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Post by sunnytaker on Aug 19, 2021 8:59:10 GMT -5
Yes, I remember them changing the rules at some point. You know a finish sucks when it's so ridiculous, Vince changes the rules so it doesn't happen again. On a similar note, there was a triple threat tag team match on a 1998 Raw where the rules were that two guys would be in the ring at once and they could tag any of the four guys on the apron. At one point, both of the New Age Outlaws got tagged into the match. They acted like they were going to fight, then one laid down and the other pinned him to win and retain the titles. Sometime later, Jim Ross announced that the rules had been changed because of what the Outlaws did. i actually liked that finish because the outlaws actually used their brains to win
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Post by Beets by Schrute on Aug 19, 2021 15:49:40 GMT -5
The Royal Rumble 2015 Pretty normal match... then they eliminated Bryan. Then the crowd knew what was coming... and they REJECTED it. It wasn't just the way it happened but they also had Big Show and Kane dump all the more interesting at the time options other than Roman out the match. Dean Ambrose? F*** you he ain't winning. Neither is Ziggler! Roman won... eliminated Rusev in a fakeout just to piss off the crowd further... Rock tried to put him over and failed and notably noticed how much the crowd was shitting on the result. And the Roman spite-push began... What always bugged me why did Show and Kane work together on Wyatt, Ziggler, and Ambrose but all of a sudden stopped when it was Roman’s turn?
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Post by sungod2020 on Aug 19, 2021 18:00:13 GMT -5
There's a couple I can think of...
At AWA Superclash III, the match between Kerry Von Erich and Jerry Lawler stopped because Von Erich was excessively bleeding. Now, that would've been okay if he was beaten so bad he couldn't continue because of that, but he seemed fine and was in the middle of performing the iron claw, yet the match was awarded to Lawler anyway!
On the May 10th, 1999 edition of RAW, there was an evening gown match between Sable(c) and Debra for the Women's championship. Initially Sable won since he ripped Debra's dress off, but then Commissioner Michaels reversed the result and awarded Debra the championship because he thought she had nicer tits.
There was a RAW in August of 2017 where Big Cass was beating Enzo Amore throughout the match and then injured his leg and couldn't continue, so the match stopped, but Enzo was declared the winner as a result. In all my years of watching, an ending like that would've normally resulted in a no contest.
Also, I could've sworn on an episode of WCW Saturday Night there was one match where a wrestler did a run-in(I forgot who was involved) to attack one of the participants and then he ended up getting pinned! I wish I had more info on that. Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
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Post by chrom on Aug 19, 2021 18:09:50 GMT -5
There's a couple I can think of... At AWA Superclash III, the match between Kerry Von Erich and Jerry Lawler stopped because Von Erich was excessively bleeding. Now, that would've been okay if he was beaten so bad he couldn't continue because of that, but he seemed fine and was in the middle of performing the iron claw, yet the match was awarded to Lawler anyway!On the May 10th, 1999 edition of RAW, there was an evening gown match between Sable(c) and Debra for the Women's championship. Initially Sable won since he ripped Debra's dress off, but then Commissioner Michaels reversed the result and awarded Debra the championship because he thought she had nicer tits. There was a RAW in August of 2017 where Big Cass was beating Enzo Amore throughout the match and then injured his leg and couldn't continue, so the match stopped, but Enzo was declared the winner as a result. In all my years of watching, an ending like that would've normally resulted in a no contest. Also, I could've sworn on an episode of WCW Saturday Night there was one match where a wrestler did a run-in(I forgot who was involved) to attack one of the participants and then he ended up getting pinned! I wish I had more info on that. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? NWA would do that with Flair vs Luger as well. Luger had him in the Torture Rack and Flair's screaming in pain and the ref calls for the bell causing everyone to think Luger's won only for the ref to reveal that Luger couldn't continue due to bleeding.
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Post by Triangle Lancer on Aug 19, 2021 23:58:12 GMT -5
There's a couple I can think of... At AWA Superclash III, the match between Kerry Von Erich and Jerry Lawler stopped because Von Erich was excessively bleeding. Now, that would've been okay if he was beaten so bad he couldn't continue because of that, but he seemed fine and was in the middle of performing the iron claw, yet the match was awarded to Lawler anyway!On the May 10th, 1999 edition of RAW, there was an evening gown match between Sable(c) and Debra for the Women's championship. Initially Sable won since he ripped Debra's dress off, but then Commissioner Michaels reversed the result and awarded Debra the championship because he thought she had nicer tits. There was a RAW in August of 2017 where Big Cass was beating Enzo Amore throughout the match and then injured his leg and couldn't continue, so the match stopped, but Enzo was declared the winner as a result. In all my years of watching, an ending like that would've normally resulted in a no contest. Also, I could've sworn on an episode of WCW Saturday Night there was one match where a wrestler did a run-in(I forgot who was involved) to attack one of the participants and then he ended up getting pinned! I wish I had more info on that. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? NWA would do that with Flair vs Luger as well. Luger had him in the Torture Rack and Flair's screaming in pain and the ref calls for the bell causing everyone to think Luger's won only for the ref to reveal that Luger couldn't continue due to bleeding. Blood was a common screwy finish to get out of having to lose in the early 80s. Rhodes, Race, Flair & Backlund all had their share of blood costing them a match. When you stop having bloody brawls (or have to stop a match because of a scratch), then the blood finish goes away.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 20, 2021 0:04:08 GMT -5
For a dumb non-finish on the blood subject, how about that time Christian got busted open in a ladder match with Shelton Benjamin and Shelton patiently waited around for him to be patched up instead of just grabbing the damn belt? Still don't get why they didn't just call an audible to have Shelton win and then switch the belt back right afterward, the momentum of the match was completely shot anyway.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Aug 20, 2021 5:03:20 GMT -5
For a dumb non-finish on the blood subject, how about that time Christian got busted open in a ladder match with Shelton Benjamin and Shelton patiently waited around for him to be patched up instead of just grabbing the damn belt? Still don't get why they didn't just call an audible to have Shelton win and then switch the belt back right afterward, the momentum of the match was completely shot anyway. Ah yes from that magical time when Linda was running for the Senate and Vince wanted to clean up the companies image any way he can by trying to remove any and all traces of blood and such from his programs, even going as far as giving Batista a $100,000 fine for getting some color during a cage match.
