I’m surprised this match wasn’t on the list, maybe because it’s so obvious. I guess you could argue that Elmer wasn’t that mobile at the time and likely much wasn’t expected from the match at the time.
With due respect to your list, as someone that lived through the 1980s and saw 1980s wrestling in WWF/WWE, there was matches that were much worse than the ones on your list ultimate warrior versus André the giant from Saturday nights main event? Try ultimate warrior versus Hercules from wrestlemania four! That match made Andre/Warrior look like Rick steamboat versus Ric Flair!
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 their wrestlemania, four match, even for that era, was trash! They had a house Madison Square Garden match about a month later that was much better! It was no wrestling clinic, but it was a much better power versus power match!
WrestleMania 4 had to have a lot of stuff crammed into 3 hours. I think the WWF put more emphasis on presentation than in ring work. As a kid, it was fun.
A few honorable mentions: Jake the Snake Roberts vs. Andre the Giant at Wrestlemania V Ultimate Warrior vs. Hercules at Wrestlemania IV Mr. Wonderful vs. Don Muraco at Wrestlemania 2 Corporal Kirschner vs. Nikolai Volkoff at Wrestlemania 2 David Sammartino vs. Brutus Beefcake at Wrestlemania I
I remember back in 1986 when the then WWF came to Sydney, Australia. Andre was on the card in the main event against Big John Studd. There was plenty of cheering and excitement about the undercard but when Andre came out it was like a plane taking off. I saw him from about fifteen feet away lumbering down the aisle. He was broken down and way past his prime but it didn't matter. It was that moment that cemented my wrestling obsession.
He was star turn in Paris 1987 as guest referee for Harley Race/Junkyard Dog, 16 years after "Jean Ferre" had been a regular on French TV wrestling (there is plenty of footage on UA-cam.)
The worst part of that Piper vs Mr. T match might have been Susan St. James on commentary. Said "commentary" mostly consisted of her uttering inanities like "Oh-oh...look at that... that's not right...", etc. Her flat monotone delivery sounded like an actress from an Ed Wood movie.
"Come on, T!!!" after two lots of "Come on George" "PUT that thing BACK in the BAG!" And the bit where she said if Elizabeth had any taste she's swap Savage for Steele. Even though the storyline was that Savage was abusive and Steele was the only babyface feckless enough to intervene.
If they'd done a drinking game where you take a shot every time she says, "Uh oh," during the Piper vs T bout, even Andre the Giant would be completely shitfaced before the end. Best part of it was when the crowd started chanting, "Roddy! Roddy! Roddy!" You can find clips of it, and it is plain as day. Piper later said that was the first step of his (involuntary) babyface turn. He even threw the stool at Mr T to try to get the crowd to turn against him, but they were having none of it. He loved being a heel, but said the fans forced his babyface turn.
What's worse is that the One Man Gang receives a bye to the semi finals in the Wrestlemania 4 tournament when it would have been cool to see Jake the Snake Roberts face him in the 2nd round.
The Bushwackers were awesome back in the 80s/early 90s (Though I was a child and thus their target demographic). Yeah their finisher is stupid, but no worse than the worm (or Otis' version). As far as sympathetic babyface comedy acts go they're still one of the best ever.
Before the WWF they were really something special as the Sheepherders. The fact that their WWF run seems to have erased that from memory is truly sad to me.
@@tafua_a A lot of the Bushwhackers' act was already up and running with the Sheepherders. The march, the shout of "Whoah! Whoah!" the battering ram finisher, the thing where they would turn to each other, pretend for a moment to be horrified and then realise it was each other ...
Calling Andre matches in the 80's terrible is just as bad as calling WWE Great Khali matches terrible. When the performer can barely muster the energy to function because their body is beyond destroyed, is like saying a footballer with a broken leg is doing a terrible job kicking a ball down the field.
For whatever reason, I thought Warrior vs Andre was a 30 second squash they were doing on the house shows. I completely mis-remembered that one. Kudos to Paul Roma though! Headlined a Royal Rumble AND got into the Four Horsemen. Rare feats, indeed!
The Jake, the snake and Rick rude match was just fine you see back then wrestling fans were entertained by watching guys put each other in wrestling holds so when they do a spot that centers around reversing a wrist lock and it goes on for five minutes today's audience just doesn't have the attention span. The wrestling fans aren't interested in watching wrestling they wanna watch gymnastics. The guys have to be running back-and-forth and jumping over each other in order for today's fans to appreciate it. back then the guys would tell a story in the ring and putting a guy in a wrist lock and having him try to reverse out of it could go on for a full five minutes and it was entertaining to the crowd because they were actually involved in watching the match for it being a wrestling match it wasn't like watching a monster truck show they legitimately wanted to see if Rick Rude could beat Jake the snake, they were emotionally invested in it. It wasn't just a gymnastics, spectacle or stunt show.
