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Click the link here to vote in the poll and help decide the next edition of the Worst in the World. Looking back, the professional wrestling career of the late Tom "Tiny" Lister is somewhat of an anomaly. In 1989, Lister, an actor of 10 years who would later be known best for his role as Deebo in Friday and its sequel Next Friday, would play Zeus, the monster antagonist in the WWF-financed film No Holds Barred opposite Hulk Hogan as Rip Thomas. By film standards, No Holds Barred is not good, but if you're looking for some good old cheesy 80's schlock cinema, then the movie is right up your alley. But that wasn't the end of Tiny Lister's involvement with the WWF. On the May 27th episode of Saturday Night's Main Event, less than a week before No Holds Barred would release, Zeus would debut, confronting Hogan as he made his way to the ring. Unhappy with losing to Hogan in the film and being billed under him, Zeus came after Hogan. It was weird, because it was...

It was only a matter of time before I got back to the horror show known as Heroes of Wrestling. If you don't remember, this was an ill-fated wrestling show featuring some of the biggest wrestling stars of the 1980s. The problem? This took place in 1999. The stars were well past their primes, and it is widely regarded as one of the worst wrestling shows in history, with four of the matches on the card being on the bottom 100 on the Internet Wrestling Database. I've already done one (a match where George Steele was essentially defeated by a shirt), so onto the next one, a match between WWE Hall of Famer(?!) Abdullah the Butcher (who you might know as that guy who got fried in the Chamber of Horrors match) and One Man Gang. Gang throws a bunch of chairs in the ring before the match starts, so you can already tell what kind of match this is going to be. He is looking in rough shape, and Abdullah looks even worse. Commentator Randy Rosenbloom keeps calling Abdullah "Abby...

Is it possible for a wrestling match to be "so bad it's good". Can there actually be a match that is so bad, so poorly put together, and so insane that it actually transcends bad and becomes good. If so, I think I found a match that is so bad it's good. And that match is the infamous Chamber of Horrors match from Halloween Havoc 1991. It is so unbelievably dumb that you can't help but watch in awe as this mess transpires. I could watch a match a Randy Orton-Sheamus match and completely forget it the next day. I watched this match once, and I still remember it in vivid detail. It's truly an insane match that could only happen in WCW. The match is a 8-man tag match between Sting, the Steiner Brothers, and El Gigante (better known as Giant Gonzales) and Cactus Jack, Vader, The Diamond Studd (aka Scott Hall) and Abdullah the Butcher inside a giant steel cage (basically the Hell in a Cell). The fact that so many great wrestlers got roped into this nonsense is ...