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Worst in the World: Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V

I'm getting really tired of watching WCW matches. I feel like the fact that four WCW matches in a row came up randomly is punishment for something I did wrong in life. Whatever it was, I'm pretty I don't deserve this. And I especially don't deserve to have to watch this match. This is a match where both men in the ring have zero business being in a wrestling ring at all.
Let me just get this out of the way, Dave Sullivan might be one of the worst wrestlers of all time. This man throws without a doubt the least convincing punch in the history of wrestling. I'd seriously put him with The Great Khali and Giant Gonzales in terms of talent. Whoever let this guy wrestle should have been fired. Kevin Sullivan isn't much better either. The man can't sell to save his life, and has one of the absolute worst looks in professional wrestling history. In fact, both of these guys look awful, and don't look like wrestlers in the slightest.
The match is a lot of bad punching and horrible selling. Neither one of them is on the same page, so there's a lot of messed up spots, mostly consisting of Kevin having to stop running or fighting so Dave can do his move. At one point, the two are fighting and Dave knocks Kevin down, but Dave is so uncoordinated that he falls out of the ring for no reason. Tony Schiavone keeps going on about how neither one of the Sullivan's wants to pin each other, even though Dave had gone for multiple pins throughout the match.
So Kevin tries to hit one of those Kevin Nash middle rope leg drop thing, but Dave moves and he misses (mostly because Kevin was about a foot off and wasn't going to hit him anyone), so Dave starts running wild. This leads to Sullivan's stable mate The Butcher (aka Brutus Beefcake) to hop on the apron and distract Dave. Kevin shoves Dave into The Butcher, they collide incredibly lightly, and Kevin pins Dave with the worst roll-up in history.
This might have been the worst wrestled match on this list so far. Neither of them belong in a wrestling ring, especially not together, and their in ring work clearly shows. So many messed up spots and so many slow spots that look like their wrestling at half speed the entire time and make the match worse. Like I said earlier, whoever booked this match should have been fired immediately.

The Verdict

As bad as this match was, it's still slightly better than Hogan vs Warrior. Hogan-Warrior manages to 10 minute and do nothing right at all. Kevin-Dave doesn't do anything right either, but at least it only goes 7 minutes.

Rankings (Best to Worst)

  1. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
  2. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
  3. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
  4. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
  5. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
  6. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
And next on the list is...I hope to God it's not WCW again...

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