I’ll never forget Bobby the Brian’s legendary comment in the Bret v Yoko match “theses moron fans are chanting U-S-A, U-S-A, one guys from Canada, the other is from Japan”.
there was that match i think on smackdown in seattle with all the guys from other countries and billed from other countries and they chated usa, even the wrestlers were confused
With the exception of the first two matches (Shawn Michaels vs Tatanka and The Steiner Brothers vs The Headshrinkers), you might as well put the entire Wrestlemania IX event on the list.
@TheRaven361 Cmon bruh, just bc the main event was sewage doesn't mean the whole show was bad. Rousey's match was great sports entertainment, Miz vs. Balor vs. Rollins was great, and even if Asuka didn't win, her match with Flair was very good. Yes, Jinder won the US Title, and Nakamura vs. Styles was underwhelming, but it wasn't all bad.
The absolute disgrace Taker vs Gonzales is to the streak is made all the worse when you know Randy Savage was willing to wrestle still and Vince said no just be on commentary. We could have gotten Taker vs Savage which arguably would have been the best match at Mania 9, not a high bar to set but it would have been enjoyable.
The best way I ever heard Jerry's legal problems described during this time was by Brian Zane. He said Jerry was a noted " youth enthusiast". That says it all lol.
It’s crazy to see how much Taker’s style improved over the years. He was never a technical wizard, he didn’t need to be, but as much as I love him I have to admit he had quite a few crappy matches back in the 90s.
Back in 1993, my family got finaly cable tv here in Germany. Before that, i watched WWF at my grandparents house sporadically as a kid, they had a huge antenna and international programms. It was quite a shock, the first ppv i saw was summerslam and i was waiting for all my heroes, Warrior, Hogan, LOD, Nasty Boys, Jake etc. It was like „Who are all these new Guys and what happened within one year?“
The fact that Shawn Michaels is perhaps the greatest performer in WWE despite practically being a stripper for all intents and purposes tells you everything about how incredible HBK is.
The happy medium is Yoko being confronted by Hogan, who would have known he’d cheated to win. Now you’ve got build to King of the Ring, an iconic image of Hogan staring down the Monster, and you’re protecting Bret Hart.
It does make some sense, as Ramon defeated him using a very Backlund-ish move. From a storytelling point of view it's like he defeated "grandpa" by stealing his technique and thus proved to be superior.
As we now know, Barry Horowitz, Jeff Gaylord (big muscly USWA jobber), and Greg "The Hammer" Valentine weren't the first choices to play the Masked Knights. First off, Terry Funk was originally going to play the Red Knight, but he backed out by leaving a note that read "My horse is sick. I think he's dying. I'll see you later." Second, "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka was slated to play the Black Knight after making up the numbers in the big Intercontinental Title battle royal one month earlier. Finally, Glen Jacobs a.k.a. the future Kane was also considered to play possibly the Blue Knight, but was far too green at the time. IMHO the Masked Knights gimmick could've worked better if they were played by people from Bret's past. For example, the first Knight gets eliminated and unmasked, and he could revealed to be Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, with Vince and Heenan saying "Oh my God, it's Jim Neidhart! He and Bret were in the Hart Foundation." Then, the second Knight gets eliminated and would be revealed to be someone Bret had previously feuded with. And finally, you have the third and final Knight unmasked and revealed to be Owen, who then cuts a big promo about how sick he is of being in Bret's shadow, and their feud would be off to the races. Also, Bret, Bruce, and Keith could easily tag with either Smith or Ross.
Shawn winning the title from Jannetty should have been done at the King Of The Ring rather than a house show (that's one decent match extra on the PPV and as for Summerslam Jannetty and Doing had a good fued on Raw which would have been an entertaining match on the Summerslam card). They'd planted the seeds of Owen Hart V Razor Ramon pre-Royal Rumble but went nowhere with it, Had they stuck with it that's another decent Mania match. Main event should have been Savage V Hart with Yokozuna being Hart's next challenger
I imagine they didn't have the Michaels-Jannetty title change at KOTR as that would have had both World and Intercontinental titles being won by heels on the same night. I don't believe that ever happened during all the years they only had two men's singles championships.
