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All the way back in 2016, and for just the 11th entry in the Worst in the World, I covered the infamous Blindfold Steel Cage Match between James Storm and Chris Harris at TNA's Lockdown 2007. In that post, I teased that there was yet another insane cage match variant TNA busted out at Lockdown. And now, almost eight years later, it is finally time to look at that other crazy gimmick. It's finally time to talk about the infamous Electrified Steel Cage match between Team 3D (The Dudley Boyz) and the Latin American XChange for the NWA World Tag Team Championships.
All the way back in 2016, and for just the 11th entry in the Worst in the World, I covered the infamous Blindfold Steel Cage Match between James Storm and Chris Harris at TNA's Lockdown 2007. In that post, I teased that there was yet another insane cage match variant TNA busted out at Lockdown. And now, almost eight years later, it is finally time to look at that other crazy gimmick. It's finally time to talk about the infamous Electrified Steel Cage match between Team 3D (The Dudley Boyz) and the Latin American XChange for the NWA World Tag Team Championships.
Homicide & Hernadez, with Konnan as their manager, formed in LAX the previous year, citing discrimination against Latino wrestlers. LAX have been on the run of their careers for the past year, winning the NWA World Tag Team titles twice and coming out on top in feuds with AJ Styles & Christopher Daniels and America's Most Wanted. Their next feud would be with Brother Ray and Brother Devon of Team 3D, after Hernandez gave their kayfabe brother Brother Runt (Spike Dudley) a Border Toss (a Crucifix Powerbomb) into a ladder during a Street Fight with Homicide. LAX & Team 3D would face off in various multi-man and street fight tag matches before this challenge was laid out, with Team 3D putting their legacy on the line to finally gain the NWA Tag Team titles. On paper, this match doesn't seem bad. Both teams are solid, and while they're probably not going to put on a technical masterclass, it could've been a fun match. But I guess TNA just couldn't stop at one bad cage gimmick for Lockdown.
LAX accepted the challenge, as long as it was an Electrified Cage match. For the match, the cage walls would be electrified to the touch. The "electricity" angle is meant to mimic the United States-Mexico border. While the match didn't get nearly as bad reviews as the Blindfold Cage match on the same show, it still was not well received. Dave Meltzer gave the match a single-star rating, while Cagematch.net currently has it sitting at a 3.12 out of 10. It's been almost eight years in the making, but let's take a look.
Team 3D is out first, quite literally carrying their legacy to the ring, as they have their WWF, WCW, and ECW Tag Team Championships on them.Considering that WWE threatened legal action against TNA if they showed the ECW Heavyweight title when Rhyno burned a bag in 2006, I do not know how they got away with this a year later. Brother Ray just hucks the titles over the cage wall and into the ring, except for one that comes up short.LAX is out next, without Konnan by their side (Konnan was recovering from hip & kidney surgery at the time.) Jeremy Borash does the ring announcing before the electricity is "plugged in." This causes the arena's light to flicker.It will always be funny seeing wrestling companies try to pull off special effects with nowhere near enough resources to do it convincingly. Mike Tenay on commentary then says that the "electric current" will "alternate" throughout the match. I get the feeling this was said to excuse anytime someone touches the cage and doesn't get shocked.
Team 3D wastes no time rushing LAX, beating them down to the mat. Brother Ray Irish whips Homicide into the corner, followed by Brother Devon doing the same to Hernandez into the same corner. Devon then Irish whips Ray into the corner for a splash before hitting a corner avalanche himself. Team 3D double Irish whips Hernandez into the opposite corner hard before Ray blocks a kick from Hernandez, quickly following up with a big German suplex. Team 3D follows up with a double suplex on Hernandez, sending him crashing into the cage wall and...not...being shocked.Don West tries to explain it away by saying the door, which Hernandez mostly hit, isn't electrified, but I don't think that was ever stated before this. Also, he 100% hits some part of the actual cage with his leg.
Team 3D follows up with another double team on Homicide, with Devon hitting an inverted atomic drop and holding him in place for a big boot from Ray. Team 3D continues beating down LAX, but Homicide is able to turn the tables on Ray. Homicide tries to make Ray touch the cage with his hand, but Ray stays unshocked. Homicide goes for an Irish whip, but Ray counters it and goes for a backbody drop. Homicide blocks it and goes for a suplex, but Ray blocks it and hits a body slam. Devon climbs to the top rope for the WAAASUUUUUUUUUP diving headbutt, during which Tenay says he grazed the cage wall with his back. He did not sell that.
