Adam, you have no idea how much we appreciate you and all the pain you put yourself through to ensure we all have a proper education in the complete stupidity of WWE. Thank you.
I actually went to that glass shards arm wrestling Smackdown show. On local TV, it was promoted that there was gonna be a WWE Championship match between Triple H and Edge. You could imagine the disappointment my 10 year old self felt when it was an arm wrestling competition for the main event.
Strictly speaking WWE did do an Over the Top, Off with the Top Match twice, albeit under a different name. The December 20th 1999 Raw had Val Venis vs Hardcore Holly with B.B. and Terri respectively in the first ever Holiday Topless Top-Rope Match. Truly, a classic for the ages.
does anyone remember the championship scramble matches? the ones when punks first WHC run was ruined? I thought that was a great gimmick match idea, shame it never came back.
Championship scrambles were awesome. Were basically the same as the hardcore time limit matches from Smackdown Here Comes The Pain video game. No idea why they wouldn't bring that concept back
Not gonna lie, when it happened this was right before my boyfriend helped me regain an interest in wrestling so when all I heard was "Rey Mysterio lost an eye at Extreme Rules" without the context of "it was a gimmick match and the eye thing was staged" I was horrified because I all i could picture was a horrible horrible botch
Triple H vs. Kevin Nash... In a Ladder Match... except you didn't win by climbing the ladder. You climb the ladder to get the sledgehammer, which you can then use on your opponent. Miraculously, no quads were torn.
Well, Zeppo was the straight man compared to Groucho, Chico, and Harpo's lunacy. He served a very important purpose for the Marx Brothers during their stage days and in their first few movies. The idea that he was "boring" probably just stems from the fact that he never had a major standout scene or bit compared to his brothers.
Fantastic comedic foil. 'Straight Man,' doesn't quite get it across; Zeppo's characters were often _overly_ straight; to the point of seeming comically dim and dull.
If you want to watch some actually good "points based" wrestling matches, you need to see the two matches between Taichi and Shingo Takagi for the King of Pro-Wrestling Trophy in New Japan earlier this year. Both are "infinite pinfall" matches, i.e. you don't win on a three count, but the count adds to your total. The matches are slightly different as one is a scored match after 10 minutes and the other is a first to 30 pin-count, but both are qually brilliant in a very surprising matter. Well, surprising if not for the fact that one of the best wrestlers on the planet is involved.
Oh yeah, I watched that match. I think that was on Dominion this year. That's a really cool concept. Also, the KOPW Trophy has a lot of memorable stipulations because that's how you'll fight for the trophy; there's also a 2 pinfall match, a ridiculous sumo match, No Finisher match, etc.. Definitely one of my favorite championships to watch for me.
Dear lord that match was fun. Easily one of the most fun matches of the year. When the stipulation was announced and the first few minutes of the match had, i was expecting it to be a confusing stinker. I'm glad i was wrong. The more it went the more the fans got into it. So much the final minutes were legit edge on your seat wrestling and a great win for Shingo.
I could Taichi and Shingo have those matches until the end of time. Taichi has come on so much in the last three years. His feud with Taichi is incredible.
The amateur wrestling challenge happened twice. Swagger also wrestled Dreamer in WWE ECW in one. That one ended when Dreamer hit Swagger with a DDT causing a dq.
I remember them doing something similar with Swagger and MVP on Smackdown too, also ending in a DQ. But the rules were slightly different and they didn’t have a counter on screen for points so I just assumed they counted as different “matches” despite basically being the same
The over the top, top rope, topless match actually happened twice. BB lost the other one but HHH opened his jacket so only he could see her when she took it off.
I always thought Right To Censor was funny in hindsight because their goal was to make WWE a PG product without the scantily-clad women and hardcore weapons. Technically, Right To Censor won in the end.
You are incredible Adam, been watching you for seven years now. Easy list for you, just needs a better name - 10 Worst Instances of Supernatural BS. The Hogan Fireball, The Cobra, The Bray Hologram.
