The Wrestling Section

(NOTE: Before this post starts, I wanted to give a heads up. Throughout this review, there are GIFs that contain bright, flashing lights on repeat. If you suffer from p hotosensitive epilepsy, it might be best to skip this post) Over a year ago, I covered Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt's WWE Championship match at WrestleMania 33 , the Wrestling Observer Newsletter's "winner" of the Worst Match of the Year award. While the match was nothing above subpar, especially for a world title match at WrestleMania, and featured... whatever that was, I mentioned in my post that I didn't think that it was actually the worst match of the year. In fact, I gave not one, but four matches as examples of matches I thought were worse than it in 2017. So, allow me to put my money where my mouth is and cover those four matches over the next two months. And what better place to start than with the follow up to Orton & Wyatt's WrestleMania stinker. After Orton's victory, Wyatt wo

(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.) Just when I said a month and a half ago that there have only been two pairings that have multiple matches in this series, we've got another one. Roddy Piper vs Hollywood Hogan from Halloween Havoc 1997 in a Steel Cage match. Last seen in the series stinking up the joint at SuperBrawl that same year , Hogan & Piper had a legendary rivalry in the mid-80s in the WWF. The only problem for 1997 was that it wasn't the mid-80s anymore, and both were far past their primes, which is extra alarming considering neither of them were known for their expert in-ring abilities, even in their primes. This match is the third in a lackluster trilogy the two had for nearly a year, with Piper winning the first non-title match (which made no sense because Piper was the one who had the contract written up in storyline) at Starrcade 1996 and Ho