Hi everyone! As we finish another month of the ongoing stoppage to our normal lives, let me brighten your day with something amusing. Here’s an extensive list of at least 40 wrestling match types which can be described as ridiculous, outdated, funny, crazy, odd, nonsensical, or just plain dangerous to the wrestlers and our senses. I couldn’t fit all of that in to one title without it being extremely long, so let’s call it 40 ridiculously funny wrestling gimmick matches? Is that acceptable?
And no, I am not claiming they should never come back, or that I hate them like some kind of ogre. What this represents, is the fantastic gimmick-y nature of wrestling in a time when cinematic concepts like Boneyard, Firefly Tree House, Stadium Stampede, and others take center stage. Although, it’s the nature of the beast that some work, and some don’t. Most of these didn’t work or only worked for the time.
1. Animal Deathmatch
For decades, long before professional wrestling became regulated on mainstream television, bears were often used as special attractions. Of course, these bears were specially trained and earned rewards for performing their tricks, but it was still a very risky form of entertainment.
Other animals have been used as mascots, like dogs, birds and snakes. Scott Steiner walked a tiger to the ring once on Nitro, and we’ve also seen Hangman Page riding on horses. However, a more recent match saw a stipulation of the loser having to wrestle a crocodile. It was tiny though, and didn’t seem to want to fight at all. If you’re interested, you can check it out here: Crocodile Wrestling
2. APA Invitation Bar Room Brawl
While we have seen fights occurring in bar rooms before, this match saw a fake one built up by the titantron at WWE Vengeance 2003. Fun fact, the Easter bunny (this happened in July btw…) is actually Damien Sandow AKA Aron Stevens. There’s also Bruce Prichard and Doink The Clown for some reason, don’t ask me why.
The APA is in its twilight days here, as Faarooq retired in the spring of 2004. Apparently, according to Bradshaw, the stipulation is the last man left drinking wins. Brother Love drones on forever til he finally hits someone with a stool and chaos ensues. It’s a mess to say the least.
3. Barefoot Lego
We’ve heard of thumbtacks before, but legos?! As a parent, I can claim to know those things really hurt! I found this match produced by a UK indy promotion, and it’s just… really, really bad. They use a blow up penis at one point… in an intergender match. And bear feet. Yes, it’s that terrible.
We’ve seen legos in WWE and Impact Wrestling in the past year, so it seems this gimmick has become more common among major promotions. They have yet to go the full hog by making a match type out of it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened.
4. Bikini, Evening Gown & Dancing Contests
These types of “matches”, where one hot girl strips and/or dances to win a contest against one or more other girls, was something no one questioned back in the day. It was considered completely normal and encouraged. Divas like Sable and Torrie Wilson reveled in them, as seen in this bikini contest from Judgment Day 2003. WWE takes it almost as seriously as a World title match, as we’re given a tale of the tape… and Torrie Wilson gets an extra special entrance featuring Lillian Garcia.
Someone turn the air conditioning on… this one is smokin’ hot! But imagine if this were to happen today after all the progress that has been made to bring equality to women’s wrestling? There would be uproar from some, while many of the guys (and some girls) would probably faint with an overload of excitement. The question is, would we bring it back if it meant the guys had to “compete” in them as well?
5. Blindfold / Blindfolded Cage
Many may remember the blindfold match from WrestleMania VII between Jake Roberts and Rick Martel, but how many remember the blindfolded cage match? In TNA at Lockdown 2007, former multi-time NWA Tag Team Champions America’s Most Wanted, collided in a feud which lead to the pair meeting in a cage. But it wasn’t any regular cage, as the visually impaired Chris Harris needed a handicap imposed on James Storm so they could be allowed to fight.
The solution was to make this a blindfold match in a cage, and well… it’s funny, because the crowd chanted “Fire Russo!” almost immediately after they put on the blindfolds. Watch out for the referee giving James Storm a good spin, like it’s not difficult enough already. Seriously though, we know full well these guys can see. It’s an act, and there’s no way they would put on actual blindfolds.
6. Bra & Panties / Strip / Tuxedo / Buck Naked / Water Fight (Wet N’ Wild)
A continuation from the above Bikini & Dancing contests, fans weren’t all too bothered about the concept of women stripping each other down to their bra & panties on live television. There were several variations, including water fights, buck naked (XPW), and the infamous tuxedo match contested between Christy Hemme & Big Fat Oily Guy at TNA Against All Odds 2006.
