 What's good Josh the boy walks back again with another video, so I'm just ah Damn it. I was talking too fast. We're gonna check out 10 wrestling matches ruined by the referee now. We have checked out a Video where you know special there was like cool special guest referees that kind of enhanced the feud and stuff like that But we got to check out some of these referees that didn't enhance the feud and either made the match worse Or it didn't make sense how it ended or you know It could be like a bot spot that they had to call legit or they didn't call like for example Roman Reigns versus Kevin Owens Believe it was a last man. I think it was a last man standing match Yeah, it was a last man standing match and Roman was you know handcuffed to like this structure, but Paul Haman couldn't get the handcuffs unlocked in enough time So the referee stopped the tank out. It's like bro. You you have to keep going you have to count Technically Kevin Owens should have won that match because he couldn't get to his feet in 10 in 10 seconds So well for the 10 count so but he stopped it because it wasn't supposed to be the finish in the match It kind of threw everything out the window. It was it was a crazy. It was a crazy statement, but Ultimately, you know, you know, it wasn't the ref's fault, but yeah, it still looked bad And you know, so we're gonna check this out. Appreciate all love support. Let's get right into this one He's the unsung heroes of wrestling referees can be the linchpin of so many great wrestling stories with heels Cheating behind the referees back ref bumps allowing for more chaos and down the line Officiating allowing for wrestlers to adhere to or bend the rules depending on their alignment not to mention the work They do for the wrestlers to keeping them to time and checking on them for injury as well And if you're Bryce remsburg, you can tell a whole match through physicality and don't even need the wrestlers Excuse me. Sorry. I was almost insinuating that invisible man and invisible Stan weren't This is a real thing invisible man versus invisible Stan bro and the ref is pretty much selling the hell out of this, bro real that would be ludicrous Unfortunately, though referees have such an important role that when things go wrong It can really take away from a match and sometimes even ruin it entirely and because we got nothing else on I'm here to list 10 of those Occasions I'm choppy quinell from parts fun known and these are 10 wrestling matches ruined by the referee before we dive into the list If you haven't yet make sure to subscribe to the channel for more wrestling lists and other great content like survival series our trivia game Or Monday night war where Luke and I played each other at 2k 22s my gm mode a bit of fun had by all Number 10 Ronda Rousey versus Charlotte flair versus Becky Lynch WrestleMania 35 Admittedly this is a controversial way to start because you could reasonably argue that the fault here was more with the wrestlers than the Official but even if the referee rods a pattern was only partly to blame then he still deserves a place on this list Simply because of how high profile the match was the actual main event of actual WrestleMania and not only that but the historic first time ever that the biggest show of the year was Headlined by a women's match up until this point It had all gone pretty well Ronda Charlotte and Becky had all worked hard and for over 20 minutes had put on a show Worthy of their spots on the card But then came the finish Ronda had Becky on her shoulders looking for her Piper's pit finisher But Lynch suddenly counted into a crucifix pin a cool spot in theory But unfortunately Rousey's shoulder was clearly several inches off the canvas for the first half of the pin in the heat of the Moment Sopata decided the best course of action was to count the fall as planned anyway Bad move man was reportedly furious afterwards and find him for the error Which is sadly now the most remembered part of what was otherwise a landmark moment for WWE hardcore battle royal WrestleMania 2000 another WrestleMania another botch finish and another question mark over who was most at fault in the year 2000 the hardcore title was defended under the same rules as the 24-7 championship in more recent times except more fun in every way Yeah Holly had spent most of the past few months on the run losing and regaining the championship in hotel rooms airport terminals Amusement parks and just about every other conceivable location for for WrestleMania He was set to defend the belt against 12 other men in a so-called battle royal In fact the match was a 15 minute brawl during which the title could chain chans numerous times via pinfall all submission with whoever was champion When the clock expired getting to walk away victorious So any time someone says the championship scrabble match debuted unforgiven 2008 you show them this mess But Taz had him locked in the Taz mission what was supposed to happen next is a hardcore Holly would smash Taz on the head with a glass jar tried to make the pin-on crash But the clock would expire after a count of two what could possibly go wrong as it turned out plenty could Hardcore Holly ended up on top of crash with five seconds to go rather than two and referee Tim White started account one two And then just stopped crash didn't get his shoulder up and the bell didn't ring for another couple of seconds So it looked like white had just decided not to count hardcore Holly was eventually declared the winner Contrary to what was supposed to happen But the debate rages on to this day as to whether the referees started counting too fast or if hardcore Holly simply messed up His timing yeah, I'm punk versus Jack Swagger raw We've kept this one low down on the list because to be fair if you're going to have a botched finish Then this is the textbook example of how to cover it up Well, CM Punk was WWE champion and was a couple of weeks away from a defense against Dolph Ziggler at the Royal Rumble where raw general manager and all Around oh just a wonderful man John Laurinaitis would be the special guest referee at the start of this non-title match on raw Big Johnny appeared