Hernandez has no time for pop culture references, however, as he runs over and tosses Devon down to the mat. Hernandez follows up with a forearm to Ray, allowing Homicide to catch him with a single-leg dropkick. Homicide tries to get Ray to touch the cage again, while Devon reverses an Irish whip and sends Hernandez into the corner. Hernandez catches Devon with a big boot and a forearm when he charges in, while Ray avoids the cage by biting Homicide's arm. LAX keeps control, beating down Team 3D. It's here we see Hernandez has a chain in his hand. Ray turns the tables on Homicide when he grabs his hand and forces it onto the cage wall. The lights don't flicker, but Homicide does sell it.We will get much sillier displays of shocking soon, just trust me.
Hernandez quickly takes the fight to Ray, choking Ray as Homicide beats down Devon. LAX double-team Devon in the corner. At some point, Hernandez must've dropped the chain, because now Ray has it and uses it on LAX. Devon also got busted open at some point. Homicide cuts off Ray's comeback with an enziguri before booting Devon in the face. LAX goes back to the double team, with Hernandez hitting an inverted atomic drop as Homicide goes to the second rope for a knee drop to the back of the head. LAX keep control, hitting a double back body drop on Ray before Hernandez holds Devon in place. Homicide kicks him before Hernandez follows up with a wheelbarrow facebuster.
Hernandez follows up with a bodyslam on Ray before both members of LAX climb to the top rope. Team 3D spring to life, knocking LAX down and crouching them both on the top rope. Team 3D hit dual superplexes, leaving all four men down. Homicide is the first man up and Irish whips Devon into the ropes. Homicide goes for a clothesline, but Devon ducks it and hits a jumping clothesline of his own. Meanwhile, Ray hits a DDT on Hernandez. Devon follows up with a headbutt and a scoop slam off an Irish whip before making the first pin of the match. Homicide kicks out at two.
Konnan, in a wheelchair and with a steel chair, gets wheeled down the entrance ramp by, as Mike Tenay calls him, a member of the Latino Nation. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe this is Machete, who was brought into LAX back in 2006 after original member Apolo left TNA. He'd been kicked from the group before just...coming back. Off that DDT from earlier, I think, Ray covers Hernandez for a two-count. At the same time, Machete(?) attacks an outside referee and steals his key & protective gloves. Machete(?) gives Konnan the gloves, only for Hector Guerrero, the Spanish, but anti-LAX commentator, runs over and takes out Machete. Guerrero steals the chair from Konnan and the key from Machete(?).
Guerrero unlocks the door and goes to hand the chair to Ray, but Ray loudly & clearly yells for him to "GIVE ME THE FUCKING TABLE!" Guerrero obliges, pulling a table from under the ring and sliding it into the ring. The chaos, however, allows Hernandez to recover and take out both members of Team 3D. Hernandez lambasts Guerrero, only for Guerrero to slam the door on him. Team 3D capitalizes with a back suplex/neckbreaker combo for the cover, but Hernandez kicks out. Homicide takes out Ray with a dropkick to the shin before hitting a swinging neckbreaker on Devon for a two count. Homicide tries to follow up with a clothesline on Ray, but Ray catches him with the full nelson bomb. Another cover, but Homicide kicks out.
Hernandez lifts Ray with ease for a Samoan Drop and makes the cover, but Ray kicks out. Devon tries to Irish whip Hernandez into the cage wall, but Hernandez reverses it and hits a body slam. As he does, Homicide climbs to the top rope to follow up with a diving elbow for a two count. Homicide goes for a dropkick on Ray, but Ray dodges, causing Hernandez to take the kick. Ray follows up with a falling Powerbomb and makes the cover, but Homicide kicks out. Hernandez then catches him with a stiff clothesline and makes the cover, but Ray kicks out. Devon goes for another Irish whip, but Hernandez counters and gets Devon up for the Border Toss. Hernandez tosses Devon into the cage wall, and we finally get TNA's attempt at showing electrocution.Devon hits the cage, the lights flicker, and "electricshock.mp4" plays over the speakers as Devon flails around. Hilarious. Your local high school's production of Wicked has effects that look & sound exactly like this. The crowd is not thrilled with this either, loudly booing.
