 What's good Josh boros back out again with another video, so we're gonna check out bad pro wrestling gimmick matches by wrestling Bios, I've been wanting to check this video out for quite some time. It's been in my list of videos to check out There's been some great gimmick matches. There've been some classic ones legendary ones ones I can think of off the top of my head is the TLC matches when WWE incorporated those those gimmick matches at that time were revolutionary You had never seen something like that. You've never seen ladders tables and chairs being used in that way You know, there's been some great last man standing matches like the the one we seen last year Rebrocken and Roman Reigns at last year's Summer Slam, you know Not all last man standing matches are good But that one will probably be one that many people remember because of just the craziness You know, you have the last ride matches. You have the inferno matches even though those weren't really too good I like the one with Kane and MVP I thought that one was done well But you know the one with Bray Wyatt and the fiend not Bray Wyatt I said Bray Wyatt in the fiend But the fiend and Randy Orton that one not so good, you know So it's it's you have some some some heavy hitters and then you have some big gimmick matches that just not good It sounds cool on paper, but then when they actually execute it, it's actually not that entertaining So we're gonna check this out man. It's gonna be a long video. So, you know sit back relax Get you something to eat man. We're gonna go through this together Once again, this is about wrestling bios. Let's get right into this one. Should be a good one Oh with the little loud Ears man Today I'm gonna talk about bad gimmick matches in pro wrestling either specifically bad matches or much gimmicks that were just bad in concept Pro wrestling gimmick matches can be awesome standard one-on-one and tag matches are fine Of course, but adding stipulations and certain win conditions not only makes things more exciting But it also helps to break up the monotony of wrestling shows by giving fans something different Gimmick matches can also be used to end feuds. They can help with the superstars character They can draw in more viewers with gimmick matches being big spectacles or must see showdowns Really gimmick matches just make a lot of sense and they should be considered a necessity of pro wrestling a vital part of Creating wrestling shows the thing is though and you know where this is going I'm sure but sometimes gimmick matches turn out pretty bad and they can turn pretty bad for a lot of different reasons Maybe the idea was awful right out the gate Maybe the wrong guys got involved perhaps the match was shot pretty badly in the overall production was the blame Maybe it was something people just didn't want to see whatever the case may be There are plenty of bad gimmick matches throughout pro wrestling history and honestly There's more than what I originally thought I began thinking about ideas for this video and I ended up with quite a lot of bad Gimmicks and bad matches so this one's going to get split up into a few parts Just like my heaths and babyfaces videos as always these are just my thoughts by the way There's maybe so much as I didn't like that you thought were awesome and that's fine hearing different opinions is good So let me know your thoughts in the comments and also let me know some gimmick matches You didn't enjoy and I'll see if I've already noted them down in the next video All right, let's check some of these out man ZOMB I Oh my god, I forgot about this the zombie lumberjack match. Oh Pandemic error, you know why I forgot about this match because it was that awful My brain couldn't possibly or didn't want to remember this match this right here was awful truly Get this off my screen awful, bro This one has only happened once and hopefully it never happens again Reportedly WWE was paid a ridiculous amount of money to cross promote army of the dead Oh, it's 2021 zombie movie that starred Dave Batista that I didn't think was too bad actually The WWE wouldn't just show a two-minute trailer for the movie or slap the poster beside the awfully named WrestleMania backlash logo. No, they made sure their sponsor got their money's worth by booking a zombie lumberjack Oh, they had to do was just so maybe build a trailer and keep promoting it throughout the damn show Maybe you had some little silly gimmick backstage, but you didn't have to have a damn match this was grand Match Damian Priest and the Miz had to deal with the undead around the ring as they tried to have a wrestling match and it ended with John Morrison getting devoured and the Miz also suffering the same fate before the show moved on That's right The show moved on after zombies ate Morrison and Miz you could say hey It's all good fun. Stop being such a buzzkill and enjoy it for what it is But in a world where you're conditioned to suspend disbelief this one seemingly goes in the opposite direction WWE got destroyed by critics and fans alike for booking the match while the Miz said he was happy to get involved because it was an idea That was very much outside the box being outside the box doesn't make something good though The general concept of this one