Worst in the World: Rachael Evers vs Marti Belle-Mae Young Classic (Episode 2)

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

In 2016, WWE held the Cruiserweight Classic, a unique tournament for the company, as most of the 32 participants were not signed to the company at the time. It proved to be a big success, with 16 of the unsigned participants earning contracts with the company to revive the Cruiserweight division on Monday Night Raw, and showcased some fantastic wrestling from some of the best cruiserweights in the world. This tournament also paved the way for WWE to run more tournaments featuring talent not signed to the company, with the inaugural United Kingdom Championship Tournament happening in January of the following year before the company would hold the inaugural Mae Young Classic the same year. Like the Cruiserweight Classic, the Mae Young Classic was a 32-participant tournament, with the field comprised of members of the NXT roster and women wrestling on the independents. This was also hit, as it was brought back the following year, and paved the way for many of the women featured to sign with the company. There was, however, one match from the tournament that stood out for all the wrong reasons.

That match was the first-round match-up between Rachael Evers and Marti Belle that aired on the second episode of the tournament. Both women were among the independent workers in the tournament, as Evers, better known as Rachael Ellering and the daughter of Paul Ellering, had made a handful of appearances on NXT in the years prior to the tournament while working the independents, while Belle had just come off a two-year run in TNA. Both women are fairly solid workers, so at the very least this should have been a passable match. However, it proved to be a bad match-up, and currently holds just a 1.64 out of 10 rating on Cagematch.net. The match went so poorly that, reportedly, the decision was made during the match to not only change the finish, but the winner as well, as Belle was reportedly set to win and advance to the next round, only for Evers to end up winning the match. Could the match really be that bad? Let's take a look.

The match starts with Belle avoiding a lock-up with Evers, backing into the corner. After doing the spot again, the two lock up, with Belle forcing Evers into the corner. The two exchange headlocks before Belle hits a knee lift and a butterfly suplex for a one count. Evers responds with a waistlock takedown followed by a pump kick for a two-count. Evers follows up with an STO followed by a springboard leg drop for a one count. Belle retreats to the apron before pulling Evers head down onto the top rope. Belle follows up with a Blockbuster-style neckbreaker while Evers is seated for a one count. Belle begins to strike away at Evers before hitting a clothesline for a two-count. Belle throws Evers into three of the corners, but an attempt to hit all four gets blocked by Evers, who rams Belle's head into the turnbuckles before hitting forearm strikes, a pump kick, an enziguri that Jim Ross calls a scissor kick on commentary, and a senton. Evers follows up with a spinebuster for a near fall before hitting another pump kick, which is the second move Jim Ross has incorrectly referred to as a scissor kick.

Evers hits a really cool sitout spinebuster from a Fisherman's suplex position, but Belle kicks out. Belle turns the tables, throwing Evers into the ropes before hitting the Marti Makeover (a forward Russian leg sweep aka The Stroke), but Evers kicks out. Evers then quickly rolls up Belle for the three and the win.

The Verdict

I don't think I disliked this match as much as everyone else seemed to, but this is still a very bland, uneventful match. Outside of one cool move from Evers, there's really nothing interesting happening in this match. Not really worth watching.

The Rankings (Best to Worst)