You forgot Ludwig Borga vs Marty "Please fire my Lawyer" Jannety at Summerslam. It was originally supposed to be Rick Martel before Jannety was forced to do the J O B.
The Giant gonzales and the undertaker When the rest in peace match at summerslam and at wrestlemaina 9 people run a channel they just pick a match they don't like and call it the worst.
I remember watching WWF SunmerSlam 1993 and was 13 at the time. Even though I was 13 the WWF was still cartoon like and we all went with but even I thought erm was Lex meant to win like that? Everyone expected him to take the title and know one had a clue why he didn't.
Weird how Ramon went from a title match vs Hart at Royal Rumble to facing Bob Backlund at Wrestlemania. Things would've had to change but him facing a bigger face would've been better match. And like many others have said to have Savage mainly on commentary in '93 is just dumb- especially to miss this event when he won title at WMVIII
When I was younger I thought the Doinks match was so cool with MOM and bushwhackers as Doinks. I had the VHS most unusual matches ever which includes this match. But now Booger is such a slob. Not sure what Vince was thinking. Just a comedy match. A great like Bigelow is unfairly part of this. And I liked Doink being more of a villain. Later I realized the Bushwhackers were a good longtime tag team too but Vince regulated them to a comedy act in WWF
As a kid I pronounced Meng’s finisher as the “Tongue and death grip”. Now as an adult I realize Meng is from Tonga. The “Tongan death grip” is what they were actually saying.
I think Michaels vs Crush was an okay bout to have on between the KOTR tourney matches. **3/4 from me. Unless you are only using PPV bouts, Giant Gonzales vs Randy Savage from Superstars/ Best of 1993 Coliseum Video match easily deserved a place on here. Or if it is PPV only, where was Ludvig Borga vs Marty Jannetty from Summerslam? Served its purpose of putting over the new foreign heel as a monster but buried a recent IC champ in the process.
The New Generation had some high points, but was mostly brutal. My interest seriously waned after Summer Slam 1992 as the Federation was and been losing too much top talant.
In defense of that era, Shawn Michael's first reign as World Champ could hardly have been more perfect in terms of build-up, WM win, challengers/ match quality and how it ended. There were also the pushes given to Austin, Mankind and Goldust.
The Hart family versus Shawn Michaels and his Knights what's the legend of Bruce heart and also the red heart and Owen Hart rivalry Bruce heart and then 20 years later he stepped on Vince McMahon
It's weird to think about these days, how much of a wet blanket the Undertaker was in the ring though the first like, two-thirds of his career. Like for someone who debuted all the way back in 1990, when did he actually start having consistently good matches? The mid-2000s? (Not to say he was the reason those Giant Gonzalez matches sucked, obviously.)
Even though undertaker versus giant Gonzalez was number two on there, I’ll give a giant Gonzalez a little leeway because he was not a professional wrestler. He was just some tall dude. Or ask guys like crush the clowns and others were professional wrestlers, but they still sucked
Almost the entire list just shows how downright awful Mania 9 was. The fact the people in the comments are defending this garbage show is mindbuggling to me. There were some good matches but it wasn’t enough to save this monstrosity of show. Easily one of the worst Manias of all time if not the worst. 2, 4, 11, 15, 27, and 32 can definitely rival 9 for that title of the worst WrestleMania.
The Four Doinks vs Team Bigelow is literally the worst match I have ever seen. Awful. Not funny. An insult to everyone watching it. I mean, a freaking banana peel?!
Cry about Hogan all you want, at least he popped the crowd. Subtract him from the WM9 main event and what do you have? Yoko beating Bret for the title in under 10 minutes due to salt thrown in Bret's eyes by a manager. Is that really a better way to end Wrestlemania? Go ahead, give an answer. Tell me it's better and I have a 6 letter word to describe you perfectly. And no, I'm not defending Hogan. Agreeing to drop the title to Bret and going back on it is shitty, but it doesn't make a match that has the entire crowd cheering at the finish bad.
