman's drink, drinking it, and then hitting Bully with it.

What a dick! That probably cost like five bucks minimum.  Dreamer continues to beat down the former Bubba Ray at ringside before having a fan hold up a chair so he can throw Bully into it. Dick moment #2 for Dreamer as he takes a fan's water bottle, takes a drink, spits it in Bully's face, then smacks him with it. Tommy Dreamer is just taking liberties with the fan's wallets at this point. Dreamer follows all this up by grabbing a giant stuffed Minion from the crowd and hitting Bully with it.

It is here we learn that Taz has no idea what a Minion is. Hook must've been more of a How to Train Your Dragon kid. Even funnier, as Taz desperately tries to figure out what a Minion is for a full 20 seconds, Mike Tenay just goes SILENT, it's the best. I know I'm making a lot of jokes about this, but so far, this has been a lot of fun, and the crowd is loving it.

Dreamer continues to control the match, throwing Bully over the barricade and brawling into the stands. Dreamer beats Bully through the crowd before the match finally gets back to ringside, where Bully turns the tides by dropping Dreamer crotch first across the guardrail. Bully grabs a kendo stick and, for no reason whatsoever, charges at SoCal Val, screams "MOVE IT YOU BITCH!" and smashes the stick across the guard rail so hard it breaks apart completely.

What in the world is Bully Ray's problem with SoCal Val? I know he grabs the chair she was sitting in right after, but it's wrestling, I'm like 99% sure there are chairs available to him without threatening...whatever SoCal Val is. She's not the ring announcer, that's Jeremy Borash, so is her job tonight literally just to be out there and get screamed at by Bully Ray?

Bully stomps on Dreamer's hand on the steps before trying to smash it with a chair, but Dreamer pulls his arm away before throwing Bully into the post. Dreamer throws a trash can, Dead End sign, and a roadblock into the ring before grabbing a kendo stick. Dreamer dives off the second rope (the most dangerous rope) for a kendo stick shot before going under the ring and grabbing...a sex doll.

Before you ask, yes, Vince Russo was working for TNA at the time. Dreamer grabs a pizza tray out of the trash can and smashes it over Bully's head, causing him to fall right into a 69 with the doll. Mike Tenay reminds everyone that this is not a three-way match. Nice one. Dreamer follows up with a on both Bully and the doll for a near fall. Based on the fact that the doll didn't pop, either that was the world's weakest splash, or that's the world's most resilient sex doll. Dreamer goes to the top rope with the Dead End sign, but Bully smashes the pizza tray across his head. Bully follows up with a superplex and an elbow drop...on the doll. Again, somehow this does not pop it. This is staggering. Bully finally just tosses the doll out of the ring after that.

Bully goes for the Bully Bomb (a full nelson bomb), but Dreamer fights out and hits a DDT, but Bully kicks out. Dreamer pulls a table out from under the ring and tries to piledrive Bully through it, but Bully powers out and smashes the trash can across Dreamer's head. Dreamer blocks an Uranage, but Bully immediately follows up with a big boot. Bully makes the cover, but Dreamer grabs the bottom rope...and gets a rope break. What? It's no DQ, how can you there be rope breaks? Makes no sense. Bully beats down Dreamer with a kendo stick before demanding a mic from SoCal Val. Bully taunts Dreamer as he continues beating him down before setting up for a powerbomb through the table. Suddenly, Team 3D's music hits and outcomes Devon's sons Terrence & Terrell, one of whom is in a neck brace. But it's all a distraction, as Devon slides into the ring and hits a 3D with Dreamer on Bully, allowing Dreamer to get the three and the win.

The Verdict

You know what...I liked this match. I am dead serious. Is it a technical masterpiece? No. Am I still confused as to why Tommy Dreamer is suddenly involved in this storyline? Yes. Is it ever gonna make anybody's list of best matches ever? Absolutely not. But was still a lot of fun with nonstop action. In all seriousness, this is the best match I've watched in this series. I would actually go as far as to say that this match is actually fairly good. 

The Rankings (Best to Worst)

