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90% of this thread has been people naming perfectly-competent wrestlers that they just happen to dislike. It's like a Worst Movie Ever thread where The Phantom Menace keeps getting picked. Even guys like Erik Watts have had plenty of passable matches that are just forgotten or ignored.

 

 

Try THIS on for size, then come back and tell me with a straight face that Kane or Sabu or Brian Christopher is the "worst wrestler ever":

 

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Of course there a ton of no name indy scrubs that would fit this but the OP specifically ruled them out. "Someone who made it through wrestling school, and into a well known promotion, but were just so bad at it?"

 

I still think Jeff Gaylord is probably the best fit for this thread.

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  On 9/17/2015 at 2:33 AM, goc said:

Of course there a ton of no name indy scrubs that would fit this but the OP specifically ruled them out. "Someone who made it through wrestling school, and into a well known promotion, but were just so bad at it?"

I just think that's too limiting on the possible discussion. It's like having a thread dedicated to bad movies, but the only ones allowed in the discussion are big Hollywood films that got a wide theatrical release. Diving into the more obscure stuff provides a look at ASTOUNDING shittiness, the type of insanely awful spectacle which just doesn't exist in the big leagues.

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But that would also be kind of pointless because we all know there are thousands of horrible non-trained "wrestlers" who somehow got access to a ring and filmed it. Just like in a worst movies discussion nobody would count my friend Randy's action movie that he filmed on a Saturday behind our high school gymnasium. It's more interesting to talk about guys who actually dedicated real time to pro wrestling, who were then given an actual platform by people hoping to make money. Of course Brian Christopher isn't the worst pro wrestler ever. Nobody agreed with that weirdo.

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Fair enough... but then the answer is Tiger Jeet Singh, and man that's just an unpleasant and boring person to chose for #1 at anything. Astoundingly awful performances from shitty indy guys can shock, horrify, and delight us in ways that we didn't know were even possible. It's like comparing any given Michael Bay or M. Night Shyamalan movie to something like The Room or Birdemic: the former are mostly just tiresome and depressing in how many people actually paid to see the damn things, while the latter are totally unexpected miracles that're made of some kind of previously-unknown alien feces which are somehow much shittier than our Earthling shit, breaking all known laws of physics in their impossibly-pure 9000% turdiness.

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Browsing through a few Cannonball Grizzly matches on Youtube: I think Grizzly Redwood has more devastating offense. PN News in the 21st century has a bad case of "oh, seriously, how do you even expect the other guy to sell that bullshit?" when it comes to his gingerly-applied love-tap strikes. And he does a ton of stalling, his matches appear to mostly be really slowly-paced. Although he does occasionally take a decent bump or two. Not the worst ever, but still not very good.

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  On 9/18/2015 at 10:44 AM, Indikator said:

People who post Grizzly in this context plain annoy me. Either you are way too lazy or too shallow for your own good. Might as well base your opinion on Mark Henry solely based on his 1996 matches. There is no reason for me to take such people seriously anymore

I have to admit to not watching a single Cannonball Grizzly match, but being annoyed because people aren't taking the work of "The Wrestler Formerly Known as PN News" seriously is possibly the funniest thing I've ever read. It would basically like if someone told me that I'm too lazy and/or shallow, because I didn't let my venereal disease last long enough to get used to the burning sensation. He could have turned into the second coming of Jumbo Tsuruta, but I can't possibly blame anyone for not giving that dude a second chance.

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Here's what I wrote about PN News/Big Josh vs the Creatures from Halloween Havoc '91:

 

 

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  On 9/18/2015 at 3:15 PM, Matt D said:

Here's what I wrote about PN News/Big Josh vs the Creatures from Halloween Havoc '91:

 

 

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I don't know what is worse, the fact that you wrote that much about a PN News match or the fact that I read it and thought, "I should watch that when I get home." We are fucking nerds.

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  On 9/18/2015 at 3:15 PM, Matt D said:

Here's what I wrote about PN News/Big Josh vs the Creatures from Halloween Havoc '91:

 

 

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That was fucking fantastic.

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  On 9/18/2015 at 6:45 PM, Al said:

 

  On 9/18/2015 at 3:15 PM, Matt D said:

Here's what I wrote about PN News/Big Josh vs the Creatures from Halloween Havoc '91:

 

 

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That was fucking fantastic.

 

 

Agreed. That was a killer read.

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  On 9/18/2015 at 10:44 AM, Indikator said:

People who post Grizzly in this context plain annoy me. Either you are way too lazy or too shallow for your own good. Might as well base your opinion on Mark Henry solely based on his 1996 matches. There is no reason for me to take such people seriously anymore

Bullshit. Mark Henry stayed on national television for another two decades. PN News vanished to sparsely-attended outlaw indy shows. The only time he ever showed up in a big promotion in America again was his brief tenure as one of Da Baldies, and he wasn't exactly setting the world on fire then either.
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  On 4/6/2015 at 9:58 AM, DMJ said:

I've only seen his WCW work, but is there anything Charlie Norris does/did that was good?

When he made it to WCW he had only been in the business a few years. I would say less than 5 years. His prior experience was for the part time PWA. He wasn't ready for his role. WCW had neither the brain power to develop and nurture him. Rather they were more concerned with having their own Tatanka.

 

They stuck Norris in the ring with Titan. Then have work the bar shows for additional side work in the proto power plant system.

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I went to a lot of indie shows when I was a kid, usually to see somebody like Danielson, Low Ki, Haas Brothers, etc. Anyways there would always be somebody comically bad on the show. Guys like Mr. Ooh La La, Prince Nana, The Japanese Pool Boy, Corpral Punishment, etc were some of the worst that I saw.

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