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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. Seriously, what is with Hulk Hogan and the Giant? It seems like they were physically incapable of putting on even decent matches together. I know Hogan was never known for his top-notch in-ring work (at least not in the US) and the Giant was very new to wrestling when he was in WCW, but they were both able to put on at least passable matches around this time. But for whatever reason, the two went together about as well as oil and water. They're such a bad pairing that, in the 130 entries I've done for Worst in the World, they're one of only two pairings that has  multiple matches in the series . The other one: Kane vs the Great Khali . That is not company you want to be in. This match-up at Halloween Havoc 1995, arguably one of the worst pay-per-views of all-time, saw Hogan and the Giant square off for the first time in w...

The tag team division in WWE is...not good, and hasn't been for a long time. From frequent title changes to little to no build for title matches, it's clear that WWE doesn't take the tag team scene as seriously as other wrestling companies & brands. This is especially jarring when one of those brands, NXT, is literally part of the same company, and their tag division doesn't have the same problems that the main roster does. And this isn't just a problem now, WWE has really struggled to build a strong and interesting division for a long time now, and one of the worst examples was the Tag Team Gauntlet match from Extreme Rules 2010. This match pitted the Unified WWE Tag Team Champions ShoMiz, The Big Show and The Miz, against three teams. Those three teams were The Hart Dynasty's Tyson Kidd and David Hart Smith (Davey Boy Smith Jr.), John Morrison & R-Truth, and Mark Henry & MVP. That's four tag teams in one match. One of them is an actual tag team...

Santino Marella's a wrestler I have mixed feelings about. On one hand, I'd be lying if I said he didn't have some funny moments. His 1.9-second elimination and the follow-up reaction in the 2009 Royal Rumble still makes me laugh, the Honk-a-Meter he had was a very fun gimmick, and I'll stand by it that Tea Time with Santino is genuinely great comedy. On the other hand, when Santino's bad...he's really bad. And arguably the worst, least funny bit Santino had during his seven-year run was Santina. Debuting in the Miss WrestleMania battle royal at WrestleMania 25 (which could probably get an entry by itself), Santina Marella, the fake sister of Santino who was really just Santino in drag, won the whole damn thing. If you want an idea of how WWE saw women's wrestling in 2009, the only women's match on the biggest show of the year was won by a comedy act dressed as a woman. The Santina schtick went on for long enough that not only was Santina able to defend t...

  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. I've said it before that women's wrestling in the WWF during the Attitude Era was about as close to the bottom of the barrel as you can get. The bottom of the barrel would be women's wrestling in WCW, especially during the dying years of the company. The WWF's women's matches might have been transparent excuses to put scantily clad women on TV to hit the 13-17 demographics, but at least there was some semblance of an actual division with workers like Jacqueline & Ivory. WCW didn't even bother with that. No actual women's division, no titles to fight for whatsoever, and barely any in-ring training. Midnight, who appeared in WCW throughout 1999 and 2000, started training in September 1999 and debuted on TV in November that same year, while Molly Holly, who wrestled in WCW as Miss Madness & Mona, des...

Brock Lesnar is still a great wrestler. I will stand by that. Since returning to WWE, Lesnar has had great matches, whether they be traditionally great matches like his bouts with AJ Styles and Daniel Bryan, or balls to the wall, fast-paced, action-packed matches that are short on psychology but make up for it with excitement, see his matches with Finn Bálor and Goldberg. Again, I will stand by this, Brock Lesnar is a great wrestler...when he wants to be. When he doesn't, he's unbearable and damages the show and the wrestlers he's working with. His match with Dean Ambrose at WrestleMania 32 is infamous for how little Lesnar cared, as said by Ambrose himself. Braun Strowman's short defeat at the hands of Lesnar at No Mercy 2017 left a lot to be desired and severely halted his momentum. And of course, Kofi Kingston got his feel-good WWE Championship reign snuffed in eight seconds at the hands of Lesnar, and hasn't even gotten close to getting back to the main event si...