The Wrestling Section

Before I start this, I feel like I need to clarify this; I love All Elite Wrestling. I genuinely think it is the best weekly wrestling show there is right now. And while it's not perfect, the majority of what is put on TV is at least good, in my opinion. That being said, AEW has had quite a few missteps since starting up. The Dark Order was dead on arrival before Brodie Lee showed up and resuscitated the group, Miro came in with a lot of hype following his WWE release, but his booking seriously underwhelmed until he broke away from Kip Sabian, and of course... That. However, the biggest issue that AEW has had since its inception is by far its women's division.  It hasn't been entirely their fault. Injuries kept Britt Baker and Kris Statlander out of the ring for a long time, while COVID-19 had kept women like Yuka Sakazaki and (until recently) Riho & Shanna out of the country entirely. Along with that, Kylie Rae seemed set to be one of the faces of the division before h...

(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.) Cooperation: the single most important thing in professional wrestling. You can have impeccable mat wrestling, flawless psychology, death-defying high spots, or realistic brawling abilities, but if you and your opponent aren't on the same page, your match is going to be a disaster. We've seen plenty of times where wrestlers have decided not to cooperate with their opponent, such as when Bruiser Brody stopped working in the middle of a match with Lex Luger in 1987 or when Shawn Michaels infamously channeled his inner octopus in a washing machine for his match with Hulk Hogan at SummerSlam 2005. However, there are also plenty of examples of someone deciding to go into business for themselves while in the ring with the absolute wrong person or people. There's of course the infamous match where a jobber in the NWA decided ...

(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...

WrestleMania 37 kicks off tonight, which means that it's only fitting that I look at a notorious stinker that took place on the Grandest Stage of them All in this post. Considering how I've done almost 150 of these over the years, I've covered most of the absolute worst matches that have ever happened at the Colassol Tussle. However, there's one infamously match from the history of WrestleMania that I've never looked at. And it might honestly be the worst in the 36-year history of the entire show. It's Bret Hart vs Mr. McMahon from WrestleMania XXVI. Now, the bad blood between Bret Hart and Vince McMahon is no secret. After Vince screwed Bret with the Montreal Screwjob (you might've heard of it) in 1997, Hart left the WWF and joined WCW, while McMahon became the biggest villain in the history of the business. It would be eight years before Hart did any kind of business with the WWE when he took part in a documentary DVD about his career. It's worth notin...

It's been almost a year since I covered the infamous Hell in a Cell match between Seth Rollins and "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt . In that review, I called the booking terrible, specifically in regards to how negatively this could've affected The Fiend, who was arguably the hottest act going in WWE at the time. Thankfully, this disaster of a match didn't kill The Fiend, as he eventually won the Universal Championship at Crown Jewel that same year. The borderline character assassination attempt failed. But of course, this is the WWE. They have a knack for fucking things up one way or another. That brings us to Super ShowDown 2020. After his disaster of a match at the last Super ShowDown , Goldberg had returned to the ring and somewhat redeemed himself with a fun match at SummerSlam against Dolph Ziggler. Goldberg then set his sights on getting the Universal Championship rematch he never got. A simple story that would be a huge win for Bray Wyatt. Beating a WWE Hall of Fam...

The 2020 Wrestling Observer Awards are officially out, and as always, a Worst Match of the Year has been voted on. The unlucky winner this year is Bray Wyatt vs Bruan Strowman in the Wyatt Swamp Fight from the oddly named Horror Show at Extreme Rules, a show that also featured a match where you could only win by extracting your opponents' eye. It was a weird show. But back to the match. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, where having fans in the stands was not an option, the cinematic style became a favorite form of match presentation for just about any company that could afford to do it. We got some great ones, like the Stadium Stampede, the Boneyard match, and the Firefly Funhouse match. However, by the end of the year, the concept was clearly starting to overstay its welcome. AEW's own chapter in the Deletion series underwhelmed, Impact seemed to just make matches like Ken Shamrock vs Sami Callihan and Moose vs EC3 cinematic for funsies, and WWE sacrificed one of its mos...