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Last year on the 4th of July, I took a look at the 2004 edition of the Great American Bash , one of the worst pay-per-views WWE has ever held. Well, one year later, WWE would once again hold the Great American Bash, and it was still bad. Granted, it's a slight improvement over the previous year's event, and the card definitely feels more pay-per-view worthy than 2004's (there's not a Luther Reigns or a Mordecai match in sight), but it's still not a very good show overall. The show currently sits at a 3.47 rating on Cagematch, putting it a lot closer to the bottom of WWE's pay-per-view rated on the site than it is to the top. Today, I'll be looking at four matches from this show. Match #1: The Undertaker vs Muhammad Hassan We'll be skipping over the first three matches, a mostly forgettable Tag Team title match where MNM defended against Road Warrior Animal & Heidenreich, a fine enough match between Booker T and Christian, and a decent United States t...

Special thanks to an anonymous user for suggesting this match. If you'd like to see a match covered on the Worst in the World, leave a comment down below. Also, c lick the link here to vote in the poll and help decide the next edition of the Worst in the World. On the October 22, 2020 episode of AEW Dynamite, Mr. Brodie Lee would defeat Cody for the AEW TNT Championship in a shocking squash match. It was great, and quickly established Brodie Lee as a dominant threat. Months after the match, Cody himself would say that the choice to go with a squash match was inspired by another squash match nearly 23 years earlier. That squash match came from New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where a debuting Big Van Vader would crush Antonio Inoki after he had already had a match. Why am I telling you this? Because about eight months later, AEW would decide to incorporate another idea from New Japan and Antonio Inoki... Inoki-ism Yes, good old Inoki-ism, the name given to its namesake's push to blend p...