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Worst in the World: Santina Marella vs Vickie Guerrero & Chavo Guerrero-Extreme Rules 2009

Santino Marella's a wrestler I have mixed feelings about. On one hand, I'd be lying if I said he didn't have some funny moments. His 1.9-second elimination and the follow-up reaction in the 2009 Royal Rumble still makes me laugh, the Honk-a-Meter he had was a very fun gimmick, and I'll stand by it that Tea Time with Santino is genuinely great comedy. On the other hand, when Santino's bad...he's really bad. And arguably the worst, least funny bit Santino had during his seven-year run was Santina. Debuting in the Miss WrestleMania battle royal at WrestleMania 25 (which could probably get an entry by itself), Santina Marella, the fake sister of Santino who was really just Santino in drag, won the whole damn thing. If you want an idea of how WWE saw women's wrestling in 2009, the only women's match on the biggest show of the year was won by a comedy act dressed as a woman. The Santina schtick went on for long enough that not only was Santina able to defend t...

Worst in the World: Daffney vs Miss Hancock-Bash at the Beach 2000

  Special thanks to Otter Empire for suggesting this match. If you'd like to see a match covered on the Worst in the World, leave a comment down below. I've said it before that women's wrestling in the WWF during the Attitude Era was about as close to the bottom of the barrel as you can get. The bottom of the barrel would be women's wrestling in WCW, especially during the dying years of the company. The WWF's women's matches might have been transparent excuses to put scantily clad women on TV to hit the 13-17 demographics, but at least there was some semblance of an actual division with workers like Jacqueline & Ivory. WCW didn't even bother with that. No actual women's division, no titles to fight for whatsoever, and barely any in-ring training. Midnight, who appeared in WCW throughout 1999 and 2000, started training in September 1999 and debuted on TV in November that same year, while Molly Holly, who wrestled in WCW as Miss Madness & Mona, des...

Worst in the World: Brock Lesnar in Saudi Arabia

Brock Lesnar is still a great wrestler. I will stand by that. Since returning to WWE, Lesnar has had great matches, whether they be traditionally great matches like his bouts with AJ Styles and Daniel Bryan, or balls to the wall, fast-paced, action-packed matches that are short on psychology but make up for it with excitement, see his matches with Finn Bálor and Goldberg. Again, I will stand by this, Brock Lesnar is a great wrestler...when he wants to be. When he doesn't, he's unbearable and damages the show and the wrestlers he's working with. His match with Dean Ambrose at WrestleMania 32 is infamous for how little Lesnar cared, as said by Ambrose himself. Braun Strowman's short defeat at the hands of Lesnar at No Mercy 2017 left a lot to be desired and severely halted his momentum. And of course, Kofi Kingston got his feel-good WWE Championship reign snuffed in eight seconds at the hands of Lesnar, and hasn't even gotten close to getting back to the main event si...

Worst in the World: Giant Baba vs Bulldog Bob Brown-WrestleRock 86

Special thanks to Otter Empire for suggesting this match. If you'd like to see a match covered on the Worst in the World, leave a comment down below. WrestleRock...be there. In 1986, the AWA was falling behind the WWF and the NWA in terms of popularity, with WrestleRock being the final stadium show would run before shutting down in 1991. While most of the AWA's biggest stars, most notably Hulk Hogan, were gone, the card still featured some big names like Harley Race, Stan Hansen, the Road Warriors, and Bruiser Brody (under the name King Kong Bundy) and most of the matches were still entertaining. Giant Baba vs Bulldog Bob Brown...not so much. Baba, a legendary Japanese wrestler and future co-founder of All Japan Pro Wrestling, might have been giant compared to the people he worked with, standing at 6'10 (or 7'4 because you round up in wrestling), but from what I've seen he was still a talented wrestler for his size. Brown, on the other hand, has very little info ava...