1. Tommy Dreamer vs Bully Ray-Victory Road 2011
2. Corporal Cajun & Lt. Loco vs The Perfect Event-Halloween Havoc 2000
3. Triple H vs Kevin Nash-TLC: Tables, Ladders, and Chairs 2011
4. Wrath vs Glacier-World War 3 1998
5. Rick Rude vs Jake Roberts-WrestleMania IV
6. Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
7. Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns-Greatest Royal Rumble
8. Ernest Miller vs Norman Smiley-Fall Brawl 1998
9. The Concrete Crypt Match-The Great American Bash 2004
10. Shane McMahon vs Eric Bischoff-SummerSlam 2003
11. Mordecai vs Hardcore Holly-The Great American Bash 2004
12. Luther Reigns vs Charlie Haas-The Great American Bash 2004
13. The Tag Team Gauntlet-Extreme Rules 2010
14. The Gimmick Battle Royal-WrestleMania X-Seven
15. Hernandez vs Matt Morgan-Victory Road 2011
16. Randy Orton vs Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 33
17. Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
18. T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000
19. David Arquette & Diamond Dallas Page vs Jeff Jarrett & Eric Bischoff
20. The Women's Tag Team Turmoil-WrestleMania 37 (Night 1)
21. Triple H vs Sgt. Slaughter-D-Generation X: In Your House
22. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
23. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
24. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
25. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
26. Steve McMichael vs Reggie White-Slamboree 1997
27. General Rection vs Lance Storm & Jim Duggan-Halloween Havoc 2000
28. Chyna vs Ivory-WrestleMania X-Seven
29. Lars Sullivan vs Lucha House Party-Super Showdown 2019
30. Alexa Bliss vs Bayley-Extreme Rules 2017
31. The Tag Team Fatal 4-Way Match-WrestleMania 13
32. The Barbed Wire Christmas Tree Match-TNA iMPACT (12/20/2007)
33. Tag Team Battle Royal-WrestleMania XIV
34. EVIL vs Tomohiro Ishii-Wrestle Kingdom 16 (Day 1)
35. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
36. Toru Yano vs Great O-Khan-New Japan Cup 2021 (Day 6)
37. Glacier vs Wrath-The Great American Bash 1997
38. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
39. Ivan Koloff vs Paul Jones-Clash of the Champions IV
40. ODB, Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi vs The Kongtourage-Genesis 2009
41. Rachel Evers vs Marti Belle-Mae Young Classic (Episode 2)
42. Kazushi Sakuraba & Yuji Nagata vs Daniel & Rolles Gracie-Wrestle Kingdom 8
43. Ivory vs Tori-SummerSlam 1999
44. Giant Baba vs Bulldog Bob Brown-WrestleRock
45. The Reverse Battle Royal-Impact! (10/26/2006)
46. The Undertaker vs King Mabel-In Your House 5: Season's Beatings
47. Savio Vega vs Rocky Maivia-In Your House 14: Revenge of the Taker
48. Jerry Blackwell vs Boris Zhukov-SuperClash II
49. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
50. Alex Wright vs Steve McMichael-Halloween Havoc 1997
51. The Great Khali vs Kane-WrestleMania 23
52. Savio Vega vs Crush vs Faarooq-Ground Zero: In Your House
53. The Shockmaster vs Awesome/King Kong-Starrcade 1993
54. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
55. The Intercontinental Championship Elimination Chamber-Elimination Chamber 2015
56. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
57. Team RAW vs Team SmackDown Men's Elimination Match-Survivor Series 2017
58. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
59. Paul Ellering vs Teddy Long-Capital Combat
60. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
61. The First Blood DNA Match-Halloween Havoc 2000
62. Konnan vs Scott Hall-Fall Brawl 1998
63. Damian Priest vs The Miz-WrestleMania Backlash
64. Tyson Tomko vs Stevie Richards-Unforgiven 2004
65. Kane vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2009
66. The 2022 Women's Royal Rumble
67. Rick Steiner vs Scott Steiner-Fall Brawl 1998
68. The Extreme Elimination Chamber-December to Dismember 2006
69. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
70. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
71. Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
72. Finlay & Little Bastard vs The Boogeyman & Little Boogeyman-No Way Out 2007
73. Mr. Anderson vs Rob Van Dam-Victory Road 2011
74. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
75. El Gigante vs Nailz-G1 Climax 1994 (Day 1)
76. Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4
77. Dusty Rhodes vs The Honky Tonk Man-SummerSlam 1989
78. Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
79. The Hurt Business vs RETRIBUTION-WWE Monday Night RAW (10/26/2020)
80. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
81. Santino Marella vs Heath Slater-WWE Friday Night SmackDown (9/27/2013)
82. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
83. Vince Russo vs Ric Flair-WCW Monday Nitro (6/5/2000)
84. Allie vs Leva Bates-Fyter Fest 2019
85. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
86. Antonio Inoki vs The Great Antonio-NJPW Sumo Hall Show (12/8/1977)
87. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
88. Kenzo Suzuki vs Billy Gunn-The Great American Bash 2004
89. The Big Show vs Erick Rowan-TLC: Tables, Ladders, Chairs 2014
90. British Bulldog & Jim Neidhart vs The Dancing Fools-Fall Brawl 1998
91. Stevie Ray vs Konnan-World War 3 1998
92. Vampiro vs The KISS Demon-Bash at the Beach 2000
93. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
94. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
95. Diesel vs King Mabel-SummerSlam 1995
96. Big Swole vs Penelope Ford, Rebel, and Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D.-AEW Dynamite (8/27/2020)
97. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
98. Jinder Mahal vs Randy Orton-Battleground 2017
99. Van Hammer vs Terrance Taylor-Clash of the Champions XVI
100. Goldberg vs KroniK-Halloween Havoc 2000
101. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
102. The New Blood Gauntlet-WCW Monday Nitro (6/5/2000)
103. Chris Jericho vs "Goldberg"-Fall Brawl 1998
104. Hulk Hogan vs Kevin Nash-WCW Monday Nitro (1/4/1999)
105. Sting vs Hulk Hogan-Halloween Havoc 1999
106. Hulk Hogan vs Jeff Jarrett-Bash at the Beach 2000
107. Kazuchika Okada & Toru Yano vs EVIL & Dick Togo-The New Beginning in Hiroshima 2021 (Day 2)
108. Glacier vs Mortis-Slamboree 1997
109. Michael Nakazawa vs Alex Jebailey-Fyter Fest 2019
110. The 1997 World War 3 Match
111. The 2022 Men's Royal Rumble
112. Roman Reigns vs The Undertaker-WrestleMania 33
113. Konnan vs Stevie Ray-Slamboree 1999
114. The 1998 World War 3
115. The Undertaker vs Goldberg-Super ShowDown 2019
116. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
117. Jim Duggan vs Big Boss Man-Royal Rumble 1990
118. Meng vs Jim Duggan-Uncensored 1995
119. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
120. The Golden Truth vs Breezango-Money in the Bank 2016
121. The Undertaker vs Giant González-WrestleMania IX
122. Sting vs Tony Palmore-Battle 7
123. D-Generation X vs Brothers of Destruction-Crown Jewel
124. Wendi Richter vs Leilani Kai-WrestleMania
125. Goldberg vs Brock Lesnar-WrestleMania XX
126. Hornswoggle vs Chavo Guerrero-WWE Monday Night Raw (7/20/2009)
127. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
128. Rosita & Sarita vs Angelina Love & Winter-Victory Road 2011
129. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
130. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
131. Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
132. Boris Zhukov vs Paul Samson-Beach Brawl
133. Roddy Piper vs Hollywood Hogan-Halloween Havoc 1997
134. Kane vs The Great Khali-Breaking Point
135. Hollywood Hogan & Dennis Rodman vs Diamond Dallas Page & Karl Malone-Bash at the Beach 1998
136. PN News & Bobby Eaton vs Steve Austin & Terrance Taylor-Great American Bash 1991
137. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
138. Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
139. The 2015 Royal Rumble Match
140. Kazuchika Okada vs Gedo-New Japan Cup 2020 (Day 2)
141. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
142. Sting vs Hollywood Hogan-Starrcade 1997
143.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
144. Super Invader vs Todd Champion-WrestleWar 1992
145. Brock Lesnar vs Cain Velasquez-Crown Jewel 2019
146. King Kong Bundy & Jim Neidhart vs Yokozuna & Jake Roberts-Heroes of Wrestling
147. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
148. Mabel vs Savio Vega-King of the Ring 1995
149. Monty Brown vs Trytan-Destination X 2005
150. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
151. The Fabulous Freebirds vs The Renegade Warriors-Halloween Havoc 1990
152. The Knockouts Gauntlet-One Night Only: Live! 2016
153. AJ Styles vs Frank Trigg-No Surrender 2008
154. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
155. Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
156. Bray Wyatt vs John Cena-Extreme Rules 2014
157. Brothers of Destruction vs KroniK-Unforgiven 2001
158. The Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal-WrestleMania 25