1. Tommy Dreamer vs Bully Ray-Victory Road 2011
2. Rick Rude vs Jake Roberts-WrestleMania IV
3. Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
4. Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns-Greatest Royal Rumble
5. Ernest Miller vs Norman Smiley-Fall Brawl 1998
6. Shane McMahon vs Eric Bischoff-SummerSlam 2003
7. The Tag Team Gauntlet-Extreme Rules 2010
8. Randy Orton vs Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 33
9. Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
10. T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000
11. The Women's Tag Team Turmoil-WrestleMania 37 (Night 1)
12. Triple H vs Sgt. Slaughter-D-Generation X: In Your House
13. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
14. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
15. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
16. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
17. Steve McMichael vs Reggie White-Slamboree 1997
18. Lars Sullivan vs Lucha House Party-Super Showdown 2019
19. Alexa Bliss vs Bayley-Extreme Rules 2017
20. The Tag Team Fatal 4-Way Match-WrestleMania 13
21. Tag Team Battle Royal-WrestleMania XIV
22. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
23. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
24. Ivan Koloff vs Paul Jones-Clash of the Champions IV
25. ODB, Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi vs The Kongtourage-Genesis 2009
26. Kazushi Sakuraba & Yuji Nagata vs Daniel & Rolles Gracie-Wrestle Kingdom 8
27. Ivory vs Tori-SummerSlam 1999
28. Giant Baba vs Bulldog Bob Brown-WrestleRock
29. The Reverse Battle Royal-Impact! (10/26/2006)
30. Jerry Blackwell vs Boris Zhukov-SuperClash II
31. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
32. Alex Wright vs Steve McMichael-Halloween Havoc 1997
33. The Great Khali vs Kane-WrestleMania 23
34. Savio Vega vs Crush vs Faarooq-Ground Zero: In Your House
35. The Shockmaster vs Awesome/King Kong-Starrcade 1993
36. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
37. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
38. Team RAW vs Team SmackDown Men's Elimination Match-Survivor Series 2017
39. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
40. Paul Ellering vs Teddy Long-Capital Combat
41. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
42. Konnan vs Scott Hall-Fall Brawl 1998
43. Damian Priest vs The Miz-WrestleMania Backlash
44. Tyson Tomko vs Stevie Richards-Unforgiven 2004
45. Kane vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2009
46. Rick Steiner vs Scott Steiner-Fall Brawl 1998
47. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
48. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
49. Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
50. Finlay & Little Bastard vs The Boogeyman & Little Boogeyman-No Way Out 2007
51. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
52. El Gigante vs Nailz-G1 Climax 1994 (Day 1)
53. Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4
54. Dusty Rhodes vs The Honky Tonk Man-SummerSlam 1989
55. Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
56. The Hurt Business vs RETRIBUTION-WWE Monday Night RAW (10/26/2020)
57. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
58. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
59. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
60. Antonio Inoki vs The Great Antonio-NJPW Sumo Hall Show (12/8/1977)
61. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
62. British Bulldog & Jim Neidhart vs The Dancing Fools-Fall Brawl 1998
63. Stevie Ray vs Konnan-World War 3 1998
64. Vampiro vs The KISS Demon-Bash at the Beach 2000
65. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
66. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
67. Big Swole vs Penelope Ford, Rebel, and Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D.-AEW Dynamite (8/27/2020)
68. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
69. Jinder Mahal vs Randy Orton-Battleground 2017
70. Van Hammer vs Terrance Taylor-Clash of the Champions XVI
71. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
72. Chris Jericho vs "Goldberg"-Fall Brawl 1998
73. Roman Reigns vs The Undertaker-WrestleMania 33
74. The Undertaker vs Goldberg-Super ShowDown 2019
75. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
76. Jim Duggan vs Big Boss Man-Royal Rumble 1990
77. Meng vs Jim Duggan-Uncensored 1995
78. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
79. The Undertaker vs Giant González-WrestleMania IX
80. Sting vs Tony Palmore-Battle 7
81. D-Generation X vs Brothers of Destruction-Crown Jewel
82. Wendi Richter vs Leilani Kai-WrestleMania
83. Goldberg vs Brock Lesnar-WrestleMania XX
84. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
85. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
86. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
87. Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
88. Boris Zhukov vs Paul Samson-Beach Brawl
89. Roddy Piper vs Hollywood Hogan-Halloween Havoc 1997
90. Kane vs The Great Khali-Breaking Point
91. Hollywood Hogan & Dennis Rodman vs Diamond Dallas Page & Karl Malone-Bash at the Beach 1998
92. PN News & Bobby Eaton vs Steve Austin & Terrance Taylor-Great American Bash 1991
93. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
94. Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
95. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
96. Sting vs Hollywood Hogan-Starrcade 1997
97.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
98. Super Invader vs Todd Champion-WrestleWar 1992
99. Brock Lesnar vs Cain Velasquez-Crown Jewel 2019
100. King Kong Bundy & Jim Neidhart vs Yokozuna & Jake Roberts-Heroes of Wrestling
101. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
102. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
103. The Fabulous Freebirds vs The Renegade Warriors-Halloween Havoc 1990
104. The Knockouts Gauntlet-One Night Only: Live! 2016
105. AJ Styles vs Frank Trigg-No Surrender 2008
106. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
107. Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
108. Bray Wyatt vs John Cena-Extreme Rules 2014
109. Brothers of Destruction vs KroniK-Unforgiven 2001
110. The Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal-WrestleMania 25
111. Mabel vs The Undertaker-King of the Ring 1995
112. Wendi Richter vs The Fabulous Moolah-The Brawl to End it All
113. David Flair vs Kimberly Page-Mayhem 1999
114. The Truth Commission vs The Disciples of Apocolypse-Survivor Series 1997
115. Daffney vs Miss Hancock-Bash at the Beach 2000
116. The Bushwhacker vs The Fabulous Rougeaus-WrestleMania V
117. Randy Orton vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 37 (Night 2)
118. The Beverly Brothers vs The Bushwhackers-Royal Rumble 1992
119. Teddy Long vs Eric Bischoff-Survivor Series 2005
120. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
121. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
122. Major Gunns vs Miss Hancock-New Blood Rising
123. Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Christopher Nowinski & Jackie Gayda-WWE Monday Night RAW (7/8/2002)
124. Triple H vs Scott Steiner-Royal Rumble 2003
125. Goldberg vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Super ShowDown 2020
126. Santina Marella vs Vickie & Chavo Guerrero-Extreme Rules 2009
127. Kevin Nash vs Scott Steiner vs Goldberg-New Blood Rising
128. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
129. Mr. T vs Roddy Piper-WrestleMania 2
130. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
131. The House of Horrors Match-Payback 2017
132. The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes-Uncensored 1995
133. Team Dos Caras vs Team El Canek-Leyendas Mexicanas 2017
134. Pat Patterson vs Gerald Brisco-King of the Ring 2000
135. The Wyatt Swamp Fight-The Horror Show at Extreme Rules
136. The Four Doinks vs Team Bigelow-Survivor Series 1993
137. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
138. Bret Hart vs Mr. McMahon-WrestleMania XVI
139. Oz vs Tim Parker-SuperBrawl
140. Brock Lesnar vs Braun Strowman-Crown Jewel 2018
141. Brock Lesnar vs Ricochet-Super ShowDown 2020
142. The Mighty Maccabee vs The Iron Sheik-Maccabiah Mania II: Shekel Slam
143. Van Hammer vs Doug Somers-Halloween Havoc 1991
144. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
145. Jeff Jarrett vs Sting-Halloween Havoc 2000
146. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996
147. Kane vs The Undertaker-Judgement Day 1998
148. Rebel vs Shelly Martinez-One Night Only: Knockouts Knockdown
149. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/2010)
150. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
151. Seth Rollins vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Hell in a Cell 2019
152. Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler-WrestleMania XXVII
153. The Bushwhackers vs Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff-Heroes of Wrestling
154. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
155. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
156. Hulk Hogan vs The Giant-Halloween Havoc 1995
157. Ultimate Warrior vs Goldust-In Your House 7
158. Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
159. Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell-Victory Road 2009

So, we've started this off on a high, let's bring it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down low.

Match #2: Rosita & Sarita vs Angelina Love & Winter

The second match of Victory Road 2011 saw the Knockouts Tag Team Champions Angelina Love and Winter (Katie Lea Burchill in WWE) defending the titles against Rosita (Thea Trinidad/Zelina Vega) and Sarita of Mexican America, a stable that preached the superiority of Mexican-Americans even though neither Rosita or Sarita are Mexican-American. This storyline...is weird. Fresh off her release from WWE, Winter debuted in TNA as an "admirer" of Love, but would only appear to Love. And by "only appear to Love", I mean everyone watching at home could also see her, but anytime Love tried to show Winter to her Beautiful People teammate Velvet Sky, she'd be gone. Hogan & Bischoff clearly booking this from experience. Eventually. Winter began appearing in front of other wrestlers and, after Sky was injured by Sarita, teamed up with Love to win the vacant tag titles. Three months later, Winter & Love put the titles on the line against Rosita & Sarita in the midst of a conflict between Sky & Winter. Let's get into this.

Rosita & Sarita have a fun entrance. Also, I knew Rosita was short, but I didn't realize that she was so short that she's only a little taller than Sarita when Sarita kneels down.

