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(Special thanks to Frost for suggesting these matches. If you'd like to see a match covered on the Worst in the World, leave a comment down below.) Last week, I began this look at World War 3 , WCW's attempt to establish a signature battle royal match (their own Royal Rumble, essentially), by looking at the 1995 and 1996 editions of the match. The 1995 match is a chaotic, cluttered, unfocused, and unwatchable mess of a match that knocked off the infamous Akira Maeda/Andre the Giant match that devolved into a shoot as the new Worst in the World. The 1996 match is a slightly less (just slightly) chaotic, cluttered, unfocused, and unwatchable mess of a match that I put in the bottom 15 of the list. Two of the bottom 15 matches in this series that consists of 216 matches (soon to be 218) are World War 3 matches. But, I am a completionist, so let's go through the final two World War 3 matches WCW ever put on. 1997 Like 1996, the 1997 edition of World War 3 would see the winner o...

(Special thanks to Frost for suggesting these matches. If you'd like to see a match covered on the Worst in the World, leave a comment down below.) As I said before, every wrestling company wants to have its own Royal Rumble. Sometimes that means doing a timed battle royal with minimal or no rules changes. Sometimes that means creating their own signature battle royal match. I've already looked at WCW's attempt at a Royal Rumble with their Countdown to Armageddon match , so now let's move over to their attempt at the latter; World War 3. Looking to find an annual November pay-per-view that had been vacant since Starrcade moved to December in 1988, WCW trotted out World War 3 in 1995, with the titular match acting as the headline attraction. The World War 3 match was a three-ring battle royal, with a whopping 60 participants in the match. You thought the 2011 Royal Rumble and the Greatest Royal Rumble were bloated with 40 and 50 participants, respectively? Wait until you...