on the stage to say that if punk won then both his opponent Jack Swagger and manager Vicky Guerrero Would be barred from being in their pal Dolph's corner at the Rumble the match got underway and after a few minutes Punk hit the same Randy Savage style elbow drop from the top rope that he often hit during his matches It rarely if ever was used as a finisher But here for some reason referee Jack Doe and counter to three and called for the bell despite Swagger kicking out Punk looked a bit annoyed at the unexpected end to the match But kept his call instead down Ziggler while commentators Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler Examine slow motion replays of the pin and analyze the officials call in a very sports like way Cole even went as far as tying the error into the storyline saying that avoiding mistakes like that was precisely why Laura Knight has had made himself the guest referee for the Rumble It was so smooth that almost made it look like the cock up was deliberate But yeah, definitely wasn't number seven free for all day. They played that really well They play it. They made a botch look like part of the storyline because yeah, what once you have instant replay It's it's easy to kind of just spot out like okay. Well You know the replay shows this person kicked out, you know, Sam survivor series 96 as we've just seen not every referee Botch has a major impact on the outcome of a match But sometimes it can change the trajectory of an entire career on the 1996 survivor series free for all the kickoff show before the main pay-per-view a young JBL was about to start a big singles Push as a cowboy character called Justin Hawke Bradshaw and he was due to be victorious in a traditional four versus four Elimination match according to JBL This was one of the first nights that the officials were wearing a new earpiece and referee Tim White was distracted by listening to someone in His ear when Jesse James the future row dog covered Bradshaw for what was meant to be a near full instead white counted to three Ignoring the kick out before immediately realizing his mistake white apparently said oh my god kid I'm so sorry, but the decision had been seen by everyone Sent to the back where he was given an earful by agent Jerry Briscoe with the match Winner now gone the ending had to be improvised So eventually Bart Gunn from the opposing team pinned his on-screen brother Billy to become the sole survivor Completely contrary to what was in the script as for Justin Hawke Bradshaw His new gimmick came to nothing after this full start and he was soon repackaged I guess it kind of worked out that's crazy you had to be repackaged because of that damn Wow, bro. That's it's crazy how certain things happen in wrestling that can ultimately benefit you in the long run six Trent Beretta versus Pac AEW Dynamite the autumn of 2019 was a crucial time for orderly wrestling as it launched its Weekly Wednesday night show dynamite and attempted to prove to the wrestling viewing public that it was a viable alternative to WWE It was therefore quite important that the first few weeks of the show went off without a hitch or at least without a major Watch at the finish of a match well as the Rolling Stones will tell you you can't always get what you want on the November 6th Edition of dynamite just the sixth episode in the show's history Trent and Pac were going one-on-one in a match Intended to showcase the latter ahead of a pay-per-view match three days later against hangman Adam Page for the planned ending Pac was due to hit his spectacular black arrow finisher from the top rope and get a clean one two three He hit the move perfectly went for the cover and referee Bryce Remsburg stopped counting after two ever the professional Pac immediately transitioned into the brutalizer submission and won the match that way He looked visibly annoyed afterwards although to be fair looking visibly annoyed is kind of a permanent state for the man Unfortunate error to say the least Remsburg later explained that there have been some kind of miscommunication And he didn't realize that the black arrow was supposed to be the finish He apologized backstage for his mistake and everyone moved on number five Yeah, James versus Asuka on Raw having only just returned from a torn ACL that kept her on the shelf for over a year Mickey was obviously eager to get back to business and had a chance to showcase her skills in a Raw women's championship match against Asuka The same opponent she'd faced for the NXT women's title in her first match back with WWE in 2016 after several years away One it's unlikely that she was due to win the match Everyone involved would have liked it to go better than it eventually did in fairness to referee Derek Moore It seems that he was just trying to protect Mickey after suspecting for some reason in the middle of the match that she was Legitimately injured, but it looked really bad The two women were on the match with the champion trying to cinch in the Asuka lock when seemingly at random the referee called for the bell Mickey looked wide-eyed in disbelief for a couple of seconds before closing her eyes Seemingly trying to go with the flow by pretending she passed out after a few seconds where literally everyone seemed baffled Moore told the ring announcer that Mickey had been unable to continue the following week in an interview with talk sports The veteran star seemed philosophical about the whole thing saying the refs do their job and kind of their job is to protect us And make sure it never goes too far or no one ever gets hurt So he made his decision based on what he thought was a reality that I was hurt or I couldn't continue and that's unfortunate for me Number four gangrails versus And she she kind of played into it. She didn't bury him or nothing like that She just kind of played right into it like yeah, it's the ref's job to make sure you know the wrestlers are you know Protected its pack Royal Rumble 99 there are a number of things you can do in the aftermath of a botch One is to improvise and change the match on the fly based on what has just happened Another is to try and style it out and hope the audience think