Absolutely agree. I was very surprised to see this match on the list. I’d rather watch most of this than anything from ECW or the attitude era. Don’t get me started on the current stuff…the last Royal Rumble required little more than for wrestlers to lie on the floor, get up to be kicked in the head then lie on the floor again.
Not forgetting that Hogan claimed he tore both biceps lifting Andre. Guess his vitamins got him over that pretty quickly though. Either that or he was playing such heavenly bass guitar with Metallica that he healed them through exertion.
Dont forget that he also claimed it saddened Andre so much that he went home and died a few weeks later..forgetting that they wrestled at next years WM.
@@JackBarrett7 Ah, but he no doubt had a repeat of the previous year's WMII celebrations and had another drinking contest with John Belushi (outdrinking him again, naturally) which inspired Andre to get over his death and live a few years more to train in the hope of outdrinking Hogan one day.
Wait, on Savage vs. Steele, Steele wasn't really out of shape. If you watch his shoot interview, as he later found out, he was suffering from Cronhn's disease of which he was not aware. He has stated that he was barely able to carry Elizabeth to the back
Seeing the pict I re of Andre vs Warrior with the headline reminds me of when my dad took me to a house match in Anchorage Alaska in 90 or 91. It was Andre vs Warrior then. Was the main event and as a young fan was so excited. Little did I know how it would be anyth7ng by the end. It was a 20 second match if I remember with Warrior running in, clotheslining Andre against the rope and then running back out and chasing Heenan back to the dressing room era. Knowing what I do now, I understand this was towards the end of Amdres career and Warrior was pretty much known for squash and short matches in that day. With all that said, I do wish it would have been a different main event or different opponent for Andre.
9:30 This is why most Warrior/Andre house show matches ended in seconds (although two other reasons were to build Warrior up and to destroy Andre and pass his aura of invincibility on to a newer wrestler while Andre still could. (see also Bruno trashng Buddy Rogers in 1963)
80s was the BEST!! It was so damn good, you forget these matches!! Man please, you cant get no better than this, I miss TF out of it. Born in 1980 so i was almost there from the beginning of that gr8 decade!!! Miss that SIMPLE azz time!!!
Born in '75, so grateful to have fully experienced the 80s from start to finish. I did not even realise, let alone appreciate just how great we had it.
Everything was.....Simple@@legionarybooks13 Movies, cartoons, tv shows, Music overall!! i mean i was one of those kids that listened to all genres (I had my Hip Hop, R&B stuff but It didnt matter) and the music before I was born. All of the left, right, the other riff raff and all of the grown folks stuff, HOH. I just enjoyed that time, MY Goodness!! It was SIMPLE!!!
There was a match of Rick Martel vs Jane Robert’s. Martel sprayed arrogance in Robert’s eyes abd blinded him so I think they both had to west blindfolds as per stipulation . Instead of a decent match we just watch them stumble around for ten minutes . Hopefully that match made the cut
At SummerSlam, Patera would've been more fleet-footed and overpowering if he'd been fighting a tiny, female cop. Or if he'd been drunk and desperate for some hamburgers.
Despite mostly sticking to PPV matches, you missed the most obviously terrible match on a WWE PPV in the 1980's. Wrestling Classic, JYD vs Moondog Spot. They start the match and there's no ref so JYD counts his own pin. Monsoon and Ventura have to cover for the botch on commentary.
While we're at it, a good argument can be made for Spot defeating Terry Funk earlier in the night by count-out in 17 seconds in a pile of nonsense logic.
Amen! As someone who saw 1980s wrestling in real time, there were matches in WWF/WWE that were far worse than the ones on this list! You, sir, just named two of them!
We get it you dont like Bushwhackers no need to disrespect the people that do or them and Mr T said he and Roddy like each other and there hatred was a work
actually i remember the warrior andre match and it was pathetically slow andres fault. he didnt work, warrior tried for the both of them but it didnt work. for me the most over payed wrestler ever has to be george steele he was god awful in every match he did
@@dashtoroya2838 Few US wrestling fans alive today would appreciate the style of the 50s/40s anyway. Like a clumsier version of old school European wrestling from the 70s/80s.
