What Observer Worst Match of the Year winners have you seen?

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Gee, can't imagine why I'd be wondering about this the day after Greatest Battle Royal or whatever it was called... Though to be fair I've been meaning to make this thread for awhile anyway.

For me I've seen...

Piper / Mr. T
Hogan / Andre (seriously with this? It's not good but it's really not bad)
Hogan / Warrior
Patterson / Briscoe
Brothers of Destruction / Kronik
Edge / Triple H / Kozlov
Sting / Hardy
Cena / Wyatt
Martinez / Rebel
Wyatt / Orton

[Venti]

Hogan-Andre winning worst match of the year forever makes me not take Observer awards seriously

[Citizen Snips]

Hogan/Andre isn't a Big Daddy Meltz 5 Japan Star Classic but it is arguably the most iconic wrestling match of all-time.

Lousy dorks.

[corndog]

Hogan vs Andre probably wasn't the worst match of year, but I remember seeing it for the first time and being completely disappointed. However, Andre had just come off back surgery three months prior and was in his decline. Hogan could actually put on some decent matches at this time, but no one could really carry Andre at this point and Hogan was just trying to put together a match that was easy for Andre.

[lemonyellowson]

Most of them unfortunately

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Jeff Hardy keeping it real and Sting shooting on him.

[WoodStoner1]

Oh I think a few people saw Hogan vs Andre.

[Deleted]

Every one of them except for the TripleMania match

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When I clicked on the thread and saw Hogan vs. Andre in the poll, I thought I was voting for the BEST matches that I've seen for a second. Can't believe that's on there.

I've seen

Hogan vs. Andre
Hogan vs. Warrior
Briscoe vs. Patterson
BoD vs. KroniK
THAT Jackie Gayda match
Cena vs. Laurinaitis
Wyatt vs. Orton

[dav]

Observer really kept the hate-fire of the WWF stoked in the 80's, huh? Success is truly the unforgiveable sin.

[Venti]

Jun 8, 2019 9:33:27 GMT -5 Citizen Snips said:

Hogan/Andre isn't a Big Daddy Meltz 5 Japan Star Classic but it is arguably the most iconic wrestling match of all-time.

Lousy dorks.

When I was a kid growing up in the late '90s/early '00s, the way my grandfather talked about that match and Andre in general made it sound like some historical, almost mythical event.

That match along with Hogan-Rock at WM 18 proves that sometimes atmosphere and electricity can carry a match.

[thecrusherwi]

If you think Hogan vs Andre is the worst match of the whole entire year, I’m not sure why you even watch wrestling.

Also where can I see that Albano vs Blassie Cage Match!?

[XaviersSS2015hair]

I've seen all but six of them. The only one that's really catching my interest is Sting vs Tony Palmora. Who was Palmora and why is this the first time I'm hearing of him or this match?

The one I've rewatched most recently is Hogan vs Piper from Superbrawl. I rewatched this ppv a couple weeks ago and even though that match sucked I can't recommend the overall ppv enough.

[GuyOfOwnage]

The biggest flaw with this award is that it rates matches on the basis of it being a 5 star mat classic ala Flair/Steamboat. Personally, that's not what makes a good match to me. My sole question when determining match quality is, "Did it accomplish what it set out to do?" And you can bet your ass that Hogan/Andre, for example, more than accomplished what was intended. This is why I just can't take Meltzer's match ratings seriously. The guy's criteria is so narrow and so fixated on only one or two types of wrestling and storytelling.

[bob]

Mr T vs Piper
Andre vs Hogan
The Bushwhackers & Men on a Mission vs. Bam Bam Bigelow, Bastion Booger & and The Headshrinkers
The Royal Family vs Clowns R Us
Tower of Doom
Hogan Warrior 2 -- LIVE!
Kennel From Hell LIVE!
Hardcore Evening Gown Match
Kane and Taker vs Kronik - LIVE!
THAT Jackie Gayda match - LIVE!
Trips vs Scott Steiner - LIVE!
Tomko vs Stevie Richards in drag - LIVE!
Teddy Long vs Eric Bischoff
Reverse Battle Royal - LIVE!
Cena vs Mr. Excitement - LIVE!
Total Divas vs True Divas - LIVE!
Cena vs Wyatt
Wyatt vs Orton - LIVE!

[Final Countdown Jones]

I've seen all of them except last year's because I refuse to watch Crown Jewel, but yeah this is one hell of a list. And while I wouldn't put Hogan/Andre on there, I get why he would put it there. It was a match built on spectacle and the Observer leans toward a more match work-oriented angle. It was not a well worked match and there's a reason the main images out of that match are the staredown and the slam: those were all the match was really about, and the rest of what was there isn't good on a technical level, which is what he's judging it with. Anyone who's unable to take his opinions seriously because he gives reviews based on what he enjoys and thinks is valuable in wrestling is sort of missing the forest for the trees.

[CMPunkyBrewster]

I've gone out of my way to watch a lot of these. I love bad wrestling almost as much as good wrestling.

[HMARK Center]

Think people also have to consider that there were probably a lot of fans in 1987, at least those in the types of circles that were reading dirt sheets, who might not have been enamored with Vince taking over the old system with his brand of wrestling, and might have viewed Hogan/Andre as a sort of definitive statement of that.

Not saying I agree (the build to the match and the spectacle gave it enough to keep it from being a bad match, despite Andre's compromised condition), but I'm trying to put myself in the mindset of someone in that time.

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Jun 8, 2019 9:27:33 GMT -5 Venti said:

Hogan-Andre winning worst match of the year forever makes me not take Observer awards seriously

For real, this match was anything but bad. It was a spectacle.

[Yamashita Enforcement Division]

Jun 8, 2019 14:47:57 GMT -5 Final Countdown Jones said:

I've seen all of them except last year's because I refuse to watch Crown Jewel, but yeah this is one hell of a list. And while I wouldn't put Hogan/Andre on there, I get why he would put it there. It was a match built on spectacle and the Observer leans toward a more match work-oriented angle. It was not a well worked match and there's a reason the main images out of that match are the staredown and the slam: those were all the match was really about, and the rest of what was there isn't good on a technical level, which is what he's judging it with. Anyone who's unable to take his opinions seriously because he gives reviews based on what he enjoys and thinks is valuable in wrestling is sort of missing the forest for the trees.

The awards are the result of subscriber votes, so it is not so much Dave's opinion as it is the opinion of the type of person who would subscribe to the Wrestling Observer in 1987 (? is that the year that happened? idk), and who knows what that cross section looks like fully. I am sure it is influenced by whatever (probably negative) review of it Meltzer provided, but it isn't entirely his opinion taken into consideration.