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Worst in the World: The Golden Truth vs Breezango-Money in the Bank 2016

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(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.)
Comedy wrestling is one of the more divisive topics in wrestling right now. I for one think that comedy matches have their place in professional wrestling. I can sit down and enjoy an Orange Cassidy match, I've already preached my love for things like the Broken Hardys in TNA and the Firefly Fun House match, and I can't lie, The Wee-LC match between Hornswoggle & El Torito was significantly more fun than it had any business being. However, the most important thing about comedy wrestling is...the comedy. Because just like in film and TV, comedy isn't something that can venture into "so bad it's good" territory like horror or drama. If comedy is bad...it's just bad. And there's been no shortage of bad comedy matches. I've covered quite a few of them in this series, and there will absolutely be more to come, but for now, let's take a look at this match; The Golden Truth (R-Truth & Goldust) vs Breezango (Fandango & Tyler Breeze) from the Money in the Bank 2016 pre-show.
For a pre-show match, this build is shockingly deep. In January 2016, Goldust proposed forming a tag team with R-Truth. That kickstarted months of vignettes between the two that later involved Fandango & Tyler Breeze, creating two new tag teams in "Goldango" with Goldust & Fandango and "The Gorgeous Truth" with Truth & Breeze, only for Fandango & Breeze to both turn on their partners in May and form Breezango, setting up this match. On paper, a match involving these four shouldn't have been too bad. They're all talented in-ring workers. Sure, Breezango wasn't quite at their comedic peak with the Fashion Files skits and Golden Truth had already managed to overstay their welcome because of the unnecessarily long four-month build to becoming a team, but this should've still been a fun match. Unfortunately, bad comedy got in the way. We get a vignette showing Breezango going tanning together, which the Golden Truth sabotages by turning up the heat in the tanning bed. Breezango doesn't get the Final Destination 3 treatment, but they do get badly sunburned. You can probably tell where this is going. Let's get into this.
The Golden Truth comes out first, followed by Breezango, who painfully make their entrances as their sunburn skin is peeling.
Mauro Ranallo says there's finally something "appealing" about Breezango on commentary. I love Mauro Ranallo and his dad jokes. Truth and Fandango start and you get exactly what you'd expect. The two try to lock up, but Fandango sells it because of his sunburn. Truth offers to let Fandango lock in a wristlock, only for Truth to turn around instantly and chop him. This is the majority of the match, Truth & Goldust slapping Breezango, who oversell like hell because they're badly burnt. It's kind of...uncomfortable. Maybe I'm just over-analyzing it, but the babyfaces got turned on by the heels, so they got their revenge by...potentially giving them melanoma and are now exploiting the disadvantage they gave the heels. Are we sure Golden Truth are the babyfaces here?
Truth keeps chopping Fandango before he retreats to his corner and forcefully tags in Breeze, who sells the tag. Truth tags in Goldust and the two double chop Breeze repeatedly. Goldust chops Breeze some more and goes for Shattered Dreams, but Breeze fights out, only for a flying nothing off the second rope to be countered with a shot to the gut. Truth tags in, but Breeze manages the first real offensive move for Breezango of the match when he knees Truth in the gut. Fandango tags back in, but Truth quickly regains control by repeatedly slapping Fandango's back. Truth hits the 10 punches in the corner and calls for the Scissor Kick, but Breeze lowers the ropes to break it up. Truth catches this and chops his back in retort.
This match has one joke and it doesn't give a fuck if you're not laughing. This horse isn't just dead, it's completely decomposed.
The distraction allows Fandango to take control with a chop block before dropping a few knees on Truth's leg, which he sells because if you haven't figured it out, then you can't read. Breezango double teams Truth until Truth hits a jumping leg lariat on Fandango. Both men tag out and Goldust runs wild on Breeze, chopping away at him before pulverizing Fandango's dick, countering a flying nothing with an Inverted Atomic Drop. Goldust follows up with an Atomic Drop on Breeze, but Breeze counters a charging Goldust and sends him into the corner. Fandango tags back in for a double clothesline spot, but Goldust dodges it. Truth pulls Breeze out of the ring before Goldust hits the Final Cut (a swinging vertical suplex) for the three and the win.

The Verdict

It is the same joke over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over...and over...again. And the joke isn't even that funny, to begin with. Like, Breezango's entrance and the opening lock-up spots are fine, and that's it. The worst part is that this repetitive bad joke actually takes away from the match a lot. Like I said in the into, Breezango & the Golden Truth could have absolutely had a good, or at least fun match on their own. Unfortunately, they have to work around the gimmick, and the match quality suffers greatly because of it. This was not fun whatsoever. It's not the worst comedy match I've ever seen, but it's certainly a dud if I've ever seen one.