Hernandez crawls to the corner, putting him in position for a corner splash from Ray. Ray goes to the second rope for an elbow drop, which gets a two count. During this, we get some very clear "FIRE RUSSO!" chants. Homicide goes for an Irish whip on Ray, but Ray reverses it and sends him to the corner. Homicide keeps control, however, by leaping off the second rope with a crossbody. Ray stumbles into the corner, where Homicide catches him with a forearm before going for another Irish whip. The same thing plays out, only this time Ray prevents a crossbody with a chop. Ray picks Homicide up in an electric chair as Devon climbs to the top rope. Team 3D hits the Deadly Device (the Doomsday Device) and Devon makes the cover, but Homicide kicks out.
Hernandez quickly plants both members of Team 3D with Spinebusters before setting up the table. Hernandez sets Devon on the table before pulling out rubber gloves. His hands protected, Hernandez climbs the cage and scales to the corner. Hernandez dives off the top, but Devon moves and Hernandez crashes through the table. Homicide goes to the top rope and takes out Ray with a hurricanrana before Devon hits an Irish whip. Homicide ducks a clothesline and a back elbow, but Devon gets the upper hand by alley-ooping Homicide into the cage wall.The lights flicker and electric sounds play again as Homicide clings to the wall. Presumably, the finish was supposed to be Homicide falling from the cage right into a 3D, but his momentum is too much and Devon falls trying to catch him.Ray quickly picks Homicide up, and Team 3D hit their titular move for the three, and the win, to win the NWA Tag Team titles.
The Verdict
It's significantly better than the Blindfold Steel Cage match, but honestly, this is kind of a mixed bag. The beginning is pretty bland. There are a couple of moves, but it drags at times. It picks up towards the end, but that's also when all the shocking shenanigans start. I don't think it's as bad as its reputation, but overall, this was pretty mid.
The Rakings (Best to Worst)
- The Rock, Hulk Hogan, and Kane vs The nWo-Friday Night SmackDown (3/28/2002)
- Kane vs Kane-Vengeance 2006
- Steve Austin & Bradshaw vs The Undertaker, Scott Hall, and X-Pac-Monday Night Raw (4/15/2002)
- Steve Austin & Bradshaw vs Scott Hall & X-Pac-Monday Night Raw (4/29/2002)
- Sgt. Slaughter vs Colonel DeBeers-AWA SuperClash III
- The Mexicools vs The Blue World Order-The Great American Bash 2005
- The Undertaker vs Kane-Monday Night Raw (2/22/1999)
- The Undertaker vs Kane-WrestleMania XX
- The Undertaker vs Kane-Survivor Series 1998
- The nWo vs Steve Austin & The Rock-Monday Night Raw (3/11/2002)
- Jake Roberts vs George Wells-WrestleMania 2
- The Undertaker vs Yokozuna-Survivor Series 1994
- The Undertaker vs Heidenreich-Royal Rumble 2005
- Jeff Jarrett & Owen Hart vs D'Lo Brown & Test-WrestleMania XV
- Tommy Dreamer vs Bully Ray-Victory Road 2011
- Corporal Cajun & Lt. Loco vs The Perfect Event-Halloween Havoc 2000
- Melina vs Torrie Wilson-The Great American Bash 2005
- Scott Hall vs Crash Holly-Sunday Night Heat (4/7/2002)
- Triple H vs Kevin Nash-TLC: Tables, Ladders, and Chairs 2011
- Wrath vs Glacier-World War 3 1998
- The Rock's 25th Anniversary Battle Royal-Survivor Series 2021
- Hardcore Holly vs Billy Gunn vs Al Snow-WrestleMania XV
- Wendi Richter & The Top Gunns vs The Diamond Exchange-AWA SuperClash III
- Wahoo McDaniel vs Manny Fernandez-AWA SuperClash III
- The Undertaker vs Chavo Guerrero-Friday Night SmackDown (10/31/2008)
- Booker T vs Buff Bagwell-Monday Night Raw (7/2/2001)
- The Undertaker vs Kane-Monday Night Raw (10/19/1998)
- Rick Rude vs Jake Roberts-WrestleMania IV
- Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
- Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns-Greatest Royal Rumble
- The Fatal 4-Way Intercontinental Championship Match-WrestleMania XV
- Ernest Miller vs Norman Smiley-Fall Brawl 1998
- The Concrete Crypt Match-The Great American Bash 2004
- Shane McMahon vs Eric Bischoff-SummerSlam 2003
- Mordecai vs Hardcore Holly-The Great American Bash 2004
- Luther Reigns vs Charlie Haas-The Great American Bash 2004
- The Tag Team Gauntlet-Extreme Rules 2010
- The Gimmick Battle Royal-WrestleMania X-Seven
- Hernandez vs Matt Morgan-Victory Road 2011
- Randy Orton vs Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 33
- Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
- T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000
- Jake Hager vs Wardlow-AEW Dynamite (6/6/2021)
- The Boogeyman vs Booker T & Sharmell-WrestleMania 22
- David Arquette & Diamond Dallas Page vs Jeff Jarrett & Eric Bischoff-WCW Thunder (4/26/2000)
- Tyson Fury vs Braun Strowman-Crown Jewel 2019
- The Texas Tornado vs Dino Bravo-WrestleMania VII
- The Women's Tag Team Turmoil-WrestleMania 37 (Night 1)
- Triple H vs Sgt. Slaughter-D-Generation X: In Your House
- Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
- Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
- Candice LeRae vs Christina Von Eerie-PWG DIO!
