Loss Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted December 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Hilarious that this match actually happened. One of the worst matches I've ever seen, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I would have been upset if a single thing looked remotely good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 The mere fact this match exist blows my mind. Oh, loco loco Puerto Rico... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 What's amazing about the match is that it's not short. They go 10+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chess Knight Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 I really, really want to see this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Zeus! In Puerto Rico! As a BABYFACE! Drawing "Zeus!" chants! This...is not the worst thing I've ever seen. It goes on way too long and they lose what's a genuinely hot crowd to start, but you can't fault these guys for lack of energy. Clearly Zeus was watered down in the WWF as Puerto Rico gave him some time to show off what he could do: swinging forearms, bearhugs, swinging forearms, chokes, selling, bearhugs, forearms, bearhugs, and bearhugs from the apron. And Abby charging a downed Zeus and eating a monkey flip = spot of the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted January 2, 2013 Report Share Posted January 2, 2013 Well as much as 1990 may have opened eyes to a new GOAT contender in Dandy/Azteca we may have a new WOAT in this thing. Zues may have the worst strikes I have ever seen. Just a sight to behold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 I'm lucky I was laughing so hard or I would have thrown up in my mouth at how bad it was. I will say the crowd was hot for Zeus early. I don't think Brody ever had as bad as a match as this was. Man alive those strikes were so phony looking by Zeus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted January 30, 2013 Report Share Posted January 30, 2013 Just awful. I totally had a wow moment when this match first started with Zeus in the ring against the Butcher. Didn't know Zeus wrestled outside his couple appearances in WWF/WCW. Match is terrible though. Zeus strikes are so weak looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenjo Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 This is probably beyond words but I'll attempt to do this masterpiece some justice. Back in 1991 was my first ever taste of American wrestling as I got a tape of Summerslam 1989. That event was main evented by the Greek God Zeus, so he will always have a special place in my heart. At the time I had no idea how awesome he was. I mean the guy has a Z on the side of his head FFS! Within seconds I was marking out hard for him here. Obviously this is a match that looks terrible on paper. I went in hoping that it would fit in the catagory of 'so bad it's good'. It was way too bad for that. It kept getting worse and worse before going off the scale of all known badness and somehow ending up as an anti-classic. I must have been laughing non-stop for the 2nd half of it. There were a couple of times I had to pause it as I'd fallen off my chair and was quite literally ROTFLMAO. It was absolute gold. There was 12m of action and it felt like about 30. One of the wrestlers couldn't physically bump so didn't. The other had never been taught how to bump so didn't. The entire match was conducted standing with The Human Wrecking Machine mainly on offence. His moveset was choke, clubbing blow, head butt, bear hug and lariat. I was disappointed that he'd forgotten the neck snap of death. It wasn't just the extreme repetitiveness of the offence, but the way he used it. Once he'd selected a move from 1-5 he just did it immediately, irrespective of ring positioning or match flow. I know the guy was an actor, but it was almost like he hadn't even watched wrestling before. There was absolutely no psychology, pacing or any of that nonsense. Abby was Abby. No opponent actually works with him, they simply exist in his world for a short time. Time has no meaning or effect on him. The background to all this insanity was a bunch of bemused Puerta Ricans who spent the whole time pelting the ring with rubbish. Just in case it couldn't get any more surreal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackToBionic Posted March 3, 2013 Report Share Posted March 3, 2013 Yeah, they probably shouldn't have zoomed in on some of those Zeus forearms. Terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted March 10, 2013 Report Share Posted March 10, 2013 I can imagine why Zeus was a hit in Puerto Rico. Roughly the same reasoning I think they might view No Holds Barred as akin to a tragedy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajtroma Posted May 31, 2013 Report Share Posted May 31, 2013 When that was over the first thing I thought of was Krusty The Clown at the Little Miss Springfield Pageant: "Well, That just kept on goin!" Who was the booker in Puerto Rico at this point? Its clearly not a well-minded person who said "Well, why the hell not?