Sarita is not that tall either, she's 5'5. We get our second straight match with pre-match promo in the ring, as Sarita says she and her cousin will leave tonight as the Tag Team Champions. She says Love & Winter are too focused on their "kinky love triangle thing happening" with Sky and not on their match before speaking in Spanish, eliciting USA chants from the crowd because they're foreign, you see. Sarita, a woman born in the small Mexican village of Winnipeg, Manitoba, ends her promo by saying Mexico is taking back what's rightfully theirs. Love & Winter come out to the Beautiful People's music. Kind of kills the mysterious mystique of Winter when she comes out to...whatever the Beautiful People's theme is supposed to be.

Love & Rosita start the match off. with Love taking control with a headlock followed by a shoulder block, a clothesline, and another shoulder block. Rosita quickly tags out so Sarita can take her licks, as Love counters a back suplex with a headlock takeover. Winter scares Sarita as she recovers, allowing Love to follow up with a suplex. Rosita tags back in, only to eat a drop toe hold from Love, who tags in Winter. Winter lays out Rosita with a back elbow followed by a backbreaker for the near fall. Rosita immediately tags back out to Sarita, who immediately takes a flapjack. Sarita slips out of a slam attempt, but after a reversal that I can only describe as "not the cleanest". Winter hits a Northern Lights suplex, but Rosita breaks up the pinfall. Holy shit, did Rosita & Sarita piss somebody off backstage? The first two minutes of this match is just them getting squashed with little effort.

Sarita manages to hit the first offensive maneuver for her team when Love tags in and gets her Irish whip attempt countered with a hair pull takedown. Rosita tags in, but the advantage doesn't last long as Love dodges Rosita & Sarita's electric chair drop splash. Love follows up with a falling slam as the crowd chants "USA" in support of a Canadian woman and a German-English woman and in disapproval of another Canadian woman and a woman born in Queens. What are we even doing? Winter tags back in for a big boot, but Rosita dodges it and kicks her leg out of her leg.

Sarita tags back in as Rosita holds Winter in place, but Winter avoids Sarita's dropkick, causing Rosita to take the hit. Winter hits a wristlock takedown before tagging in Love, who works the arm with a wristlock. Sarita breaks the hold and whips Love into the ropes, where Rosita gets a cheap shot in by pulling Love down by her hair. Rosita tags back and goes for a slingshot senton, but Love moves out of the way. How did these two goofballs get a title match? They have hit a total of three offensive moves in this match, and every time they take control, they instantly lose it. Are you telling me Angelina Love and Winter are just THAT much better than them?

Love follows that up with that dumb inverted Stunner Shane Douglas used in WCW and makes the cover, but Sarita breaks up the pin. Winter tags back in for a Botox Injection (Love's bad name for a bicycle kick)-Samoan Drop combo and makes the pin, but Sarita breaks it up again. As Love knocks Sarita out of the ring, referee Earl Hebner gets distracted by Love, allowing Sarita to grab one of the title belts from SoCal Val. Sarita is significantly nicer to Val than Bully Ray was when she does this. Love immediately notices this and knocks Sarita out of the ring again, leading to a brawl at ringside that also distracts Hebner. It is here where either Velvet Sky misses her cue, or Rosita jumps the gun on her cue to grab the title belt and prepare to hit Winter, leaving her standing with the belt above her head awkwardly for a good seven seconds too long before Sky runs down and yanks the belt away from her.

Winter takes the opportunity to roll up Rosita and gets the visual three, but Hebner is still distracted by Angelina Love at ringside. Sarita takes the opportunity to slide in and roll the pin over in favor of Rosita. Despite the fact that Winter has taken just one move all match, Rosita manages to pin her for well over three seconds before Hebner finally returns to the match, counts the three, and the win for Rosita & Sarita. Winter, Love, and Sky argue and Velvet calls Winter a spazz.

The Verdict

What the fuck was this? Why was this match so one-sided? Why would TNA book this match the way they did when the people getting demolished end up winning the match? Who did this benefit? All in all, this match was not good whatsoever. It's not the worst I've seen by any stretch of the imagination (hell, it's not even the worst on this show) and while there are definitely some clunky moments and a laughably bad ending, I still can't put it too low. But it's definitely on the lower side.

The Rankings (Best to Worst)

