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From zombies to Robocop, the WWE has tried to steal some of the shine from movies for decades. While some have been successful, most have been downright embarrassing. Adam Blampied breaks down the 10 worst movie tie-ins in wrestling history!
Do you think WWE should give up on movie tie ins? Let us know in the comments!
Timestamps!
0:00 - Introduction
0:58 - #10
2:02 - #9
2:49 - #8
3:45 - #7
4:39 - #6
5:40 - #5
6:38 - #4
7:36 -#3
8:47 -#2
9:59 -#1
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From zombies to Robocop, the WWE has tried to steal some of the shine from movies for decades. While some have been successful, most have been downright embarrassing. Adam Blampied breaks down the 10 worst movie tie-ins in wrestling history!
Do you think WWE should give up on movie tie ins? Let us know in the comments!
Timestamps!
0:00 - Introduction
0:58 - #10
2:02 - #9
2:49 - #8
3:45 - #7
4:39 - #6
5:40 - #5
6:38 - #4
7:36 -#3
8:47 -#2
9:59 -#1
#WWE #WrestlingMoments #WWETop10 #Top10
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00:00Audible sigh. Can you guess why we're talking about this this week? So yes, as bad as it
00:05was, what happened at WWE World Wrestling Entertainment WrestleMania 2 WrestleMania
00:09Backlash is no new thing. Wrestling's been trying to borrow some of the shine of movies,
00:13its much cooler older entertainment brother, for decades. Hell, the entire main event of
00:17only the second ever SummerSlam was built around Hulk Hogan fighting Zeus, the main
00:21villain from Hulk's new movie No Holes Barred. And it didn't stop there. Triple H with
00:24his hilarious robo poncho at Mania 31. Cool Triple H, cool. To Hellboy showing up to wrestle
00:30in All Japan Pro Wrestling in 2019. There's no chill in this business. Wrestling will
00:35show its ass at the mere sniff of cross promotion. And some movie collaborations haven't been
00:39terrible. The Hugh Jackman ones are the only ones. And all the others, oh no. Oh no. I'm
00:46Adam hailing from partsFUNknown and here are the 10 worst movie tie-ins in wrestling history.
00:53a message about Surfshark, where I'll show you how to do a promotional spot with a bit
00:56of goddamn class.
00:5710. Army of the Dead
00:59Let's get it over with, shall we? What a load of undead f***ing bollocks. And genuinely,
01:04the only bad thing on the card. Seriously, Backlash might just have been the best WWE
01:08pay-per-view of the pandemic. Hot take. Were it not for the fact that to shill big Dave
01:12Bautista's big new zombie heist movie Army of the Dead, WWE went all zombie. WWE spliced
01:18zombies into the Thunderdome crowd. If they'd left it at that, that's borderline charming.
01:22Wouldn't be the first time webcam footage of a slavering cretin appeared in that crowd.
01:26Not anyone who watches partsFUNknown, you're all great. But alas, no. WWE had bigger plans
01:31for the night.
01:32For a lumberjack match between The Miz, who was WWE Champion three months ago, and Damian
01:36Priest, who seems to be WWE's current pop culture liaison for some reason, wrestled
01:40with a bunch of actors in zombie make-up around the ring. And The Miz sold it. And I hate
01:44that they made him do it. And I hate that the main wrestling company in the world is
01:47written in crayon. John Morrison did some parkour before getting, checks note, killed
01:52and eaten. And The Miz lost the match before getting killed and eaten. Damian Priest won
01:56but had to shoot the Army of the Dead logo into the ceiling. What happened to you Damian
02:00Priest? You used to be cool.
02:029. Shaft
02:04And speaking of cool, who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about?
02:09It's Shaft. Whenever anyone tries to tell you that WWE was cooler in the Attitude Era,
02:14point them in the direction of the June 15th, 2000 episode of Smackdown, and a storyline
02:18that ran throughout the episode of Patterson and Briscoe searching New York for Crash Holly
02:21and his hardcore title. Who does Crash run into but John Shaft and his woman, who is
02:25the only one who understands this complicated man, John Shaft. Yes, that's real Samuel
02:29L. Jackson playing fictional John Shaft, talking to real slash fictional Crash Holly, and man
02:35it's weird. Anyway, Shaft agrees to be Crash's bodyguard, delivering a weak slap to Patterson
02:40and Briscoe, and what better way to promote a movie about a cool dude with attitude than
02:43having him mixing it up with the fucking Stooges. Has wrestling ever been cool? Seriously
02:47though guys, it might not have ever been cool.
02:498. The Wrestler
02:51This is complicated. So The Wrestler, starring Ancient Wooden Lion Mickey Rourke, is a somber
02:56movie about an industry that in its heyday left people physically spent, washed up and
03:00addicted to adrenaline at best, and dead at worst. It brought Roddy Piper to tears when
03:06he watched it because he recognised the wreckage that the business used to leave in its wake.