The last 5-6 years worth of wrestlemanias have been the drizzling shits. We've had the golden era, the new generation era, the attitude era, the ruthless aggression era, and the pg era ... Now we're in the Roster-full-of-jobbers era ... gillberg was more credible than these clowns AND looked more like a pro wrestler than they do. Either that or "The Colin Delaney Jr. Era"
Calling the end of WM9 one of the worst endings to a WM is just modern day nonsense. The crowd loved it, it got one of the biggest pops ever, huge surprise and it worked really well. Just cause we can now look back at what happened afterwards and groan doesn't mean it wasn't a hell of a great finish at the time. There's been many worse WM endings before and since.
@@turkishjanitor3666Bret hart was a nobody. A mid carder. Even if he thought he was a big deal he wasn't. He didn't draw a dime for WWF or WCW. Hogan was a star like it or hate it and he was on point that the fans needed someone like Hogan to win the belt.
I’ll never forget Bobby the Brian’s legendary comment in the Bret v Yoko match “theses moron fans are chanting U-S-A, U-S-A, one guys from Canada, the other is from Japan”.
Bobby was gold
Canada and Hawaii, lol
Bobby the Brian?
@@markant9534 Yoko was billed as Japanese though, hence the Japan part. But yes, in the real world he was Hawaiian
there was that match i think on smackdown in seattle with all the guys from other countries and billed from other countries and they chated usa, even the wrestlers were confused
You can't say that people didn't care about Doink vs. Crush. Doink was making kids cry, brah.
Matt Bourne *face palm*
Remember when crush used to get crucified by the fans for his drug problems
Can a coke for ya
At the least three guys cared a lot 10 years ago
WrestleMania IX aka the Hulk Hogan ego show. And Hogan did NOTHING with the belt afterwards either.
That can also describe his every run with the WCW belt too
With the exception of the first two matches (Shawn Michaels vs Tatanka and The Steiner Brothers vs The Headshrinkers), you might as well put the entire Wrestlemania IX event on the list.
yeah Hogan winning a title he didnt need in a match had no right being a part of just proves how ego filled he truly is
i rather watch maina 9 over maina 34
@TheRaven361 Cmon bruh, just bc the main event was sewage doesn't mean the whole show was bad. Rousey's match was great sports entertainment, Miz vs. Balor vs. Rollins was great, and even if Asuka didn't win, her match with Flair was very good. Yes, Jinder won the US Title, and Nakamura vs. Styles was underwhelming, but it wasn't all bad.
The absolute disgrace Taker vs Gonzales is to the streak is made all the worse when you know Randy Savage was willing to wrestle still and Vince said no just be on commentary.
We could have gotten Taker vs Savage which arguably would have been the best match at Mania 9, not a high bar to set but it would have been enjoyable.
Undertaker vs Randy Savage would have probably been the best match on that whole card.
The initial plan for the main event was Savage vs Bret.
The best way I ever heard Jerry's legal problems described during this time was by Brian Zane. He said Jerry was a noted " youth enthusiast". That says it all lol.
It’s crazy to see how much Taker’s style improved over the years. He was never a technical wizard, he didn’t need to be, but as much as I love him I have to admit he had quite a few crappy matches back in the 90s.
Most of the time it wasn’t his fault
"Doink, brah! Making kids cry, brah!"
WM 9 itself is the worst WM ppv of all time
Mania 2 is close. 9 atleast had one or two okay to good matches.
@@optimus2008(hold my beer) 11
Another top contender is WM 27 🤦🏻♂️
Wrestlemania 15 is another one
Y‘all forgetting about Mania 4, no one ever talks about how dogshit that one is
That Backlund match was just weird. I know he can work different styles, like those matches with Takada where they potato each other.
"Wow! What an illusion. Eat your heart out, Copperfield. This Doink is great!" - Bobby Heenan
To say that Hogan was surgically to his spotlight would be a mild understatement
Hogan thinks he is the spotlight
During this time, I really wanted Giant Gonzales vs. Yokozuna. Talk about Dream Matches.
Maybe you can create the match on a video game and record it onto UA-cam .
One big guy who can’t wrestle vs Yokozuna? We saw that when Mabel fought Yoko in 1995.
Tony Khan approved 😅
The ultimate hoss match
Man that ain't no damn dream match 😂
Back in 1993, my family got finaly cable tv here in Germany. Before that, i watched WWF at my grandparents house sporadically as a kid, they had a huge antenna and international programms. It was quite a shock, the first ppv i saw was summerslam and i was waiting for all my heroes, Warrior, Hogan, LOD, Nasty Boys, Jake etc.