1. Tommy Dreamer vs Bully Ray-Victory Road 2011
2. Rick Rude vs Jake Roberts-WrestleMania IV
3. Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
4. Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns-Greatest Royal Rumble
5. Ernest Miller vs Norman Smiley-Fall Brawl 1998
6. Shane McMahon vs Eric Bischoff-SummerSlam 2003
7. The Tag Team Gauntlet-Extreme Rules 2010
8. Randy Orton vs Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 33
9. Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
10. T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000
11. The Women's Tag Team Turmoil-WrestleMania 37 (Night 1)
12. Triple H vs Sgt. Slaughter-D-Generation X: In Your House
13. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
14. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
15. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
16. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
17. Steve McMichael vs Reggie White-Slamboree 1997
18. Lars Sullivan vs Lucha House Party-Super Showdown 2019
19. Alexa Bliss vs Bayley-Extreme Rules 2017
20. The Tag Team Fatal 4-Way Match-WrestleMania 13
21. Tag Team Battle Royal-WrestleMania XIV
22. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
23. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
24. Ivan Koloff vs Paul Jones-Clash of the Champions IV
25. ODB, Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi vs The Kongtourage-Genesis 2009
26. Kazushi Sakuraba & Yuji Nagata vs Daniel & Rolles Gracie-Wrestle Kingdom 8
27. Ivory vs Tori-SummerSlam 1999
28. Giant Baba vs Bulldog Bob Brown-WrestleRock
29. The Reverse Battle Royal-Impact! (10/26/2006)
30. Jerry Blackwell vs Boris Zhukov-SuperClash II
31. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
32. Alex Wright vs Steve McMichael-Halloween Havoc 1997
33. The Great Khali vs Kane-WrestleMania 23
34. Savio Vega vs Crush vs Faarooq-Ground Zero: In Your House
35. The Shockmaster vs Awesome/King Kong-Starrcade 1993
36. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
37. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
38. Team RAW vs Team SmackDown Men's Elimination Match-Survivor Series 2017
39. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
40. Paul Ellering vs Teddy Long-Capital Combat
41. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
42. Konnan vs Scott Hall-Fall Brawl 1998
43. Damian Priest vs The Miz-WrestleMania Backlash
44. Tyson Tomko vs Stevie Richards-Unforgiven 2004
45. Kane vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2009
46. Rick Steiner vs Scott Steiner-Fall Brawl 1998
47. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
48. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
49. Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
50. Finlay & Little Bastard vs The Boogeyman & Little Boogeyman-No Way Out 2007
51. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
52. El Gigante vs Nailz-G1 Climax 1994 (Day 1)
53. Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4
54. Dusty Rhodes vs The Honky Tonk Man-SummerSlam 1989
55. Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
56. The Hurt Business vs RETRIBUTION-WWE Monday Night RAW (10/26/2020)
57. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
58. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
59. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
60. Antonio Inoki vs The Great Antonio-NJPW Sumo Hall Show (12/8/1977)
61. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
62. British Bulldog & Jim Neidhart vs The Dancing Fools-Fall Brawl 1998
63. Stevie Ray vs Konnan-World War 3 1998
64. Vampiro vs The KISS Demon-Bash at the Beach 2000
65. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
66. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
67. Big Swole vs Penelope Ford, Rebel, and Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D.-AEW Dynamite (8/27/2020)
68. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
69. Jinder Mahal vs Randy Orton-Battleground 2017
70. Van Hammer vs Terrance Taylor-Clash of the Champions XVI
71. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
72. Chris Jericho vs "Goldberg"-Fall Brawl 1998
73. Roman Reigns vs The Undertaker-WrestleMania 33
74. The Undertaker vs Goldberg-Super ShowDown 2019
75. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
76. Jim Duggan vs Big Boss Man-Royal Rumble 1990
77. Meng vs Jim Duggan-Uncensored 1995
78. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
79. The Undertaker vs Giant González-WrestleMania IX
80. Sting vs Tony Palmore-Battle 7
81. D-Generation X vs Brothers of Destruction-Crown Jewel
82. Wendi Richter vs Leilani Kai-WrestleMania
83. Goldberg vs Brock Lesnar-WrestleMania XX
84. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
85. Rosita & Sarita vs Angelina Love & Winter-Victory Road 2011
86. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
87. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
88. Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
89. Boris Zhukov vs Paul Samson-Beach Brawl
90. Roddy Piper vs Hollywood Hogan-Halloween Havoc 1997
91. Kane vs The Great Khali-Breaking Point
92. Hollywood Hogan & Dennis Rodman vs Diamond Dallas Page & Karl Malone-Bash at the Beach 1998
93. PN News & Bobby Eaton vs Steve Austin & Terrance Taylor-Great American Bash 1991
94. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
95. Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
96. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
97. Sting vs Hollywood Hogan-Starrcade 1997
98.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
99. Super Invader vs Todd Champion-WrestleWar 1992
100. Brock Lesnar vs Cain Velasquez-Crown Jewel 2019
101. King Kong Bundy & Jim Neidhart vs Yokozuna & Jake Roberts-Heroes of Wrestling
102. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
103. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
104. The Fabulous Freebirds vs The Renegade Warriors-Halloween Havoc 1990
105. The Knockouts Gauntlet-One Night Only: Live! 2016
106. AJ Styles vs Frank Trigg-No Surrender 2008
107. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
108. Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
109. Bray Wyatt vs John Cena-Extreme Rules 2014
110. Brothers of Destruction vs KroniK-Unforgiven 2001
111. The Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal-WrestleMania 25
112. Mabel vs The Undertaker-King of the Ring 1995
113. Wendi Richter vs The Fabulous Moolah-The Brawl to End it All
114. David Flair vs Kimberly Page-Mayhem 1999
115. The Truth Commission vs The Disciples of Apocolypse-Survivor Series 1997
116. Daffney vs Miss Hancock-Bash at the Beach 2000
117. The Bushwhacker vs The Fabulous Rougeaus-WrestleMania V
118. Randy Orton vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 37 (Night 2)
119. The Beverly Brothers vs The Bushwhackers-Royal Rumble 1992
120. Teddy Long vs Eric Bischoff-Survivor Series 2005
121. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
122. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
123. Major Gunns vs Miss Hancock-New Blood Rising
124. Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Christopher Nowinski & Jackie Gayda-WWE Monday Night RAW (7/8/2002)
125. Triple H vs Scott Steiner-Royal Rumble 2003
126. Goldberg vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Super ShowDown 2020
127. Santina Marella vs Vickie & Chavo Guerrero-Extreme Rules 2009
128. Kevin Nash vs Scott Steiner vs Goldberg-New Blood Rising
129. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
130. Mr. T vs Roddy Piper-WrestleMania 2
131. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
132. The House of Horrors Match-Payback 2017
133. The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes-Uncensored 1995
134. Team Dos Caras vs Team El Canek-Leyendas Mexicanas 2017
135. Pat Patterson vs Gerald Brisco-King of the Ring 2000
136. The Wyatt Swamp Fight-The Horror Show at Extreme Rules
137. The Four Doinks vs Team Bigelow-Survivor Series 1993
138. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
139. Bret Hart vs Mr. McMahon-WrestleMania XVI
140. Oz vs Tim Parker-SuperBrawl
141. Brock Lesnar vs Braun Strowman-Crown Jewel 2018
142. Brock Lesnar vs Ricochet-Super ShowDown 2020
143. The Mighty Maccabee vs The Iron Sheik-Maccabiah Mania II: Shekel Slam
144. Van Hammer vs Doug Somers-Halloween Havoc 1991
145. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
146. Jeff Jarrett vs Sting-Halloween Havoc 2000
147. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996
148. Kane vs The Undertaker-Judgement Day 1998
149. Rebel vs Shelly Martinez-One Night Only: Knockouts Knockdown
150. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/2010)
151. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
152. Seth Rollins vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Hell in a Cell 2019
153. Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler-WrestleMania XXVII
154. The Bushwhackers vs Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff-Heroes of Wrestling
155. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
156. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
157. Hulk Hogan vs The Giant-Halloween Havoc 1995
158. Ultimate Warrior vs Goldust-In Your House 7
159. Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
160. Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell-Victory Road 2009

Match #3: Hernandez vs Matt Morgan

Match #3 in this post is also match #3 of the night, as former tag partners Hernandez and Matt Morgan squared off in a First Blood match. Hernandez & Morgan have pretty similar stories in TNA, as both were clearly guys the company wanted to push as main eventers, but neither really panned out so they'd just throw them into a tag team. Following the official split of the Latin American Xchange and the end of Morgan's feud with Kurt Angle, Hernandez & Morgan teamed up and quickly found success, winning the tag titles from the British Invasion at Genesis 2010. Four months later, however, Morgan would turn on Hernandez, kayfabe injuring him and declaring himself the sole champion. After Hernandez ended the feud with a win over Morgan in a Steel Cage match at the previous year's victory road, Hernandez...left...and then came back as a heel in the Immortal faction as their heavy. I don't know why they did this. In between then, Morgan had joined the Fortune stable...only to get kicked out and turn face shortly after Fortune joined Immortal. Also, Hernandez has formed Mexican America with Rosita & Sarita since then, who are also part of Immortal...I think...explaining that he was treated like a star in Mexico, but as a second-class citizen in the United States. Hernandez would then cost Morgan his TNA World Heavyweight Championship match against Mr. Anderson, restarting the feud. After a brawl between the two saw Morgan get busted open, the First Blood stipulation was added.