This is so eerie, I was wondering to myself what the next PFK video would be about and this is exactly what I ended up with.....Adam, are you in my head??
I was actually there for Razor vs 1-2-3 Kid, Ted DiBiase was Kid's manager. This was the same card that had Diesel vs Brett Hart in a cage match, where Undertaker burst through the ring and pulled Diesel under. This was in Louisville, Kentucky, at the now-closed Louisville Gardens, which was filled to capacity.
Shame it sucks in practice. I like Cody's approach of the top of the cage being something to jump off because it's both crazy and the most logical thing for a wrestler to do when he (or she) is on top of a cage. (P.S. I'm only saying Cody did it first because his match with Wardlow is the only one I can name, but I know it happened earlier.)
"Holiday Topless Top Rope Match" was the other time Terri was involved in the "Over the Top, Off With the Top" stip with Hardcore Holly as her rep versus Barbara Bush - BB - who had Val Venus. Part of why I recall this is like with the second one, someone - this time being Triple H - spoiled the fun for the audience by blocking the final top removal.
WWE did The Over The Top Off With The Top match twice. The first was in December 1999. B.B. was in the corner of Val Venis, and Terri Runnels was in Hardcore Holly's corner. Triple H was there to get some heat. Kind of like Steven Richards did 6 months later.
Does anyone else remember the 3 stages of hell match? It was only done once, but I think it consisted of a falls count anywhere match, followed by last man standing match, and finally Hell in a Cell. I believe it was Triple H vs Austin.
While not technically a match, the Austin/Bischoff “redneck triathlon” challenge was the main marketing focus for whatever ppv that was on and that was utterly ridiculous 🤣
Too bad matches named after a country, city or person that are just other stipulations renamed, don't count. *cough* Nigerian Drum Fight Samoan Street Fight Belfast Brawl Ambrose Asylum Etc. Etc. Can't be bothered to list them all.
Except the Ambrose Asylum had actual things added to it. It's not just a cage match, it's the Cage Match version of the Extreme Elimination Chamber, but without Bobby Lashley outlasting CM Punk and RVD!
I saw that Nigerian Drum Match, and I still have no idea what the point of it all was...They should have just had a Gene Krupa-Buddy Rich style drum battle and be done with it.
I always thought that the anything "on a pole" matches were totally dumb. (Thanks Vince Russo.) And I know that this was WCW, but the Judy Bagwell on a Forklift match is soooooooo stupid.
No, now it's called a "Premium Live Event." If WWE is going to give us these BS phrases we should take advantage of every opportunity to shove them back in their faces.
0:38: "What would be final match for the Adam Cole vs Johnny Gargano 3 Stages of Hell Match??? I got it, let's create a hybrid between the Barbed Wired Steel Cage Match from No Way Out 2005 and combine it with the Asylum Match from Extreme Rules 2016."
The eye for an eye thing... maybe just temporary blindness? Like have there be mace that has to be used. The idea of clouds of burning mist in the air adds some hazard to things, especially if there is no actual chemical it is just a harmless dye to make the performers look really damaged from the stuff getting all over them... there is something to that.
Yeah but gargano and Cole made that weapons cage work and was awesome to watch granted I’m probably saying this because I was in attendance for takeover Toronto in 2019 but I remember being more entertained with this than the Ambrose asylum
I still think that with the right competitors the Punjabi Prison match could be good. They've had Big Show, Jinder, and Khali though. That's an impossible scenario to overcome for any match type.
Adam, you have no idea how much we appreciate you and all the pain you put yourself through to ensure we all have a proper education in the complete stupidity of WWE. Thank you.
To be a wrestling fan is to be a masochist
👏👏👏
He’s the only reason I went back to watching WWE
No problem glad to help 😂😂😂😂😂😂 😂
We don’t appreciate child predators
“Kill your opponent with a gun match” 😂
Sell your Opponent on the Deep Web Match.
