Wrestlemania: Top #30 piores combates da história!

Caminhamos a passos largos para a Wrestlemania: o maior espectáculo de wrestling do mundo! Há 32 anos que a WWE se esforça para, anualmente, no maior dos palcos, apresentar momentos e combates memoráveis, que perdurem eternamente. No entanto, e uma vez os vários percalços que têm marcado a construção do card da edição deste ano, o teu Fórum de Pro Wrestling decidiu pensar "fora da caixa" e, a jeito de previsão, irá enumerar os 30 piores combates de sempre na história da Wrestlemania! 

Depois de passares em revista a nossa lista, e de descobrires algumas verdadeiras pérolas ocultas cuja existência decerto te escapam, irás, sem dúvida, olhar de um modo mais positivo para a Wrestlemania 32, a realizar-se a 3 de Abril, no Texas! À semelhança de outros tops por mim já realizados, a construção desta lista resultou da combinação de vários tops espalhados pela IWC, nomeadamente, do The Richest, What Culture, The Sportster, 411 MANIA, Bleacher Report, Slam!, IGN, etc.

Como já estamos a menos de um mês do maior show do ano, para compensar o tempo perdido, hoje à noite serão divulgados os rankeados #30 a #28 da nossa lista. Até lá, deixem as vossas dicas, palpite se sugestões!

The Sportster escreveu:Another match with a ‘celebrity’ in it (if you want to call “Snooki” from MTV’s ‘Jersey Shore’ a celebrity), as the company threw together a weak six-person tag as the warm-up for the main event at WrestleMania XXVII. The disaster lasted 3:27, and as everyone knew, they gave ‘Snooki’ the pinfall win, this after she did a summersault and then a cartwheel splash on McCool to get the win. The bout featured the return of Stratus to the ring, but she didn’t get to do much in the three and a half minute bout. Just another reason ‘D’ list celebs should stay out of the ring.

IGN escreveu:Okay, this match wasn't really an absolute train wreck or anything. It just sort of…sat there. This was an ideal match for 'Mania because it was a "feud ender" not a "feud starter." You want to see things settled at 'Mania, not begin. The Hart/Backlund feud had been raging, if I could use that term loosely, since the previous summer when Backlund "snapped" and attacked Hart with his deadly Crossface Chicken Wing. With the help of Owen and a white towel, Backlund managed to win the WWF Title from Hart in the fall and now these two expert grapplers were going to meet in a submission match.

There were just a few problems here; Backlund was never really a "dazzler," Roddy Piper was named the loudmouth ref, and this match was deemed an "I Quit" match. Hart and Backlund didn't just have to submit to lose, they had to say the words "I Quit" into a microphone. So there Piper was, anytime any submission hold was applied. Armbar, headlock, you name it…with the mic in their faces. "Whaddya say?!!" "Huh?" "Backlund, do you quit?" Whaddya say??" He wouldn't shut the eff up. All of a sudden, it wasn't concentrating on watching a match, I was concentrating on pouring liquid plumber in my ears to drown out Piper's shrieking.

And could the "saying the words 'I Quit'" stipulation have been any more clearer? So how did Backlund lose? By screaming into the mic "aayayaeehahhahaha."

Goliath escreveu:On a show where a ten-man tag match had to be cut for time due to some pretty awesome matches running way too long, it’s baffling that this didn’t also hit the cutting room floor. This was less a match than a confusing segment that lasted less than a minute and somehow ended with Earthquake pinning Bomb in just over thirty seconds. That time is approximate, of course, because it’s hard to tell when the pre-match shenanigans, featuring Bomb’s manager Harvey Whippleman threatening Howard Finkel, end, and the match itself begins. We’ve actually spent more time talking about the match than it takes to watch it happen. The best part is, the entire thing didn’t actually end up mattering, because Earthquake left for WCW shortly after, bringing whatever feud was ongoing to a hasty conclusion. We’re not saying the ten-man tag would have been any better (in fact, it almost certainly would not have been), but when they were setting up WrestleMania, couldn’t they have just cut this one ahead of time?

The Richest escreveu:The Great Khali has never had a good match. Six minutes at WrestleMania 23 was still six minutes too long. I don’t think even Shawn Michaels could get a good match out of him. They guy can’t move! Taking place in Detroit, WWE tried to recreate the iconic moment of Hogan slamming Andre the Giant. Kane slammed Khali, but went on to lose.