- The Fabulous Moolah vs Velvet McIntyre-WrestleMania 2
- Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
- The Rock 'n' Roll Express vs The Stud Stable-AWA SuperClash III
- Ernest Miller vs Disco Inferno-Bash at the Beach 1999
- Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
- Roman Reigns vs Brock Lesnar-WrestleMania 38 (Night 2)
- Carmella vs Asuka-Money in the Bank 2018
- Steve McMichael vs Reggie White-Slamboree 1997
- General Rection vs Lance Storm & Jim Duggan-Halloween Havoc 2000
- Chyna vs Ivory-WrestleMania X-Seven
- Lars Sullivan vs Lucha House Party-Super Showdown 2019
- The Last Rites Match-Destination X 2007
- Alexa Bliss vs Bayley-Extreme Rules 2017
- The Tag Team Fatal 4-Way Match-WrestleMania 13
- The Barbed Wire Christmas Tree Match-TNA iMPACT (12/20/2007)
- Gunner vs Garett Bischoff-Against All Odds 2012
- Tag Team Battle Royal-WrestleMania XIV
- EVIL vs Tomohiro Ishii-Wrestle Kingdom 16 (Day 1)
- The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
- The Electrified Steel Cage Match-TNA Lockdown 2007
- Toru Yano vs Great O-Khan-New Japan Cup 2021 (Day 6)
- The Rock vs Scott Hall-Friday Night SmackDown (3/7/2002)
- Legion of Doom vs Power & Glory-WrestleMania VII
- Steve Austin & The Big Show vs Scott Hall & X-Pac-Monday Night Raw (4/22/2002)
- Corporal Kirchner vs Nikolai Volkoff-WrestleMania 2
- Glacier vs Wrath-The Great American Bash 1997
- The Mountie vs Tito Santana-WrestleMania VII
- Kane vs The Undertaker-Hell in a Cell 2010
- Hollywood Hogan vs Randy Savage-Halloween Havoc 1996
- The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
- Ivan Koloff vs Paul Jones-Clash of the Champions IV
- ODB, Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi vs The Kongtourage-Genesis 2009
- Kane vs Triple H-WrestleMania XV
- Rachel Evers vs Marti Belle-Mae Young Classic (Episode 2)
- Jake Roberts vs Rick Martel-WrestleMania VII
- Kazushi Sakuraba & Yuji Nagata vs Daniel & Rolles Gracie-Wrestle Kingdom 8
- Ivory vs Tori-SummerSlam 1999
- Giant Baba vs Bulldog Bob Brown-AWA WrestleRock
- The Reverse Battle Royal-Impact! (10/26/2006)
- The Undertaker vs King Mabel-In Your House 5: Season's Beatings
- Savio Vega vs Rocky Maivia-In Your House 14: Revenge of the Taker
- Jerry Blackwell vs Boris Zhukov-SuperClash II
- Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
- Alex Wright vs Steve McMichael-Halloween Havoc 1997
- The Great Khali vs Kane-WrestleMania 23
- Genichiro Tenryu & Koji Kitao vs Demolition-WrestleMania VII
- Savio Vega vs Crush vs Faarooq-Ground Zero: In Your House
- The Shockmaster vs Awesome/King Kong-Starrcade 1993
- Greg Gagne vs Ron Garvin-AWA SuperClash III
- Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
- The Undertaker vs Muhammad Hassan-The Great American Bash 2005
- Randy Savage vs George Steele-WrestleMania 2
- The Intercontinental Championship Elimination Chamber-Elimination Chamber 2015
- The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
- Paul Orndorff vs The Magnifcent Muraco-WrestleMania 2
- Team RAW vs Team SmackDown Men's Elimination Match-Survivor Series 2017
- Earthquake vs Greg Valentine-WrestleMania VII
- Scott Hall vs Spike Dudley-Monday Night Raw (3/4/2002)
- Rick Steiner vs Van Hammer-Bash at the Beach 1999
- Triple H vs Randy Orton-WrestleMania 25
- Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
- Paul Ellering vs Teddy Long-Capital Combat
- Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
- The First Blood DNA Match-Halloween Havoc 2000
- Konnan vs Scott Hall-Fall Brawl 1998
- Damian Priest vs The Miz-WrestleMania Backlash
- Tyson Tomko vs Stevie Richards-Unforgiven 2004
- Kane vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2009
- The 2022 Women's Royal Rumble
- Rick Steiner vs Scott Steiner-Fall Brawl 1998
- The Extreme Elimination Chamber-December to Dismember 2006
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Deathmatch-AEW Dynamite: Fight for the Fallen (Night 1)
- Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
- Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
- Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
- Finlay & Little Bastard vs The Boogeyman & Little Boogeyman-No Way Out 2007
- Mr. Anderson vs Rob Van Dam-Victory Road 2011
- Hulk Hogan vs Sgt. Slaughter-WrestleMania VII
- Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
- El Gigante vs Nailz-G1 Climax 1994 (Day 1)
- Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4
- Dusty Rhodes vs The Honky Tonk Man-SummerSlam 1989
- Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
- The Hurt Business vs RETRIBUTION-WWE Monday Night RAW (10/26/2020)
- Mankind vs Paul Wight-WrestleMania XV
- Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
- Santino Marella vs Heath Slater-WWE Friday Night SmackDown (9/27/2013)
- Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
- Vince Russo vs Ric Flair-WCW Monday Nitro (6/5/2000)
- Allie vs Leva Bates-Fyter Fest 2019
- Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
- Antonio Inoki vs The Great Antonio-NJPW Sumo Hall Show (12/8/1977)
- Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
- New Jack vs Mustafa-Living Dangerously 1999
- Kenzo Suzuki vs Billy Gunn-The Great American Bash 2004
- The Big Show vs Erick Rowan-TLC: Tables, Ladders, Chairs 2014
- British Bulldog & Jim Neidhart vs The Dancing Fools-Fall Brawl 1998
- Stevie Ray vs Konnan-World War 3 1998
- Vampiro vs The KISS Demon-Bash at the Beach 2000
- Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
- Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
- The nWo vs The Rock & Hulk Hogan-Monday Night Raw (3/25/2002)
- Steve Austin vs Scott Hall-Monday Night Raw (4/8/2002)
- Steve Austin vs Scott Hall-WrestleMania X8
- The Rock & Hulk Hogan vs Scott Hall & Kevin Nash-Monday Night Raw (3/18/2002)
- Diesel vs King Mabel-SummerSlam 1995
- Big Swole vs Penelope Ford, Rebel, and Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D.-AEW Dynamite (8/27/2020)
- Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
- The Undertaker vs Kane-SummerSlam 2000
- Scott Hall vs Bradshaw-Backlash 2002
- The Undertaker vs The Big Bossman-WrestleMania XV
- Jinder Mahal vs Randy Orton-Battleground 2017
- Van Hammer vs Terrance Taylor-Clash of the Champions XVI
- Goldberg vs KroniK-Halloween Havoc 2000
- Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
- The New Blood Gauntlet-WCW Monday Nitro (6/5/2000)
- Chris Jericho vs "Goldberg"-Fall Brawl 1998
- Jimmy Valiant vs Wayne Bloom-AWA SuperClash III
- Hulk Hogan vs Kevin Nash-WCW Monday Nitro (1/4/1999)
- Sting vs Hulk Hogan-Halloween Havoc 1999
- Hulk Hogan vs Jeff Jarrett-Bash at the Beach 2000
- Randy Savage & Sid Vicious vs Kevin Nash & Sting-Bash at the Beach 1999
- Kazuchika Okada & Toru Yano vs EVIL & Dick Togo-The New Beginning in Hiroshima 2021 (Day 2)
- Glacier vs Mortis-Slamboree 1997
- Steve Austin, Bradshaw, and Ric Flair vs The nWo-Monday Night Raw (5/6/2002)
- The Junkyard Invitational-Bash at the Beach 1999
- Michael Nakazawa vs Alex Jebailey-Fyter Fest 2019
- The 1997 World War 3 Match
- The 2022 Men's Royal Rumble
- Roman Reigns vs The Undertaker-WrestleMania 33
- Konnan vs Stevie Ray-Slamboree 1999
- The 1998 World War 3
- Kane vs The Undertaker-Night of Champions 2010
- Kane vs The Undertaker-Bragging Rights 2010
- The Undertaker vs The Undertaker-SummerSlam 1994
- The Undertaker vs Goldberg-Super ShowDown 2019
- Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
- Jim Duggan vs Big Boss Man-Royal Rumble 1990
- Meng vs Jim Duggan-Uncensored 1995
- Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
- The Undertaker vs Kamala-Survivor Series 1992
- David Flair vs Dean Malenko-Bash at the Beach 1999
- The Golden Truth vs Breezango-Money in the Bank 2016
- The Undertaker vs Giant González-WrestleMania IX
- Carmella vs Asuka-Extreme Rules 2018