The Bushwhackers deserved way better than they got in WWE. It’s criminal how badly they were misused, but that’s how Vince treated most of the talent that weren’t a homegrown product.
This was the time period when Vince was trying to lure the AWA crowd toward WWF. He’d copy bookings and storylines. But Vince finally succeeded when he brought over Curt Hennig (Mr Perfect)
Do you think the fact that he managed to succeed despite the insanity of constantly trying such horrible stuff is what convinced Mcmahon it's a working formula?
Regarding his match with Rick Rude at WM 4, Jake Roberts often worked at a boringly slow pace. The only upside to this, was that it minimized the chances of him unintentionally injuring his opponents. Fewer potatoes = fewer receipts. 😆
i hate watching old hogan matches where he either wouldn't win, be dq'd or just would do a run in and we still get treated to 10 minutes of post match posing. if vince mcmahon ever wonders if they did anything to screw with hogan's popularity, this is one thing to point to
I remember in the late 80s going to Long Beach Arena seen Andre the giant vs ultimate Warrior match was over in 10 seconds warrior ran down to the ring bounced off the rope and hit Andre with a clothesline Andre fell got pinned it was all over I was so disappointing as a kid !!!
I always thought the Survivor Series was a great concept but in 1988 the Mega Powers team vs Big Bossman & Akeem team was a terrible match for something with so much hype
Macho Man vs. George the Animal was one of the best feuds of the entire decade. What are you talking about? The 10 worst matches are 10 times Brett Hart bored everyone to death for 45-60 minutes. He was great with Jim the Anvil, though.
"I will however judge anyone who professes to get sincere pleasure from watching the wacky antics of Butch and Luke" Well, be real now, when we were 6 they were the bee's knees and I 'sincerely' challenge you to find a grumpy kid in the audience when the Bushwackers made their entrance. Oh, they can have a spot on a "worst matches of the 80's" list, no doubt (squeezy squeezy), but this one quote raised the people's eyebrow...
How are you going to do a list like this but you didn't live through it? All matches from 1980 to 1990 was not made for fast paced. This was for us kids that wanted big men like Arnold.
"Steele is out of shape and can barely move..." Let's ask some players from the Madison Heights football eam how 'out of shape' Ron Myers was. According to his players the man could reportedly bench press 400 lbs with ease.
What about the Powers of Pain's dark match WWF debut where they no sell for Demolition who run away with their tails between their legs and get counted out? IT totally betrays everything Demolition were about while failing to build up the Powers as the new two-man Hulk Hogan. In the end the two teams did the Survivor Series double turn,
Pro Wrestling Illustrated, who HATED the Demolition gimmick and were deeply embarrased at having to explain to readers how Ax and Smash were now World champions, LEAPT at this angle claiming that Demolition were finished and should run away from the WWF.
Ultimate Warrior was still very good at entertaining the crowd even though he did lack talent and stamina, he still wasn't that bad of a wrestler. Definitely not the best but he was very solid in the ring.
I was expecting a smarky list, but this is fair enough. A few wasted opportunities (Rude v Roberts, Piper v T, Hogan v Andre II) and a bunch of card-fillers. But they weren't really "offensive" though, just below-average in terms of story at a time when workrate meant nothing to the millions of fans watching. The actual shame was indeed wasting the Hogan v Andre rematch in that ill-conceived tournament.
The dirtsheet crowd were ganiing traction and they prided themselves on their contempt for serious clean wrestling. They hated Bob Backlund and thought his push was a crime against Smartness, especially since the flamboyant performer (but HORRID worker) Superstar Graham had his run cut short for Backlund.
The 1980s: Hulk Hogan sucked, he had the same boring match for his entire WWF title title run. Ric Flair had the same match too but at least it was more technical and it was 30-60 minutes not 10 to 15 minutes. And of course let's not forget Dusty trying to convince the marks that his obscene obesity was athleticism...lol
Idgaf what they changed the name to. When I was a KID it was WWF. World Wrestling Federation. I understand why they changed the name and I refer to the company as it's current name, WWE. But we're talking about the WWF. 🙄😒🤦♂️🤷♂️
Any match that had that doofus warrior dude in it was a dumb match. Had absolutely 0 talent, was just big. Most were ran off fairly quick but for some reason that bozo was allowed to hang around
That was for enhancing the talent dude, they were meant to be squashes (even though watching the Mulkeys get destroyed was a high light of the show often (they deserve to be in Hall of Fame
@@Deltrottersvan how many times does the "wwf" logo apear in this video?.....several times and how many times does the "wwe" logo apear?.....not even once yet the guy who made the video constantly and stupidly referes to wwe....he can't even get the details of his own video correct.