sounded bad from the very beginning, bro The Miz and the Morrison got devoured and you seen them on TV Right after that oh My god, I forgot about that one king of the ring match Uncensored 95 But the king of the roadmatch is pretty simple Fighting it out on an 18-wheeler the first guy who can ring a bell wins It was pretty bad though because the competitors would fall all over the place while trying to maintain balance Yeah, some sort of fight or wrestling match This one took place at WCW uncensored 1995 and to give WCW credit They didn't do a terrible job of trying different terms of camera work and overall production It isn't all that bad the action though is seriously lagging and it becomes very stale within the first 30 or 40 seconds Booger dusty roads and the two competitors Dustin Rhodes and blacktop bully were fired after the match air due to WCW's No blood policy Disaster everywhere you look at it. Damn. Oh, yeah, I do think uh, I remember someone talking about Hey, they'll get fired because they were bleeding or they ain't no blood even though you're in the match That's on a moving vehicle and surrounded by fucking steel great anything can happen Reverse battle royal TNA wrestling TNA would host reverse battle royals where the match starts outside the ring half the superstars who get in the ring Will then be allowed to compete in a traditional battle royal Generally, this means you've got a bunch of guys punching and kicking each other during the first half of the match with no real Wrestling going on and you've also got guys who seemingly forget how to get into a wrestling ring as they try to add Drama to something so incredibly basic. It's a terribly dumb concept in general It's not the last bad TNA gimmick. We're gonna look at unfortunately That's weird. So you start outside the ring and then fight your way inside the ring. I don't know. Oh The Punjabi prison magic The Punjabi prison match was supposed to be very different Court Bauer who was working for WWE at the time had shown Vince and on need a death match with an exploding ring Vince actually signed off on the idea according to court and the Punjabi prison match was going to be this Extremely dangerous spectacle similar to death matches held in Japan Court then said the idea went to Kevin Dunn and around 10 days before the 2006 Great American Bash The idea had been altered so much that it represented nothing from the original pitch Explosions there was a lot of bamboo and court said this new idea looked more like a play set based on Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom A match so it was originally supposed to be more like an exploding death match And I'm pretty sure event signed off on it He you know and they kept it originally that it probably would have been a crazy spectacle But instead we got a whole bunch of bamboo that you can barely see what's happening in the damn ring Lee the original idea had mutated into this Monstrosity that just didn't work that wasn't bamboo that was used it was like the old blue steel cage only with A lick of paint and what's more the rules of a Punjabi prison match while not hard to understand were unnecessarily excessive Yeah, here's the WWE explaining the rules of the match on their website To win a superstar must escape both cages a prospect that is far easier said than done The interior structure contains four doors all of which are attended by a referee When a superstar calls for the door to be opened They have one minute to walk through it and into the outer structure If they don't make it through in time the door is shut and locked for good If a superstar feels to make it through all four doors in the allotted time They must climb out of the inner structure It makes for good practices The only way to escape the outer ring is to climb up and over it the first superstar whose feet touch the ground wins The match I think the Punjabi prison sure looks intimidating But it's just not all that fun to watch matches take place inside the structure Thankfully though this one seems retired for good. Yeah, let's keep it that way No more of that Steiner asylum match WCW These matches were featured in my old WCW blunder series and for good reasons who? Scotty Steiner got his own match type in WCW that basically featured a bird cage in the middle of the ring The space limiting structure would feature Scott Steiner and his helpless opponent or Opponents trying to survive a beatdown from the big bad booty daddy Steiner said before the first match that the only way to win was via submission There was no way in and no way out But that first match also ended when tank Abbot interfered by raising the asylum structure Oh, and the match was also thrown out. It was a disqualification So during this first-ever asylum encounter where the rules of the match should be firmly established in both theory and in practice WCW decided to completely screw everything up The main issue with this one though was the limited space inside the asylum There wasn't a terrible lot the guys could do in there and it was even worse when more than two guys competed in the match It's almost too easy to include this one But it simply has to get brought up to many would say it's the absolute worst gimmick match the WWE or WWF ever put on