So yes, TNA decided that the HERNANDEZ & MATT MORGAN feud needed to span over a FULL CALENDAR YEAR. 391 days to be exact. For the break-up of HERNANDEZ & MATT MORGAN. To put this into perspective, the break-up feud between Hernandez & Homicide, one of the most popular tag teams in the history of TNA, didn't get a single televised match between the two. Not even a multi-man tag, just a few house show matches. The Hernandez-Matt Morgan split got five matches on TV, and an additional four matches on pay-per-view for nine total matches broadcasted. THEY CHARGED PEOPLE MONEY TO WATCH THIS FEUD FOUR SEPARATE TIMES. That has to be some degree of grand larceny. I could forgive a feud for being this long if the matches are at least good, but these are not the matches that justify a year-long feud. Most of them aren't even awful their just...forgettable. I wasn't watching TNA when this feud was happening, and I genuinely had no idea this feud went this long. I thought the Victory Road 2011 match was the only match they had. None of them even have enough votes on Cagematch.net to get a rating, that's how forgettable they are. I didn't know they feuded for so long that this storyline spanned TWO SEPERATE VICTORY ROAD SHOWS. Let's get into this.

Both men make their entrances, and just by looking at them, you can see why TNA thought these guys could be in the main event. They both look like a million bucks and then some. The only problem is that the eye test is really the only thing these two excel at. Neither are awful workers, but they definitely need the right person across the ring from them to have a good match, and the promos leave a lot to be desired. Morgan rushes the ring and quickly takes the fight to Hernandez, immediately punching him down to the ground before stepping on his neck. Morgan beats down Hernandez in the corner before clotheslining him out of the ring. Morgan follows him out and tries to ram Hernandez into the steel steps (the same way Morgan was busted open during the brawl), but Hernandez blocks it. Hernandez tries to do the same, but Morgan also blocks it before successfully throwing Hernandez into the steps. Back in the ring, Morgan rips of one of the turnbuckles pad, revealing...a smaller turnbuckle pad.

Sure, why not?  Hernandez gains the advantage by pulling Morgan's head down into the ropes before hitting a big spear. Hernandez goes back to ringside where he broomstick out from under the ring. That's not even the second weirdest weapon that's been used on this show. Hernandez breaks the stick over his knee before choking Morgan with it. He then tries to stab Morgan in the eye with the jagged end of the stick.

Hernandez was ahead of his time. Morgan avoids getting impaled (and worse, losing the match) and knocks the stick out of the ring, but Hernandez keeps control with a boot to the gut.

Hernandez drags Morgan's face across the middle rope before giving him a back rake and gouging his eyes with his thumbs. Hernandez saw the First Blood stipulation and decided to go one step further apparently. Morgan comes back with a big sidewalk slam, but Hernandez keeps control with a huge shoulder tackle. Hernandez throws Morgan's head into the tiny turnbuckle pad, knocking it off, before whipping Morgan across the ring and hitting a shoulder block in the corner. Hernandez plays up to the crowd, but Morgan springs up and hits a big discus clothesline. Someone in the crowd was not thrilled with that, as they chuck an empty water bottle at Morgan.

Morgan runs wild on Hernandez with clotheslines before splashing him in the corner. Morgan follows up with a fallaway slam before leaving the ring and grabbing the jagged broomstick. Morgan also tries to stab Hernandez as he sits in the corner, but Hernandez boots him in the gut. Impressively, Hernandez pulls him up from the mat to the top rope, but Morgan quickly meets him there and tosses him down to the mat. Morgan sets up for the Carbon Footprint (his much-less dumb name for a bicycle kick), only for a fan to run into the ring. He is quickly taken out of the ring, but the distraction allows for Hernandez to pull a tiny chain out of his shorts. I don't know why he didn't just do that from the beginning. Also, that "fan" is actually Anarquia, who would go on to become Hernandez's tag team partner in Mexican America. However, I can neither confirm nor deny that he is also the one that threw the water bottle.

The plan fails, however, as Morgan blocks Hernandez's chain-wrapped fist before wrapping his own fist and clocking Hernandez with it. Hernandez pretty blatantly blades on camera as Morgan calls for a referee. We then see referee Brian Hebner laid out at ringside. We never saw him get laid out. Terrible camera work by TNA here in the closing moments of this match. As Morgan waits for another referee, Hernandez springs up and squirts fake blood on Morgan.

Morgan floors Hernandez with a punch before setting up for the Carbon Footprint. As he does this, a referee runs down. He sees Hernandez first and then looks at Morgan, both of whom are bleeding...and calls the match and gives the win to Hernandez. So I'm about to do something that I don't think I've ever done in this series...I'm going to defend an ending that everyone thinks is dumb...because, in hindsight, this ending made sense.

So, at first glance, it looks like the referee ran down, saw Hernandez bleeding first, but then still said that Morgan bled first and gave the win to Hernandez for whatever reason. Again, that's what it looks like. But look at who the referee was:

Jackson James. Jackson James had a history of making mistakes in matches that always benefited members of Immortal. We later find out that not only is Jackson James part of Immortal himself but that he's also Eric Bischoff's son Garrett. And what happened in this match? Hernandez, a member of Immortal, got a cheap win against Matt Morgan, who is feuding with Immortal, thanks to a referee, who is secretly in Immortal, making a "mistake." Is it a good finish? Not really. But does it make sense with the story they were telling? In my opinion, yes.

The Verdict

This is another match that, by itself, isn't very good whatsoever, but when you put it up against the other matches I've covered in this series, the standard is so low that a match like this is way closer to the top than the bottom. It's a pretty uneventful hoss match with a finish that seems illogical at the moment but makes sense when the full story has run its course.

The Rankings (Best to Worst)