Honorable mention: Adrian Adonis vs. Uncle Elmer at Wrestlemania 2.
There was nothing honorable about that match! 😆
I was just talking about how trash that match was yesterday.
@@superstarreviews9937 Dishonorable mention.
I’m surprised this match wasn’t on the list, maybe because it’s so obvious. I guess you could argue that Elmer wasn’t that mobile at the time and likely much wasn’t expected from the match at the time.
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With due respect to your list, as someone that lived through the 1980s and saw 1980s wrestling in WWF/WWE, there was matches that were much worse than the ones on your list ultimate warrior versus André the giant from Saturday nights main event? Try ultimate warrior versus Hercules from wrestlemania four! That match made Andre/Warrior look like Rick steamboat versus Ric Flair!
Not really. It was a bland strength match such as Dingo Warrior might have had in World Class, rather than an atrocity. Andre was finished by late '89
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 their wrestlemania, four match, even for that era, was trash! They had a house Madison Square Garden match about a month later that was much better! It was no wrestling clinic, but it was a much better power versus power match!
WrestleMania 4 had to have a lot of stuff crammed into 3 hours. I think the WWF put more emphasis on presentation than in ring work. As a kid, it was fun.
Rick Rude vs Jake Roberts WM4 match ending in a draw wasn't bad. But the match itself could and should have been better.
@@mrg8581That match had no excuses for being bad as it was.. We are talking about technical wrestlers like Rick Rude and Jake Roberts here!
A few honorable mentions:
Jake the Snake Roberts vs. Andre the Giant at Wrestlemania V
Ultimate Warrior vs. Hercules at Wrestlemania IV
Mr. Wonderful vs. Don Muraco at Wrestlemania 2
Corporal Kirschner vs. Nikolai Volkoff at Wrestlemania 2
David Sammartino vs. Brutus Beefcake at Wrestlemania I
Andre. Bless him.
RIP you wonderful giant😢
He may not have been what he once was but he filled seats.
Definitely.
You should do a top 10 of the matches that meant the most to WWE history. The matches that helped WWE last 40 years. The most important matches
One of the worst was Richter vs Moolah at MSG.Sloppy through and through.When Wendi was still a heel cowgirl they had a better match.
They were regular tag partners back then - eg against Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria
Honestly, there may be 3-4 matches at Wrestlemania 1 that were worse than JYD vs. Valentine.
I remember back in 1986 when the then WWF came to Sydney, Australia. Andre was on the card in the main event against Big John Studd. There was plenty of cheering and excitement about the undercard but when Andre came out it was like a plane taking off. I saw him from about fifteen feet away lumbering down the aisle. He was broken down and way past his prime but it didn't matter.
It was that moment that cemented my wrestling obsession.
He was star turn in Paris 1987 as guest referee for Harley Race/Junkyard Dog, 16 years after "Jean Ferre" had been a regular on French TV wrestling (there is plenty of footage on UA-cam.)
disagree! the savage/steele feud was epic and hilarious. and vital to the wwf! no way it should be on anyone's list of bad matches.
I remember watching that match when it first aired. It was exciting. I don't know why I keep bothering with this channel.
The worst part of that Piper vs Mr. T match might have been Susan St. James on commentary. Said "commentary" mostly consisted of her uttering inanities like "Oh-oh...look at that... that's not right...", etc. Her flat monotone delivery sounded like an actress from an Ed Wood movie.
"Come on, T!!!" after two lots of "Come on George" "PUT that thing BACK in the BAG!" And the bit where she said if Elizabeth had any taste she's swap Savage for Steele. Even though the storyline was that Savage was abusive and Steele was the only babyface feckless enough to intervene.
If they'd done a drinking game where you take a shot every time she says, "Uh oh," during the Piper vs T bout, even Andre the Giant would be completely shitfaced before the end. Best part of it was when the crowd started chanting, "Roddy! Roddy! Roddy!" You can find clips of it, and it is plain as day. Piper later said that was the first step of his (involuntary) babyface turn. He even threw the stool at Mr T to try to get the crowd to turn against him, but they were having none of it. He loved being a heel, but said the fans forced his babyface turn.
*SUSAN ST. JAMES:* That sounds like a bunch of blarney!
@@grantorino2325 which she delivered with such conviction! 😆
What's worse is that the One Man Gang receives a bye to the semi finals in the Wrestlemania 4 tournament when it would have been cool to see Jake the Snake Roberts face him in the 2nd round.
