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Worst in the World: El Gigante vs Nailz-G1 Climax 1994 (Day 1)

(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.) Considering how I cover a lot of bad wrestling on this site, it's not surprising that I rarely talk about New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Often considered the best professional wrestling in the world right now, New Japan often delivers in the ring, and even when they don't, the standard of quality is so high that an underwhelming match is still pretty good. That being said, NJPW has not gone without some major blunders. I've already covered one match from the ill-fated Final Countdown BVD tournament where half of the participants were shootfighters and not wrestlers. That tournament laid the groundwork for "Inoki-ism" where Antonio Inoki put the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship on guys like Tadao Yasuda and Bob Sapp, one of which was a mediocre veteran while the other wasn't even a wrestler, purely because they...

Worst in the World: The Undertaker vs Giant González-WrestleMania IX

Special thanks to Jorge Dueñas for suggesting this match. If you'd like to see a match covered on the Worst in the World, leave a comment down below. The Undertaker's 21-0 undefeated streak at WrestleMania. One of the most legendary accomplishments in WWE history. For over two decades, Taker's match, usually with nothing on the line other than the opportunity to defeat the Undertaker, was a main attraction and routinely one of the best matches on the card for WWE's biggest show of the year. However, that wasn't always the case, especially earlier in Taker's career. Before the Undertaker was putting on classic WrestleMania matches against the likes of Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Randy Orton, Batista, and CM Punk in the 2000s and 2010s, Taker was working through the early 90s putting on bonafide stinkers. Whether they be past their prime legends like Jimmy Snuka at WrestleMania VII and King Kong Bundy at WrestleMania XI or just generally bad workers like Sycho Sid a...

Worst in the World: The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991

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 ...