@@lewisaino Jeremy kyle battle royal
I mean I think Brian Pillman won that match vs Steve Austin
I actually went to that glass shards arm wrestling Smackdown show.
On local TV, it was promoted that there was gonna be a WWE Championship match between Triple H and Edge. You could imagine the disappointment my 10 year old self felt when it was an arm wrestling competition for the main event.
Does the Zombie Lumberjack match count as a stipulation? If so, it must top this list. That Eye for an Eye match though...
*WWECW zombie noises*
It's technically a lumberjack match, and the zombies weren't advertised, so I guess it doesn't count.
That zombie lumberjack match was amazing
“WWE is to comedy what a hammer is to an egg” You got me Adam 😂
Strictly speaking WWE did do an Over the Top, Off with the Top Match twice, albeit under a different name. The December 20th 1999 Raw had Val Venis vs Hardcore Holly with B.B. and Terri respectively in the first ever Holiday Topless Top-Rope Match.
Truly, a classic for the ages.
Happy 35th Birthday Adam, you look good for 35.
Adams 35? I thought he was at least in his 20s, Jesus he looks good.
@@kgddrago3752 I know right? He looks so good for 35.
Vinces birthday as well
@@msmjsiajdgdhsjajahgshsjaje8990 another man who's aged very well
Did anyone else mention that he's 35? Well if you didn't know that he's 35, Adam's 35.
The House of Horros match popped me hard only for the fact that Bray's kitchen floor is the exact same style as my grandmother's kitchen floor
'Feuding with the Great Khali. Poor lad'
Best Line
I really liked "Of course [abrupt full stop]" personally.
does anyone remember the championship scramble matches? the ones when punks first WHC run was ruined? I thought that was a great gimmick match idea, shame it never came back.
they used it again at the bash 09 with the women
Ah..when Brian Kendrick was WWE Champion
yeah, but that was a actual good stipulation match that they only used once.
Ruined?? What a mark!
Championship scrambles were awesome. Were basically the same as the hardcore time limit matches from Smackdown Here Comes The Pain video game. No idea why they wouldn't bring that concept back
Man, how bizarre it was the feud between CM Punk and Chavo Guerrero in 2008. And then, Chavo lost in 8 seconds at WM 24 to Kane. *Audible Sigh*
Imagine if Rey and Seth botched the end of the Eye For An Eye Match so badly it did end up actually blinding one of them...
Not gonna lie, when it happened this was right before my boyfriend helped me regain an interest in wrestling so when all I heard was "Rey Mysterio lost an eye at Extreme Rules" without the context of "it was a gimmick match and the eye thing was staged" I was horrified because I all i could picture was a horrible horrible botch
@@CherryPixelBun That’s amazing. 😂
As a fan of bray and also a fan of almost all horror and heavy music related things (art in general)... That "sure, bray" killed me too.
Triple H vs. Kevin Nash...
In a Ladder Match...
except you didn't win by climbing the ladder.
You climb the ladder to get the sledgehammer, which you can then use on your opponent.
Miraculously, no quads were torn.
WWE actually did something only once? That’s a shock sense nothing has been done only once.
Once in a lifetime
Yeah, and most things that have been done twice are being done a third time in AEW 💀
Glad to finally see Zeppo getting the love he deserves, although I’ll have to admit this is probably the last place I’d have expected it to happen.
Well, Zeppo was the straight man compared to Groucho, Chico, and Harpo's lunacy. He served a very important purpose for the Marx Brothers during their stage days and in their first few movies. The idea that he was "boring" probably just stems from the fact that he never had a major standout scene or bit compared to his brothers.
@@TheTrainFan9 According to Groucho, Zeppo was the funniest off screen.
Fantastic comedic foil. 'Straight Man,' doesn't quite get it across; Zeppo's characters were often _overly_ straight; to the point of seeming comically dim and dull.
Zeppo: so "unnecessary" they had to put in a Zeppo-like character in every film they did after he left the group.
@@mathewbarrie and Harpo. Harpo said Zeppo was the only one who could make Groucho laugh.
