Yeah sure, there's always gonna be a bad match here and there. But then there are the ones so bad, WWE had to erase them from history, or at least, TRIED to erase them from history. Thankfully for PFK, and YOU, our personal historian Adam has collected the top 10 matches WWE DOESN'T want you to see.
0:00 Intro
1:01 #10
1:56 #9
2:50 #8
3:57 #7
4:55 #6
5:51 #5
7:01 #4
8:02 #3
8:51 #2
10:10 #1
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0:00 Intro
1:01 #10
1:56 #9
2:50 #8
3:57 #7
4:55 #6
5:51 #5
7:01 #4
8:02 #3
8:51 #2
10:10 #1
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00:00 WWE have produced a lot of wrestling matches in their time, and they'd very much like
00:03 to sit you down and make sure you watch each and every one of them clockwork orange style.
00:07 More wrestling.
00:08 More.
00:09 Get it in your eyeballs.
00:11 After all, that is why they made their own streaming service, stuffed to the brim with
00:14 their own VAT catalog, although you could argue that WWE's current performance on
00:17 Peacock might mean they don't actually want you to watch any of their matches live
00:21 anymore.
00:22 WWE are their own biggest fans, of course, especially when it comes to their history.
00:26 Commentaries, playlists, top tens, all about their favorite classic wrestling moments.
00:30 However, there are some wrestling matches from WWE's past that don't quite gel with
00:34 how WWE would like to be presented today.
00:37 Matches that the biased historian that is WWE would very much prefer none of us ever
00:41 saw again.
00:42 I'm Adam Hailing from PartsFunknown, and here are the 10 matches WWE don't want you
00:48 to see.
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01:00 Don't please click the button though.
01:01 Number 10.
01:02 Roddy Piper vs Bad News Brown.
01:03 Ah yes, the blackface match.
01:06 WWE has actually dabbled in blackface a number of times, and now that I've said I really
01:09 think dabbled is absolutely the wrong word, but sod it, they did it, not me.
01:13 There's the infamous DX segment where they came out dressed as the nation of domination,
01:17 and like, way to prove the nation right about how s*** race relations were in WWE back in
01:21 the 90s, doing their job for them there.
01:23 There's a jaw-droppingly awful match between Goldust and Flash Funk where Goldie does blackface.
01:28 Oh Jesus Christ, it's a huge car crash.
01:31 And then there's this, blackface on the grandest stage of them all.
01:34 A match notorious for getting WWE in trouble with Peacock on day one of their partnership,
01:39 where Rowdy Roddy Piper used blackface as, I guess, mind games for his match against
01:44 Bad News Brown at WrestleMania 6, daubing half his face and body in black body paint.
01:48 WWE are so committed to you not seeing this throwback that it's been cut from the Mania
01:52 6 broadcast on both Peacock and the WWE Network.
01:55 Jesus wept.
01:56 9.
01:57 Deborah vs. Sable
01:58 Today, WWE cares about women's wrestling, a fact that might have passed you by if you
02:02 saw that god-awful belt swap segment on Smackdown, but apparently they do.
02:06 And hell, despite my sarcasm, which I cannot turn off by the way so just imagine what it's
02:09 like to be me every day, WWE books its women's championships like big deals.
02:14 WrestleMania 37, the main event of WrestleMania 35, by and large the belts mean something,
02:18 which is why WWE would probably like you to forget about all the ways it pissed on the
02:21 women's championship back in the Attitude Era.
02:24 First off, Harvey Whippleman won the thing, Fabulous Moolah won it in her 70s in a ludicrous
02:28 match, and then there's this, an evening gown match on Raw for the belt where Sable
02:32 won the match by stripping Deborah down to her bra and panties, but then Commissioner
02:36 and Horned Dog Shawn Michaels said that actually Deborah won the match and the belt because
02:41 she got naked first.
02:42 Perhaps the single worst title change in all of WWE history, and maybe the biggest indictment
02:47 in WWE's women's division of the time.
02:49 8.
02:50 Trish Stratus and Bradshaw vs. Jackie Gator and Chris Nowinski
02:53 Oh dear, oh ho ho ho, oh goody.
02:57 This match is a train wreck and a hell of a flight in the ointment of WWE's presentation
03:02 of Trish Stratus as one of the greatest women's wrestlers of all time.
03:05 Jackie Gator was fresh off Tough Enough and nowhere near ready to be on live television
03:09 having wrestling matches, which actually, looking back, makes this whole thing seem
03:12 actually really quite dangerous.
03:14 Trish was still two years away from making WWE branded history by main eventing Raw with
03:18 Lita and this match is just the drizzling shit.
03:21 Stratus and Gator missed time so many moves they might as well have been in different
03:24 time zones.
03:25 The finish involves something that was supposed to be a top rope bulldog but ended up being
03:28 a top rope very light pat on the head.