They had a feud in Mid-South prior to their WWE days. Vince always tried to avoid pairing wrestlers who had programs in other organizations.
The Bushwackers were awesome back in the 80s/early 90s (Though I was a child and thus their target demographic). Yeah their finisher is stupid, but no worse than the worm (or Otis' version). As far as sympathetic babyface comedy acts go they're still one of the best ever.
Before the WWF they were really something special as the Sheepherders. The fact that their WWF run seems to have erased that from memory is truly sad to me.
@@tafua_a A lot of the Bushwhackers' act was already up and running with the Sheepherders. The march, the shout of "Whoah! Whoah!" the battering ram finisher, the thing where they would turn to each other, pretend for a moment to be horrified and then realise it was each other ...
My non wrestling fan cousin LOVED the bushwhackers
My uncle was a sucker for wrestling in the 1980’s
Mine too! Except for the for wrestling in the 80's part.
1:51 That match was before the Mega Powers VS Mega Bucks. Just a warmup act
Damn I was hoping for a whole 10 episodes of each year like the 90s 😢 but if it's because of the Golden Era and ECW documentaries totally ok with it
Calling Andre matches in the 80's terrible is just as bad as calling WWE Great Khali matches terrible. When the performer can barely muster the energy to function because their body is beyond destroyed, is like saying a footballer with a broken leg is doing a terrible job kicking a ball down the field.
Well yeah both Andre and Khali were good performers until health complications started for Andre and Khali blew his knees.
And Andre would pass away only few years later in 1993. 😢. Rest in Peace Andre.
People paid to see Andre, no one paid to see Khali. But at the end of his WWE run, Andre was getting a lot of go away heat (people forget that).
Imagine my shock when Uncle Elmer vs Adrian Adonis wasnt on this list
yea but the finishing move was pretty cool though. Adonis was out of shape but very athletic even ventura mentioned this.
For whatever reason, I thought Warrior vs Andre was a 30 second squash they were doing on the house shows. I completely mis-remembered that one.
Kudos to Paul Roma though! Headlined a Royal Rumble AND got into the Four Horsemen. Rare feats, indeed!
The Jake, the snake and Rick rude match was just fine you see back then wrestling fans were entertained by watching guys put each other in wrestling holds so when they do a spot that centers around reversing a wrist lock and it goes on for five minutes today's audience just doesn't have the attention span. The wrestling fans aren't interested in watching wrestling they wanna watch gymnastics. The guys have to be running back-and-forth and jumping over each other in order for today's fans to appreciate it. back then the guys would tell a story in the ring and putting a guy in a wrist lock and having him try to reverse out of it could go on for a full five minutes and it was entertaining to the crowd because they were actually involved in watching the match for it being a wrestling match it wasn't like watching a monster truck show they legitimately wanted to see if Rick Rude could beat Jake the snake, they were emotionally invested in it. It wasn't just a gymnastics, spectacle or stunt show.
Absolutely agree. I was very surprised to see this match on the list. I’d rather watch most of this than anything from ECW or the attitude era. Don’t get me started on the current stuff…the last Royal Rumble required little more than for wrestlers to lie on the floor, get up to be kicked in the head then lie on the floor again.
Not forgetting that Hogan claimed he tore both biceps lifting Andre. Guess his vitamins got him over that pretty quickly though. Either that or he was playing such heavenly bass guitar with Metallica that he healed them through exertion.
Dont forget that he also claimed it saddened Andre so much that he went home and died a few weeks later..forgetting that they wrestled at next years WM.
@@JackBarrett7 was this after or before Hogan went to Puerto Rico & witnessed what happened to Bruiser Brody, brother? ;)
@@bury_the_elite65294 Probably the same year, remember the one that had 400 days in it?
@@JackBarrett7 Ah, but he no doubt had a repeat of the previous year's WMII celebrations and had another drinking contest with John Belushi (outdrinking him again, naturally) which inspired Andre to get over his death and live a few years more to train in the hope of outdrinking Hogan one day.
Ha to funny ya Simmons, Hogan and Dee Snider all have tall tales or think they invented what ever. Hogan proves Steroids rots your brain.
Andre vs the Warrior must have been the biggest gulf ever between Vince's expectations and reality.
Wait, on Savage vs. Steele, Steele wasn't really out of shape. If you watch his shoot interview, as he later found out, he was suffering from Cronhn's disease of which he was not aware. He has stated that he was barely able to carry Elizabeth to the back
Plus Steele was 50 years old by this point.
