 What's good Joshua Ross back again with another video. So I'm gonna check out 10 most insane things wrestling companies did for the money now Wrestling is it's cool to entertain us fans and the passion behind it is great You know having these wrestlers trying to prove they're the best in the world to everyone around the world. It's awesome But it's a business at the end of the day and there are times where WWE and other wrestling companies have kind of I guess you could say Took the money over the creativity or took the money over the wrestling itself The one noticeable moment I can think of that guys remember during the pandemic era tough times Where I believe it was Damien Priest versus the Miz in like this Zombie lumberjack match and the match was per was supposed to promote The movie with Dave Patista. I think it was Army of the Dead or something like that But it was a zombie movie that featured, you know Dave Patista and they had some type of collaboration Where they literally had a match with zombies as the lumberjacks I'm sure they got paid good money to put that match on but it was awful God awful, so we're gonna check out some of those type of instances. I'm not sure if this gonna be on this list I would be surprised if it wasn't because that was the instance where WWE I'm sure got a pretty penny to promote the movie per se, but it was just awful So let's get right into this one. Appreciate all of sports do the damn thing Look everybody understands that wrestling is a business and businesses want to make money However, it is still astonishing to check out some of the insanity top promotions throughout history have bulked Just so a movie studio fast-food restaurant or soft drink spews some delicious dollars into company coffers with a handshake and a smile I am Gareth from what culture wrestling and here are the tables insane things Riding companies did for the money number 10 scooby-doo backs up sin Cara first the pro wrestling tag team You're never asked for live on the 24th of March 2014 episode of raw WWE had someone don a scooby-doo costume and ride to sing Cara's rescue Poor Damien Sandow had to treat the mascot character as if a cartoon dog had come to life It was silly and it was over the top but old Scoob did get a pop from the live crowd at least So that's something still it's wild to look back on approximately nine years later WWE has produced several crossovers with Scooby in the gang over the years They've mostly been animated movies and things like that here the mutt with the most was hanging around with somebody who'd like We fall over and botched the search for bad guys posing as ghosts or monsters Scooby and Cara even showed up in the mystery machine, which was actually a really nice touch Which is cool The mystery was why the sin Cara gimmick got such a long run in WWE after his totally crap start number nine Rick Stein that's funny, bro. Scoob's out there helping sin Cara to match their feuds with Chucky the 12th of October 1998 episode of WCW's Monday Nitro will forever go down in history as the night tough guy pro wrestler Rick Steiner threatened to beat Chucky the Doll's little horror movie airs bonus points go to absolute pro mean Jean Oakland for acting like Rick versus Chuck might be Halloween Havoc's next main event Anyone who thinks Vince Russo produced the worst WCW content ever needs to fire up the WWE network or Peacock and relive this awkward moment Chucky's banter he was there to promote upcoming movie bride of Chucky was pre-taped for the big screens So Steiner and Jean had to time their responses as Rick probs weighed up a steel cage challenge for the next pay-per-view It would not have been outlandish for WCW to attempt some sort of match between the pair Let's be honest. In fact, it's a bit of a surprise They didn't have someone in a chucky outfit take some Steiner like talking shit to Chucky while you're in a wrestling ring It's wild behavior, bro Ainz or suplex is on TV. I would have definitely paid to see that number eight kiss demon equals WCW main eventer Here's something so WCW it hurts Eric Bischoff reportedly toyed with the thought of a Millennium Bash that it include a wrestling show and a kiss concert It was ambitious, but plans changed and WCW cut a deal with Jean Simmons and the band to introduce a brand new main eventer themed on his demon persona in late 1999 Dale Tauborg was cast in the role and he did his best with it Hilariously though WCW's promise to make the demon a main event superstar fell flat The company pulled the wool over Jean's eyes here by promoting matches as special main events But booking demon on the undercard anyway The idea didn't catch on or last long but the kiss demon was actually brought out of storage by impact earlier this year Because what's all this new I guess number seven WWE stars threaten them up You're still waiting for that mixed tag pitting Jack Swagger and Vicky Guerrero versus Kermit the Frog and miss Piggy WWE was obsessed with drafting in celebrity guest host to appear on Raw between 2009 and 2010 And the concept continued beyond that but not every single week like it did for around 12 months back then by all accounts The Muppets weren't actually the worst guests But they did provide some strange moments on the 31st of October 2011 flagship Seamus and Beaker were called family members Animal played stand-in timekeeper by furiously hammering the ring bell and then there was that standoff between Kermit and Swagger That surprisingly topped anything from Jack's dreadful world title run Cross-promoting with the Muppets and having burly wrestlers shout at small puppets was certainly a choice Number six non-fan Jeremy Piven is not prepared In hindsight a lot of these are just cringe, but once again Cringe to us audience us as fans Don't mean a damn thing when you can pay millions to do said cringe I'm pretty sure a lot of us would Produce or do some of the same cringe stuff if we're getting paid millions to promote it So it's kind of that trade-off. This was absolutely unacceptable Yeah It says everything that the Muppets were better prepared for a spot on WWE programming than Jeremy Piven or fellow guest host Ken Jong they doubled up to promote their upcoming movie the goods live hard sell hard on the 3rd of August 2009 edition of raw and it was a complete and utter car wreck Fans were already tired of the guest host idea just a month or so in by the time Piven and Jong hit the scene Ken's OTT comedy style looked embarrassing in front of an audience who didn't pay to see him Then Jeremy went and messed things up by calling upcoming pay-per-view summer slam the summer fest Summer fest oh These were some dark days y'all the weekly celebrity guest host. Oh my like GM like this. It was Dark times man dark times On Cena had