But I'm not so sure now it is I mean that zombie lumberjack match could have overtook it as the worst match ever Anyway, so the kennel from hell is a steel cage surrounded by the hell on a cell sounds awesome so far Yeah, in between the cage in the cell There's a bunch of robin dogs waiting to take a bite out of the competitors Yeah lucky enough to fall between the structures problem was though wwe didn't use train dogs They pooped around the ring. They urinated around the ring. They weren't concerned about the competitors Yeah, I remember someone I don't know if it was wrestling by us talking about this particular match the dogs Hey, they was just in there chilling, bro. Like, you know, they they They weren't worried about attacking. Nobody and instead their owners just kind of walked around while trying to get their Pooches to do something remotely intimidating if there was a match that just used the cage in the hell in a cell That could have been something instead wwe have killed the idea by including some distressed doggo's and the kennel from hell Match became legendary for just how awful it was Chris chairs Started producing TLC paper views they wanted to expand on the idea by also including table matches ladder matches and Chair matches table matches were already established in the wind condition was a good one put your opponent through a table Lot of matches were also well established in the idea behind a ladder match was a brilliant one climb the ladder and retrieve the belt So what are you supposed to do in a chairs match? Give your opponent a comfortable seat? Basically using chairs as a weapon is legal and that's it. No other weapons are legal just chairs It's done when you think about it and the match type was only put together to fit into the TLC paper It's totally unnecessary and it feels like a step down from a more traditional street fight or extreme rules match Chair matches may be fine. Once the bell rings. It's the idea of the match that feels unnecessary to me Not get it. I mean you're just using chairs, which I get it. Oh This one stare matches. I Don't know why I just realized I said Chris matches and I can't read Yep, WWE produced a TLC paper view named tables ladders chairs and stairs and you guess Included the stairs match same concept as before only this time You can only use the ring steps the big show and Eric Rowan competed in this match And WWE actually produced a tale of the tape for the stairs with some ridiculous exaggerations As in the ring steps weighing a total of 275 pounds the match was slow it plotted along with the stairs now becoming the most dangerous weapon in WWE history I don't know why they bothered with this one and it's not a match. I care to watch again. No Graveyard match bash at the beach It sounds alright in theory But the execution was really bad for this one the kiss demon versus vampiro took place at bash at the beach 2000 to win the graveyard match you had to incapacitate your opponent long enough so you could return to the arena No, I've heard people laugh at this because there's no way a graveyard could be right next to the arena, right? Well bash at the beach 2000 was held in the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach And a quick look on Google map shows that Pinewood Cemetery is practically right beside So that part did make sense What doesn't make sense though is WCW failing to properly light whatever set they used for this abomination properly It's difficult to make out what's going on saying is the demon quickly loses that torch He was holding in the only light source We have for a while is the flashlight held by referee charge Robinson Just awful we get a game of hide and seek at the beginning We learned that somehow the demons head is more solid than a tombstone We get to see the guys frolicking in the water. Well, we kind of get to see the guys frolicking in the water It's one of those matches that could have been something but absolutely nothing redeemable comes of it Doomsday cage match 96 Ah the doomsday cage match my my I thought the doomsday cage looked great I liked the idea of this giant imposing three storied cage sitting at the entranceway The match itself though was really really sketchy to say the least and we really should have known this before it got under way WCW didn't really explain how the monster was going to work until just before the competitors entered the stage structure at uncensored 96 we were told that Hulk Hogan and Randy salvage would have to survive different levels and segments of the Cage in order to win the match with their final challenge waiting for them in a ring right at the ground level But nothing else was really explained or the babyface is supposed to pin or submit their opponents at each level Where do the heels go after getting defeated can guys from previous levels join in during subsequent levels so the fine details were Purposefully using just tell that absolutely no one had a clue what was going on It turned into an absolute mess as Hulk Hogan and Randy salvage destroyed eight heels in one match Ric Flair, Arne Anderson, Rex Luger, the Taskmaster, the Barbarian, Ming and Zeus in the Ultimate Solution All fell at the hands of the Megapars Add in the Bootyman for some more absolute nonsense