03:30 It takes a certain amount of wrestling crapulence for one of the commentators to say "mercifully
03:34 it's over" when the bell rings, and that goes double when that commentator is Jim Ross,
03:38 one of the industry's biggest pros, or back then anyway.
03:41 Easily one of the most commonly named worst matches in WWE history, that's not even
03:45 taking into account the fact that this match also features Chris Nowinski, a man who causes
03:49 WWE no end of PR nightmares for being one of the biggest public figures to draw links
03:53 between wrestling and CTE in the years following his departure from the company.
03:57 7.
03:58 The Undertaker vs The Big Boss Man
04:00 It's because it features a man being hanged live on TV.
04:03 That's something the Victorians would look at and think "that's a bit much" and
04:06 they bloody loved Murder.
04:07 It's a match and moment infamous in all the wrong ways, it was the first famously
04:12 terrible Hell in a Cell match, although there had actually been two s*** Cell matches on
04:15 Raw before this which no one remembers, to one of Grimdark Grimmark's top 3 worst matches
04:20 of his whole streak, and once more with feeling, after the match was over they ran a segment
04:24 which involved The Big Boss Man being hanged and I guess killed live on TV with just bloody
04:30 loads of children watching, some of whom in the crowd who no doubt had just a bunch of
04:34 questions for their parents.
04:36 What do you say to little Timmy when he asks you why Undertaker just murdered a man in
04:39 front of you?
04:40 I mean it certainly does appear that way son, but to look at it another way…
04:45 Off to bed?
04:46 It's super grim and horrible and evidently WWE agree because even when they did include
04:51 the match on the Undertaker's streak DVD they cut the footage right after the bell.
04:55 6.
04:56 John Cena vs Kurt Angle
04:57 This one's a little sillier but with the benefit of hindsight you can absolutely bet
05:00 that WWE would have liked to have never booked this match.
05:03 The cornerstone of Big Match John's Big Match character is that he never gives up,
05:07 and you know he doesn't because he wrote it on a little towel.
05:09 You can't write lies on a little towel, it's against hitchhiker's law.
05:12 True to his little towel words, Johnny C would back that up in the ring, not once ever tapping
05:17 out in a wrestling match in what's almost been 20 years, for real, nearly two full decades,
05:22 and the man has never tapped, which must really annoy WWE when you consider that John Cena
05:26 has actually tapped out on camera not once, not twice, but thrice, and this match, Cena
05:30 vs Angle, that was on PPV at No Mercy.
05:33 Look, look at John Cena tapping out, look at him giving up.
05:37 This isn't the only time Cena has tapped out of course, also submitting to Chris Jericho
05:40 on Smackdown in 2002 and Chris Benoit in 2003, but they will all be tucked away underneath
05:45 a mountain of little towels, all of which forever tainted by Kurt Angle, and I don't
05:50 like how I phrased that.
05:51 5.
05:52 Big Show vs Batista
05:53 Talk about a wholesale rejection of everything your company stands for.
05:56 Now it's no secret that WWE ECW didn't work.
05:59 Well, WWE said as much when Vince cancelled the show live on Raw.
06:03 However, WWE would very much like to project the narrative that the reason ECW failed was
06:06 because ECW itself was terrible.
06:08 It's all the extremists' fault, nothing to do with Vince McMahon durag champion, or
06:13 firing Paul Heyman, or matches like Big Show vs Batista.
06:16 Oh man, it's a pure schadenfreude trainwreck.
06:19 The August 1st, 2006 episode of ECW was filmed at the Hammerstein Ballroom, a pretty important
06:25 venue for old school ECW fans.
06:27 The main event of that show was ECW champion Big Show vs Batista, two men who both epitomized
06:32 the bigger is bigger model of sports entertainment and couldn't have been more the antithesis
06:36 of classic ECW if they'd come down to the ring carrying big signs that said "Careful
06:40 now" and "Down with this sort of thing".
06:42 What happens next is ECW fans spending about 20 minutes bluntly informing WWE that their
06:47 product is bad and they should feel bad, with chants of "Boring", "Change the channel"
06:52 and a never-ending background chorus of boos that made it sound like the match was happening
06:55 in a field of a thousand cows.
06:57 "Am I so out of touch?"
06:58 asks Vince.
06:59 No, it's the ECW fans who are wrong.
07:02 4.
07:03 The Rock vs Mankind Just a little bit of a heads up, pun definitely
07:06 not intended, the rest of this list gets a bit serious from here on out.
07:10 We've already mentioned earlier in the video that WWE had to come to terms with its own
07:13 actions when it comes to the long-lasting effects of concussions on its wrestlers.
07:17 Frankly, in any concussion lawsuit against a big dub, you'd only ever need to provide
07:20 this one bit of evidence this match, because it's a f***ing snuff film.