Bleacher Report escreveu:This match makes my list for one simple reason: the match only lasted eight seconds.

The result of the match was never questioned by most. The moment Kane won a battle royal prior to WrestleMania XXIV to determine Guerrero's challenger for the ECW Championship on the card, most felt it was a foregone conclusion that the Big Red Machine would emerge the new champion.

Chavo, a third generation superstar, would have at least been able to give Kane a decent match. Apparently, that was not to be. Somebody thought an eight second squash match would be the way to go.

Seems Vince is determined to do everything he can to kill the ECW Title. This match went a long way towards doing that. A squash match with a belt on the line is more than enough to make this list.

The Sportster escreveu:This eight-man tag was the sixth match on the card, and again suffered due to the fact it came between two huge bouts (Undertaker vs Batista and Umaga vs Bobby Lashely) on the card. It lasted 6:27 and they gave the win to the ECW crew after RVD hit a five-star flog splash on Striker. The bout was a complete mess, with the only wrestler of the bout ever appearing on another Mania card being RVD. All four wrestlers on the team of the “The New Breed” seemed to quickly disappear from the WWE, with Striker getting a run as an announcer but eventually being let go as well.

Bleacher Report escreveu:Any time a match other than a wrestling match takes place at WrestleMania, the results are usually not good. This is especially true here, as fans really didn't know what to make of Brawl for All. Was it boxing, or was it wrestling? Was it meant to be a hybrid? Was it a work or a shoot?

There were too many questions, which led many fans to disconnect from it all. This was not good for Bart Gunn, who had done exceptionally well going into WrestleMania. But just the idea of Butterbean coming in was too much for many to handle.


He was a big guy but seemed out of place, and while he did get a pop for knocking Gunn out, this match continues to be an oddity to this day. It serves as a reminder to fans of just how silly WWE can be. 

WWE is meant to be a pro wrestling company, and featuring toughman competitions with novelty acts is just not part of the program. The fact this match took place at WrestleMania shows once again how WWE can get it so wrong in such a big way.

Goliath escreveu:So help us, we liked The Boogeyman. He was interesting and unique and had a cool entrance, and sometimes that’s enough. But even we will admit that he was a really bad wrestler, which made his initial push, where he was beating former World Champions like JBL and, in this case, Booker T, in under five minutes, a bit odd. The reason behind the short matches, of course, is that The Boogeyman simply wasn’t experienced enough or in good enough shape to have longer ones. Sure, the King Booker gimmick was mostly supposed to be a joke, but Booker T turned it into something special, and in fact, he would ride it to a World title later that year, which makes this glorified squash match where he and his wife both got dominated by Boogeyman even more ridiculous in retrospect. And just to make things worse, Sharmell was most definitely not a wrestler (in fact, she would have one of the worst professional wrestling matches in history a few short years later in TNA, so imagine how much worse she was at this point), so the match ended up being partially un-funny comedy bits and the rest Booker T being forced to sell like he was taking the worst beating of his long career.

IGN escreveu:Okay, this is breaking the rules a little since most of us knew this match would stink. But it was the Main Event, for crying out loud! This match followed the actual WWF Title match between HBK and Diesel. Matches with pro-athletes are always going to be easy targets. Refrigerator Perry. Mondo McMichaels. But this one just felt wrong. It also certainly didn't help matters that I didn't give a damn about football either. Hell, I was from New York and I didn't care about this one.

Granted, this match could have been so much worse. They decided to teach LT one move and he stuck with it. Any further tutelage might have had catastrophic effects. My favorite part was how he got rapped to the ring by Salt-N- Pepa, and then rapped out of the ring with their pre-written Lawrence Taylor victory song. This was your 'Mania capper, folks.

The Sportster escreveu:In more proof that Bret Hart gets screwed on the big stage in his home country, he and Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart took on the Bolsheviks, Nikolai Volkoff and Boris Zhukov, in a ridiculous 19-second squash match. I’m sure all of the fans at the Skydome in Toronto were just thrilled to see one of the best wrestlers in the country’s history get in the ring for less than a minute and get out. The poor Bolsheviks didn’t even get to take their jackets off.