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Worst in the World: Fall Brawl '98's Five Matches of Doom

Usually, when I do entries in the Worst in the World, I'll cover a single match. Sometimes , I'll bust out a double feature . One time I took on three matches . Hell, I've even gone for four at once . But today, I'm going all out. Five matches in one post. And all of them come from Fall Brawl 1998, quite possibly the worst top-to-bottom wrestling show that has ever been put on by a major company. The average star rating for the matches on this show from Dave Meltzer is below a quarter of a star. The whole show; less than a quarter of a star. Not even some of the most notoriously bad pay-per-views have average match ratings that low. Uncensored 1996 with the Doomsday Cage ? Still higher. December to Dismember, the show that pretty much killed the ECW revival and had the lowest buy rate in WWE history pre-Network? Still higher. Victory Road 2009, the show with... ...that . Still higher. Granted, that average isn't as bad as Heroes of Wrestling, but if we're settin...

Worst in the World: Lars Sullivan vs Lucha House Party-Super Showdown 2019

Source: Cageside Seats Oh Lars, where did it all go wrong?... Source: Queerty Yeah, that'll do it. The WWE career of Lars Sullivan was quite the messy, messy journey. After a fairly solid stint in NXT which included his participation in the 5-star ladder match for the North American Championship (Daniel Bryan and Cesaro have never got a 5-star rating in WWE from Dave Meltzer, but LARS SULLIVAN has...wild), Sullivan got the call up to the main roster and was set to debut in January...except he didn't due to an anxiety attack. He'd eventually debut the night after WrestleMania 35, attacking the recently retired Kurt Angle, and looked set to receive a monster push. That was before things got really ugly. Four months after his debut, Sullivan's past activities on a Bodybuilding.com forum ( compiled here in a Reddit post. Fair warning, it's not pleasant) came to light. And needless to say, Sullivan wasn't using the forum to debate how many days there are in a week ....