07:24 At the 1999 Rumble, Rock fought Mankind in an I Quit match, and throughout the course
07:28 of the match, The Rock hits Mick Foley with 10 full-force steel chair shots to the head,
07:33 including some from behind, which is the most f***ing dangerous kind of chair shot you can
07:37 do.
07:38 It's absolutely horrendous for a number of reasons.
07:40 First, The Rock went off script with the number of shots, and Christ, how terrifying is that?
07:44 Second, you can actually see Foley utterly out on his feet, trying to protect himself,
07:49 but he can't because he's handcuffed.
07:50 He's in a dangerous environment and physically unable to protect himself.
07:54 That is so scary.
07:56 And third, because Foley's wife and kids were there in the crowd, in floods of tears.
08:01 Just... ugh.
08:02 Number three, the 2004 Royal Rumble match.
08:05 A good Rumble that WWE have committed themselves to erasing from history, which is always super
08:10 glaring because it's a Rumble that's deeply entrenched in their Rumble stat.
08:13 Chris Benoit started the Rumble at number one and won the whole thing, which is something
08:17 that's only happened three times, WWE will tell you.
08:19 When Shawn Michaels did it, when Edge did it, and what's the third time you ask?
08:23 Haha, says WWE.
08:24 Royal Rumbles are just fun to watch.
08:26 To be honest, you could just put all of Chris Benoit's matches on this list, the WrestleMania
08:30 20 main event, the SummerSlam 2004 main event, all stripped from WWE's guided tour of
08:35 its own past, for, let's be honest, completely understandable reasons, but trying to delete
08:39 the Rumble 2004 from a format history that constantly celebrates its many winners over
08:45 and over again, that is the biggest pain in WWE's ass.
08:48 Which again, is a real shame, because as a Rumble, it's fairly brilliant.
08:51 Number two, Jeff Jarrett and Debra vs. Val Venus and Nicole Bass.
08:55 Oh, man.
08:56 So, if we didn't tell you which event this match took place at, you'd be quite right
08:59 to furrow your brow and say I don't even slightly remember that match even taking place.
09:04 It did, it took place at Over the Edge 1999, and this match has the very unfortunate distinction
09:10 of being the first match to take place after the tragic accident that took Owen Hart's
09:14 life.
09:15 If you don't know, Owen was supposed to be lowered to the ring in his blue blazer
09:18 gimmick, the harness gave way, and he fell to the ring below, sustaining injuries that
09:21 cost him his life.
09:22 WWE then made the completely wrong decision to continue on with the show with this tag
09:28 team match.
09:29 While that is terrible enough, it makes it much worse if WWE sent Owen's real life
09:32 friend Jeff Jarrett to the ring to wrestle right after the accident, including cutting
09:37 a live backstage promo, which has since been removed from the network, along with any other
09:41 footage of JR breaking the news of Owen's passing, where Jeff looks down the camera
09:45 white as a sheet and says "Owen Hart, I'm praying for you buddy" before then having
09:50 to talk about Debra's puppies.
09:53 I wish I was f***ing making that up.
09:55 Jarrett was then sent through the curtain as Owen was wheeled past him on a stretcher,
09:59 and this entire match is a ghoulish example of WWE ignoring obvious trauma in the name
10:04 of an attitude that has plagued wrestling throughout the years.
10:07 The show has to go on.
10:08 It really doesn't.
10:09 And number 1, Droz vs D'Lo Brown.
10:12 I mean, yes.
10:15 Any anti-WWE rhetoric and the sensationalist title of this video to one side, this match
10:19 will never be shown, should never be shown.
10:22 Not WWE's fault, it's no one's fault.
10:23 Sometimes terrible accidents happen.
10:25 And on October 5th, 1999, a terrible accident happened when Droz wrestled D'Lo Brown for
10:30 a Smackdown taping.
10:31 D'Lo couldn't get purchase on Droz's shirt, a powerbomb was botched which resulted
10:35 in Droz being paralyzed.
10:37 Darren Drozdov has regained some use of his arms and upper body in the 20 years since
10:41 the accident.
10:42 They've actually met up at wrestling events since, like one in 2018.
10:45 But yeah, in amongst all the outrage and opinions and sarcasm and comment sections, this is
10:50 a brutal industry where the wrong thing can happen at any given moment and you occasionally
10:54 have to take a moment to put some power on that.
10:56 The match itself was taped, will never air, with the only glimpse of it ever being broadcast
11:01 being a shot in a Don't Try This At Home vignette showing officials lifting the stretcher
11:05 with Droz on it off the canvas, accompanied by the chilling words, "Careers ended in
11:10 an instant."
11:11 And that's our list.
11:12 Doesn't feel super appropriate to end with the uptempo sales pitch we normally do, so
11:17 take care everyone and we'll see you next time.
11:19 [Music]