- Sting vs Tony Palmore-Battle 7
- D-Generation X vs Brothers of Destruction-Crown Jewel
- Wendi Richter vs Leilani Kai-WrestleMania
- Goldberg vs Brock Lesnar-WrestleMania XX
- Hornswoggle vs Chavo Guerrero-WWE Monday Night Raw (7/20/2009)
- Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
- Rosita & Sarita vs Angelina Love & Winter-Victory Road 2011
- Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
- Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
- Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
- Boris Zhukov vs Paul Samson-Beach Brawl
- Roddy Piper vs Hollywood Hogan-Halloween Havoc 1997
- Kane vs The Great Khali-Breaking Point
- Hollywood Hogan & Dennis Rodman vs Diamond Dallas Page & Karl Malone-Bash at the Beach 1998
- PN News & Bobby Eaton vs Steve Austin & Terrance Taylor-Great American Bash 1991
- Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
- Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
- Yokozuna vs The Undertaker-Royal Rumble 1994
- The 2015 Royal Rumble Match
- Kazuchika Okada vs Gedo-New Japan Cup 2020 (Day 2)
- Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
- Sting vs Hollywood Hogan-Starrcade 1997
- Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
- Super Invader vs Todd Champion-WrestleWar 1992
- Brock Lesnar vs Cain Velasquez-Crown Jewel 2019
- King Kong Bundy & Jim Neidhart vs Yokozuna & Jake Roberts-Heroes of Wrestling
- Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
- Mabel vs Savio Vega-King of the Ring 1995
- John Bradshaw Layfield vs Batista-The Great American Bash 2005
- Monty Brown vs Trytan-Destination X 2005
- The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
- The Fabulous Freebirds vs The Renegade Warriors-Halloween Havoc 1990
- The Knockouts Gauntlet-One Night Only: Live! 2016
- AJ Styles vs Frank Trigg-No Surrender 2008
- Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
- Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
- Bray Wyatt vs John Cena-Extreme Rules 2014
- Brothers of Destruction vs KroniK-Unforgiven 2001
- The Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal-WrestleMania 25
- Mabel vs The Undertaker-King of the Ring 1995
- Abdullah the Butcher vs Zeus-Capitol Sports Promotions 17th Aniversario 1990
- Wendi Richter vs The Fabulous Moolah-The Brawl to End it All
- David Flair vs Kimberly Page-Mayhem 1999
- The Truth Commission vs The Disciples of Apocolypse-Survivor Series 1997
- Daffney vs Miss Hancock-Bash at the Beach 2000
- The Bushwhacker vs The Fabulous Rougeaus-WrestleMania V
- Randy Orton vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 37 (Night 2)
- Lex Luger vs Sting-WWA The Retribution
- The Beverly Brothers vs The Bushwhackers-Royal Rumble 1992
- Savio Vega vs Rocky Maivia-WWF Monday Night Raw (4/14/1997)
- Teddy Long vs Eric Bischoff-Survivor Series 2005
- Adrian Adonis vs Uncle Elmer-WrestleMania 2
- Mike Sanders vs Ernest Miller-Halloween Havoc 2000
- Savio Vega vs Rocky Maivia-WWF Shotgun Saturday Night (1/25/1997)
- Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
- Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
- Major Gunns vs Miss Hancock-New Blood Rising
- Vince Russo vs Booker T-WCW Monday Nitro (9/25/2000)
- Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Christopher Nowinski & Jackie Gayda-WWE Monday Night RAW (7/8/2002)
- The Countdown to Armageddon Match-WCW Thunder (10/18/2000)
- Rayo de Jalisco Jr. vs Blue Demon Jr.-AAA TriplemanÃa XXX: Monterrey
- Triple H vs Scott Steiner-Royal Rumble 2003
- Goldberg vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Super ShowDown 2020
- Mr. McMahon vs Pat McAfee-WrestleMania 38 (Night 2)
- Santina Marella vs Vickie & Chavo Guerrero-Extreme Rules 2009
- Kevin Nash vs Scott Steiner vs Goldberg-New Blood Rising
- Brock Lesnar vs The Undertaker-WrestleMania XXX
- Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
- Mr. T vs Roddy Piper-WrestleMania 2