The conundrum in what is considered a PPV match… is that fans badly want to cheer Christy Hemme on, but they also want her to lose so she can be stripped in favor of a big fat oily guy. The reaction they get when she strips this man down is something else. It’s so bad you may need to book an appointment with an optometrist after viewing.
7. Bread Eating Deathmatch
Errr what?! Ken Ohka and Tsuyoshi Kikuchi featured in one of the strangest death matches in the history of wrestling. The bread eating deathmatch not only featured tons of bread hanging from above, the competitors were not allowed to use their hands to consume it. And the winner would be the man who eats the most, I guess? They both rose to the occasion.
You really don’t knead to see this, you deserve butter. They’re going against the grain here in the worst way possible, so it’s the yeast I can do to give you prior warning. Yup, I went there.
8. Chamber of Horrors
There’s a bit of a love-hate relationship for this one. I love Sting getting a mega pop on his entrance. Midway through, the chair of torture is lowered in to the ring. Cactus Jack almost gets squashed by it, but luckily rolls away in time. Tony Schiavone says someone is going to get a rather “shocking” experience. And there’s no serious backstory here, it only seemed to happen because they needed a gimmick match for Halloween Havoc. Luckily, we have a “refer-eye” camera so we can see the action from inside.
The match itself isn’t that bad, but the ending is farfetched considering they aren’t going to literally kill somebody on PPV. And this was before the end of kayfabe, so all it was doing was exposing the business. Cactus Jack fiddles around with the lever while Rick Steiner is in the chair, but he reverses Abdullah The Butcher and Cactus shocks his tag team partner by mistake. Tony jokes that he’s been well-cooked.
9. Straitjacket / Committed
Some may know him as Dexter Lumis in NXT, but years ago he was named Samuel Shaw in Impact Wrestling. After a brief run in OVW, Shaw began portraying a gimmick similar to the Patrick Bateman character in the movie American Psycho. He soon formed an obsession for Christy Hemme. Despite stalking and using her as a shield in a feud with Mr. Anderson, Hemme appeared to have some kind of feelings for him. Anderson however, felt that he needed to save Christy, and the pair engaged in some special matches befitting of Shaw’s mental state.
The first was a straitjacket match, where Shaw had major struggles in getting the jacket around Anderson to finish it. Later, at the TNA Sacrifice PPV, Anderson put an end to their feud in a Committed match. This was very similar to an Ambulance match, where you have to put your opponent in to the back of truck which would drive the loser to the psychiatric facility for intervention. Shaw only lost because Hemme kneed him in the balls. Needless to say, we’re unlikely to see anything like it again. Samuel was eventually let out of confinement and joined Gunner for a short while, but he left TNA in 2015. Working the indy scene, it took almost five years to return to full-time television.
10. Concrete Crypt
What is baffling about this, similar to the Chamber of Horrors match, is that there’s no way anyone is going to believe someone is going to be killed on PPV. Not only that, but after Paul Heyman and The Dudley Boyz used Paul Bearer to sway The Undertaker to their side, they lost the match… and The Deadman killed Bearer off anyways? It was reported on the following SmackDown that Bearer was still alive but gravely injured.
What made this worse, is that some broadcasts received the rehearsal taping for the stunt, which proved that Paul Bearer was never in the arena at the time the PPV took place. It got around the internet and the angle flopped so hard, that Bearer spent the remainder of his two-year contract booking matches from behind the scenes. I do wonder what was meant to come of this in the end.
11. Crybaby
I’m sure this one makes us want to cry. In 1996, Kliq buddies Razor Ramon and 1-2-3 Kid (aka X-Pac/Sean Waltman) were in a hotly contested feud. And how did they want to settle things? By putting diapers and powder on each other.
There are some issues to be resolved there, not only between them, but with the management team for thinking that’s what fans wanted to see. Get your bottles of milk ready, because this one’s about as entertaining and colourful as Baby TV! If you’d rather I spoiled the diaper for you, then I can tell you it was the 1…2…3 Kid who cried his little piggy all the way home.
12. Dixieland
It’s not exactly the stipulations which are farfetched, but the name tied to it. A Dixieland match sounds like something carny, or is it me? Either way, what actually happens in a Dixieland match is you first need to escape the cage, and then you have to climb a ladder and receive the title from where it’s hanging in front of the titantron.
