SquaredCircle's List of utterly ridiculous gimmick matches

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Utterly Ridiculous Gimmick Matches

Contrived, cheesy, complicated, and baffling in their concept and execution. This is Russo's wet dream, this is SquaredCircle's List of utterly ridiculous gimmick matches.

The List:

• 1952 Gorgeous George vs. Masked Marvel, floating ring.

• 1972 Don Greene Vs Jerry Jarret Scaffold Match (first ever) - AJ Styles Vs. Rhino more recent - basically all scaffold matches.

• 1988 Tower of Doom battle to the centre of the cage.

• 1991 Chamber of Horrors electric chair match, also featuring ref-head-camera

• 1992 Original Fire match ends in debacle and hospitilsations in Japan.

• 1995 Grocery Market match kendo nagasaki v bjw trainees

• 1996 Razor Ramon Vs. 123 Kid cry baby match, loser has to wear a diaper and be a baby.

• 1996 Tower of Doom

• 1996 King of the Road moving truck match WCW

• 1996 Golddust Vs Piper, Holywood Parking Lot Brawl match

• 1997 (NSFL). IWA-MS start hosting King of the death tournament rip off this is representative of any pathetic deathmatch gimmick any indy have ever done.

• 1998 annnd BJW Circus Deathmatch.. - also Electrified tubes, Cactus, Scorpions... This is representative of the lunacy of all Japanese Deathmatches...

• 1998 Buried Alive, good execution ridiculous concept

• 1998 Inferno match

• 1998 Hart Dungeon match Owen Vs. Shamrock

• 1999 Kennel from Hell Bossman Vs. Al Snow. Hilarious Foley/Kelly commentary

• 1999 Kiss my ass match, Rock Vs. Billy Gun.

• 1999 Lion's Den match Tiny UFC octagon imitation.

• 1999 Pinata on a pole, it falls off - leather jacket on a pole - pink slip basically any '- on a pole match'.

• 1999 Hayabusa Vs. H. 'anal explosion match'

• 1999 Kat Vs Torrie, mud bath. - ANY women doing something resembling bad softcore porn.

• 2000 Jeff Jarrett Vs. Booker T 'guess which box the title is in' "San Francisco 49er" match

• 2000 Triple Cage, awful execution

• 2000 Patterson Vs. Brscoe evening gown match

• 2000 Viagra on a Poll match

• 2000 Sting Vs. Luger Lumberjacks with casts

• 2000 Judy Bagwell on a Poll match

• 2001 Penalty Box Match WCW

• 2002 HHH Dlo blind fold match and by extention most blinfold matches ever

• 2002 Garcia Vs. Finkel tuxedo/gown match

• 2004 Matt hardy Vs. Kane. 'death do us part' for Lita's hand in marriage.

• 2004 Undertaker Vs. The Dudley Boys, Bury Paul Bearer in concrete match...

• 2005 TNA's hard 10 idea

• 2005 Custody Ladder match Guerrero Vs. Mysterio

• 2006 Punjabi Prison match

• 2006 King of the Mountain

• 2007 Reverse Battle Royal.

• 2007 Six Sides of Steel Blindfold Match. James Storm Vs. Wildcat Chris Harris

• 2007 Sting Vs. Abyss last Rites match (with optional gravity for authentic heavy gravestones)

• 2007 Electrified Steel Cage Tag Team Match

• 2007 [Doomsday Chamber Of Blood, Tna](http://www.veoh.com/watch/v174924319bs8xzya?h1=Sting%2C+Test%2C+Abyss+vs+Christian%2C+AJ+Styles%2C+Tomko+(Doomsday+Chamber+Of+Blood+Barbwire+Match)

• 2009 Feast or Fired suspended breifcase pot luck match

• 2010 LA Park vs La Parka II AAA Right for Use of name match, ending in no contest

--Please help add to, improve and correct this list--

Criteria: It has to be ridiculous relative to other gimmick matches. It can also be an instance of an ok match idea and utterly terrible execution.

If you know where a good clip is, link me to it, and if you're feeling extra helpful you can time link a youtube/dailymotion video.