to step in to correct him as fans booed and it became crystal clear that WWE hadn't prepped Piven for his role at all Of course, he should have done some homework himself But it was cringe worthy to realize that the company hadn't exactly been hands-on here Let's just hope Paramount Pictures paid well a number five Shawn Michaels equals KFC's Colonel this image here is probably how WWF fans in 1995 thought Shawn Michaels would look during his retirement tour in 2023 It's actually HBK as the Colonel of KFC fame He was dressed like that so the fast-food restaurant padded company bank accounts with a healthy wedge of mula at SummerSlam 2017 keep in mind that this daft nonsense happened before Shawn returned to rings for a disastrous bout in Saudi Arabia The following year some of the first real glimpse fans had of Michael striking his familiar poses in years Happened as he cosplayed a chicken restaurants mascot This wasn't the first time KFC had paid WWE megabooks to promote their food either Dove Ziggler also played the part in 2016 but Michaels is more memorable Hey brother boy, I'll retire me. It's a cosplay this It's the KFC man, bro All because well Shawn was retired and people were desperate to see him yeah Yeah, that's amazing. There was apparently earmarked for the gig at first but health problems prevented that so HBK did some Posing and folks awkwardly applauded whilst hating on corporate shilling Yeah mountain juice sponsors Bray Wyatt's first match back money talks baby And it shouts down WWE's better instincts They had to know that promoting Bray Wyatt's first match back at the 2023 Royal Rumble as a mountain juice Special was a bad idea Company were willing to pay up though. And that's why what versus LA night. Yeah became a pitch black match What did that mean? Well the lights were dimmed and everything was soaked in neon flare to make it resemble a can of the Dew yes, yes, Bray. That's literally what it was that's all it was I Would have preferred it not been that but They were throwing WWE too much money to not do it. I'm sure I'm sure maybe they could have did it a little bit differently But they they wanted the pitch black part of it because of the pitch black drink. I get it. It's just It looks it looked cool, but it didn't make sense That's all I'm gonna say his first major match since returning the prior October was turned into a hollow advertisement for some soft drink Worse the spectacle flat out sucked and seemed to turn Wyatt into a neon drenched version of his old fiend off-shoot Yeah The whole thing lasted around five minutes Bell to Bell was a struggle to watch for those live at the Rumble and didn't really do much Of anything for Bray or night a bizarre decision for what would ultimately be the last ever Televised in-ring match fans would see from the late great Wyatt number three WCW has Robocop save sting wrestling traditionalist and he who loves touting college sports Jim Ross Must have thought he'd gone to industry hell when he shouted here comes Robocop WCW's capital combat 1990 pay-per-view Fighting machines second movie was set to come out one month after the show So he rocked up to the DC Armory and save stings bacon This stinger was locked in a mini steel cage by the four horsemen and he needed rescuing out came Robocop to Robo help his Robo pal as Robo fans celebrated in the Robo stands and WCW surely patted themselves on the back for thinking they just earned Orion pictures a tidy sum instead The angle was roundly criticised by viewers and people feared the character might return for some actual in-ring stuff That had killed off Ric Flair stable for good that didn't happen But Robocop's tie-in did become stuff of legend and show up in worst-of lists about WCW and pro wrestling generally forever more JR probably didn't go and see the flick presumably number two Vince McMahon's special egg the team behind Johnson's Netflix movie red notice repeatedly paid WWE a shed load of cash to promote at Survivor Series 2021 That's why a beaming Vince McMahon arrived at the building clutching a priceless golden egg one of the treasures from the film and WWE stars were forced to act amazed Rich Hollands or stroke reactions were particularly enjoyable later McMahon claimed the egg wasn't a prop from some movie It had been gifted to him by the rock and was worth $100 million and after that revelation it went missing and the hunt was on Vince was furious various stars scrambled to find the thing for a reward and wrestling fans wondered why they were supposed to Care about any of this it didn't need to make sense WWE had already pocketed a substantial sum for a ring to show off the egg at all So their hokey hunt was background noise to company till the ring in and he made for some horrendous TV to Wonderful stuff. Number one zombies in vade It's a ten-on-ten list I Was correct. It was number one As it should have been I was hoping I say he gotta put this on here, right? They gotta put this on there and they did oh Yes Feels good to be correct And devour the Miz here it is people the undoubted kingpin of take the money and run cross promotions in wrestling history And a reminder that WWE will do anything to make cash Apologies in advance if you'd somehow manage to eject this from your brain since it happened I know I did Damien Priest beat the Miz in a zombie lumberjack match when various extras including former favorite Scotty-Too-Hotty dressed up as WrestleMania backlash 2021 this was a tie-in with Batista's army of the dead movie And it was downright horrible to witness horrible at one point the zombies even devoured Miz as the announcers Wondered if he'd make it out of the Thunderdome alive Then Miz showed up on TV yeah after like nothing had happened The match was genuinely torturous to watch and made you wish you were being eaten to death like the awesome one So now you can go and try to forget this horrific thing all over again now Go and enjoy a cut mountain do some golden scrambled eggs on a side of zombie. Bye. Bye. Yeah now that that was awful It deserves to be number one. I'm so glad that was number one because it was awful. It's one of the worst things cross promotion That WWE's ever done And I hope they don't ever do it again No But calm it down below. Let me know some other cross promotions for it don't even have to be just WWE could be WCW back in the day AW any other, you know wrestling Company that you can think of that did some type of cross promotion and it just came off cringe when you saw it You're just like I get they're trying to make money, but good God This looks awful. Let me know if it wasn't listed in this video. I appreciate all love support road I'm 50k and I'm still gonna speak to you to rest in shepherd world. Appreciate you kidding me. See y'all next one. Peace