Kill your opponent with a gun match! 😂
Damn you, Adam! My sides! 😂😂😂
If you want to watch some actually good "points based" wrestling matches, you need to see the two matches between Taichi and Shingo Takagi for the King of Pro-Wrestling Trophy in New Japan earlier this year. Both are "infinite pinfall" matches, i.e. you don't win on a three count, but the count adds to your total. The matches are slightly different as one is a scored match after 10 minutes and the other is a first to 30 pin-count, but both are qually brilliant in a very surprising matter. Well, surprising if not for the fact that one of the best wrestlers on the planet is involved.
Oh yeah, I watched that match. I think that was on Dominion this year. That's a really cool concept. Also, the KOPW Trophy has a lot of memorable stipulations because that's how you'll fight for the trophy; there's also a 2 pinfall match, a ridiculous sumo match, No Finisher match, etc.. Definitely one of my favorite championships to watch for me.
Dear lord that match was fun. Easily one of the most fun matches of the year. When the stipulation was announced and the first few minutes of the match had, i was expecting it to be a confusing stinker. I'm glad i was wrong. The more it went the more the fans got into it. So much the final minutes were legit edge on your seat wrestling and a great win for Shingo.
Damn, dude, why the shade at the end? Taichi is the GOAT, but Shingo absolutely holds his own. 😛
I could Taichi and Shingo have those matches until the end of time. Taichi has come on so much in the last three years. His feud with Taichi is incredible.
Another points based match that was great was actually very good was Yano vs Great-O-Khan in a KOPW title match.
The amateur wrestling challenge happened twice. Swagger also wrestled Dreamer in WWE ECW in one. That one ended when Dreamer hit Swagger with a DDT causing a dq.
I remember them doing something similar with Swagger and MVP on Smackdown too, also ending in a DQ. But the rules were slightly different and they didn’t have a counter on screen for points so I just assumed they counted as different “matches” despite basically being the same
My boy Erick Rowan had to fight big show at his most immobile, and they had to use stairs that weigh 10,000 lbs
The over the top, top rope, topless match actually happened twice. BB lost the other one but HHH opened his jacket so only he could see her when she took it off.
My wife still refers to Paul Wight as the undefeated Stairs match wrestler.
I know this is a late reply, but I hope you're still married to her. If she calls the Big Show that she sounds like a keeper.
2:59 as time goes on, I'm getting more and more convinced that the Right to Censor had a point, now you mention it
I always thought Right To Censor was funny in hindsight because their goal was to make WWE a PG product without the scantily-clad women and hardcore weapons. Technically, Right To Censor won in the end.
Never forget that Hornswoggle was first introduced and billed as 'Little B*stard'
You are incredible Adam, been watching you for seven years now. Easy list for you, just needs a better name - 10 Worst Instances of Supernatural BS. The Hogan Fireball, The Cobra, The Bray Hologram.
Lots of wrestlers have thrown fireballs. What makes the Hogan one supernatural?
This is so eerie, I was wondering to myself what the next PFK video would be about and this is exactly what I ended up with.....Adam, are you in my head??
You have got to be the funniest narrator I've ever heard lol. Love your videos!
Many (but not too many, yet,) happy returns of the day, Adam!
I was actually there for Razor vs 1-2-3 Kid, Ted DiBiase was Kid's manager. This was the same card that had Diesel vs Brett Hart in a cage match, where Undertaker burst through the ring and pulled Diesel under. This was in Louisville, Kentucky, at the now-closed Louisville Gardens, which was filled to capacity.
The Asylum match isn't even a bad concept. Steel cage, except you climb the cage to get weapons instead of escaping. Cool.
Shame it sucks in practice. I like Cody's approach of the top of the cage being something to jump off because it's both crazy and the most logical thing for a wrestler to do when he (or she) is on top of a cage. (P.S. I'm only saying Cody did it first because his match with Wardlow is the only one I can name, but I know it happened earlier.)
