5 Worst Wrestling Matches of 1991
1991 was an interesting year for pro wrestling. The NWA still had Jim Crockett Promotions (the one that would eventually become WCW), which had some popularity after Vince McMahon’s national expansion. That popularity allowed it to compete with WWE to some degree. Unfortunately, it competed with WWE in terms of bad matches as well.
You see, the early 1990s ‘WCW’ was booked by a man named Jim Herd. According to many WCW alumni, Herd had little, if any experience in or understanding of, wrestling. He came up with some truly awful ideas during his four-year tenure in JCW, and by the time that company was re-named WCW, it as already in dire straits thanks to him.
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However, JCW/WCW wasn’t the only company to put on bad matches. WWF/E was also known for putting on cartoonish gimmicks and match concepts. Unfortunately, the term ‘cartoonish’ in this context is a synonym for ‘terrible’.
Some of these matches were so bad that they deserve to be ‘dishonored’ as the worst of the entire year.
#5 Genichiro Tenryu & Koji Kitao vs. Demolition – WrestleMania 7
This boring match had several factors working against it that made it so bad. Firstly, Tenryu & Kitao did not speak English, so the audience had little reason to sympathize with them or care about them.
Second, this match took place right after a retirement match between the Ultimate Warrior and ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage, so the fans were drained from the emotion of that earlier match.
Third, the team of Tenryu and Kitao were only there on a semi-regular basis, so even if the fans did understand them, they had little reason to care because that Japanese duo wouldn’t be around that much. Because of this, the match had little drama and excitement to it. The language barrier also played a part in the in-ring action, as there was little they could do.
They kept it simple and straightforward, with the most complicated move being Tenryu’s Powerbomb. Overall, there wasn’t much to this match, and it felt like more of a ‘filler’ match on an already-overcrowded match card.