1. Tommy Dreamer vs Bully Ray-Victory Road 2011
2. Rick Rude vs Jake Roberts-WrestleMania IV
3. Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
4. Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns-Greatest Royal Rumble
5. Ernest Miller vs Norman Smiley-Fall Brawl 1998
6. Shane McMahon vs Eric Bischoff-SummerSlam 2003
7. The Tag Team Gauntlet-Extreme Rules 2010
8. Hernandez vs Matt Morgan-Victory Road 2011
9. Randy Orton vs Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 33
10. Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
11. T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000
12. The Women's Tag Team Turmoil-WrestleMania 37 (Night 1)
13. Triple H vs Sgt. Slaughter-D-Generation X: In Your House
14. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
15. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
16. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
17. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
18. Steve McMichael vs Reggie White-Slamboree 1997
19. Lars Sullivan vs Lucha House Party-Super Showdown 2019
20. Alexa Bliss vs Bayley-Extreme Rules 2017
21. The Tag Team Fatal 4-Way Match-WrestleMania 13
22. Tag Team Battle Royal-WrestleMania XIV
23. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
24. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
25. Ivan Koloff vs Paul Jones-Clash of the Champions IV
26. ODB, Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi vs The Kongtourage-Genesis 2009
27. Kazushi Sakuraba & Yuji Nagata vs Daniel & Rolles Gracie-Wrestle Kingdom 8
28. Ivory vs Tori-SummerSlam 1999
29. Giant Baba vs Bulldog Bob Brown-WrestleRock
30. The Reverse Battle Royal-Impact! (10/26/2006)
31. Jerry Blackwell vs Boris Zhukov-SuperClash II
32. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
33. Alex Wright vs Steve McMichael-Halloween Havoc 1997
34. The Great Khali vs Kane-WrestleMania 23
35. Savio Vega vs Crush vs Faarooq-Ground Zero: In Your House
36. The Shockmaster vs Awesome/King Kong-Starrcade 1993
37. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
38. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
39. Team RAW vs Team SmackDown Men's Elimination Match-Survivor Series 2017
40. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
41. Paul Ellering vs Teddy Long-Capital Combat
42. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
43. Konnan vs Scott Hall-Fall Brawl 1998
44. Damian Priest vs The Miz-WrestleMania Backlash
45. Tyson Tomko vs Stevie Richards-Unforgiven 2004
46. Kane vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2009
47. Rick Steiner vs Scott Steiner-Fall Brawl 1998
48. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
49. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
50. Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
51. Finlay & Little Bastard vs The Boogeyman & Little Boogeyman-No Way Out 2007
52. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
53. El Gigante vs Nailz-G1 Climax 1994 (Day 1)
54. Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4
55. Dusty Rhodes vs The Honky Tonk Man-SummerSlam 1989
56. Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
57. The Hurt Business vs RETRIBUTION-WWE Monday Night RAW (10/26/2020)
58. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
59. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
60. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
61. Antonio Inoki vs The Great Antonio-NJPW Sumo Hall Show (12/8/1977)
62. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
63. British Bulldog & Jim Neidhart vs The Dancing Fools-Fall Brawl 1998
64. Stevie Ray vs Konnan-World War 3 1998
65. Vampiro vs The KISS Demon-Bash at the Beach 2000
66. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
67. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
68. Big Swole vs Penelope Ford, Rebel, and Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D.-AEW Dynamite (8/27/2020)
69. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
70. Jinder Mahal vs Randy Orton-Battleground 2017
71. Van Hammer vs Terrance Taylor-Clash of the Champions XVI
72. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
73. Chris Jericho vs "Goldberg"-Fall Brawl 1998
74. Roman Reigns vs The Undertaker-WrestleMania 33
75. The Undertaker vs Goldberg-Super ShowDown 2019
76. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
77. Jim Duggan vs Big Boss Man-Royal Rumble 1990
78. Meng vs Jim Duggan-Uncensored 1995
79. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
80. The Undertaker vs Giant González-WrestleMania IX
81. Sting vs Tony Palmore-Battle 7
82. D-Generation X vs Brothers of Destruction-Crown Jewel
83. Wendi Richter vs Leilani Kai-WrestleMania
84. Goldberg vs Brock Lesnar-WrestleMania XX
85. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
86. Rosita & Sarita vs Angelina Love & Winter-Victory Road 2011
87. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
88. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
89. Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
90. Boris Zhukov vs Paul Samson-Beach Brawl
91. Roddy Piper vs Hollywood Hogan-Halloween Havoc 1997
92. Kane vs The Great Khali-Breaking Point
93. Hollywood Hogan & Dennis Rodman vs Diamond Dallas Page & Karl Malone-Bash at the Beach 1998
94. PN News & Bobby Eaton vs Steve Austin & Terrance Taylor-Great American Bash 1991
95. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
96. Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
97. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
98. Sting vs Hollywood Hogan-Starrcade 1997
99.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
100. Super Invader vs Todd Champion-WrestleWar 1992
101. Brock Lesnar vs Cain Velasquez-Crown Jewel 2019
102. King Kong Bundy & Jim Neidhart vs Yokozuna & Jake Roberts-Heroes of Wrestling
103. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
104. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
105. The Fabulous Freebirds vs The Renegade Warriors-Halloween Havoc 1990
106. The Knockouts Gauntlet-One Night Only: Live! 2016
107. AJ Styles vs Frank Trigg-No Surrender 2008
108. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
109. Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
110. Bray Wyatt vs John Cena-Extreme Rules 2014
111. Brothers of Destruction vs KroniK-Unforgiven 2001
112. The Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal-WrestleMania 25
113. Mabel vs The Undertaker-King of the Ring 1995
114. Wendi Richter vs The Fabulous Moolah-The Brawl to End it All
115. David Flair vs Kimberly Page-Mayhem 1999
116. The Truth Commission vs The Disciples of Apocolypse-Survivor Series 1997
117. Daffney vs Miss Hancock-Bash at the Beach 2000
118. The Bushwhacker vs The Fabulous Rougeaus-WrestleMania V
119. Randy Orton vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 37 (Night 2)
120. The Beverly Brothers vs The Bushwhackers-Royal Rumble 1992
121. Teddy Long vs Eric Bischoff-Survivor Series 2005
122. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
123. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
124. Major Gunns vs Miss Hancock-New Blood Rising
125. Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Christopher Nowinski & Jackie Gayda-WWE Monday Night RAW (7/8/2002)
126. Triple H vs Scott Steiner-Royal Rumble 2003
127. Goldberg vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Super ShowDown 2020
128. Santina Marella vs Vickie & Chavo Guerrero-Extreme Rules 2009
129. Kevin Nash vs Scott Steiner vs Goldberg-New Blood Rising
130. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
131. Mr. T vs Roddy Piper-WrestleMania 2
132. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
133. The House of Horrors Match-Payback 2017
134. The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes-Uncensored 1995
135. Team Dos Caras vs Team El Canek-Leyendas Mexicanas 2017
136. Pat Patterson vs Gerald Brisco-King of the Ring 2000
137. The Wyatt Swamp Fight-The Horror Show at Extreme Rules
138. The Four Doinks vs Team Bigelow-Survivor Series 1993
139. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
140. Bret Hart vs Mr. McMahon-WrestleMania XVI
141. Oz vs Tim Parker-SuperBrawl
142. Brock Lesnar vs Braun Strowman-Crown Jewel 2018
143. Brock Lesnar vs Ricochet-Super ShowDown 2020
144. The Mighty Maccabee vs The Iron Sheik-Maccabiah Mania II: Shekel Slam
145. Van Hammer vs Doug Somers-Halloween Havoc 1991
146. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
147. Jeff Jarrett vs Sting-Halloween Havoc 2000
148. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996
149. Kane vs The Undertaker-Judgement Day 1998
150. Rebel vs Shelly Martinez-One Night Only: Knockouts Knockdown
151. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/2010)
152. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
153. Seth Rollins vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Hell in a Cell 2019
154. Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler-WrestleMania XXVII
155. The Bushwhackers vs Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff-Heroes of Wrestling
156. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
157. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
158. Hulk Hogan vs The Giant-Halloween Havoc 1995
159. Ultimate Warrior vs Goldust-In Your House 7
160. Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
161. Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell-Victory Road 2009