It was like „Who are all these new Guys and what happened within one year?“
To save that first match, they should've given the knights the gimp costumes and named the team "Shawn Michaels and his Sexy Boys"
The fact that Shawn Michaels is perhaps the greatest performer in WWE despite practically being a stripper for all intents and purposes tells you everything about how incredible HBK is.
Calling Hogan humble killed me. 😂😂😂😂
Jerry Lawler: youth enthusiast
Definitely don’t think Hogan taking the title from Yokozuna at WrestleMania IX was a good idea. Yokozuna should have held onto the title.
at least im not the only one thats thinks the same thing
The happy medium is Yoko being confronted by Hogan, who would have known he’d cheated to win. Now you’ve got build to King of the Ring, an iconic image of Hogan staring down the Monster, and you’re protecting Bret Hart.
@nevnickerson8493 I was young at the time and I hated hogan thought his gimmick was corny
Horrible idea. You would have the heel walk out as the new world champion making the fans leave angry
@@tinotica At least it would have been something different for a change. The fan favorite doesn’t always have to come out on top.
I had a feeling that numbers 2 and 1 were the same guys in different matches. 😂😂😂
It was actually Mr Hughes who assisted with the confiscation of the urn.
I just couldn’t believe at the time that anyone could tower over The Undertaker but Giant Gonzales sure did ! 😮
Big Show?
imagine giant gonzalez won in that match and never had the streak
MR Hughes was the henchmen with Giant Gonzalez and Whippleman for the RIP match
The four "Doinks" vs team Bigelow is one of the most dreadful things I have ever seen. That's for sure #1 for me.
Bad Call, Should have Put Hogan vs Yokozuna at Number 1 in my opinion!☹😠
Giant Gonzalez Costume Is Legendary.
To be fair Hogan was never suppose to drop the belt to Bret. The plan all along was to drop it back to yokozuna according to Bruce prichard
Hall would later say that Backlund refused to take the Razor's Edge, resulting in the rollup idea.
It does make some sense, as Ramon defeated him using a very Backlund-ish move. From a storytelling point of view it's like he defeated "grandpa" by stealing his technique and thus proved to be superior.
Top 10 worst matches of 1985 is gonna be interesting 🤣
A lot of crap matches at WM1.
@@markant9534 it was 9 matches and most were good
Man, we need a Cultaholic Horror channel, too...
Why?
As we now know, Barry Horowitz, Jeff Gaylord (big muscly USWA jobber), and Greg "The Hammer" Valentine weren't the first choices to play the Masked Knights.
First off, Terry Funk was originally going to play the Red Knight, but he backed out by leaving a note that read "My horse is sick. I think he's dying. I'll see you later."
Second, "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka was slated to play the Black Knight after making up the numbers in the big Intercontinental Title battle royal one month earlier.
Finally, Glen Jacobs a.k.a. the future Kane was also considered to play possibly the Blue Knight, but was far too green at the time.
IMHO the Masked Knights gimmick could've worked better if they were played by people from Bret's past.
For example, the first Knight gets eliminated and unmasked, and he could revealed to be Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, with Vince and Heenan saying "Oh my God, it's Jim Neidhart! He and Bret were in the Hart Foundation."
Then, the second Knight gets eliminated and would be revealed to be someone Bret had previously feuded with.
And finally, you have the third and final Knight unmasked and revealed to be Owen, who then cuts a big promo about how sick he is of being in Bret's shadow, and their feud would be off to the races.
Also, Bret, Bruce, and Keith could easily tag with either Smith or Ross.
Other terrible matches:
Mr. Perfect vs. Lex Luger at Wrestlemania IX
Mr. Perfect vs. Shawn Michaels at Summerslam
Adam thinks all Americans like jeans.
don't they?
You walking around in sweatpants all day?? Wtf you wear during the fall winter and spring??
As an American, I can tell you: I hate wearing jeans, as well as pants.
Jeans are so 80s. I actually lol when I see anyone wearing them now
@@mactiger1983spot on
I loved Undertaker GG at WM9 😂
Too bad Undertaker didn't face Bret Hart at WM9. A far better opponent in the early times of the streak. Plus a title match.😊
Nah man; Savage v Bret was the match that should have been at WM9.