So, it’s basically like a steel cage and ladder match in one, except the belt is hanging by the titantron. Why? I don’t know. The only reason it is called a Dixieland match is because Dixie Carter booked it. I guess the only good thing to come from it is Magnus (Nick Aldis) became the first-ever British Heavyweight Champion in Impact Wrestling history by defeating Jeff Hardy. Although at the time, Magnus himself (who admitted as such in a recent interview), wasn’t ready to carry the ball.
13. Dog Poo
Here’s an exception where a match isn’t booked as such, but somehow manages to end as described. There is nowhere stating this tag team match was supposed to have a Dog Poo stipulation, but after Mankind chases Val Venis away with Mr. Socko, The Rock grabs a big tray of canine excrement and brings it in to the ring.
The ref sells it pretty well. But yeah… The Rock gives the British Bulldog something to clean up later, by forcing him down with a Rock Bottom in to the dog poo. Michael Cole screaming “DOG POOP! THE DOG POOP!” is the funniest part. The match comes to an end despite no bell being rung, and The Rock celebrates a glorious epic I’m sure he’ll tell his grandkids about.
14. Doomsday Cage
For anyone who has ever played Streets Of Rage for the Genesis/Mega Drive, it’s kinda like that. Except it’s The Mega Powers Hulk Hogan & Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair & minions in some stacked cages for no reason at all. Dusty Rhodes sells the monstrosity like it’s the greatest thing in the history of the universe. Bobby Heenan however, screams that “THERE’S NOT GOING TO BE ANY RULES!”, especially for the guys trying to stop Hogan & Savage.
I can imagine it being really difficult to see anything if you were there in person. It’s just a whole lot of brawling. Oh, and I forgot to mention there’s trap doors. It’s funny how the crowd comes alive when they leave the Doomsday Cage and enter a normal steel cage surrounding the ring. Fast forward to the 2 hour, 3 minute mark for the match… if you dare!
15. Duchess of Queensbury Rules / My Rules
When you’re the commissioner, you can make up your own rules. And that’s exactly what William Regal does here in his feud with Chris Jericho. No one has any idea what’s happening but him, and it makes for some confusing hilarity.
Whether it’s good or not, is a matter of perspective. Do we all need to know the rules? Also, there is a duchess at ringside who administers rule changes whenever it suits. There’s a reason this has only happened once. In fact, it has happened other times but they usually go by a different name. Any match where the stipulations are not specified beforehand and keep changing to suit the heel.
16. Electrified Cage
“FIRE RUSSO!” *clap* *clap* *clap* – These words would echo in TNA from time-to-time, and on this occasion it was because management had apparently electrified a steel cage. Yet, it was done with such cheesy effect it insulted fans intelligence. The gimmick flopped so hard… even the performance of LAX and Team 3D couldn’t save it.
Don’t get me wrong, it was a pretty unique concept and the match itself was really good. But when it’s so painfully obvious no one is getting electrified here (if they did… it would be way too dangerous), it becomes more about how ridiculous the match is, instead of how heated the feud is between the tag teams. Team 3D claimed their first-ever NWA Tag Team titles here, making history by becoming the first team to claim the WWE, WCW, ECW and NWA Championships.
17. Fish Market Streetfight
This is just a boatload of entertainment. You’re either going to love it, or you’re not going to care for it. Either way, this match is so mental I can’t bring myself to describe it in glorious detail. There’s a weigh-in they have to adhere to beforehand, and they do a great job of selling it.
We’re allowed to see this tag match between Team 3D against Curry Man & Shark Boy, after it’s confirmed they make the weight limit. I never thought we would see fish used as a weapon in a wrestling match. As Mike Tenay says… “HOLY MACKEREL!” It’s clearly a matter of taste. Brother Ray french kisses a fish like he hasn’t seen action in years. Is that not enough?!
18. Good Housekeeping
The sexist overtones are rife here, as Jeff Jarrett has no qualms over showing Chyna how a real woman acts. Clearly, he wants to beat his views in to her with household appliances, with the hope that she may go home and become an everyday housewife.
Chyna breaks the mold by showing the world how to use these objects to destroy an apparently stronger opponent. It’s a good match and one which helped Chyna to break away on her own. Much to my surprise, there’s another fish used here. They break a few eggs as well along the way, there’s a whole lotta’ cooking going on. And then there’s the use of tongs…in a way we have never seen before.
19. Gulf Of Mexico
WWE’s version of ECW was a tad tamer than the original, but it did come with its unique matches. And this was one of its more outlandish ideas, as the outcome of the match would only be decided if either CM Punk or Chavo Guerrero could throw their opponent in to the Gulf Of Mexico.
