Worst in the World: Monty Brown vs Trytan-Destination X 2005

TNA's grandest failures tend to get the most attention when talking about the company's worst moments. Things like the Blindfold Steel Cage match, the Reverse Battle Royal, and Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell are all infamous matches that, even as the company has gone on to redeem its image in a big way in the last few years, still remain a part of the conversation around the company. Hell, there are still notorious matches from the company that haven't made their way into the series. But with that said, there are still plenty of bad matches in the company's 20-year history that don't get quite as much attention as the ones I listed before. Today, I'd like to talk about one of those matches. It's time to tell you the story of Trytan.

TNA began airing vignettes in early 2005 for Trytan, a Terminator-type character. Trytan was the latest gimmick for Ryan Wilson, a 6'10 wrestler who had previously worked as part of Redshirt Security, the heel security team (that was a real thing) under his real name, and as former Survivor-contestant Jonny Fairplay's bodyguard Titus. Man, between Fairplay, Jenna Morasca, and Johnny Impact (John Morrison), TNA loved their Survivor alumni. Surprised Ashley Massaro didn't have a run there. Trytan quickly turned his attention to Monty Brown, a staple of early TNA who would later briefly wrestle in WWE as Marquis Cor Von, where he had one of the greatest entrance themes in the history of wrestling. The two would face off at that year's Destination X, in what would be Trytan's debut...and the first of only seven matches Trytan would have before the company didn't renew his contract that same year. Anything resembling a push for Trytan was snuffed out after this match, which earned a DUD rating from Dave Meltzer, and holds just one single 0/10 review on Cagematch.net. And you might be thinking "wow, this match was so bad the company gave up on him after it." Well, they might've given up on him even earlier than that. You'll see what I mean.

The match starts with Brown striking away at Trytan, who isn't phased. Trytan sends Brown into the corner after reversing an Irish whip before going for a chokeslam, which Brown blocks. Brown strikes away at Trytan again, but Trytan keeps control with a gorilla press slam that he has a lot of trouble keeping Brown up for.

Trytan tries to follow up with a chokeslam, but Brown fights out, leading to an incredibly awkward big boot attempt that sees the match come to a complete halt.

Don West on commentary says that Brown made a "great move" but in reality, the timing was just completely off. Brown ends up sending a charging Trytan out of the ring, but Trytan catches him with a shot to the gut when Brown dives off the apron with a double axe handle. Trytan throws Brown around ringside before throwing Brown back into the ring. Trytan continues beating down Brown until Brown catches a charging Trytan with a boot. Brown manages to strike Trytan down to one knee, but Trytan pops back up and hits a chokeslam for a two-count. Trytan tries to follow up with a powerslam, but Brown slips out and dropkicks Trytan. Brown fires up, chopping away at Trytan, but Trytan again kills his momentum when he scoops him up for the T-3 (a fireman's carry facebuster/an F-5.) Brown, however, counters the move and lands on his feet before hitting a fallaway slam. Brown tries to follow up with the Pounce (a running shoulder block) when suddenly, the lights go out. When they come back on, Trytan is gone. And in his place?...

Some guy in a mask. This is actually Dennis Knight, better known as Phineas Godwinn and Mideon in the WWF. The reason I'm telling you this now instead of waiting for the big reveal is because there is no big reveal. We never find out who this masked man is on TV, and he is never seen again. There was no storyline reason this happened...it just happened. The man in the mask attacks Brown...only for Brown to quickly hit him with the Pounce...and then cover him...and then the referee counts the three and rings the bell...even though that guy isn't in the match...and that's how the match ends. Brown then looks out onto the stage, where Trytan is slowly backing up through the entrance. Mike Tenay describes whatever this was as Trytan "staying one step ahead of Monty Brown." These two would never wrestle each other again. This was the blow-off to the feud.

 The Verdict

Might as well get it out of the way, the ending of this match is a confusing mess. I, for the life of me, cannot figure out what TNA was trying to do with this. It obviously wasn't to protect Trytan, his push all but died after this show. I don't think they booked it because they'd changed their mind on Trytan because, as far as I can tell, there aren't any recorded dark matches he had before this show. And it couldn't be from his matches in TNA before the Trytan gimmick, because they wouldn't have bothered pushing him. It's completely mind-boggling

But even without the strange ending, this match is pretty bad. Trytan botches pretty much every spot he has, and while Brown is pretty fine throughout the match, Trytan being on the offensive for the majority really drags it down. It's not the worst match, but the botches and the messy ending are gonna put it low on the rankings.

