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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...

Yeah...this is is going to be hard. Not hard because it's bad, but because this match is very infamous in the wrestling industry for one very depressing reason. For as bad as the entirety of the Heroes of Wrestling show is, it would most likely be forgotten in time if it weren't for this match. This is the infamous match where the legendary Jake the Snake Roberts showed up completely intoxicated to wrestle Jim Neidhart.  Roberts had well-publicized issues with drugs and alcohol throughout his career. There's even a scene in the documentary Beyond the Mat where Roberts is interviewed after reportedly smoking crack. Luckily, Roberts was able to get his life back on track with the help of Diamond Dallas Page in 2012 and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2014. But unfortunately, he still had a very public relapse in front of thousands of people at this show. He was so intoxicated, in fact, that the promoter had to change the planned double main event of Roberts vs ...