and you've got yourself a match for the Ages ladies and gents They beat everybody We're gonna go through each level and beat all you guys What? My uncensored 96 video if you want to see how it all went on. That's fucking funny They beat everybody Blind oh, yeah seen this one blindfold match Let's take away the guy's vision and put them in a wrestling ring Why this was done so many times is beyond me, but the match never works This one doesn't need an explanation But no one will ever call any blindfold match an all-time classic or even good for that matter No one will ever convince me either that there's fun to be had in these matches because they were all pretty bad The standout probably being Jake Roberts versus Rick Martell at WrestleMania 7 Here you've got two great superstars competing in the biggest show of the year Why the fuck would you limit their abilities by putting them in a dumb gimmick matches? Yeah, there are maybe people out there who enjoy these and again You may think I'm being too harsh and it's just a bit of fun But I just don't find them fun to watch at all no matter how many comedy spots are used Yeah I've mentioned before that I absolutely love the idea of World War three matches and hearing about 60 guys Whoa, three rings sounded insane to me WCW pay-per-views were hard to come by around these neck of the woods during this era But I became obsessed about seeing the first World War three match after reading about it in an old Parslam magazine quick side note Parslam magazine in the UK was awesome back in the day Anyway, I got into tape trading a little also through Parslam magazine and their little pen friend section and an absolute hero Sent me a copy of World War three 1995 to say I was disappointed would be an understatement Yeah, I think I told this story before but not only was it bad enough trying to watch the action on these three tiny screens But the good man who sent me the tape probably copied it from a copy that was a copy from another copy Mixed with WCW's production of World War three matches left a lot to be desired and all my Expectations got flushed right down the toilet. The idea is a sound one But I'm surprised someone didn't stop and think hey, maybe this will be hard to broadcast Maybe we should rethink this, you know They did get it right by putting the last bunch of wrestlers into a single ring But by that time you're just watching a standard bottle of oil So all in all I've more of a personal dislike for this one due to this wild image I got in my head about how this would play out WCW did deliver on what they said But they didn't think about the production of such a match for viewers at home Yeah, that's like damn near your whole roster and three separate rings just going at it and then trying to Broadcast that I mean there's a lot going on at one time. It's kind of hard to get invested, you know Junkyard Invitational bash at the beach 99 The Junkyard Invitational took place at WCW bash at the beach 99 And there was a strange mix of wrestlers in the match Luchadors like La Parka and Ciclope hardcore brawlers like Public Enemy and Sandman Sandman was given the abysmal name of hack in WCW by the way You had technicians such as Lord Stephen Regal There was a real mishmash of wrestlers here that already grew concerns for viewers in regards to WCW's upcoming Hardcore division. He also had a lot of stunt effects in this match that didn't go according to plan to let explosions fires that kind of thing And the whole match was hard to see with a helicopter spotlight being used as the main light source Even worse apparently quite a few guys got legitimately injured in the match due to WCW filming this thing in an actual junkyard Yeah, they did use not so special effects, but most of the weapons and props were real a lot of effort for very little payoff It was hard to watch from a production standpoint It just felt like WCW were playing catch-up with their hardcore division and starting off in one of the worst ways possible I mean kudos to them to actually wrestling in a real junkyard, but you know You're in a real junkyard using the real parts of cars and stuff and Someone's bound to get legitimately injured. This is Exploding barbed wire Let me say first of all that I felt really bad for the guys It was put into the match before the explosion was good There was a lot of physicality mixed in with some good storytelling in regards to the men involved But my god at the end of that match There's never been a big American promotion who put on a match like this before FMW in Japan for example were well known for these kind of Matchups so seeing an exploding barbed wire match in a promotion like AEW was very very intriguing Even for company detractors This one had the potential to get talked about for a very long time again I thought the match was really good up until the end because you see if the match reached the 30 minute mark then the Whole ring was gonna explode Basically every explosive would get detonated and wrestling ring go boom the match featured John Moxley and Kenny Omega It reached the 30 minute mark Moxley is all alone in the ring Eddie Kingston a wrestling bios viewer By the way, so please take this well my friend dashes down to the ring to cover Moxley One of the