It’s not a bad match, it’s just a funny and dangerous way to go about ending one. We’ve seen wrestlers be thrown off bridges before, but never as part of a way to end a match. Don’t try this at home kids! Or anywhere for that matter.
20. Hardcore Evening Gown
I could never understand what the appeal is about Vince McMahon’s stooges Pat Patterson & Gerald Brisco. And in one of their more extreme affairs, they were made to fight each other over the hardcore title… while wearing evening gowns?? Say what?! The good old days of the Attitude Era right here. This is what draws ratings.
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Jim Ross does a good job of explaining what’s going on here, although it sounds like he’d rather be doing something else. They even get a tale of the tape! The crowd dies hard when Patterson talks to his so-called friend and offers to do what Kevin Nash did for Hogan. Luckily, this abomination does not last long and has a happy ending.
21. Hog Pen
It was recently mentioned while talking about Triple H’s career. The hog pen match is a blemish on an otherwise successful career for The Game, but it’s not the only one to happen.
We may want to forget it, but there was also a short encounter between Vickie Guerrero and Santino Marella. Another stinky match involving animals… there’s a pattern going on here! If you like to see Triple H humiliated, this one is for you. Stick it on repeat and enjoy.
22. House of Horrors
House Of Horrors was meant to be Bray Wyatt’s special match, but it didn’t land like they were hoping. Trying to come across as scary, spooky, creepy, or whatever, it missed the mark on all of these. Fans weren’t invested enough to get behind it, and some of the spots were silly. It also seemed to go on forever, similar to Orton’s recent match with Edge at WrestleMania. I think the only time I found decent enjoyment was from how it ended.
I don’t think Orton has the range to take cinematic encounters to another level, so Wyatt didn’t have much to work with. Some of the shots and music gave me some early Resident Evil/Silent Hill vibes, only without the zombies, monsters, or jump scares. The main issue here is they were trying to do this on a PG rated show, so limitations ensured it would never reach its full potential. And someone please think of the fridge!
23. Kennel From Hell
The match is so well-documented that this video has Mick Foley on hand to give us a heap of backstory on top of Kevin Kelly’s knowledge. Allow them to take you on adventure through hell, but not the one we may be expecting.
A trained pack of “wild dogs” are the real stars here. How in the hell do you train a pack of wild dogs anyways? It doesn’t take long for the crowd to be stunned in to silence. The voice over commentary explains it better than I ever could, and we know Mick Foley really enjoyed going over it.
24. King of the Road
Eric Bischoff made comments on this match from WCW Uncensored 1995, saying that he has absolutely no regrets trying it because they needed something different. It’s not remembered fondly, but I think it was brave to try shoot this like it’s happening live. Of course, the badly edited footage proved otherwise, and King of the Road will always be remembered as one of the worst gimmick matches ever.
Bischoff said that they had to work with the technology they had for the time, and doesn’t remember who came up with the idea. I did try to find the full match, but WWE only has this video highlighting a few minutes. If anyone knows another way to see it? Be a star and share it in the comments?
25. Kiss My Foot / Ass
Vince McMahon used to have this special club called the “Kiss My Ass” club, but long before that terrible idea existed, there was a “Kiss My Foot” match between Bret Hart and Jerry Lawler at King of the Ring 1995.
Of course, it was the King who had to taste defeat in humiliating fashion. But it didn’t end there, as Rikishi adopted it in another way years later, with the rechristened “Kiss My Ass” match. With the stinkface as one of his trademark moves, it seemed befitting of the big man. Below is a rare match from the Global Warming tour of Australia.
26. Last Rites
Another Vince Russo special somehow manages to take a casket match and make it seem ridiculous. Not only do we have lit candles and tombstones made of foam surrounding the ring, but the thing needs to be lowered very, very slowly to add some suspense. It’s just a casket guys, we’ve seen many of ’em before.
It wasn’t very well worked and proved to be a flop as the fans chanted “Fire Russo” and “Boring!”. There was one good spot however, when Abyss chokeslammed Sting on top of the casket, but aside from that it was too over the top for these guys to pull off.
27. Lockbox Challenge
I remember watching this live and feeling absolutely infuriated. The women had a match and would claim a random number when they claimed a pinfall. Not only did Tara lose her Knockouts Championship without having a chance to defend it, but Angelina Love was literally handed the Knockouts title out of sheer luck (or more because management decided). This wasn’t even the worst part about it though… as one loser would be forced to do a striptease.