Match #4: Mr. Anderson vs Rob Van Dam

Thankfully, we get a pallet cleanser between bad matches #3 and #4, as we get two decent matches in the Ultimate X match and Beer Money/Ink Inc. tag title match, and a solid AJ Styles/Matt Hardy match before we get to the last match of the post; Mr. Anderson vs Rob Van Dam. This match comes to be as both men claimed they were owed a shot at the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, Anderson because he was the former champion and has a rematch, while RVD was stripped of the title back in April 2010. Tensions between Anderson & RVD grew when Anderson refereed a title match between RVD and Jeff Hardy, which Hardy won, and then gave a Mic Check (a reverse STO) to both men. This match crowns the #1 contender to the World Heavyweight Championship now held by Sting. This feud also falls in between Mr. Anderson's conflict with Hogan, Bischoff, and "the Network" due to Anderson not being "family-friendly." Although from what I've seen, it just seems like Mr. Anderson just adamantly refuses to stop referring to himself as an asshole and that's it. This led to the most confusing promo package I have ever seen. You could have no idea what this feud was about, then watch that video, and you will have gained no new information about what is going on. Let's get into this.

Van Dam is out first and HOLY SHIT HIS THEME IS AWFUL. I've never had the chance to say it, but that day has finally come. This theme is trash. I don't know what the worst part is, the singer just shouting every line or the fact that he just starts listing off RVD's moves. Just terrible. Anderson is out second and, I can't deny it, I'll always pop for his entrance. The self-ring announcing schtick is gold. The two go nose-to-nose before exchanging punches. Anderson takes control with a headlock followed by a shoulder block, but Van Dam dodges it and goes for a flipping leg drop. Despite the move clearly hitting Anderson when he tries to roll out of the way, Anderson acts as if he didn't get hit.

The two trade counters before Van Dam gets a slick body scissor roll-up for a near fall, which Anderson follows up with a roll-up of his own. The two circle each other before locking up, once again trading holds and counters before Anderson floors Van Dam with a shoulder block. Unfortunately, a leapfrog attempt doesn't go well, as either Anderson pops up too quickly or Van Dam jumps too soon, causing a funky collision in the middle of the ring.

Everything in the beginning of this match has either been really nice or clunky as shit. The crowd chants "YOU FUCKED UP!" at them, prompting Anderson to try and cover for the botch by yelling "I MEANT TO DO THAT!" Anderson beats down Van Dam in the corner before whipping him across the ring and hitting a clothesline. Van Dam counters another Irish whip across the ring and hits a spinning heel kick in the corner. Van Dam drives his shoulder into Anderson twice before hitting a springboard kick followed by Rolling Thunder. Anderson rolls out of the ring, prompting Van Dam to send him into the guard rail with a baseball slide before diving onto him from the ring. Van Dam follows up with a front suplex onto the guard rail and sets up for the corkscrew leg drop, but Anderson avoids it, sending Van Dam's leg into the guard rail hard.

Anderson targets the legs, slamming both into the ring post before stomping them and dropping knees onto them. Anderson locks in a single-leg Boston Crab, but Van Dam manages to get the ropes to break the hold. Anderson traps Van Dam's leg in the ropes before nailing a dropkick, followed by a chop block to the leg for a near fall. Van Dam fights back and fights back with clotheslines and a superkick, and manages to block a surprise Mic Check grabbing the ropes, but a second Rolling Thunder attempt gets caught by Anderson in a not-so-clean sequence. Van Dam slips out of a fireman's carry, but Anderson quickly follows up with a back suplex. Anderson runs wild with a clothesline and a back elbow before hitting a slow swinging neckbreaker for a near fall. Anderson follows that up with the rolling fireman's carry senton for another near fall before going for the Mic Check, but Van Dam fights out of it. Both men go down following a double clothesline spot.

The two trade blows before Van Dam takes control with shoulder blocks in the corner, but Anderson dodges a charging one, only for both to collide and go down again. Anderson goes for a clothesline, but Van Dam dodges it and sends Anderson & himself out of the ring with a crossbody. Van Dam strikes Anderson up the ramp until Anderson hits the Mic Check. The move takes out both men, however, and the referee counts out both men to end the match. The crowd boos before dueling "RESTART THE MATCH!/NO!" chants break out. You know you've done a bad job when the crowd is vocally rejecting the idea of you two continuing to wrestle. It's the exact opposite of the "FIGHT FOREVER!" chant.

The Verdict

This match was messy. That's the best way I can describe it. The early part of the match had those clunky moments, but there were still some nice moments. The second half of this match, however, doesn't have any of those nice moments to boost it up, but it still has those clunky moments. Neither of them are bad wrestlers either, it just seemed like the two had no chemistry whatsoever. It was very boring and went on longer than it needed to. Add on the double countout non-finish and you get a match that accomplished nothing and entertained no one, and the crowd agreed.

The Rankings (Best to Worst)

