So we all love professional wrestling. I believe that's why we are here today. But let's face it, if you are going to have dozens and dozens of programs every single year, eventually a story will come across your eyes and make you go, well, this is absolute pants.

To the what culture team, as well as I, Simon Miller, the board Aho, have sat down. And we have gone all the way from 1989 to 2020 to 5 to determine what the

worst wrestling story every year was. Now of course you will have different opinions to this so

please do subscribe and then leave a comment below and remember you have to get bad wrestling

to enjoy good wrestling. That's science. And if you weren't talked about that in college or something

has gone wrong and sit down, buckle up, it's time to go. Number 1989, Hulk Hogan versus Zeus. So, 1989 is actually a tremendous year for professional wrestling, so this one was actually a bit of a challenge. I mean, you have the amazing animosity between Rick Flair and Terry Funk. Rick Flair also goes against Ricky Steamboat over and over again. The great mooter finds Sting and they tear it up. And of course, the mega powers explode. You also get Strike Force breaking up the Midnight Express Hill turn and Rick Rood showing he knew what he was doing. He got a fantastic match out of the Ultimate Warrior. So it was actually very good stuff that you should go back and watch today until you come across Hulk Hogan's feud with the man named Zeus. Now, we do have to give Zeus some props because he was a non-wrestler portrayed by actor Tiny Lister, and this was all off the back of the movie No Holds Bard that was essentially a vehicle to try and get Hulk Hogan into Hollywood. I can tell you this now, although I'm sure you do know, it didn't work. Zeus played the bad guy in the film, and I have seen this, and I'm trying to be nice. Let's just say it's not good. Screw that's terrible. Of course, the World Wrestling Federation, as they were known, wanted to get as much promotional material out there, so why not do a match on SummerSlan? That led to Hogan and Brutus Beefcake taking on Zeus and Randy Savage, and all I need to tell you is to go and watch this, and also listen to what the build was, we will put a non-wrestler in a match with Hulk Hogan because we'd like to sell some tickets to the cinema. I do want to give Zeus some props, because because given his experience, actually think he did quite well. But the feud in general was totally nath, mostly because if you did go and see the movie after this, you kind of felt like the wool had been pulled over your eyes. I also wouldn't say that Vince McMahon would call this the peak of his creative powers. I mean, it was Marketing Man, but it also goes to show, they've been doing this for years. Remember that Damian Priest, the Miz zombie stuff? Yep, it was nothing new. But 1990, the Black Scorpion. Oly Anderson was a weird guy. In more modern times, he was known as being pretty miserable, which of course he's allowed to be. And if you actually watch his matches, you will find one of the most calculating heels of all time. I mean, he really would get deep down a nasty, which made it even more intriguing when he became a booker and decided he was into goofy wrestling for life. And I love goofy wrestling for life. But what he did in 1990, well, it didn't work. Now, Anderson took over the creative side of WCW in 1990 and almost

instantly introduced us to The Black Scorpion. This would be a man under a mask who would go after

Sting and also had a very distinctive voice. You do have to throw that in there because do you know

who was behind this? It was Olae Anderson, which kind of makes me think this is why he brought it to life

to begin with. For a bit of trivia as well, Anderson was also responsible for the Shockmaster,

which again kind of sums all this up. But this story was absolute pets. For some reason,

the Black Scorpion was totally focused on Sting, and to try and get into the icon's head,

he would play tricks on audience members.

And over and over again, in some pretty lame segments, just say, Oh man, that sting absolutely sucks. Of course, when they wrote this down on paper, they had no idea what the reveal was going to be, but eventually it was just Rick Flair. Why was it Rick Flair? Well, I don't know. I can't tell you, even though this happened years ago. Now, Rick Flair has actually pushed back on that many a time and said under the hood was meant to be Al Perez. I don't want to be disrespectful to Alan here. But if we hadn't done that, well, you probably would have got no pop at all. All this should really tell you is that World Championship Wrestling business was dire at the time. and if this was the idea to try and get them out of this pit, but it was terribly bad.

If I were to hazard a guess, it's likely WCW trying to copy the then WWF. What also gets that part over is that Ole saw Rick Flair as nothing more than an entertainer. Why the hell would you want that guy at the top of your card? And then he put Rick Flair back at the top of the card. This was dumb man, really, really dumb. Number 1991, Hulk Hogan versus Sergeant Slaughter. So this is the first one you probably remember very well and that's because it was terrible. I've said that a lot already. I'll try and calm it down. What it did do was just show that WWF got too big for their boots sometimes and decided their audience would ingest anything they gave them. That's not true, we can be a discerning bunch, and if you are going to tie things into real-life activities, where you better tip to around them, that it's not what the World Wrestling Federation did. Now, before we get into this, we do have to shout the match of man Randy Savage, who took on the Ultimate Warrior at the 1991 Royal Rumble.

He was so damn good in this match coming across as some sort of insane person,

that when Sergeant Slaughter won the belt from the Ultimate Warrior, thanks to Randy,

everybody believed it, he went out of his way to make sure this was going to work.

From here, though, the whole thing totally explodes because, yes,

Vincent McMahon decided that as the Iraqi war was happening in real time, we should probably do a storyline on that as well. And given that slaughter was now

the WWF champion, he became an Iraqi sympathizer who would even burn Hulk Hogan t-shirts.

The only reason I throw that in is because originally McMahon wanted Saj to burn the American flag, and thank

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