Didn't realise 'boring' chants were initiated back all the way back then tbh, thought that began more recently - for pro wrestling, at least
That's because they didn't. As someone who lived through that Era the boring chants didn't start until the old ECW crowds.
@@betrayal4life288 Not true. You get a lot of it on old WWF and AWA 1980s footage from fans who think that "rest holds" are just laziness.
There were 0 WWE matches in the 1980s
piper was never laying down for T. Not in a work or shoot.
Seeing the pict I re of Andre vs Warrior with the headline reminds me of when my dad took me to a house match in Anchorage Alaska in 90 or 91. It was Andre vs Warrior then. Was the main event and as a young fan was so excited. Little did I know how it would be anyth7ng by the end. It was a 20 second match if I remember with Warrior running in, clotheslining Andre against the rope and then running back out and chasing Heenan back to the dressing room era. Knowing what I do now, I understand this was towards the end of Amdres career and Warrior was pretty much known for squash and short matches in that day. With all that said, I do wish it would have been a different main event or different opponent for Andre.
I got the exact same match around the same time at a house show in Long Beach California !!!!
Red Rooster vs Bobby Heenan was also a Very Bad Match!
9:30 This is why most Warrior/Andre house show matches ended in seconds (although two other reasons were to build Warrior up and to destroy Andre and pass his aura of invincibility on to a newer wrestler while Andre still could. (see also Bruno trashng Buddy Rogers in 1963)
Ken Patera vs Judo Joe Black was the worst WWE match of the 1980's.
Ah, yes, the "good ol' days."
Shh, don't make the Hogan meat riders mad lmao.
11:51 The only thing good about that match was the crowd started cheering for Piper
Rick Martel vs Jake Robert’s blindfold match Wrestlemania 7 that was atrocious
80s was the BEST!! It was so damn good, you forget these matches!! Man please, you cant get no better than this, I miss TF out of it. Born in 1980 so i was almost there from the beginning of that gr8 decade!!! Miss that SIMPLE azz time!!!
Born in '75, so grateful to have fully experienced the 80s from start to finish. I did not even realise, let alone appreciate just how great we had it.
Everything was.....Simple@@legionarybooks13 Movies, cartoons, tv shows, Music overall!! i mean i was one of those kids that listened to all genres (I had my Hip Hop, R&B stuff but It didnt matter) and the music before I was born. All of the left, right, the other riff raff and all of the grown folks stuff, HOH. I just enjoyed that time, MY Goodness!! It was SIMPLE!!!
I don't care, I love 80's wrestling and I love watching andre matches
Matches from 1980-85 was the best Andre and then his body quit on him
Didn’t Tony Atlas and Ted Arcidi have a horrible match in Boston in 1986?
Can't wait for the 10 WORST WWWF Matches Of The 1960's
There was a match of Rick Martel vs Jane Robert’s. Martel sprayed arrogance in Robert’s eyes abd blinded him so I think they both had to west blindfolds as per stipulation . Instead of a decent match we just watch them stumble around for ten minutes . Hopefully that match made the cut
That’s from 1991. Terrible though!
At SummerSlam, Patera would've been more fleet-footed and overpowering if he'd been fighting a tiny, female cop. Or if he'd been drunk and desperate for some hamburgers.
Patera was better as a heel. And was never the same after injuring his arm shortly after his 1987 return.
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Despite mostly sticking to PPV matches, you missed the most obviously terrible match on a WWE PPV in the 1980's.
Wrestling Classic, JYD vs Moondog Spot. They start the match and there's no ref so JYD counts his own pin. Monsoon and Ventura have to cover for the botch on commentary.
While we're at it, a good argument can be made for Spot defeating Terry Funk earlier in the night by count-out in 17 seconds in a pile of nonsense logic.
Amen! As someone who saw 1980s wrestling in real time, there were matches in WWF/WWE that were far worse than the ones on this list! You, sir, just named two of them!
No way 😂
Can you guys rank every single RR entrant from worst to best?
How many people have been entered by the Red Rooster? Well, there's Trudi Taylor ....