The Rankings (Best to Worst)

  1. Tommy Dreamer vs Bully Ray-Victory Road 2011
  2. Rick Rude vs Jake Roberts-WrestleMania IV
  3. Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
  4. Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns-Greatest Royal Rumble
  5. Ernest Miller vs Norman Smiley-Fall Brawl 1998
  6. Shane McMahon vs Eric Bischoff-SummerSlam 2003
  7. The Tag Team Gauntlet-Extreme Rules 2010
  8. Hernandez vs Matt Morgan-Victory Road 2011
  9. Randy Orton vs Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 33
  10. Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
  11. T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000
  12. The Women's Tag Team Turmoil-WrestleMania 37 (Night 1)
  13. Triple H vs Sgt. Slaughter-D-Generation X: In Your House
  14. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
  15. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
  16. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
  17. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
  18. Steve McMichael vs Reggie White-Slamboree 1997
  19. Lars Sullivan vs Lucha House Party-Super Showdown 2019
  20. Alexa Bliss vs Bayley-Extreme Rules 2017
  21. The Tag Team Fatal 4-Way Match-WrestleMania 13
  22. Tag Team Battle Royal-WrestleMania XIV
  23. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
  24. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
  25. Ivan Koloff vs Paul Jones-Clash of the Champions IV
  26. ODB, Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi vs The Kongtourage-Genesis 2009
  27. Kazushi Sakuraba & Yuji Nagata vs Daniel & Rolles Gracie-Wrestle Kingdom 8
  28. Ivory vs Tori-SummerSlam 1999
  29. Giant Baba vs Bulldog Bob Brown-WrestleRock
  30. The Reverse Battle Royal-Impact! (10/26/2006)
  31. Jerry Blackwell vs Boris Zhukov-SuperClash II
  32. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
  33. Alex Wright vs Steve McMichael-Halloween Havoc 1997
  34. The Great Khali vs Kane-WrestleMania 23
  35. Savio Vega vs Crush vs Faarooq-Ground Zero: In Your House
  36. The Shockmaster vs Awesome/King Kong-Starrcade 1993
  37. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
  38. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
  39. Team RAW vs Team SmackDown Men's Elimination Match-Survivor Series 2017
  40. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
  41. Paul Ellering vs Teddy Long-Capital Combat
  42. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
  43. Konnan vs Scott Hall-Fall Brawl 1998
  44. Damian Priest vs The Miz-WrestleMania Backlash
  45. Tyson Tomko vs Stevie Richards-Unforgiven 2004
  46. Kane vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2009
  47. Rick Steiner vs Scott Steiner-Fall Brawl 1998
  48. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
  49. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
  50. Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
  51. Finlay & Little Bastard vs The Boogeyman & Little Boogeyman-No Way Out 2007
  52. Mr. Anderson vs Rob Van Dam-Victory Road 2011
  53. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
  54. El Gigante vs Nailz-G1 Climax 1994 (Day 1)
  55. Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4
  56. Dusty Rhodes vs The Honky Tonk Man-SummerSlam 1989
  57. Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
  58. The Hurt Business vs RETRIBUTION-WWE Monday Night RAW (10/26/2020)
  59. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
  60. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
  61. Vince Russo vs Ric Flair-WCW Monday Nitro (6/5/2000)
  62. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
  63. Antonio Inoki vs The Great Antonio-NJPW Sumo Hall Show (12/8/1977)
  64. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
  65. British Bulldog & Jim Neidhart vs The Dancing Fools-Fall Brawl 1998
  66. Stevie Ray vs Konnan-World War 3 1998
  67. Vampiro vs The KISS Demon-Bash at the Beach 2000
  68. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
  69. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
  70. Big Swole vs Penelope Ford, Rebel, and Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D.-AEW Dynamite (8/27/2020)
  71. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
  72. Jinder Mahal vs Randy Orton-Battleground 2017
  73. Van Hammer vs Terrance Taylor-Clash of the Champions XVI
  74. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
  75. The New Blood Gauntlet-WCW Monday Nitro (6/5/2000)
  76. Chris Jericho vs "Goldberg"-Fall Brawl 1998
  77. Roman Reigns vs The Undertaker-WrestleMania 33
  78. The Undertaker vs Goldberg-Super ShowDown 2019
  79. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
  80. Jim Duggan vs Big Boss Man-Royal Rumble 1990
  81. Meng vs Jim Duggan-Uncensored 1995
  82. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
  83. The Golden Truth vs Breezango-Money in the Bank 2016
  84. The Undertaker vs Giant González-WrestleMania IX
  85. Sting vs Tony Palmore-Battle 7
  86. D-Generation X vs Brothers of Destruction-Crown Jewel
  87. Wendi Richter vs Leilani Kai-WrestleMania
  88. Goldberg vs Brock Lesnar-WrestleMania XX
  89. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
  90. Rosita & Sarita vs Angelina Love & Winter-Victory Road 2011
  91. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
  92. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
  93. Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
  94. Boris Zhukov vs Paul Samson-Beach Brawl
  95. Roddy Piper vs Hollywood Hogan-Halloween Havoc 1997
  96. Kane vs The Great Khali-Breaking Point
  97. Hollywood Hogan & Dennis Rodman vs Diamond Dallas Page & Karl Malone-Bash at the Beach 1998