Bad as taker/Gonzalez was just think about the fact that this WAS the best match of Gonzalez career 😂
What saves Gonzalez vs Taker is that badass vulture he had at ringside. Best entrance ever.
I was really into Luger vs Tatanka at the Summer Slam 94 Match.
I didn’t see the turn coming.
Shawn winning the title from Jannetty should have been done at the King Of The Ring rather than a house show (that's one decent match extra on the PPV and as for Summerslam Jannetty and Doing had a good fued on Raw which would have been an entertaining match on the Summerslam card). They'd planted the seeds of Owen Hart V Razor Ramon pre-Royal Rumble but went nowhere with it, Had they stuck with it that's another decent Mania match. Main event should have been Savage V Hart with Yokozuna being Hart's next challenger
I imagine they didn't have the Michaels-Jannetty title change at KOTR as that would have had both World and Intercontinental titles being won by heels on the same night. I don't believe that ever happened during all the years they only had two men's singles championships.
You forgot Ludwig Borga vs Marty "Please fire my Lawyer" Jannety at Summerslam.
It was originally supposed to be Rick Martel before Jannety was forced to do the J O B.
Don’t think there was any doubt about number 1 🤯
Top shelf 👌
I liked the ending to the WM9 Doink match at least
Nah. Luger vs Yokozuna wasnt bad at all. It was good.
A way better Summerslam main event than the Undertaker vs Undertaker main event that happened the following year.
The Giant gonzales and the undertaker When the rest in peace match at summerslam and at wrestlemaina 9 people run a channel they just pick a match they don't like and call it the worst.
I remember watching WWF SunmerSlam 1993 and was 13 at the time. Even though I was 13 the WWF was still cartoon like and we all went with but even I thought erm was Lex meant to win like that? Everyone expected him to take the title and know one had a clue why he didn't.
Weird how Ramon went from a title match vs Hart at Royal Rumble to facing Bob Backlund at Wrestlemania. Things would've had to change but him facing a bigger face would've been better match. And like many others have said to have Savage mainly on commentary in '93 is just dumb- especially to miss this event when he won title at WMVIII
"Other things Americans like, like jeans" XD
Crazy but mania ix was bob backlund’s first mania too…he lost the belt right before the first mania
Thanks 🎉
When I was younger I thought the Doinks match was so cool with MOM and bushwhackers as Doinks. I had the VHS most unusual matches ever which includes this match. But now Booger is such a slob. Not sure what Vince was thinking. Just a comedy match. A great like Bigelow is unfairly part of this. And I liked Doink being more of a villain. Later I realized the Bushwhackers were a good longtime tag team too but Vince regulated them to a comedy act in WWF
As a kid I pronounced Meng’s finisher as the “Tongue and death grip”. Now as an adult I realize Meng is from Tonga. The “Tongan death grip” is what they were actually saying.
I think Michaels vs Crush was an okay bout to have on between the KOTR tourney matches. **3/4 from me. Unless you are only using PPV bouts, Giant Gonzales vs Randy Savage from Superstars/ Best of 1993 Coliseum Video match easily deserved a place on here. Or if it is PPV only, where was Ludvig Borga vs Marty Jannetty from Summerslam? Served its purpose of putting over the new foreign heel as a monster but buried a recent IC champ in the process.
The New Generation had some high points, but was mostly brutal. My interest seriously waned after Summer Slam 1992 as the Federation was and been losing too much top talant.
I know it’s not popular opinion but my favorite era is WWF new generation.
In defense of that era, Shawn Michael's first reign as World Champ could hardly have been more perfect in terms of build-up, WM win, challengers/ match quality and how it ended. There were also the pushes given to Austin, Mankind and Goldust.
I like Giant Gonzalez.
The Razor vs Backlund match just looked odd.
0 chemistry and thier styles didn't mesh well
For the life of me i can't distinguish adam willborn from adam pachiti
The Hart family versus Shawn Michaels and his Knights what's the legend of Bruce heart and also the red heart and Owen Hart rivalry Bruce heart and then 20 years later he stepped on Vince McMahon
It's weird to think about these days, how much of a wet blanket the Undertaker was in the ring though the first like, two-thirds of his career. Like for someone who debuted all the way back in 1990, when did he actually start having consistently good matches? The mid-2000s?