03:10Which makes it super weird that WWE leapt in to help promote the bleakest possible look
03:15at their world, and did so by having Chris Jericho smack the shit out of three old wrestlers,
03:21including Roddy Piper at WrestleMania 25, only for a not-real wrestler Mickey Rourke
03:25to hop into the ring wearing his So You Want to Start Taking Peyote in the Desert starter
03:29kit and do his best Shane McMahon impression at Y2J.
03:33On the surface, a heartwarming tale about celebrities being better at fighting than
03:37trained athletes, but tonally, it's real bleak. Like if the guy who made Super Size
03:41Me screened the film's premiere at the world's biggest McDonald's.
03:457. Naked Gun
03:46Some of you are going to disagree with me on this, and I can kind of see why. The Undertaker
03:51vs. Underfaker storyline heading into SummerSlam 1994 was a big play at ham and cheese, but
03:55it was a kind of new generation silliness that gives people a nostalgic twinge. Going
04:00back to rewatch it though, that's pretty bad.
04:02So the story in brief, at the Royal Rumble 94, the man with the funereal disease fought
04:07Yokozuna in a casket match in which he died and ascended to heaven. Yes, Undertaker vanished
04:12for months before WWE started a storyline of people seeing the dead man at, I don't
04:16know, the deli, bringing in none other than Frank Drebin of the Naked Gun movies to help
04:20crack the case, just in time to promote Naked Gun 33 and a third that had come out earlier
04:24in the year.
04:25Cue Leslie Nielsen looking for Taker backstage at SummerSlam and lots of subpar Naked Gun
04:29one-liners that honestly aren't as good as you remember. Leslie Nielsen holds up a
04:33closed briefcase, so he says, the case is closed. And that's it. That's the whole
04:39joke.
04:406. See No Evil
04:41Kane is genuinely one of the best, and from all accounts nicest wrestlers to have ever
04:44laced up a pair of boots, but oh man he's waded through his fair share of slop in his
04:48career. One of the Big Red Machine's big red mistakes was the May 19th storyline, the
04:53entire point of which was to promote the WWE Studios horror movie See No Evil, which premiered
04:57on… yeah you guessed it. It was after May 22 and Kane started to become mentally fixated
05:01on May 19th, the date his family perished in the fire. Anyone who mentioned it to him
05:06would get a knuckle supper for their trouble, and oh god this storyline ran for two months.
05:10At Backlash 2006, an unravelling Kane fought Big Show when May 19th began to play over
05:16the sound system, the source of this spookery pookery turned out to be an imposter Kane,
05:20and look at that wig. Poor Luke Gallows. When they roll you out in a wig that looks like
05:25Bon Jovi on a humid day, your angle does not stand a chance. At Vengeance 2006, Kane
05:30fought Fake Kane, was beaten by him for some awful reason, and then WWE just canned the
05:35gimmick the next day having Fake Kane being thrown out of the arena.
05:40Number 5. Nightmare on Elm Street. Of course it's not just WWE that's attempted to
05:44suckle at Hollywood's withered gangrenous teat. Even down in Memphis, one of the most
05:47highly regarded territories in its day and Jerry Lawler's vaunted kingdom, they weren't
05:52above a bit of naff shit to try and shift some tickets via recognisable intellectual
05:55property. Step right up, Doug Gilbert and his gimmick, Nightmare Freddy. A flagrant
06:00flaunting of copyright law that New Line Cinema had nothing to do with, a notable villain
06:04and terror of the schoolyards everywhere, Jerry Lawler could occasionally be seen with
06:07Freddy who scared other wrestlers with his big dumb rubber mask. But like, he also then
06:11had to take off his finger knives when the match started? So why are you cowering from
06:16him buddy Landell? What's he gonna do other than call you a bitch? Which as we know is
06:20the cruelest insult in wrestling. Oh and also a Jason rip off gimmick called Jason
06:24the Terrible wrestled down there as well because of course he bloody did. Freddy and Jason
06:27would take their schtick on the road to Japan where footage of a Freddy vs Jason match can
06:32be found from 1992, over 10 years before the actual Freddy vs Jason movie came out.
