100 Worst WWE Matches Ever - 47 - Blake Beverly, Brooklyn Brawler & Little Louie vs. The Bushwhackers & Macho Midget
Raw, August 9th 1993
This is the kind of review I dread.
Not just because, as a seven minute Raw match there’s only so much you can talk about. Not just because there’s little interesting to say outside of noting its obvious misgivings. Not just because I have to rewatch this multiple times in the process. But because of all the wrestling that has ever existed in this strange world, this is the stuff I hate above all others.
That’s not to say I’m adverse to slapstick comedy. I grew up on Mr Bean; Fawlty Towers is one of my favourite TV shows of all time; and Airplane! may be the greatest comedy film ever made. The problem is this isn’t funny, witty or charming. This is the kind of perverse entertainment that could only come from the deranged mind of a psychotic millionaire. I am fully convinced that only one man that has ever lived or will live would find enjoyment out of watching this match, and unfortunately for us we have to listen to that man cackle maniacally on commentary while we watch a bunch of unfunny (and depending on your perspective, offensive) comedy. Speaking of commentary, the viewing experience is made all the more insulting as we watch the Macho Midget parodying Randy Savage - a man we have to listen to on commentary because the company didn’t think that he was worthwhile as an in-ring talent anymore. Old, washed up. So instead we get … this. Six minutes of horrible comedy that goes on seemingly forever, featuring midgets, jobbers, and the Bushwhackers. It’s everything you think it will be, but somehow worse. It’s quintessential 1993 WWF.
At just six minutes long on a random episode of 1993 Raw, you may wonder how a match like this has found itself above the Concrete Crypt Match, a Jinder Mahal WWE Championship match, and Eric Bischoff vs. Teddy Long on our list. Well if ever a moment in human history felt as if time inched along like the five minute battle between Goku and Frieza on dying Namek, it is this match right here.
I will not indulge this kind of nonsense by discussing the work involved any further. There is no nuance, no grand overarching narrative or interesting insight to be had.
To the reader I say, avoid this and move on with your life.
Up Next - I suppose we should be thankful that the worst thing that came from a wrestler being found unconscious in a hotel room is this match.
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