- The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
- The House of Horrors Match-Payback 2017
- The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes-Uncensored 1995
- Buff Bagwell vs Roddy Piper-Bash at the Beach 1999
- Team Dos Caras vs Team El Canek-Leyendas Mexicanas 2017
- Pat Patterson vs Gerald Brisco-King of the Ring 2000
- The Wyatt Swamp Fight-The Horror Show at Extreme Rules
- The Four Doinks vs Team Bigelow-Survivor Series 1993
- Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
- Bret Hart vs Mr. McMahon-WrestleMania XVI
- WarGames 2000: Russo's Revenge-WCW Monday Nitro (9/4/2000)
- Oz vs Tim Parker-SuperBrawl
- Brock Lesnar vs Braun Strowman-Crown Jewel 2018
- Brock Lesnar vs Ricochet-Super ShowDown 2020
- Toru Yano vs KENTA-G1 Climax 2021 (Day 1)
- Konnan & Tygress vs Shane Douglas & Torrie Wilson-Halloween Havoc 2000
- The Fabulous Moolah vs Ivory-No Mercy 1999
- New Jack vs Vic Grimes-Living Dangerously 2000
- The Mighty Maccabee vs The Iron Sheik-Maccabiah Mania II: Shekel Slam
- Van Hammer vs Doug Somers-Halloween Havoc 1991
- Eddy Steinblock vs One Warrior Nation-DWA Wrestling Legends Tour 2010 (Day 2)
- Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
- Jeff Jarrett vs Sting-Halloween Havoc 2000
- The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996
- "Donald Trump" vs "Rosie O'Donnell"-WWE Monday Night RAW (1/8/2007)
- Kane vs The Undertaker-Judgement Day 1998
- Toru Yano vs Jado-New Japan Cup 2020 (Day 1)
- Rebel vs Shelly Martinez-One Night Only: Knockouts Knockdown
- Sable vs Torrie Wilson-The Great American Bash 2004
- The Evening Gown Pool Match-Armageddon 1999
- Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/2010)
- Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
- The 1996 World War 3 Match
- Seth Rollins vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Hell in a Cell 2019
- Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler-WrestleMania XXVII
- The Bushwhackers vs Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff-Heroes of Wrestling
- James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
- John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
- Hulk Hogan vs The Giant-Halloween Havoc 1995
- The Shark Cage Match-Big Time Wrestling (1976)
- Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
- Ultimate Warrior vs Goldust-In Your House 7
- Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell-Victory Road 2009
- The Lingerie Street Fight Battle Royal-AWA SuperClash III
- Akira Maeda vs Andre the Giant-NJPW Big Fighter Series 1986 (Day 15)
- The 1995 World War 3 Match
- The Reina de Reinas Championship Four-Way-AAA TriplemanÃa XXV
- Butterbean vs Bart Gunn-WrestleMania XV
- New Jack vs Vic Grimes-XPW Freefall
- Yoshiko vs Act Yasukawa-Stardom Queen's Shout
- Mickie Knuckles vs Mike Levy-IWA Mid-South Queen of the Deathmatch 2008
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Besides an epic Elimination Chamber Match for the World Heavyweight Title, New Years Rvolution 2005 was a pretty bad show riddled with injuries that ruin the matches, an IC title match that was more of a punchline then a match , a pointless Jerry Lawler match and a bad match in the rivalry between Kane/Snitsky
ReplyDeleteEugene/William Regal vs Christian/Tyson Tomko
Trish Stratus vs Lita
Shelton Benjamin vs Maven
Muhhamad Hassan vs Jerry Lawler
Kane vs Gene Snitsky
I'll add these to the list. I think I have the Kane/Snitsky Taboo Tuesday match on the list already but I'll have to double check.
DeleteThanks for the suggestions!
I may be wrong on this, but I believe the reason TNA were allowed to show the WWE,WCW and ECW belts here but Rhyno wasn’t is that this A: wasn’t being used to promote the show and B: wasn’t considered disrespectful or disparaging, whereas the belt burning angle would have been heavily promoted and certainly disrespectful.
ReplyDeleteThat does sound right.