The Rankings (Best to Worst)

1. Tommy Dreamer vs Bully Ray-Victory Road 2011
2. Triple H vs Kevin Nash-TLC: Tables, Ladders, and Chairs 2011
3. Rick Rude vs Jake Roberts-WrestleMania IV
4. Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
5. Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns-Greatest Royal Rumble
6. Ernest Miller vs Norman Smiley-Fall Brawl 1998
7. The Concrete Crypt Match-The Great American Bash 2004
8. Shane McMahon vs Eric Bischoff-SummerSlam 2003
9. Mordecai vs Hardcore Holly-The Great American Bash 2004
10. Luther Reigns vs Charlie Haas-The Great American Bash 2004
11. The Tag Team Gauntlet-Extreme Rules 2010
12. The Gimmick Battle Royal-WrestleMania X-Seven
13. Hernandez vs Matt Morgan-Victory Road 2011
14. Randy Orton vs Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 33
15. Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
16. T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000
17. David Arquette & Diamond Dallas Page vs Jeff Jarrett & Eric Bischoff
18. The Women's Tag Team Turmoil-WrestleMania 37 (Night 1)
19. Triple H vs Sgt. Slaughter-D-Generation X: In Your House
20. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
21. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
22. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
23. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
24. Steve McMichael vs Reggie White-Slamboree 1997
25. Chyna vs Ivory-WrestleMania X-Seven
26. Lars Sullivan vs Lucha House Party-Super Showdown 2019
27. Alexa Bliss vs Bayley-Extreme Rules 2017
28. The Tag Team Fatal 4-Way Match-WrestleMania 13
29. The Barbed Wire Christmas Tree Match-TNA iMPACT (12/20/2007)
30. Tag Team Battle Royal-WrestleMania XIV
31. EVIL vs Tomohiro Ishii-Wrestle Kingdom 16 (Day 1)
32. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
33. Toru Yano vs Great O-Khan-New Japan Cup 2021 (Day 6)
34. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
35. Ivan Koloff vs Paul Jones-Clash of the Champions IV
36. ODB, Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi vs The Kongtourage-Genesis 2009
37. Kazushi Sakuraba & Yuji Nagata vs Daniel & Rolles Gracie-Wrestle Kingdom 8
38. Ivory vs Tori-SummerSlam 1999
39. Giant Baba vs Bulldog Bob Brown-WrestleRock
40. The Reverse Battle Royal-Impact! (10/26/2006)
41. Savio Vega vs Rocky Maivia-In Your House 14: Revenge of the Taker
42. Jerry Blackwell vs Boris Zhukov-SuperClash II
43. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
44. Alex Wright vs Steve McMichael-Halloween Havoc 1997
45. The Great Khali vs Kane-WrestleMania 23
46. Savio Vega vs Crush vs Faarooq-Ground Zero: In Your House
47. The Shockmaster vs Awesome/King Kong-Starrcade 1993
48. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
49. The Intercontinental Championship Elimination Chamber-Elimination Chamber 2015
50. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
51. Team RAW vs Team SmackDown Men's Elimination Match-Survivor Series 2017
52. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
53. Paul Ellering vs Teddy Long-Capital Combat
54. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
55. Konnan vs Scott Hall-Fall Brawl 1998
56. Damian Priest vs The Miz-WrestleMania Backlash
57. Tyson Tomko vs Stevie Richards-Unforgiven 2004
58. Kane vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2009
59. The 2022 Women's Royal Rumble
60. Rick Steiner vs Scott Steiner-Fall Brawl 1998
61. The Extreme Elimination Chamber-December to Dismember 2006
62. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
63. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
64. Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
65. Finlay & Little Bastard vs The Boogeyman & Little Boogeyman-No Way Out 2007
66. Mr. Anderson vs Rob Van Dam-Victory Road 2011
67. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
68. El Gigante vs Nailz-G1 Climax 1994 (Day 1)
69. Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4
70. Dusty Rhodes vs The Honky Tonk Man-SummerSlam 1989
71. Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
72. The Hurt Business vs RETRIBUTION-WWE Monday Night RAW (10/26/2020)
73. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
74. Santino Marella vs Heath Slater-WWE Friday Night SmackDown (9/27/2013)
75. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
76. Vince Russo vs Ric Flair-WCW Monday Nitro (6/5/2000)
77. Allie vs Leva Bates-Fyter Fest 2019
78. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
79. Antonio Inoki vs The Great Antonio-NJPW Sumo Hall Show (12/8/1977)
80. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
81. Kenzo Suzuki vs Billy Gunn-The Great American Bash 2004
82. The Big Show vs Erick Rowan-TLC: Tables, Ladders, Chairs 2014
83. British Bulldog & Jim Neidhart vs The Dancing Fools-Fall Brawl 1998
84. Stevie Ray vs Konnan-World War 3 1998
85. Vampiro vs The KISS Demon-Bash at the Beach 2000
86. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
87. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
88. Big Swole vs Penelope Ford, Rebel, and Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D.-AEW Dynamite (8/27/2020)
89. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
90. Jinder Mahal vs Randy Orton-Battleground 2017
91. Van Hammer vs Terrance Taylor-Clash of the Champions XVI
92. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
93. The New Blood Gauntlet-WCW Monday Nitro (6/5/2000)
94. Chris Jericho vs "Goldberg"-Fall Brawl 1998
95. Hulk Hogan vs Kevin Nash-WCW Monday Nitro (1/4/1999)
96. Sting vs Hulk Hogan-Halloween Havoc 1999
97. Hulk Hogan vs Jeff Jarrett-Bash at the Beach 2000
98. Kazuchika Okada & Toru Yano vs EVIL & Dick Togo-The New Beginning in Hiroshima 2021 (Day 2)
99. Michael Nakazawa vs Alex Jebailey-Fyter Fest 2019
100. The 2022 Men's Royal Rumble
101. Roman Reigns vs The Undertaker-WrestleMania 33
102. Konnan vs Stevie Ray-Slamboree 1999
103. The Undertaker vs Goldberg-Super ShowDown 2019
104. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
105. Jim Duggan vs Big Boss Man-Royal Rumble 1990
106. Meng vs Jim Duggan-Uncensored 1995
107. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
108. The Golden Truth vs Breezango-Money in the Bank 2016
109. The Undertaker vs Giant González-WrestleMania IX
110. Sting vs Tony Palmore-Battle 7
111. D-Generation X vs Brothers of Destruction-Crown Jewel
112. Wendi Richter vs Leilani Kai-WrestleMania
113. Goldberg vs Brock Lesnar-WrestleMania XX
114. Hornswoggle vs Chavo Guerrero-WWE Monday Night Raw (7/20/2009)
115. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
116. Rosita & Sarita vs Angelina Love & Winter-Victory Road 2011
117. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
118. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
119. Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
120. Boris Zhukov vs Paul Samson-Beach Brawl
121. Roddy Piper vs Hollywood Hogan-Halloween Havoc 1997
122. Kane vs The Great Khali-Breaking Point
123. Hollywood Hogan & Dennis Rodman vs Diamond Dallas Page & Karl Malone-Bash at the Beach 1998
124. PN News & Bobby Eaton vs Steve Austin & Terrance Taylor-Great American Bash 1991
125. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
126. Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
127. The 2015 Royal Rumble Match
128. Kazuchika Okada vs Gedo-New Japan Cup 2020 (Day 2)
129. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
130. Sting vs Hollywood Hogan-Starrcade 1997
131.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
132. Super Invader vs Todd Champion-WrestleWar 1992
133. Brock Lesnar vs Cain Velasquez-Crown Jewel 2019
134. King Kong Bundy & Jim Neidhart vs Yokozuna & Jake Roberts-Heroes of Wrestling
135. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
136. Monty Brown vs Trytan-Destination X 2005
137. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
138. The Fabulous Freebirds vs The Renegade Warriors-Halloween Havoc 1990
139. The Knockouts Gauntlet-One Night Only: Live! 2016
140. AJ Styles vs Frank Trigg-No Surrender 2008
141. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
142. Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
143. Bray Wyatt vs John Cena-Extreme Rules 2014
144. Brothers of Destruction vs KroniK-Unforgiven 2001
145. The Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal-WrestleMania 25
