8Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 23 June 2022, 20:00
WWC, 1990 I am man enough to admit when I’ve made a mistake. On old man social media a few weeks ago, I asked for some horrible matches to induct. While I can quickly point out the most craptastic characters and storylines in wrestling, I sometimes draw a blank when someone prompts me for a stupid match. I can’t explain Continue Reading...
22Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 16 June 2022, 20:00
AEW, 2019 Two weeks ago, RD emailed me with a special assignment: WrestleCrap’s first-ever induction from AEW. Apparently, a lot of people out there think we’re somehow biased in favor of All Elite Wrestling. While that’s plainly false, it was up to me to put such rumors to rest. But what from AEW was bad enough to warrant an induction Continue Reading...
14Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 09 June 2022, 20:00
Stampede Wrestling, 1981 For over a year, I’ve heard the same complaints about us never inducting something from that “other” promotion. Some have claimed we never will due to some errant notion that we don’t ever see anything wrong there, or that we are on someone’s payroll behind the scenes. I think today’s induction will show that we’re listening Continue Reading...
19Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 02 June 2022, 22:20
Theatrical short, 1937 If there’s one thing I love to do on this site, it’s dig up old, old wrestling. A Superman wrestling episode from 1952? A women’s wrestling movie from 1951? Nah, I said old wrestling. Wrestling from back when Mae Young was a rookie. Wrestling from back when World War I wasn’t called that yet. It’s good fortune that Continue Reading...
16Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 26 May 2022, 20:00
WWF, 1986 The term “hoss fight” gets thrown around a lot these days it seems, but in reality, such a thing is nothing new in pro wrestling. In fact, it’s what the business was largely built upon – two giant meaty men clobbering each other with reckless abandon. And truth be told, we are pretty fortunate with what we get Continue Reading...
8Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 19 May 2022, 22:01
2016-2018, WWE In 2015, KFC re-cast the role of Colonel Sanders after the death of their original founder (in 1980). The company’s commercials featured a string of guest Colonels, from country music’s Reba McEntire… ….to Seinfeld’s Jay Greenspan. While this author felt that simply giving some random person the title of Colonel was a slap in the face to Harland Continue Reading...
35Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 12 May 2022, 20:00
WWF Computer Game, 1987 (Quick note from RD: No new induction this week due to a scheduling conflict (we’ll be back on schedule next week) but here’s a blast from the archives!) Want to impress your video game geek friends? Then quiz them thusly: what, pray tell, was the first ever WWF video game? Be prepared to laugh heartily at them Continue Reading...
9Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 05 May 2022, 08:00
Animated Movie, 2017 My son is something of an animation aficionado. Don’t get me wrong – he’s a kid of 2022, preferring to watch a 15 second YouTube video over a two hour movie, but he knows his stuff. While he doesn’t love every animated flick, he has a pretty incredible knowledge of when films were made, what they were Continue Reading...
8Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 28 April 2022, 22:36
Movie, 1998 It’s mind-boggling to consider that this website launched before some of the wrestlers we watch on TV were even born. And while we don’t take lightly our role as the internet’s arbiter of what is and isn’t crap in pro wrestling, many readers take it way more seriously than even we do, thoughtfully weighing in on whether this Continue Reading...
21Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 21 April 2022, 20:00
Cartoon, 1992 Sometimes I question if I get a bit too obscure with the inductions I pen, and this is definitely one of those times. While children of the 80s and 90s remember Garfield, I sincerely doubt most anyone else does. I mean, the last major item featuring Garfield was a pretty horrible movie in 2004, which by my count Continue Reading...
8Submitted by Art0Donnell on Mon, 18 April 2022, 20:00
WWE, 2020 The second the War Raiders showed up on Raw as the Viking Experience, they could never be taken seriously again. My only explanation for this unforced error is that Vince heard the name “Ebony Experience” during Harlem Heat’s Hall of Fame speech, and a light bulb went off in his brain. Or an aneurysm. Either way, the intimidating Continue Reading...
5Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 07 April 2022, 20:00
WWE, 2021 As I write this, WrestleMania 38 has just hit the books. And in many ways, it felt like truly, finally, the end of an era. The Undertaker going into the Hall of Fame “Stone Cold” Steve Austin returning to the ring after 19 years for his “final” match. And of course, Vince McMahon doing… …whatever the heck this Continue Reading...
18Submitted by Art0Donnell on Fri, 01 April 2022, 12:00
2008, Película de televisión 100% Lucha, la película es una película basada en 100% Lucha. ¿Complicado, no? También complicada es la letra del tema musical, pero creo que la tengo correcta: Cien por ciento lucha/Cien por ciento lucha/Cien por ciento lucha/Cien por ciento lucha/Cien por ciento lucha/Cien por ciento lucha/Cien por ciento lucha/Cien por ciento lucha Para los curiosos, 100% Continue Reading...
19Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 24 March 2022, 20:00
Nickelodeon, 2006 Nickelodeon is no stranger to us here at WrestleCrap. After all, a kids network like that is fertile ground for pro wrestling cross-overs, and has been since we first saw it on cable television. Heck, even Bobby Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon got in on the action way back in the 1980s (which you can read about here). Let’s Continue Reading...
14Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 17 March 2022, 22:09
Syndicated TV, 1996 Over the past year or so, I’ve been watching every episode of Baywatch. While that may sound like a dumb idea, the payoff was to be an induction of the Shawn Michaels episode. I figured that watching all the previous episodes would give me a better understanding of the series and its characters, which is an even Continue Reading...
9Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 10 March 2022, 19:32
NWA, 1988 I’ve never been a fan of basketball. I suppose part of that is my physical makeup. I’ve always been a tall person, and even though I wasn’t 6’5″ in grade school, I was generally much bigger than my classmates. It was inevitable that people at school suggested I play basketball and I attempted to do so. My height Continue Reading...
11Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 03 March 2022, 22:38
WWE, 2021 In my last induction, I chronicled the Zombie Lumberjack Match, a bout that topped many a worst-of list for 2021. And as a hokey concept showcased on pay-per-view, it was certainly the highest-profile stinker of the year. But if you skipped RAW every week and only watched the PPVs like a sensible person, you would have missed perhaps Continue Reading...
13Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 17 February 2022, 20:00
WWE, 2015 A couple of years ago, I took my son to his first ever night of pro wrestling matches. It was right before the pandemic hit in full, I want to say perhaps November of 2019. RD Jr. has never been a huge fan. While sometimes a high flying acrobatic match or goofball wrestler might catch his attention, more Continue Reading...
18Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 10 February 2022, 21:51
WWE, 2021 Since the late 2000s, the so-called “zombie apocalypse” has dominated pop culture. And for the most part, it’s been very, very annoying. From social media tags to compatibility questions on dating sites, one can’t go anywhere online without having to explain one’s role in a fictitious undead survival scenario. For years, posts about the zombie apocalypse littered my Continue Reading...
8Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 03 February 2022, 18:28
1998 Sony Playstation vs. 2022 Social Media Recently on old man social media (ie, my Facebook page), I noted how sad I was that MC Skat Kat was not available on Cameo. It was nothing more than a stupid joke about a rather ancient Paula Abdul video, but amazingly it got a ton of attention. I mean, you have to Continue Reading...
53Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 27 January 2022, 20:00
As a brand dedicated to developing wrestling talent, there’s more than a little irony in NXT itself evolving and flourishing beyond all expectations, only to be punished for it. Premiering in 2010 as a hybrid wrestling/reality game show for aspiring Superstars, the original NXT soon devolved into a farce that announcers openly mocked, and that SyFy booted off television. After Continue Reading...
19Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 20 January 2022, 14:52
Out with the old (which was good), in with the new (not so much)! All herald our 2021 Gooker Award winner, the transition from the black and gold heaven that was NXT to the multi-colored rainbow nightmare NXT 2.0. There was a worthy crew of competitors, but in the end, Vince’s Frankenstein took the “prize”. There is sooooo much to Continue Reading...
14Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 13 January 2022, 19:05
Pro Wrestling Hotline, 1980’s Unless you were a fan in the mid 1980’s to the turn of the century, I don’t think you can fully grasp just how prevalent hotlines were in the world of professional wrestling. In the days before the world wide webs, getting wrestling news wasn’t very easy. Sure, you could hit the local Super-X and grab Continue Reading...
81Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 06 January 2022, 20:00
Another year come and gone…and is often the case, it was chock full of some of the worst pro wrestling has ever seen! The real question, though is this: what was the very worst of the very worst? What deserves the legendary WrestleCrap Gooker Award? Using the same creeky old poll mechanism we’ve used since 2003(!!!!!), we present to you Continue Reading...
12Submitted by RD Reynolds on Tue, 21 December 2021, 20:00
TV movie, 1996 I’ve been doing these non-wrestling Christmas movie inductions for so long I don’t even remember when I started…but if you are somehow new to the site, I always take the last induction of the year off from horrible wrestling and instead write about horrible Christmas movies instead. You can check out the entire collection by clicking here. Continue Reading...
9Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 16 December 2021, 21:28
WWF, 1999 It’s amazing to ponder the butterfly effect in wrestling. Consider this: There’s a straight line running from Vince Russo thinking up a Stephanie McMahon-Test romance with no end game in 1999… …to Triple H being a lock to take over as WWE Chairman in this, the Year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Nineteen. [RD – Could you Continue Reading...
17Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 09 December 2021, 20:00
WWE, 2019 The holidays are fast approaching as I write this, and you know what that means: food, and lots of it. I suppose it’s due to the celebratory nature of the season that we gorge ourselves in what is at times a completely absurd manner, but you ain’t hearing me complain about it. No joke, I diet like a Continue Reading...
12Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 02 December 2021, 21:16
WWE, 2008-2009 Colt Cabana is known as a lot of things: indy wrestling veteran, NWA champion, Dark Order member, lawsuit plaintiff. But one thing he’s not typically known as is “WWE Superstar”. And yet, for a span of six months, Cabana graced WWE rings (if only for a minute or so at a time). He wasn’t called Colt Cabana, though. Continue Reading...
5Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 24 November 2021, 19:57
WWF, 2001 They’re baaaack! Three years ago, you may recall that I inducted a WWF float that somehow, for some reason, appeared during the 1994 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It was like a Nyquil-fueled fever dream, and the sight of Paul Bearer yukking it up with Doink the Clown, having the times of their lives, will forever be etched into Continue Reading...
2Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 18 November 2021, 20:00
WWE Studios film, 2016 “We make movies.” That’s what Vince McMahon once said about WWE. And in a sense, he’s right, given how many film roles they’ve crammed their Superstars into over the years. WWE Studios films generally fall into one of four categories: The animated children’s comedy, the live-action family comedy, the prestige picture where Randy Orton threatens to Continue Reading...