It’s 2010, the Knockouts have never been about stripping (even The Beautiful People were against this), yet they were expecting Daffney to do it? It was awkward, very much so. Daffney of course, is a really beautiful woman… but it goes against everything her character is. Of course, it’s the Hogan/Bischoff era of TNA, so stuff like this made me question why I was still watching. I’m still watching, but I can admit this was one of the worst things TNA ever did.
28. Mud Pit / Gravy Bowl / Pudding
Again, like other (degrading) diva matches included in this list, here’s a rare treat of seeing two girls wrestling it out in mud, gravy, or whatever they feel like pouring in there.
Eric Bischoff tops this video off incredibly by saying: “I invited you here because of sex appeal, nobody really cares about women’s wrestling.” Trish Stratus seems offended by this, but Stacy Keibler not so much. Bischoff wants to give fans what they really want, a bra & panties match… but to make it “competitive”, let’s have it in the mud.
29. On A Pole / San Fransico 49ers / The Great American Turkey Hunt
Long before we had literally everything hanging on a pole, there was another pole match in the dying days of the AWA. It was called the Great American Turkey Hunt, where two guys had to battle it out to see who would claim the turkey hanging from the pole. Yes, it’s bad as it sounds.
So while we have seen Judy Bagwell on a pole, Viagra on a pole, paddle on a pole, and anything else you can imagine on a pole, just remember these matches were not always booked by Vince Russo. Pole matches have been around for a long time and are rarely remembered fondly.
Even Brock Lesnar & The Undertaker had one (Russo didn’t book it), but it was a chain hanging up there instead. Impact Wrestling rarely does a variation of this called “Feast Or Fired”, which may or may not be enjoyable to you. Mostly, we just want to know who is getting fired. It’s a pretty cruel way to do it though.
30. Pillow Fight
The year is 2008 and Raw Roulette is in full swing. Maria spins the wheel and it lands on submission. Vince McMahon asks her to close her eyes so he can change the stipulation to a pillow fight. She opens her eyes and isn’t bright enough to notice what transpired.
While the TNA Knockouts were being taken seriously as competitors in wrestling matches, WWE were making their divas pillow fight? Yup, why not. By the way, Mickie James looks amazing here. I mean, I’d rather see her in an actual match, but I guess we can’t have everything. How would a pillow fight go over in 2020?
31. Punjabi Prison
In concept, the Punjabi Prison match isn’t a bad idea. But where it fails, is mostly due to it 1) having two structures making visibility incredibly tough, and 2) having a timer to exit the first structure. The issue with the rules is that if one wrestler gets to the outside structure and the other gets trapped in, they should be winning pretty easily from there.
After all, the other would need to get out of the first structure fast enough to catch up to the fresher competitor who should already be climbing to escape. I can see what they were going for, but the rules and the visibility killed the premise from its debut, and would require several tweaks to make it work. Or don’t use it, because all attempts to get it over so far has failed.
32. Reverse Battle Royal
Predictable I know. Anyone who has ever made a piece about bad gimmick matches will have included this, and for good reason! How can so many wrestlers struggle to enter a ring? Why is James Storm having to sneak his way in like Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid? And what exactly is the point of having to enter the ring to qualify, only to be thrown out again?
Also, the funny thing is that half of the tournament bracket decided from the outcome, didn’t end up happening anyways… as two of the wrestlers had to be replaced by Christian Cage & Chris Harris. And after all the hullabaloo, Kaz got a title shot but was unsuccessful on an episode of Impact against the champion AJ Styles. And by the way, this gimmick match happened twice. It seems most only focus on the second one.
33. Ring of Fire
I had to include this because I remember how much of a disappointment it was. Having seen the original inferno matches, myself and others were expecting more of the same. And well… it wasn’t, and what we got was a disappointing wrestling match, with the rest of the Wyatt Family being unable to save their leader from Kane because of a thin line of fire.
Also, this opened SummerSlam 2013 and ended in little over 7 minutes. No one got burned, but they sure felt the heat after fans noted how underwhelming it was. How many bad gimmick matches does Bray Wyatt need to be apart of?
34. Shark Cage
We’ve seen guys like Zeb Colter, Chris Jericho and Enzo Amore be locked in shark cages and suspended above the ring, but have you ever seen a wrestling match happen entirely inside the shark cage itself? Yes, it really is one of the worst things you are ever likely to see.