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Post by dav on Aug 20, 2021 6:49:48 GMT -5
There was a WCW I Quit match in WCW with Norman Smiley that ended because his opponent told him to say 'I Quit', I believe. Since the person who says those two words loses, regardless of context, then Smiley picked up the victory.
Also, I recall the Beware of the Dog ending between Bulldog and Michaels being particularly bad as far as a double pin goes, since Michaels clearly had Bulldog in a German Suplex with no two ways about it.
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Post by msc on Aug 20, 2021 10:23:04 GMT -5
WCW once had Ernest the Cat Miller beat the Disco Inferno in 5 seconds by hitting with the Disco Duck, to retain the WCW Commissionership and win the WCW tag titles off the Filthy Animals who weren't even in the singles match.
Nash won a 5 on 1 handicap match against the Natural Born Thrillers, when he either powerbombed or big booted one of the guys and the ref counted to 3 even though there wasn't a pin.
Cameron of the Funkadactyls once went for a pin in the wrong position.
Poor Tim White looked a goof at the Hardcore Battle Royal. 1...2...woooooaaaaah. There was a timing issue elsewhere.
There was a Smackdown main event in 2000 which doesn't deserve to be in this company. The Rock and Stone Cold vs Triple H and Rikishi. They hyped this match up ALL NIGHT, to the point the school friend I was sleeping over that weekend with got his mum to delay lunch as he was looking forward to this match. Bell rings, THREE SECONDS LATER, Benoit and the Radicals run in for the DQ finish. Genuinely over a dozen hype points in a show for 3 seconds!
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Post by chrom on Aug 20, 2021 11:11:57 GMT -5
Big Show vs Undertaker at I think the end of 08 in a Casket Match.
Big show charges at Undertaker to tackle him and Taker moves out of the way and Big Show falls into the casket and loses.
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Post by Triangle Lancer on Aug 20, 2021 14:18:05 GMT -5
Watch enough WWF "curfew draws" and you start to wonder: Why even have a match when it has 2 minutes of half-assed "action", the bell rings to end it, and the referee just awards the match to the good guy.
There's a DVD Compilation that would sell negative numbers.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 20, 2021 14:50:51 GMT -5
Big Show vs Undertaker at I think the end of 08 in a Casket Match. Big show charges at Undertaker to tackle him and Taker moves out of the way and Big Show falls into the casket and loses. See also that time Roman just decided to go jump in an ambulance.
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Post by FHgrad99 on Aug 20, 2021 14:51:29 GMT -5
I've got one from the 1989 Chi-Town Rumble. It was a match between Mike Rotunda and Rick Steiner. Rick Steiner had Rotunda in a sleeper hold on the mat and somehow his shoulders ended up getting pinned to the mat and Rotunda won the match.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Aug 20, 2021 15:04:29 GMT -5
There was a WCW I Quit match in WCW with Norman Smiley that ended because his opponent told him to say 'I Quit', I believe. Since the person who says those two words loses, regardless of context, then Smiley picked up the victory. Nope, that was great!
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Post by sportatorium on Aug 20, 2021 16:01:36 GMT -5
Hogan, Sting, Starrcade....that is all
Until...
Fingerpoke of doom
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Aug 20, 2021 16:25:26 GMT -5
Poor Tim White looked a goof at the Hardcore Battle Royal. 1...2...woooooaaaaah. There was a timing issue elsewhere. The time was supposed to run out before White counted to three allowing Crash to retain but White messed up the timing and Hardcore won the belt. On the plus side at least we got the classic promo of Hardcore calling Michael Cole a shit head on the post game show out of the deal.
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Post by fg on Aug 20, 2021 16:54:47 GMT -5
Poor Tim White looked a goof at the Hardcore Battle Royal. 1...2...woooooaaaaah. There was a timing issue elsewhere. The time was supposed to run out before White counted to three allowing Crash to retain but White messed up the timing and Hardcore won the belt. On the plus side at least we got the classic promo of Hardcore calling Michael Cole a shit head on the post game show out of the deal. I remember reading that the clock in the arena and the clock that was fed to Tim White via his earpiece wasn’t synced up. Naturally Tim thought that the clock that was fed to him was accurate.
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Post by Marvelous1LUFC on Aug 20, 2021 17:25:12 GMT -5
Finlay vs Regal, in i think '95. The blue bloods (Earl Robert Eaton & David Taylor) interfere to cause a DQ... At UNCENSORED!!
Speaking of finlay, didn't he get DQ'ed from a royal rumble for using his shillaleagh?
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 20, 2021 17:26:22 GMT -5
Finlay vs Regal, in i think '95. The blue bloods (Earl Robert Eaton & David Taylor) interfere to cause a DQ... At UNCENSORED!! Speaking of finlay, didn't he get DQ'ed from a royal rumble for using his shillaleagh? I think officially it was for coming out before his number, but that makes even less sense.
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Post by Talent Name on Aug 20, 2021 18:03:19 GMT -5
Sin Cara knocking himself out against Del Rio
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