DeleteI have a few suggestions:
ReplyDeleteBret Hart vs Jerry Lawler - Raw, march 13, 1995. Honestly, it's not even that bad at all, it's a decent brawl with Bret getting screwed up and Lawler winning by count out, only to get attacked by Bret a few minutes later, I only suggest it because it's one of the only few moments of Bull Nakano in WWF where she isn't wrestling Alundra Blayze in the women's division.
Chigusa Nagayo vs Miyuki Maeda - GAEA Limit Break 2001. According to some Joshi fans, this is one of the worst GAEA matches ever, featuring one of the aces of AJW of the 80s in her later phase against a very green rookie.
And talking about GAEA and joshi, Nicole Bass wrestled 3 nights in a row on NEO Ladies Neo Stage 1998 Korakuen Hall 3 Nights (a tournament made from a 3 nights event, courtesy of the not so well known joshi company NEO).
I'll add these to the list. I haven't seen much of GAEA outside of the GAEA Girls documentary, so those matches would be an interesting venture.
DeleteThanks for the suggestions!
You can find all 4 TV matches of parody wrestling/kiddy fiddler Macho Warrior Ric Hogan on the YouTubes, if you want to do a full career retrospective.
ReplyDeleteI'll take a look. Thanks for the suggestion!
DeleteHere's a match where before he became the almighty, Bobby Lashley still in his rookie years had a relatively slow plodding powerhouse match against JBL at No Way Out 2006
ReplyDeleteI'll add it to the list. Thanks for the suggestion!
DeleteConsidering you already talked (albeit briefly) about the disaster that was Batista vs Big Show in a ECW show, it would be interesting to cover the entire match and analyze how the ECW crowd pretty much sabotaged the struggle by showing complete rejection and apathy for it.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a plan. Thanks for the suggestion!
DeleteI got a suggestion:
ReplyDeleteTwo matches from Over The Limit 2010:
Big Show vs Jack Swagger for the World Heavyweight Championship
Randy Orton vs Edge
While they aren't really that bad, the fact that both matches had anticlimatic endings made them feel like DUDs
I'll add these to the list. This suggestion reminded of the Swagger-Big Show match, and I definitely think it deserves a spot in the series.
DeleteThanks for the suggestions!
If you want a red match, there's the match where Low Ki knocked a guy out in 5 seconds and then just kept going because he's got to get his cool moves in
ReplyDeleteI've heard so much about that match but I've never actually watched it. I'll definitely add it to the list. Thanks for the suggestion!
DeleteThe recent NWA Samhain, aside from including a segment that killed a possible NWA TV deal, produced some poor matches.
ReplyDeleteThe Devil's Last Dance 10-Person Tag
Brady Pierce vs. Rush Freeman
The Southern 6 vs. The Headbangers
Jax Dane vs. Blake Troop
Violent J/Brothers of Funstruction vs. Vampiro/La Rebelion
Blunt Force Trauma vs. Mike Knox/Trevor Murdoch
Oops I already requested this back on the Taker/Taker post apparently, I must have forgotten
DeleteWar Games is right around the corner. 1995 is widely agreed upon as wrestling’s worst year financially and creatively. That year’s War Games was no exception, with Hulk Hogan’s overstacked team of Sting, Randy Savage and Lex Luger dispatching the Dungeon of Doom. Hulk flushed down the group’s credibility by making the Zodiac submit to a chinlock! Likely the worst War Games match pre-nWo years.
ReplyDeleteThat one's been on my radar for awhile now. I'll add it to the list. Thanks for the suggestion!
DeleteWith Survivor Series coming out next week I got a pretty pointless and dull ten women tag team match that happened at Survivor Series 2007.
ReplyDeleteI'll add it to the list. Thanks for the suggestion!
Delete24 Hours gang here for AEW Full Gear, which was a good show but... that main event though. You'd have to watch the full angle going through it to understand why it was bad, but...
ReplyDeleteMJF vs. Jay White
I'll add it to the list. Thanks for the suggestion!
DeleteBragging Rights 2010 was pretty bad with the buried alive match you covered , pointless filler matches, booking that further diminishes the Nexus' momentum and a bad main event which not only ends with a crap finish but it's main stipulation ends up being pointless as John Cena kept coming back.
ReplyDeleteDavid Otunga/John Cena vs Drew McIntyre/Cody Rhodes
Ted Dibiase Jr vs Goldust
Layla vs Natalya
Wade Barrett vs Randy Orton
I'll add these to the list. Thanks for the suggestions!
DeleteHere's a match at No Way Out 2008!
ReplyDeleteEdge vs Rey Mysterio
I'll add it to the list. Thanks for the suggestion!
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