Jokes on you Adam, I don’t even pretend to care about the Olympics.
"Dignity, you can't buy it"
I think it says it in the contract that when you enter the show biz, your dignity doesn't come with you.
the picture of randy standing infront of a burning house is amazing
"Dignity can't buy it"
Good way to live your life 🤣
"Holiday Topless Top Rope Match" was the other time Terri was involved in the "Over the Top, Off With the Top" stip with Hardcore Holly as her rep versus Barbara Bush - BB - who had Val Venus. Part of why I recall this is like with the second one, someone - this time being Triple H - spoiled the fun for the audience by blocking the final top removal.
Yooooooo, new list literally the moment I opened UA-cam, let's goooooo
So... the Amateur Wrestling Challenge sounds real similar to the Brawl for All......
WWE did The Over The Top Off With The Top match twice. The first was in December 1999.
B.B. was in the corner of Val Venis, and Terri Runnels was in Hardcore Holly's corner. Triple H was there to get some heat. Kind of like Steven Richards did 6 months later.
Happy 35th Adam
At least we got a funny recipe for the WWF cookbook out of the Kennel From Hell match.
That last line gave me a good chuckle, have a great day Adam.
I totally agree, that House of Horrors match was an absolute joy to behold
CM Punk in WWECW is just so surreal.
ECW on Syfy Original
I could’ve sworn Swagger did the amateur wrestling challenge a second time vs mvp
Theyve never actually wrestled each other in wwe
Does anyone else remember the 3 stages of hell match? It was only done once, but I think it consisted of a falls count anywhere match, followed by last man standing match, and finally Hell in a Cell. I believe it was Triple H vs Austin.
There's been 5 of them - the one you mentioned, then Triple H vs Shawn Michaels, Triple H vs Orton, Cena vs Ryback and Gargano vs Adam Cole.
While not technically a match, the Austin/Bischoff “redneck triathlon” challenge was the main marketing focus for whatever ppv that was on and that was utterly ridiculous 🤣
There were actually 2 over the top off with the top matches lol. BB lost the other and triple h hid with his jacket . But dang nice work on this one
Wasn’t the eye for an eye match an excuse for Rey to get surgery on his lazy eye that he covered the wound by wearing an eye patch on one eye?
I blame Spoony for willing the stairs match into existence.
Dead at "kill your opponent with a gun match" lmao
Technically The Ambrose Asylum match would have been done thrice. Because that was the blow off to the Pete Dunn/Tony D'Angelo "feud".
Lol I totally forgot about the summer games relay match on Smackdown in 2004 that flew under my radar TBH 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not WWE, but I will always love the Silent Night, Bloody Night match from TNA in 2007; so stupid and so fun
As a New Jerseyan, I appreciate the Bruce Springsteen callout.
Now do this list for WCW so you can include the single greatest stipulation match ever.
The King of the Road match.
Too bad matches named after a country, city or person that are just other stipulations renamed, don't count.
*cough*
Nigerian Drum Fight
Samoan Street Fight
Belfast Brawl
Ambrose Asylum
Etc. Etc. Can't be bothered to list them all.
Except the Ambrose Asylum had actual things added to it. It's not just a cage match, it's the Cage Match version of the Extreme Elimination Chamber, but without Bobby Lashley outlasting CM Punk and RVD!
I saw that Nigerian Drum Match, and I still have no idea what the point of it all was...They should have just had a Gene Krupa-Buddy Rich style drum battle and be done with it.
The Mini Royal Rumble could have been saved if the final entry was the "mini-version" of The Great Khali played by an average-sized person.
I very much look forward to when Eye for an Eye becomes a yearly PPV and we will be seeing at least 1 Eye for an Eye match every year.
Thanks for raising my mood
9:30 Hey, look. It's the mini Young Bucks.
Wait. It isn't? That's just how tiny they actually are? Oh.
I know its not WWE but Hogan Giant match at Havoc just makes me cringe every time I watch it!