  98. PN News & Bobby Eaton vs Steve Austin & Terrance Taylor-Great American Bash 1991
  99. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
  100. Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
  101. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
  102. Sting vs Hollywood Hogan-Starrcade 1997
  103.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
  104. Super Invader vs Todd Champion-WrestleWar 1992
  105. Brock Lesnar vs Cain Velasquez-Crown Jewel 2019
  106. King Kong Bundy & Jim Neidhart vs Yokozuna & Jake Roberts-Heroes of Wrestling
  107. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
  108. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
  109. The Fabulous Freebirds vs The Renegade Warriors-Halloween Havoc 1990
  110. The Knockouts Gauntlet-One Night Only: Live! 2016
  111. AJ Styles vs Frank Trigg-No Surrender 2008
  112. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
  113. Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
  114. Bray Wyatt vs John Cena-Extreme Rules 2014
  115. Brothers of Destruction vs KroniK-Unforgiven 2001
  116. The Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal-WrestleMania 25
  117. Mabel vs The Undertaker-King of the Ring 1995
  118. Wendi Richter vs The Fabulous Moolah-The Brawl to End it All
  119. David Flair vs Kimberly Page-Mayhem 1999
  120. The Truth Commission vs The Disciples of Apocolypse-Survivor Series 1997
  121. Daffney vs Miss Hancock-Bash at the Beach 2000
  122. The Bushwhacker vs The Fabulous Rougeaus-WrestleMania V
  123. Randy Orton vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 37 (Night 2)
  124. The Beverly Brothers vs The Bushwhackers-Royal Rumble 1992
  125. Teddy Long vs Eric Bischoff-Survivor Series 2005
  126. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
  127. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
  128. Major Gunns vs Miss Hancock-New Blood Rising
  129. Vince Russo vs Booker T-WCW Monday Nitro (9/25/2000)
  130. Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Christopher Nowinski & Jackie Gayda-WWE Monday Night RAW (7/8/2002)
  131. Triple H vs Scott Steiner-Royal Rumble 2003
  132. Goldberg vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Super ShowDown 2020
  133. Santina Marella vs Vickie & Chavo Guerrero-Extreme Rules 2009
  134. Kevin Nash vs Scott Steiner vs Goldberg-New Blood Rising
  135. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
  136. Mr. T vs Roddy Piper-WrestleMania 2
  137. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
  138. The House of Horrors Match-Payback 2017
  139. The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes-Uncensored 1995
  140. Team Dos Caras vs Team El Canek-Leyendas Mexicanas 2017
  141. Pat Patterson vs Gerald Brisco-King of the Ring 2000
  142. The Wyatt Swamp Fight-The Horror Show at Extreme Rules
  143. The Four Doinks vs Team Bigelow-Survivor Series 1993
  144. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
  145. Bret Hart vs Mr. McMahon-WrestleMania XVI
  146. WarGames 2000: Russo's Revenge-WCW Monday Nitro (9/4/2000)
  147. Oz vs Tim Parker-SuperBrawl
  148. Brock Lesnar vs Braun Strowman-Crown Jewel 2018
  149. Brock Lesnar vs Ricochet-Super ShowDown 2020
  150. The Mighty Maccabee vs The Iron Sheik-Maccabiah Mania II: Shekel Slam
  151. Van Hammer vs Doug Somers-Halloween Havoc 1991
  152. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
  153. Jeff Jarrett vs Sting-Halloween Havoc 2000
  154. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996
  155. Kane vs The Undertaker-Judgement Day 1998
  156. Rebel vs Shelly Martinez-One Night Only: Knockouts Knockdown
  157. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/2010)
  158. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
  159. Seth Rollins vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Hell in a Cell 2019
  160. Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler-WrestleMania XXVII
  161. The Bushwhackers vs Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff-Heroes of Wrestling
  162. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
  163. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
  164. Hulk Hogan vs The Giant-Halloween Havoc 1995
  165. Ultimate Warrior vs Goldust-In Your House 7
  166. Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
  167. Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell-Victory Road 2009
Thanks for reading! Be sure to share if you enjoy and leave any suggestions for matches you'd like to see covered in the Worst in the World in the comments. Next time, I'll be heading back over to New Japan and looking at another one of their infamous matches that turned into a shoot. 
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  1. FrostNovember 6, 2021 at 2:15 PM

    At least they didn't put this one on PPV, just the kickoff show.

    A bit on the odder side for this next request, and it may also allow for you to dive into another element of what classifies as "Worst in the World" for professional wrestling: Wrestlemania X-7's Gimmick Battle Royale. Granted, this match served its purpose: to try and give the crowd a break and allow for a reset after the amazing Triple Threat TLC Match for the Tag Titles. However, in terms of actual wrestling, not great, and it will also give you a chance to discuss some of the oddest gimmicks of all time.

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    1. CJ BiddleNovember 8, 2021 at 1:13 PM

      I'd love to cover the Gimmick Battle Royal, that one should be a lot of fun. I've got a pretty big list compiled between my picks & other suggestions, but I'll get to it as soon as I can

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