it was all part of the show Then there's the third option known as the Teddy long technique Whereby you continue as if nothing happened and literally don't give a f*** that everyone is furious at you In 1999 when Teddy was still a referee rather than a general manager We all came to know and love he was refereeing a European title defense by X-PAC and gangrail at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view Partway through the match X-PAC hit a top rope cross-body But with momentum gangrail rolled through and had the champions shoulders pinned at that point for reasons known only to himself Long's hand clearly hit the canvas three times despite an obvious kick out from X-PAC needless to say this wasn't the finish So long just got up didn't even hold up two fingers to indicate to count and continued as if nothing happened The crowd started booing the blatant mistake and best of all Teddy can even be seen removing his earpiece seconds later Sphere himself from an ongoing verbal assault What the hell's wrong with you what the hell's wrong with you daddy, don't you take that in peace out daddy you keep that That's funny, bro Man X-PAC won less than a minute later with the X-Factor and long-headed backstage to face his boss's breath Number three Earl Hebner versus Nick Patrick Invasion 2001 now look nothing Actually went wrong in this one But it's mere existence as a match on a major paper This was a real thing to give it a high ranking because in this match the referees were the actual competitors It was during the ill-fated invasion angle of this is a real thing The alliance of WCW and ECW tried to take over the WWF as we know Vincent Coe didn't actually take on most of the big money contracts for WCW stars when they acquired the company in March that year But they did bring over some talent. They didn't need Goldberg. They didn't need Nash or the Hogan They needed Nick Patrick on a pay-per-view built around WWF doing battle against the alliance Someone deemed it a good idea to even have the referees square off So Patrick flanked by other WCW refs took on senior WWF official Accompanied by the WWF Zebra crew at one point during this mercifully brief battle It even looked like the two sides were going to come to blows a bit like when the different news crews go to war with each other in Ancomann luckily for everyone's eyes that didn't happen Mick Foley who was guest referee for the match because well all the normal referees were already busy Eventually ejected the WCW refs from ringside Patrick argued the point with him then turned around and walked into a running Shoulder tackle from Hebner who's fighting style throughout the match could be best compared to a folding scrappy do it was Until we did just now but I'll be damned if this wasn't a home run sports entertainment segment though I don't care. It's number three on the list of the things that referees ruined. I love this match Go watch it number two the rock versus Kurt Angle no way out 2001 whenever you see Dwayne Johnson You get the distinct impression that he doesn't anger easily that easy-going attitude the million-dollar smile the bulging biceps Sorry, where was I? Yes, so back in 2001 There was at least one way to piss off the people's champion as referee Earl Hebner found out that in the main event of no way out Rocky was supposed to pin Kurt Angle regaining the WWF title and setting him up for a showdown with Stone Cold at WrestleMania X7 the planned finish was for rock to win after hitting the second rock bottom of the match simple, right? Wrong as the great one hit the decisive move poor old Earl forgot the move had already been hit earlier in the match And so knowing that he had to wait for a second time stopped his count after two even though angle didn't kick out Fuming rock picked up angle hit. Yes, another Made the cover and yelled at Hebner count the motherfucking finish Remembered on his podcast By the time they all got backstage and didn't yell at Earl afterwards But still at that moment inside the ring. He made absolutely sure that Hebner knew his role and shut his mouth Hulk Hogan versus Sting Starcade 97 yeah, this one's definitely the worst and here's why it took place at the critical point of the main event on the highest grossing WCW pay-per-view of all time It was also the first major angle in the company for Brett Hitman Hart The most talked-about star in the industry following an incident in Montreal that you might have heard about So it's the sort of moment you want to get right and referee Nick Patrick had literally One job The plan bad boy world champion Hollywood Hogan would go for a pin on Challenger Sting and Patrick would deliver a fast count To help Hogan cheat his way to victory then Brett would come out Heroically say that he wouldn't stand by and see anyone else get screwed like he did and forcefully take over officiating duties the match would restart Sting would win by submission and the good guys live happily ever after What actually happened was that Patrick countered at a perfectly reasonable speed So when Brett intervened it looked like Hogan was the one being robbed of a perfectly legitimate victory Patrick later said that Hogan had told him to count at normal speed while Sting told him to count fast And no one in management would give him a clear answer about which was right So was there political chicanery involved quite possibly but however it came about this was a truly spectacular mess And that's all So damn he didn't know who to who to listen to he was like counting normal speed Hope is telling you counting what normal speed stings like counting fast speed damn It seemed like there was some definitely some political moves going on here to try to make Hulk Hogan look like a sympathetic character. I don't know, but that's just an interesting Situation all into itself. So but comment down below Let me know what are some other matches that you guys can think of that was ruined by the referee But I appreciate all the love and support you guys are showing on the channel man Road to 150k and I am still your unspeakable YouTube wrestling champion world appreciate y'all kidding me. See y'all next one. Peace