I expected at least 4 matches with Andre, as great as he was, black singlet Andre was a shell of himself
We get it you dont like Bushwhackers no need to disrespect the people that do or them and Mr T said he and Roddy like each other and there hatred was a work
actually i remember the warrior andre match and it was pathetically slow andres fault. he didnt work, warrior tried for the both of them but it didnt work. for me the most over payed wrestler ever has to be george steele he was god awful in every match he did
Agreed Robert's vs Rude WM 4 with their abilities could of been a more better match. Those 2 could really could wrestle I'm not sure what happened
Wm 4 was a bad show, they had a chance to give us the steamboat vs Savage rematch, and Hogan helping Savage win was just him staying in spotlight
Can't wait to see the worst matches of the 70's 🤪
Then the 60's 🗣
Then the 50s. And the 40s
@@dashtoroya2838 Few US wrestling fans alive today would appreciate the style of the 50s/40s anyway. Like a clumsier version of old school European wrestling from the 70s/80s.
The Bushwhackers deserved way better than they got in WWE. It’s criminal how badly they were misused, but that’s how Vince treated most of the talent that weren’t a homegrown product.
This was the time period when Vince was trying to lure the AWA crowd toward WWF. He’d copy bookings and storylines. But Vince finally succeeded when he brought over Curt Hennig (Mr Perfect)
Andre and Steele were both years past their primes
Andre vs Macho Man on SNME for the title was anti-climactic when Jake Roberts came down to the ring and interfered.
Do you think the fact that he managed to succeed despite the insanity of constantly trying such horrible stuff is what convinced Mcmahon it's a working formula?
Regarding his match with Rick Rude at WM 4, Jake Roberts often worked at a boringly slow pace. The only upside to this, was that it minimized the chances of him unintentionally injuring his opponents. Fewer potatoes = fewer receipts. 😆
It's WWF in the 80's Adam PaCheesy so get it right for God's sake
i hate watching old hogan matches where he either wouldn't win, be dq'd or just would do a run in and we still get treated to 10 minutes of post match posing. if vince mcmahon ever wonders if they did anything to screw with hogan's popularity, this is one thing to point to
Suprised there waa no king kong bundy from wrestlemania 2 main event and his comedy match at wrestlemania 3
Well his WM 3 match was terrible, but his WM 2 steel cage match with Hogan was a decent one.
The Battering Ram was actually followed by a double stomachbreaker after that Luke got the pin .
There were no WWE matches in the 80s 🤷🏻♂️
haha
They have to say WWE or the Panda people will sue.
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 it doesn’t apply retroactively, they technically can still refer to it as WWF when it was still WWF 🤷🏻♂️
@@MudSluggerBP Tell it to the Panda people, and I don't mean TNA's old owners
There were no WWE matches in the 80s
1:25 WrestlingBios would like to have a word with you
don the 'rock muraco was the real rock for me, he came to my home town in little ol N.Z i hated wwe. wcw was good tho .
I remember in the late 80s going to Long Beach Arena seen Andre the giant vs ultimate Warrior match was over in 10 seconds warrior ran down to the ring bounced off the rope and hit Andre with a clothesline Andre fell got pinned it was all over I was so disappointing as a kid !!!
And then we found out: Andre hated Warrior and he was pretty immobile at this point
They were destroying Andre so as to pass his aura of indestructibility on to Warrior.
I always thought the Survivor Series was a great concept but in 1988 the Mega Powers team vs Big Bossman & Akeem team was a terrible match for something with so much hype
6:04 - blacks were stilled booked as having harder heads than polynesians back then. That changed in the 90s.
1:43 That one was a set up for the tournament. Bad booking
Thing is, the worst matches of the 1980s were still way better than the worst matches of recent years.
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Fargo Strut on my bitch cuz she ain't dead nor the Rock.
"Never drew a dime"
10:02 was that Vanna White? I never saw WrestleMania 4.
You forgot King Kong Bundy vs SD Jones at WM 1, where it was 9 seconds not 23 seconds.
To be fair that was never suppose to be a legit match and was just there to show King Kong as a bad ass and shouldn't be judge
@@Former_Employee every other squash match that ever came out to showcase a new wrestler
Macho Man vs. George the Animal was one of the best feuds of the entire decade. What are you talking about?
The 10 worst matches are 10 times Brett Hart bored everyone to death for 45-60 minutes. He was great with Jim the Anvil, though.
11:20 Is that Dr. Eggman in the middle?!?
"I will however judge anyone who professes to get sincere pleasure from watching the wacky antics of Butch and Luke"
Well, be real now, when we were 6 they were the bee's knees and I 'sincerely' challenge you to find a grumpy kid in the audience when the Bushwackers made their entrance.
Oh, they can have a spot on a "worst matches of the 80's" list, no doubt (squeezy squeezy), but this one quote raised the people's eyebrow...
I actually liked watching Bad News kick the crap out of Richard Simmons 😂
And for the 90s? Best match; Hogan vs Warrior 1. Worst match; Hogan vs Warrior 2. Of course, that's up for debate.
