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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. The worked shoot. An event in a wrestling show that was scripted, but presented in a way to make the audience believe that it was unscripted, frequently using insider terms that the knowledgable fans would know. We've seen it throughout the history of wrestling, with moments such as Brian Pillman's promo from ECW CyberSlam 1996, CM Punk's pipebomb promo, and even Jerry Lawler and Andy Kaufman on Late Night with David Letterman. All of those are good examples of a worked shoot. For a bad example, you just have to look at...pretty much any one Vince Russo wrote for WCW in 2000. From the commentators slipping insider terms whenever they could to having Hugh Morrus acknowledge that his name was given to him by Eric Bischoff, the frequent blurring of lines between work and shoot did nothing but make an already bad product even ...

A lot of criticism has been thrown lately at how the WWE presented women's wrestling during the Attitude Era. The fact that there was a period where the only way you could get TV time was to take off your clothes and fight in anything from an evening gown match to a lingerie pillow fight to a match where you've got to throw another woman into a pool of stuff did nothing but show that WWE was only interested in using female wrestlers for getting cheap tits & ass pops in the ratings. WWE have moved past this, but it's still a pretty bleak part of history looking back nowadays. That being said, it doesn't even compare to the women in WCW. With not even a title to fight for whatsoever, women in WCW were used solely as eye candy and nothing else. And today, I look at one of those matches. It's Miss Hancock, aka Stacy Keibler, against Major Gunns, aka adult film star Tylene Buck. Searchy searchy. It's a woman named after a dick joke against a woman named afte...