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Worst in the World: Abdullah the Butcher vs Zeus-Capitol Sports Promotions 17th Aniversario 1990

Click the link here to vote in the poll and help decide the next edition of the Worst in the World. Looking back, the professional wrestling career of the late Tom "Tiny" Lister is somewhat of an anomaly. In 1989, Lister, an actor of 10 years who would later be known best for his role as Deebo in Friday and its sequel Next Friday, would play Zeus, the monster antagonist in the WWF-financed film No Holds Barred opposite Hulk Hogan as Rip Thomas. By film standards, No Holds Barred is not good, but if you're looking for some good old cheesy 80's schlock cinema, then the movie is right up your alley. But that wasn't the end of Tiny Lister's involvement with the WWF. On the May 27th episode of Saturday Night's Main Event, less than a week before No Holds Barred would release, Zeus would debut, confronting Hogan as he made his way to the ring. Unhappy with losing to Hogan in the film and being billed under him, Zeus came after Hogan. It was weird, because it was...

Worst in the World: The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996

Quick Note: Just to let you know, this entry is going to have a lot more visuals than my other ones so far. The match is so hard to talk about, it's just easier to show you it.   I have no words. Only rants. What in the hell was this match? It is the most confusing, nonsensical, laughably bad attempts at a new match type. And I don't mean like the Chamber of Horrors where there was wacky stuff happening the entire time and nothing made any sense. This is just a slow, plodding match with zero stability whatsoever. This isn't thinking outside the box, this is taking the box and completely throwing it out the window First complaint, what is with Michael Buffer's outrageously long introductions? Did WCW pay him by the word? I get it for guys like Hogan and Flair, but he gives a long detailed introduction to Meng. What the hell is a Meng? Whatever. This match pits Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage against "The Alliance to End Hulkamania", which is easily the wors...