How are you going to do a list like this but you didn't live through it? All matches from 1980 to 1990 was not made for fast paced. This was for us kids that wanted big men like Arnold.
I did live through the 80’s and there was a ton of crap and some stuff that totally reaks of awesomeness
"Steele is out of shape and can barely move..."
Let's ask some players from the Madison Heights football eam how 'out of shape' Ron Myers was. According to his players the man could reportedly bench press 400 lbs with ease.
Sometimes, the greats have a bad day. Robert's vs Roode. Good call to not piss Hakue off!
With the exception of the Tag Team title match, the whole of Mania 2!
What about the Powers of Pain's dark match WWF debut where they no sell for Demolition who run away with their tails between their legs and get counted out? IT totally betrays everything Demolition were about while failing to build up the Powers as the new two-man Hulk Hogan. In the end the two teams did the Survivor Series double turn,
Pro Wrestling Illustrated, who HATED the Demolition gimmick and were deeply embarrased at having to explain to readers how Ax and Smash were now World champions, LEAPT at this angle claiming that Demolition were finished and should run away from the WWF.
By the end of his career pretty much all of Andre's matches could have made this list.
Every Warrior match could make this list. He was so uncoordinated and clumsy w no stamina. Vince fed that up
Ultimate Warrior was still very good at entertaining the crowd even though he did lack talent and stamina, he still wasn't that bad of a wrestler. Definitely not the best but he was very solid in the ring.
Bad News vs Patera would’ve been great on the small city house show circuit and not a PPV
How's king Kong Bundy Vs Andre the giant not even on the list
Its WWF ,not WWE....there was no such thing as wwe back in the 80s so get it right.
WWF.
As a kid i really did like the bushwackers
I was expecting a smarky list, but this is fair enough. A few wasted opportunities (Rude v Roberts, Piper v T, Hogan v Andre II) and a bunch of card-fillers. But they weren't really "offensive" though, just below-average in terms of story at a time when workrate meant nothing to the millions of fans watching. The actual shame was indeed wasting the Hogan v Andre rematch in that ill-conceived tournament.
Imagine being called a "boring" wrestler in 1988
The dirtsheet crowd were ganiing traction and they prided themselves on their contempt for serious clean wrestling. They hated Bob Backlund and thought his push was a crime against Smartness, especially since the flamboyant performer (but HORRID worker) Superstar Graham had his run cut short for Backlund.
The 1980s: Hulk Hogan sucked, he had the same boring match for his entire WWF title title run. Ric Flair had the same match too but at least it was more technical and it was 30-60 minutes not 10 to 15 minutes. And of course let's not forget Dusty trying to convince the marks that his obscene obesity was athleticism...lol
I loved the matches you may not like them now but it was a different time back then
11:00 cocaine confirmed 😂
Idgaf what they changed the name to. When I was a KID it was WWF. World Wrestling Federation. I understand why they changed the name and I refer to the company as it's current name, WWE. But we're talking about the WWF. 🙄😒🤦♂️🤷♂️
I don't know, George Wells vs Jake Roberts at WrestleMania 2 was awful.
Any match that had that doofus warrior dude in it was a dumb match. Had absolutely 0 talent, was just big. Most were ran off fairly quick but for some reason that bozo was allowed to hang around
Elbow drop off turnbuckle? Wtg Big Ox.
This list is beyond stupid. In the peak of jobber matches on TV every week, these were the worst matches? Another stupid excuse for a list
That was for enhancing the talent dude, they were meant to be squashes (even though watching the Mulkeys get destroyed was a high light of the show often (they deserve to be in Hall of Fame
Did the Junkyard Dog ever wrestle British Bulldog?
The bushwackers were awesome
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Leave hogan vs. Andre from wrestlemania 4 alone
WWE was good in the 80.s
Rock &.Wrestling
WWE was good in the 80s
Rock & Wrestling
@@Deltrottersvanno such thiing as WWE back in the 80s....it was WWF.
@@jaws848 don't tell me, I just copy nonsense
@@Deltrottersvan how many times does the "wwf" logo apear in this video?.....several times and how many times does the "wwe" logo apear?.....not even once yet the guy who made the video constantly and stupidly referes to wwe....he can't even get the details of his own video correct.
@@jaws848 again don't tell me, I don't care
Thank For The Top 10 Video 🙊🤯🤩👍✌️👌🥰😁💐🌟🥇🏆
Jake was probably stoned.