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Worst in the World: Agony & Ivory

There are quite a few wrestlers who could be categorized as having come up through the business during the wrong time. Whether it be high work rate performers like X-Pac, Dean Malenko, or even Hakushi/Jinsei Shinzaki that would fit in seamlessly in today's thriving, high-energy independent scene, or giants like Omos that stick out amongst the fast-paced current landscape but could easily be slotted into a 1980s card as a Goliath for the babyface to topple. Everybody's got someone in the back of their mind that fits the bill, and today, I'd like to present my case for Ivory. Sure, maybe by today's standards Ivory is on the level of women like Sasha Banks, Asuka, or Mayu Iwatani, but during her time, she was easily one of, if not the best women's wrestler in the WWF during her career, both in-ring and promo wise. And yet, she never really got the flowers she deserved, largely because of the time she wrestled. Ivory wrestled primarily through two distinct periods in he...

Worst in the World: Brock Lesnar vs The Undertaker-WrestleMania XXX

(Special thanks to Frost for suggesting this match. If you'd like to see a match covered on the Worst in the World, leave a comment down below.) Anytime a wrestling promoter sets up a big, historic, marquee match, there has to be one thought that always creeps up in the back of their mind. After all the build, all the hype, and all the time that went into making the match feel like a big deal...what if the match just sucks? All that effort...just for the match to be bad. And by that, I don't mean matches that were underwhelming like AJ Styles vs Shinsuke Nakamura at WrestleMania 34, which is a fine match on its own, but given the history between the two (and the fact that they had put on a Match of the Year contender at Wrestle Kingdom 10 just over two years prior), it was hard to come away from that match without think "well...that could've been better." I'm talking about matches that are just not good. Matches that just fall completely flat throughout. I rar...