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 I actually think Zeus was the better of the two workers here on the basis of the monkey flip spot alone. I had no idea that he could even execute a monkey flip, no matter how bad it may have looked. This was never exactly going to be a classic no matter what, but you have to hand it to Tiny Lister. He accepts a wrestling gig in Puerto Rico, then either has to be told for the first time or reminded that his opponent not only doesn't bump, but can't leave his feet for any reason. The man knows only five moves to start with, and now has no way to look like anything but a total idiot. But does he turn around and go home? No! He goes out there and gives it his all, such as his "all" is, and even gets Abby to take a MONKEY FLIP! Brody couldn't do it, Colon (who owns the ever-lovin' promotion) couldn't do it, The Sheik couldn't do it, but a third-rate Hollywood actor/stuntman actually got Abdullah the Butcher to leave his feet. For that, he should be saluted as one of the top ten workers of the year, and I'm not entirely kidding. He also got Abby to sell his forearms a little. Granted, it was after he was hit by about five hundred of them, but when it comes to Abby, you take what you get and are damn glad to have it. Is it just me, or was the ref looking for an excuse to end this thing five or so minutes early? I mean, we all know nobody's getting pinned and they're going to fight back to the locker room anyway, so why prolong the inevitable? I have nothing much to say about Abby. He doesn't perform, just goes out and stands there until it's time to pull his fork out, stabs his opponent until he bleeds, throws a few chops, maybe drops an elbow if he's feeling spry, then takes it home. You know that's what you're going to get when he's on the card, so why knock him for it? You might as well knock the sun for rising in the morning. I'm glad I saw this one........once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 Abby taking a monkey flip was a standard spot of his. Even against guys like Zeus and Van Hammer who never did the move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 Thanks, Pete. I haven't seen a ton of Abby. Still, it's incredible to me that someone like Zeus, who never used a move in his life that didn't involve squeezing, managed to pull one off semi-respectably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drew wardlaw Posted May 12, 2016 Report Share Posted May 12, 2016 I had no idea this was on the set and it really took me awhile to figure out it was ZEUS in the match. Oh man... I was really hoping he was going to blade at some point. I popped for the 2 liter Pepsi bottle flying into the ring. Great addition to this set, very funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR Posted January 18, 2017 Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 The crowd are peppering Abby with rubbish before he even gets in the ring. He doesnt make it in there as Zeus goes out and attacks him as hes on his way around ringside. His attacks look so weak though, worse than Tom Magee against Hiroshi Wajima. His clubbing blows, the headbutts, everything is so soft. They have an okay looking lock up, but those clubbing blows get worse with each one he delivers. You wouldnt imagine that a man who looks as threatening and imposing as Zeus could deliver such piss poor strikes. Even when he starts choking Abby it looks like he is putting nothing into it. He manages to lift the Butcher off his feet with a bearhug, which is the only impressive thing about this match so far. More grazing clubbing blows and you can see Abby blade his forehead. Yet more blows to the head, and words cant convey how bad this is. Abby pulls some scissors out of his boot, but Zeus stops him from using them and they drop to the floor. I thought things may pick up with the foreign object but I was sadly mistaken and Zeus returns to his main move, the powder puff clubbing blows to the head! Abby finally starts to gain some advantage and drops Zeus with some thrusts to the throat. A big elbow, but Zeus kicks out. When you think things can get no worse, Zeus throws a clothesline, adding to his repertoire of lame ass moves. Abby with a nerve hold and Zeus cant even sell that convincingly. Despite both not really exerting themselves, theyre both puffing for air at this point. The Butcher with a low blow, he starts choking Zeus with the rope and Im wanting this to stop! More awful action including Zeus applying a bearhug while he is on the apron outside the ring and Abby is still inside! He pulls him to the outside and the two start fighting out there and mercifully they dont beat the count and the match is declared a double count out. Zeus may well be the worse wrestler ever. Huge credit to Pat Patterson or whomever was looking after him in the WWF, because he looked nowhere near as bad as this there. A legitimate contender for worse match of all time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawho5 Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 The crowd totally makes this worthwhile. Their anger is palpable a few minutes in and they just continue to pelt the ring with garbage the rest of the way. Zeus has the worst looking strikes of any wrestler ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajtroma Posted December 5, 2017 Report Share Posted December 5, 2017 There is a part of me that wonders what Zeus in Memphis against Lawler would have been like. Lawler has performed miracles in his day. I just wonder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puropotsy Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 This is pro wrestling's answer to The Room, apparently the bed bad movie of all time. I don't know what I love more, that Zeus' overhand strikes were so bad or that Abby's scar-tissued forehead was so paper-thin that he still bled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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