most heroic and brave acts a man could possibly do and then the ring exploded with fireworks and nothing else This earth-shattering explosion was comparable to a WWF wrestler's power during the new generation era It was a small step up from Gilbert sparkler entrance It was so bad that the company got quite a lot of flag and AEW had to come up with an explanation fast In the end they went with Kenny Omega playing a big old prank and placing dud explosions around the ring It was probably the best explanation they could have came up with to be honest The problem was though the commentators and Eddie had no choice But to play it off as legit when the quote-unquote explosion went off so salvaging the bet is also kind of moot Yeah, nah even they have made fun John Moxley's definitely made fun of that match because that was just That wouldn't it there was no real explosion. So, you know, oh Man Electrified cage match TNA lockdown 07 electrified cage matches had been done before by using jumper cables and electrocuting guys for real It's incredibly dangerous, of course So you're not gonna see anything like that in promotions who have decent TV days and sponsorships You're also not gonna get guys who actually care about their well-being doing such matches because you know You could get seriously hurt or you could even die if things went the wrong way It kind of makes you wonder why TNA would book an electric cage match between team 3d and LAX in the first place But by God they did it and it sucked Not only did we get some ridiculous acting when someone touched the cage But we also got guys seemingly forgetting they had this electrified cage surrounding them Wrestlers would perform moves as normal on the mat instead of throwing them into the cage and brother Ray even asked for a table to get put in the ring because flimsy wood is 100 times more effective As opposed to 10,000 volts of electricity Finally though Hernandez remembered that this structure could actually do some real damage So he tossed even into the cage and check it out the lights flickered There were no sparks or anything no parrow the lights just Sold he put on his Academy performance on that way With no damn electricity on that A girl in Devon flopped around like a fish a pair of rubber gloves is all you need to climb the cage to You can even sit on top of the cage with your balls touching it and you still won't get hurt Homicide takes a bump into the cage to and it's just as bad as Devons a terrible match That makes the AEW exploding barbed wire deathmatch Oh My god, that was awful catch this catch came WCW Sold out. This is another one that sounds good on paper But we have got a guy completely forgetting the rules and the match ends prematurely because of it Even worse is the fact that it was Dean Malenko who dropped the ball a guy who was always highly reliable a lot of changes were made to WCW sold out 2000 due to injuries Jeff Jared and Chris Benoit were originally gonna face off in a triple threat theater series of Matches with one of those matches being a dungeon rules match The ropes would get removed and you could win via pinfall submission or throwing your opponent out of the ring This match did sound good But Benoit got put in the main event title match when Brett hard had to forfeit the title while double J was out Due to a concussion Billy Kidman would wrestle three different guys instead The dungeon match was replaced with a catches catch can match where the ropes would stay around the ring But you could still lose if your feet touched the floor Well, didn't Dean Malenko completely forget about this and he left the ring after about two and a half minutes Yeah, Dean went out to regroup and the referee had no choice But to award the victory to Billy Kidman Dean's head wasn't in it at all There was a lot of turmoil backstage and Dean was getting ready to leave the company along with Benoit and others This catches catch can match would be his final match in WCW And it was such a bad way for him to go out after putting on good to great matches every time he stepped into a WCW ring I forgot the rules Alright, that'll do it for this one, but oh man This was a great one to talk about and as always I'm open for suggestions Let me know in the comments what gimmick matches you didn't like or what ideas fell flat when the bell rung And I'll clue them in a future video again There may be some of these matches that you enjoyed and that's okay. Trust me There's matches out there that people like but I do so it's all right to have differing opinions Use the comment section to let me know your thoughts. Thanks for watching guys as always and take care Hey, man, this was a great one. Y'all go subscribe to the homie Believe I am already subscribed to him. So yeah, I'm gonna go ahead hit this with a like y'all go subscribe to him And makes great videos This was dope Going down memory lane or even checking out some Stipulations or gimmick matches. I didn't even know was a thing like the three rings with all those wrestlers Did not know that was a thing. That's crazy, man So comment down below. Let me know. What's the worst wrestling gimmick match you've ever seen? Let me know down below doesn't matter what company. 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