146. Mabel vs The Undertaker-King of the Ring 1995
147. Wendi Richter vs The Fabulous Moolah-The Brawl to End it All
148. David Flair vs Kimberly Page-Mayhem 1999
149. The Truth Commission vs The Disciples of Apocolypse-Survivor Series 1997
150. Daffney vs Miss Hancock-Bash at the Beach 2000
151. The Bushwhacker vs The Fabulous Rougeaus-WrestleMania V
152. Randy Orton vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 37 (Night 2)
153. Lex Luger vs Sting-WWA The Retribution
154. The Beverly Brothers vs The Bushwhackers-Royal Rumble 1992
155. Savio Vega vs Rocky Maivia-WWF Monday Night Raw (4/14/1997)
156. Teddy Long vs Eric Bischoff-Survivor Series 2005
157. Savio Vega vs Rocky Maivia-WWF Shotgun Saturday Night (1/25/1997)
158. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
159. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
160. Major Gunns vs Miss Hancock-New Blood Rising
161. Vince Russo vs Booker T-WCW Monday Nitro (9/25/2000)
162. Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Christopher Nowinski & Jackie Gayda-WWE Monday Night RAW (7/8/2002)
163. Triple H vs Scott Steiner-Royal Rumble 2003
164. Goldberg vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Super ShowDown 2020
165. Santina Marella vs Vickie & Chavo Guerrero-Extreme Rules 2009
166. Kevin Nash vs Scott Steiner vs Goldberg-New Blood Rising
167. Brock Lesnar vs The Undertaker-WrestleMania XXX
168. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
169. Mr. T vs Roddy Piper-WrestleMania 2
170. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
171. The House of Horrors Match-Payback 2017
172. The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes-Uncensored 1995
173. Team Dos Caras vs Team El Canek-Leyendas Mexicanas 2017
174. Pat Patterson vs Gerald Brisco-King of the Ring 2000
175. The Wyatt Swamp Fight-The Horror Show at Extreme Rules
176. The Four Doinks vs Team Bigelow-Survivor Series 1993
177. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
178. Bret Hart vs Mr. McMahon-WrestleMania XVI
179. WarGames 2000: Russo's Revenge-WCW Monday Nitro (9/4/2000)
180. Oz vs Tim Parker-SuperBrawl
181. Brock Lesnar vs Braun Strowman-Crown Jewel 2018
182. Brock Lesnar vs Ricochet-Super ShowDown 2020
183. Toru Yano vs KENTA-G1 Climax 2021 (Day 1)
184. The Fabulous Moolah vs Ivory-No Mercy 1999
185. The Mighty Maccabee vs The Iron Sheik-Maccabiah Mania II: Shekel Slam
186. Van Hammer vs Doug Somers-Halloween Havoc 1991
187. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
188. Jeff Jarrett vs Sting-Halloween Havoc 2000
189. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996
190. "Donald Trump" vs "Rosie O'Donnell"-WWE Monday Night RAW (1/8/2007)
191. Kane vs The Undertaker-Judgement Day 1998
192. Toru Yano vs Jado-New Japan Cup 2020 (Day 1)
193. Rebel vs Shelly Martinez-One Night Only: Knockouts Knockdown
194. Sable vs Torrie Wilson-The Great American Bash 2004
195. The Evening Gown Pool Match-Armageddon 1999
196. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/2010)
197. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
198. Seth Rollins vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Hell in a Cell 2019
199. Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler-WrestleMania XXVII
200. The Bushwhackers vs Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff-Heroes of Wrestling
201. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
202. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
203. Hulk Hogan vs The Giant-Halloween Havoc 1995
204. Ultimate Warrior vs Goldust-In Your House 7
205. Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
206. Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell-Victory Road 2009
207. Akira Maeda vs Andre the Giant-NJPW Big Fighter Series 1986 (Day 15)

Thanks for reading! Be sure to share if you enjoyed and leave any suggestions for matches you'd like to see covered on the Worst in the World in the comments. In two weeks, I'll be doing a triple feature where I'll be taking a look at the rise, the peak, and the downfall of who many consider the worst King of the Ring of all time. Stay tuned.