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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 ...

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...

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. It was doomed from the start. On paper, Brock Lesnar vs Goldberg was one of the most highly anticipated bouts on the WrestleMania XX. Both had been pushed to the moon since the beginning of their wrestling careers, with Lesnar becoming WWE Champion just four months after his debut and Goldberg becoming WCW World Heavyweight Champion in the midst of his 173-0 undefeated streak. Both were powerhouses with freakish athletic abilities. And with the story of Lesnar costing Goldberg the Royal Rumble match and Goldberg returning the favor by costing Lesnar his WWE Championship against Eddie Guerrero, fans were ready for an intense, big ol' hoss match for the ages. Behind the scenes, however, the match would fall apart. Goldberg had debuted in the WWE one-year prior, signing a one year deal, and following a shaky year that saw WWE use him...

Well... I certainly missed the ball on this one. The UWF...that's it, just...the UWF. Back in 1990, plus-sized clothing store chain owner Herb Abrams founded the Universal Wrestling Federation, a name he was able to use thanks to Bill Watts failing to register it with the United States Copyright Office, in an attempt to compete with the WWF. Populated with a roster featuring stars of the 80s like Paul Orndorff, Don Muraco, Bob Orton Jr., and Ken Patera, homegrown talent like Louie Spicolli, and even a pre-WCW Cactus Jack, the UWF began airing Fury Hour on SportsChannel America. It was terrible. The shows hardly featured top talent facing each other, instead seeing established names taking on jobbers like Scott Cole or Davey Meltzer. Yes...Davey Meltzer. Subtlety at it's finest. On the rare chance the show featured big names facing off, it was even rarer to see a decisive finish, usually seeing a DQ or a double count-out. Because what else were they gonna do, have Bruno Sammarti...

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. So...this needs some explaining. First off, what the hell is this show? Maccabiah Mania were two shows held four years apart put together by Jeff Bukantz, a Jewish-American fencer looking to raise money to send his team to the Maccabiah Games, essentially the Jewish Olympics. A pro-wrestling fan and friend of Ken Patera and Iron Mike Sharper, Bukantz held the first Maccabiah Mania under a tent in his front yard, headlined by several legends of professional wrestling. If you're getting flashbacks to Heroes of Wrestling, there's a good reason for that. Taking place in 1993, Maccabiah Mania has become infamous for many of the same reasons that the aforementioned Heroes of Wrestling did, mainly due to seeing the majority of the wrestlers, some of which were in their mid-50s, working well past their primes. However, one thing that ...

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 dying days of WCW still fascinate me to this day. It never ceases to amaze me how bafflingly awful pretty much everything that went on in this company in 2000 is just mind-blowing. ECW, which was on its last legs around the same time that WCW was, might have had confusing, inmates running the asylum-style moments sprinkled in during its dying days, but nowhere near as consistently as WCW did. If you want an idea of just how nonsensical and overbooked the Vince Russo-era of World Championship Wrestling was, then look no further than Jeff Jarrett vs Sting. Taking place at Halloween Havoc 2000, a show I've already looked at a match from for this series , Jarrett and Sting, both of whom are talented wrestlers capable of putting on a good match, are forced to work through an incoherent mess of run-ins and interference. Let's ge...