159. Mabel vs The Undertaker-King of the Ring 1995
160. Wendi Richter vs The Fabulous Moolah-The Brawl to End it All
161. David Flair vs Kimberly Page-Mayhem 1999
162. The Truth Commission vs The Disciples of Apocolypse-Survivor Series 1997
163. Daffney vs Miss Hancock-Bash at the Beach 2000
164. The Bushwhacker vs The Fabulous Rougeaus-WrestleMania V
165. Randy Orton vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 37 (Night 2)
166. Lex Luger vs Sting-WWA The Retribution
167. The Beverly Brothers vs The Bushwhackers-Royal Rumble 1992
168. Savio Vega vs Rocky Maivia-WWF Monday Night Raw (4/14/1997)
169. Teddy Long vs Eric Bischoff-Survivor Series 2005
170. Mike Sanders vs Ernest Miller-Halloween Havoc 2000
171. Savio Vega vs Rocky Maivia-WWF Shotgun Saturday Night (1/25/1997)
172. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
173. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
174. Major Gunns vs Miss Hancock-New Blood Rising
175. Vince Russo vs Booker T-WCW Monday Nitro (9/25/2000)
176. Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Christopher Nowinski & Jackie Gayda-WWE Monday Night RAW (7/8/2002)
177. The Countdown to Armageddon Match-WCW Thunder (10/18/2000)
178. Triple H vs Scott Steiner-Royal Rumble 2003
179. Goldberg vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Super ShowDown 2020
180. Mr. McMahon vs Pat McAfee-WrestleMania 38 (Night 2)
181. Santina Marella vs Vickie & Chavo Guerrero-Extreme Rules 2009
182. Kevin Nash vs Scott Steiner vs Goldberg-New Blood Rising
183. Brock Lesnar vs The Undertaker-WrestleMania XXX
184. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
185. Mr. T vs Roddy Piper-WrestleMania 2
186. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
187. The House of Horrors Match-Payback 2017
188. The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes-Uncensored 1995
189. Team Dos Caras vs Team El Canek-Leyendas Mexicanas 2017
190. Pat Patterson vs Gerald Brisco-King of the Ring 2000
191. The Wyatt Swamp Fight-The Horror Show at Extreme Rules
192. The Four Doinks vs Team Bigelow-Survivor Series 1993
193. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
194. Bret Hart vs Mr. McMahon-WrestleMania XVI
195. WarGames 2000: Russo's Revenge-WCW Monday Nitro (9/4/2000)
196. Oz vs Tim Parker-SuperBrawl
197. Brock Lesnar vs Braun Strowman-Crown Jewel 2018
198. Brock Lesnar vs Ricochet-Super ShowDown 2020
199. Toru Yano vs KENTA-G1 Climax 2021 (Day 1)
200. Konnan & Tygress vs Shane Douglas & Torrie Wilson-Halloween Havoc 2000
201. The Fabulous Moolah vs Ivory-No Mercy 1999
202. The Mighty Maccabee vs The Iron Sheik-Maccabiah Mania II: Shekel Slam
203. Van Hammer vs Doug Somers-Halloween Havoc 1991
204. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
205. Jeff Jarrett vs Sting-Halloween Havoc 2000
206. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996
207. "Donald Trump" vs "Rosie O'Donnell"-WWE Monday Night RAW (1/8/2007)
208. Kane vs The Undertaker-Judgement Day 1998
209. Toru Yano vs Jado-New Japan Cup 2020 (Day 1)
210. Rebel vs Shelly Martinez-One Night Only: Knockouts Knockdown
211. Sable vs Torrie Wilson-The Great American Bash 2004
212. The Evening Gown Pool Match-Armageddon 1999
213. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/2010)
214. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
215. The 1996 World War 3 Match
216. Seth Rollins vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Hell in a Cell 2019
217. Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler-WrestleMania XXVII
218. The Bushwhackers vs Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff-Heroes of Wrestling
219. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
220. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
221. Hulk Hogan vs The Giant-Halloween Havoc 1995
222. Ultimate Warrior vs Goldust-In Your House 7
223. Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
224. Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell-Victory Road 2009
225. Akira Maeda vs Andre the Giant-NJPW Big Fighter Series 1986 (Day 15)
226. The 1995 World War 3 Match

Thanks for reading! Be sure to share if you enjoyed and leave any suggestions for matches you'd like to see covered on the Worst in the World in the comments. Next week it'll be December, so like last year, I'll be posting every week. To kick off the month, I'll be covering a match that's in the bottom five lowest-rated matches on Cagematch.net, and features two of the site's lowest-rated wrestlers. Stay tuned.