(Not to say he was the reason those Giant Gonzalez matches sucked, obviously.)
Even though undertaker versus giant Gonzalez was number two on there, I’ll give a giant Gonzalez a little leeway because he was not a professional wrestler. He was just some tall dude.
Or ask guys like crush the clowns and others were professional wrestlers, but they still sucked
Doink Brah! Making kids cry Brah!
Almost the entire list just shows how downright awful Mania 9 was. The fact the people in the comments are defending this garbage show is mindbuggling to me. There were some good matches but it wasn’t enough to save this monstrosity of show. Easily one of the worst Manias of all time if not the worst.
2, 4, 11, 15, 27, and 32 can definitely rival 9 for that title of the worst WrestleMania.
Razor vs Macho man could have make this mania something to talk about instead of Backlund
..oh i Forget the youth movement Vince was pushing for loll
Undertaker vs Gonzales may be the worst match in wwe history!
Up the Chloroform!
Not a chance the first two matches in this are in the top ten. Both were fine. Especially as far as storytelling for future matches goes.
The Four Doinks vs Team Bigelow is literally the worst match I have ever seen. Awful. Not funny. An insult to everyone watching it. I mean, a freaking banana peel?!
How much Lex Luger loved apple pie...apple pie was made by the British...
Matt Bourne was a far better worker than Crush.
Ah lex vs yoko is actually a good match! The ending just ruins everything
What happend to Gonzalez after wwe
Left wrestling to be a farmer, died in 2010 I believe
Mr Hugues vs mr perfect was worst than tatanka and Luger
Growing up I loved wrestlemania 9 don't get the hate for it
What? British people don't like apple pie or eagles?
Apple pie is delicious and eagles are majestic.
Lex lugar should never of been pushed into the main event
I don't think lex v yoko was that bad apart from the celebration
Cry about Hogan all you want, at least he popped the crowd. Subtract him from the WM9 main event and what do you have? Yoko beating Bret for the title in under 10 minutes due to salt thrown in Bret's eyes by a manager. Is that really a better way to end Wrestlemania? Go ahead, give an answer. Tell me it's better and I have a 6 letter word to describe you perfectly.
And no, I'm not defending Hogan. Agreeing to drop the title to Bret and going back on it is shitty, but it doesn't make a match that has the entire crowd cheering at the finish bad.
Hbk wasn't big enough to go to wcw and gambled on wwf surviving . Lucky for him it paid off big time.
The undertaker took the same gamble.
Taker was already a superstar by the mid 90`s.
They'd have either have been put in the NWO and wasted or barely used and wasted if they had.
Bam Bam VS big boss man at royal rumble wasn't all that great
Where is Virgil vs bastion booger
No raw matches ❓❓❓
Why torture us
El año de mi nacimiento😂😂😂
At least Tatanka's turnnext year made sense because Indians love money
It was wrestlemania not Summerdale silly. Get it right geez 😅
The last 5-6 years worth of wrestlemanias have been the drizzling shits.
We've had the golden era, the new generation era, the attitude era, the ruthless aggression era, and the pg era ... Now we're in the Roster-full-of-jobbers era ... gillberg was more credible than these clowns AND looked more like a pro wrestler than they do.
Either that or "The Colin Delaney Jr. Era"
Harsh
Goldberg's match with The Undertaker was worse than Giant Gonzalez
That wasn't 1993 though
Calling the end of WM9 one of the worst endings to a WM is just modern day nonsense. The crowd loved it, it got one of the biggest pops ever, huge surprise and it worked really well. Just cause we can now look back at what happened afterwards and groan doesn't mean it wasn't a hell of a great finish at the time. There's been many worse WM endings before and since.
Sorry, but that was just Hogan's egocentrism once again reminding everybody of its presence, no matter how you slice it.
@@turkishjanitor3666Bret hart was a nobody. A mid carder. Even if he thought he was a big deal he wasn't. He didn't draw a dime for WWF or WCW.
Hogan was a star like it or hate it and he was on point that the fans needed someone like Hogan to win the belt.
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