06:38Number 4. Chucky. Poor Rick Steiner. You don't deserve this. They shouldn't have made you
06:42talk to the puppet. So WCW was heading into Halloween Havoc 98 and after years of stomping
06:47on the WWF in the ratings the wheels had come off, and come off hard. Taboos PPB buys
06:52just spent a fortune on bringing in the ultimate warrior to rekindle a feud with Hogan mostly
06:56by hiding in his fucking mirror, and the Steiner brothers, one of the most dominant teams of
06:59the 90s, had been feuding amongst each other for most of the year ever since Scott turned
07:03on Rick back at Superbrawl. What was the best way to hype the upcoming match between the
07:06two brothers at Halloween Havoc? Why that would be by having Rick Steiner get into a
07:10war of words and lose against Chucky. Yes, the serial killer doll Chucky who cussed him
07:15out while promoting Bride of Chucky and it's so sad. Rick challenged the doll to come down
07:20to the ring and fight, is promptly ignored, and then made fun of for about 3 horrible
07:25minutes while the crowd wondered what might be happening over on Vince's channel right
07:28about now, which by the way was the episode of Raw where Austin filled Vince's Corvette
07:32with cement which is slightly more badass than being teased by a fictional puppet.
07:36Number 3. The Goods. Right now Raw is bad. It is a bad TV show. It's been bad for a
07:42while but somehow it's still not as bad as the guest host era of Raw, which was f***ing
07:47unwatchable. For those of you who were lucky enough to not be watching Raw at the time
07:51and bloody hell I sure wasn't watching at the time, from mid 2009 to 2010 every week
07:55a new celebrity would host Raw, often to promote a TV show or movie, and it was nearly all
08:00horribly written cheesy wank. Imagine every week being zombie week. That's what it was
08:05like. WWE is a baby show for babies. Bob Barker was good. The Muppets were good. And that's
08:11it. MacGruber turning up and murdering R-Truth with explosives was bad. No for real R-Truth
08:16died that day. The A-Team showing up and chokeslamming Virgil was bad. The Three Stooges segment
08:22is one of the worst ever and actually happened in 2012 when wrestling was starting to get
08:26a little better which terrified everyone. And then there's Piven. Jeremy Piven, who
08:31turned up to host Raw with Ken Jeong to promote a movie no one remembers called The Goods.
08:35He stunk up a bunch of segments, infamously called SummerSlam The SummerFest, before getting
08:40roughhoused by John Cena late in the night. And wrestling is the worst. Stop watching
08:44it. And many did. For a long time.
08:47Number 2. Robocop. Oh no. The original prototype. Robocop is a very famous wrestling embarrassment
08:54so I'll try and keep it as brief as I can. Robocop 2 was released in 1990 and I don't
08:58know how much money the producers threw at WCW but god damn they took one of their pay-per-views
09:02Capital Combat and marketed the entire thing around the fancy metallic gentleman. The full
09:07title of the pay-per-view was Capital Combat The Return of Robocop, implying that Robert
09:11Copp was an old friend of the promotion. In fact he was an old friend of Sting. Makes
09:15sense. Both big heroic idiots running on BASIC. Sting was feuding with the Horseman who attacked
09:19him and bundled him into a cage that was a ringside. Out came Robocop, called totally
09:23straight by Jim Ross, who ripped the cage door off its hinges.
09:27So yeah, that's dumb. That's real dumb. But a bit of context to explain why WCW fans
09:31hated it so much. See 1989, the year before, is often regarded as one of the greatest years
09:37in WCW history. That was the year that saw shows like Chi-Town Rumble and the much acclaimed
09:41Steamboat vs. Flare feud reach its peak. To go from that, still one of the highest regarded
09:46wrestling feuds ever, to Robocop was seen as a huge slap in the face to WCW who have
09:52always been more famously into traditional wrestling than cheesy pop culture crossovers.
09:56Which makes this last one all the funnier.
09:59Number 1. Ready to Rumble. I mean, you knew it was coming. They put the belt on f***ing
10:04Dewey. On April 7th 2000, bad movie Ready to Rumble about two hapless dorks who try
10:11to help Oliver Platt aka the lawyer from the West Wing become WCW World Heavyweight Champion
10:16was released in theatres. Two weeks later, to help promote the movie, David Arquette,
10:20the lead actor from Ready to Rumble, became WCW World Heavyweight Champion. Pinning Eric
10:26Bischoff, who wasn't the champion of course, in a match alongside DDP, Arquette's best
10:30friend and top babyface, but also top heel in the Ready to Rumble movie to make it extra
10:36confusing for the mainstream audience WCW was trying to attract. And to be fair, Arquette
10:40didn't want to do it. None of the wrestlers want to do it, but hell, the title had already
10:44been vacated four times that year already. Stop, stop, he's already dead, dot gif.
10:49Arquette won the title, filmed some skits in a Hollywood backlot where everyone made
10:52fun of him for being the champion, cool thanks for that Kurt Russell, and the whole thing
10:55came to a head at Slamboree in a stipulation officially called a Ready to Rumble cage match
11:00which took place using the triple decker cage from the climax of the movie. So Arquette
11:03turned up in Spider-Man villain stripper cosplay, turn heel because swerve, and basically hand
11:08the belt to Jeff Jarrett as viewership crashed and burned like Canyon being thrown from the
11:12cage.
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