I always thought that the anything "on a pole" matches were totally dumb. (Thanks Vince Russo.) And I know that this was WCW, but the Judy Bagwell on a Forklift match is soooooooo stupid.
I love that you put in a Marx Brothers reference
Love u Adam been following since the watchculture wwe days
For the first time, someone on the Wrestling Infotainment pronounced 'Punjabi' properly. For everyone else, its not 'Poonjabi'.
Thanks Adam.
Happy 35th birthday adam! Cheers mate enjoy 35! Don't let Pete get to ya its just 35
Imagine if any match on the list got it's own PPV
I’d rather not, if that’s alright?
No, now it's called a "Premium Live Event." If WWE is going to give us these BS phrases we should take advantage of every opportunity to shove them back in their faces.
@@elc1960 whatever it’s called, I’d really rather not imagine any one of these matches getting their own entirely dedicated to them
@@bMt5553 Point taken. And I concur.
Happy Birthday Adam. You look incredible for 35 years OLD
3:06 I'm Kenyan, so of course i care about the Olympics.
Love the content ❤
0:38: "What would be final match for the Adam Cole vs Johnny Gargano 3 Stages of Hell Match??? I got it, let's create a hybrid between the Barbed Wired Steel Cage Match from No Way Out 2005 and combine it with the Asylum Match from Extreme Rules 2016."
Kill your opponent with a gun match. Adam you're very funny!
i would dee that if thy use bean bags or rubber bullets
The moment I saw this on my notifications I instantly went on to watch
8:29 I totally forgot this happened. 😬
God damn you for making me remember the Mini Royal Rumble match. I went to great pains to forget that.
Happy birthday, Adam!!!
"Zeppo Marx was secretly great..." - You are the King. Then, Now, Forever.
I love how you called the Gulf of Mexico a river. Hahahahha
No Zombie lumberjack match? Blasphemous.
It’s a good day when Adam’s voice is heard on a new list
Adam, thank you for your contributions. It can’t be easy to keep up with all of these things at the ripe old age of 35
8:00 wait hold up they advertised that house of horrors match for the wwe title, but didn’t bray win that match?? Wat changed it too be non title?
Happy 35th Adam Blondepied, 35 looks good on you!
The eye for an eye thing... maybe just temporary blindness? Like have there be mace that has to be used.
The idea of clouds of burning mist in the air adds some hazard to things, especially if there is no actual chemical it is just a harmless dye to make the performers look really damaged from the stuff getting all over them... there is something to that.
Arn Anderson's Glock on a pole match
Yeah but gargano and Cole made that weapons cage work and was awesome to watch granted I’m probably saying this because I was in attendance for takeover Toronto in 2019 but I remember being more entertained with this than the Ambrose asylum
Yeah, it was basically a hybrid between the Barbed-Wire Steel Cage from No Way Out 2005 and the Asylum Match from Extreme Rules 2016.
I still think that with the right competitors the Punjabi Prison match could be good. They've had Big Show, Jinder, and Khali though. That's an impossible scenario to overcome for any match type.
Also THANKS ADAM, I TOTALLY FORGOT ALL ABOUT THE EYE FOR AN EYE!!!
Happy Birthday, Mr Blampied
4:50 no, there was two of those. He had one against Tommy Dreamer.
Zeppo was part of the team that invented the latch that dropped the bomb on Japan
Finally, someone speaking some truth about the olympics
Javelin Discus and Shotput are fun tho
You just named 3 of the most boring sports to watch in the Olympics
10:48
Didn’t you already book that on Calling Spots?
Remember that while Vince made WWE, he also gave us this stuff. And Katie Vick.
#8 sounded like a great idea so I can't blame them too much
Summer Games Relay was my first ever WWE show
The amateur wrestling match thing also happened on WWE ECW with swagger as well
What about the Championship Scramble match from Unforgiven 08!
You forgot the zombie lumberjack match haha
These lists are great but they are made much better when Adam narrates.
Im surprised you didnt mention the "Good Housekeeping" Match.