1. Tommy Dreamer vs Bully Ray-Victory Road 2011
2. Rick Rude vs Jake Roberts-WrestleMania IV
3. Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
4. Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns-Greatest Royal Rumble
5. Ernest Miller vs Norman Smiley-Fall Brawl 1998
6. Shane McMahon vs Eric Bischoff-SummerSlam 2003
7. The Tag Team Gauntlet-Extreme Rules 2010
8. Hernandez vs Matt Morgan-Victory Road 2011
9. Randy Orton vs Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 33
10. Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
11. T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000
12. The Women's Tag Team Turmoil-WrestleMania 37 (Night 1)
13. Triple H vs Sgt. Slaughter-D-Generation X: In Your House
14. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
15. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
16. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
17. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
18. Steve McMichael vs Reggie White-Slamboree 1997
19. Lars Sullivan vs Lucha House Party-Super Showdown 2019
20. Alexa Bliss vs Bayley-Extreme Rules 2017
21. The Tag Team Fatal 4-Way Match-WrestleMania 13
22. Tag Team Battle Royal-WrestleMania XIV
23. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
24. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
25. Ivan Koloff vs Paul Jones-Clash of the Champions IV
26. ODB, Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi vs The Kongtourage-Genesis 2009
27. Kazushi Sakuraba & Yuji Nagata vs Daniel & Rolles Gracie-Wrestle Kingdom 8
28. Ivory vs Tori-SummerSlam 1999
29. Giant Baba vs Bulldog Bob Brown-WrestleRock
30. The Reverse Battle Royal-Impact! (10/26/2006)
31. Jerry Blackwell vs Boris Zhukov-SuperClash II
32. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
33. Alex Wright vs Steve McMichael-Halloween Havoc 1997
34. The Great Khali vs Kane-WrestleMania 23
35. Savio Vega vs Crush vs Faarooq-Ground Zero: In Your House
36. The Shockmaster vs Awesome/King Kong-Starrcade 1993
37. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
38. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
39. Team RAW vs Team SmackDown Men's Elimination Match-Survivor Series 2017
40. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
41. Paul Ellering vs Teddy Long-Capital Combat
42. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
43. Konnan vs Scott Hall-Fall Brawl 1998
44. Damian Priest vs The Miz-WrestleMania Backlash
45. Tyson Tomko vs Stevie Richards-Unforgiven 2004
46. Kane vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2009
47. Rick Steiner vs Scott Steiner-Fall Brawl 1998
48. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
49. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
50. Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
51. Finlay & Little Bastard vs The Boogeyman & Little Boogeyman-No Way Out 2007
52. Mr. Anderson vs Rob Van Dam-Victory Road 2011
53. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
54. El Gigante vs Nailz-G1 Climax 1994 (Day 1)
55. Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4
56. Dusty Rhodes vs The Honky Tonk Man-SummerSlam 1989
57. Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
58. The Hurt Business vs RETRIBUTION-WWE Monday Night RAW (10/26/2020)
59. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
60. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
61. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
62. Antonio Inoki vs The Great Antonio-NJPW Sumo Hall Show (12/8/1977)
63. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
64. British Bulldog & Jim Neidhart vs The Dancing Fools-Fall Brawl 1998
65. Stevie Ray vs Konnan-World War 3 1998
66. Vampiro vs The KISS Demon-Bash at the Beach 2000
67. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
68. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
69. Big Swole vs Penelope Ford, Rebel, and Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D.-AEW Dynamite (8/27/2020)
70. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
71. Jinder Mahal vs Randy Orton-Battleground 2017
72. Van Hammer vs Terrance Taylor-Clash of the Champions XVI
73. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
74. Chris Jericho vs "Goldberg"-Fall Brawl 1998
75. Roman Reigns vs The Undertaker-WrestleMania 33
76. The Undertaker vs Goldberg-Super ShowDown 2019
77. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
78. Jim Duggan vs Big Boss Man-Royal Rumble 1990
79. Meng vs Jim Duggan-Uncensored 1995
80. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
81. The Undertaker vs Giant González-WrestleMania IX
82. Sting vs Tony Palmore-Battle 7
83. D-Generation X vs Brothers of Destruction-Crown Jewel
84. Wendi Richter vs Leilani Kai-WrestleMania
85. Goldberg vs Brock Lesnar-WrestleMania XX
86. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
87. Rosita & Sarita vs Angelina Love & Winter-Victory Road 2011
88. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
89. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
90. Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
91. Boris Zhukov vs Paul Samson-Beach Brawl
92. Roddy Piper vs Hollywood Hogan-Halloween Havoc 1997
93. Kane vs The Great Khali-Breaking Point
94. Hollywood Hogan & Dennis Rodman vs Diamond Dallas Page & Karl Malone-Bash at the Beach 1998
95. PN News & Bobby Eaton vs Steve Austin & Terrance Taylor-Great American Bash 1991
96. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
97. Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
98. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
99. Sting vs Hollywood Hogan-Starrcade 1997
100.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
101. Super Invader vs Todd Champion-WrestleWar 1992
102. Brock Lesnar vs Cain Velasquez-Crown Jewel 2019
103. King Kong Bundy & Jim Neidhart vs Yokozuna & Jake Roberts-Heroes of Wrestling
104. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
105. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
106. The Fabulous Freebirds vs The Renegade Warriors-Halloween Havoc 1990
107. The Knockouts Gauntlet-One Night Only: Live! 2016
108. AJ Styles vs Frank Trigg-No Surrender 2008
109. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
110. Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
111. Bray Wyatt vs John Cena-Extreme Rules 2014
112. Brothers of Destruction vs KroniK-Unforgiven 2001
113. The Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal-WrestleMania 25
114. Mabel vs The Undertaker-King of the Ring 1995
115. Wendi Richter vs The Fabulous Moolah-The Brawl to End it All
116. David Flair vs Kimberly Page-Mayhem 1999
117. The Truth Commission vs The Disciples of Apocolypse-Survivor Series 1997
118. Daffney vs Miss Hancock-Bash at the Beach 2000
119. The Bushwhacker vs The Fabulous Rougeaus-WrestleMania V
120. Randy Orton vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 37 (Night 2)
121. The Beverly Brothers vs The Bushwhackers-Royal Rumble 1992
122. Teddy Long vs Eric Bischoff-Survivor Series 2005
123. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
124. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
125. Major Gunns vs Miss Hancock-New Blood Rising
126. Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Christopher Nowinski & Jackie Gayda-WWE Monday Night RAW (7/8/2002)
127. Triple H vs Scott Steiner-Royal Rumble 2003
128. Goldberg vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Super ShowDown 2020
129. Santina Marella vs Vickie & Chavo Guerrero-Extreme Rules 2009
130. Kevin Nash vs Scott Steiner vs Goldberg-New Blood Rising
131. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
132. Mr. T vs Roddy Piper-WrestleMania 2
133. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
134. The House of Horrors Match-Payback 2017
135. The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes-Uncensored 1995
136. Team Dos Caras vs Team El Canek-Leyendas Mexicanas 2017
137. Pat Patterson vs Gerald Brisco-King of the Ring 2000
138. The Wyatt Swamp Fight-The Horror Show at Extreme Rules
139. The Four Doinks vs Team Bigelow-Survivor Series 1993
140. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
141. Bret Hart vs Mr. McMahon-WrestleMania XVI
142. Oz vs Tim Parker-SuperBrawl
143. Brock Lesnar vs Braun Strowman-Crown Jewel 2018
144. Brock Lesnar vs Ricochet-Super ShowDown 2020
145. The Mighty Maccabee vs The Iron Sheik-Maccabiah Mania II: Shekel Slam
146. Van Hammer vs Doug Somers-Halloween Havoc 1991
147. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
148. Jeff Jarrett vs Sting-Halloween Havoc 2000
149. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996
150. Kane vs The Undertaker-Judgement Day 1998
151. Rebel vs Shelly Martinez-One Night Only: Knockouts Knockdown
152. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/2010)
153. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
154. Seth Rollins vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Hell in a Cell 2019
155. Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler-WrestleMania XXVII
156. The Bushwhackers vs Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff-Heroes of Wrestling
157. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
158. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
159. Hulk Hogan vs The Giant-Halloween Havoc 1995
160. Ultimate Warrior vs Goldust-In Your House 7
161. Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
162. Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell-Victory Road 2009

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