35. Silent Night, Bloody Night
Oh boy, where do I start? First, there’s a barbed wire Christmas tree hanging and suspended ever so slightly from the ring mat. There’s some presents under the tree, which were weapons when unwrapped. Abyss, Shark Boy with a neckbrace, Rellik and Black Reign (Dustin Rhodes) were the participants. Sounds good right?
The tree hardly got any use, and when it did it was very underwhelming. Thumbtacks, glass, and a barbed wire bat were used for some reason. And the match actually ended with a wrestling move?! What in the blue hell is going on here? Also, watch out for Father James Mitchell and Judas Messias.
36. Steel Asylum
It’s a shame because originally, this match did pretty well in showcasing the X-Division. If you watch earlier iterations of the Steel Asylum, you will see wrestlers like Jay Lethal are easily capable of scaling the structure and escaping without trouble. This was til the January 4th, 2010 episode of TNA Impact, which was absolutely crucial to the company’s future success. With Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff and others making their debuts, more eyes were on the X-Division than ever before, and this was their moment to shine.
So what was meant to happen, was Homicide would escape the cage, Jeff Hardy would debut, they’d brawl, and Jeff would get the upper hand. What actually happened, was Homicide found out on a live broadcast that he couldn’t scale it and escape. He tried for what felt like FOREVER to get out of there.
All the while, the other wrestlers stopped because that was meant to be the ending. Once they noticed he was struggling, they had no choice but to start scaling the structure themselves, but at the same time… Homicide lost his grip and fell unceremoniously to the mat. Jeff Hardy came through the crowd, Homicide had to be let out of the structure by the referees so he could do their spot.
Hardy stopped him and proceeded to scale the cage, so he could make a statement on his return to Impact. And all the other X-Division competitors could do was stand there looking gormlessly up at Jeff, as the match came to an abrupt end with no winner. What a complete clusterf*** of an ending. Someone get Ron Simmons in here.
37. Strange Bedfellows / Lethal Lottery
I remember in my early days of watching the WWF, they would sometimes arrange tournaments with random wrestlers thrown together as tag teams. I think NXT did something similar a few years ago, only it would happen with select teams like Finn Balor & Samoa Joe, Aleister Black & Ricochet, or Matt Riddle & Pete Dunne, and they would go on to win the entire thing.
Basically a strange bedfellows or lethal lottery match is where one or more teams are randomly comprised of wrestlers who would normally never think of teaming together. In the example below, Chris Jericho & Dolph Ziggler were put together to take on Team Hell No, despite having little care for each other. It’s not a bad concept, but I can’t remember anyone ever asking… when are they going to do another one of these?!
38. Thong Stinkface
Now that I think about it, I could have included this under the same entry as a “Kiss My Ass” match. But knowing how much fans enjoy a girl in a thong sticking her ass in to another’s face as a match, I figured why not include the gimmick on its own?
Do you know what’s even funnier about this? It’s easier to find on porn sites than it is to find on YouTube or Dailymotion. I’m not even joking! It’s literally everywhere on porn sites… but I had to endure finding somewhere else to share it. That’s how debaucherous it is.
39. Thumb War
“1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a thumb war!” Yes, this happened. And it wasn’t for charity, or for the laugh, it was for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship. I’m joking… calm down! It was announced as such, but it was never a serious match and Joey Ryan would not have become champion if he won. Do you think New Japan would let that happen? Not in a million years.
Sometimes it’s alright to have a little fun, but don’t expect to see this in any major promotion… they take themselves a bit too seriously to be doing anything similar. Ok, maybe AEW might do it one day, but only if Joey Ryan leaves Impact and wants his long overdue rematch with Cody.
40. Trading Places
I can only recall this happening once, but feel free to correct me if otherwise. Although, you could say Trish Stratus and Mickie James did this as part of an ongoing angle which transcended one match.
On an episode of Raw almost ten years ago, you guessed it… Raw roulette is back to spew out something ridiculous. And this time it was a concept called Trading Places. It’s simple really, the wrestlers have to dress exactly like their opponent. William Regal had to face Goldust, and I must say… he does make a pretty sweet Goldust! On the other hand, he didn’t anticipate the real Goldust using his own tricks against him.
And that’s all from me! I hope these have been fun for you. There is another one lined up to be posted pretty soon. So don’t be thinking this is over, because I’ve got at least 15 other gimmick matches for you to check out soon. See you again and thanks for reading!
