So Bad It's Horrible/Professional Wrestling: Difference between revisions

Okay, so these weren't exactly the best [[Professional Wrestling]] ideas anyone's ever had, but really...can you blame 'em? (Answer: Yes. Yes we can. And that's what the term "[[Wrestlecrap]]" is for.)

 

'''''Important Note''''': If something bad was an isolated incident or simply stupid, it was probably a [[Wall Banger/Professional Wrestling|Wall Banger]]. Merely being offensive in its subject matter is not enough to justify a work as So Bad It's Horrible. Hard as it is to imagine at times, there is a market for all types of deviancy (no matter how small a niche it is). It has to ''fail to appeal even to that niche'' to qualify as this. To qualify as Horrible ''here'', it should have actually damaged the business in some way — i.e., hurt a wrestler's drawing value or offended real-life fans to the point that they quit watching.

 

== ECW ==

** [[Kurt Angle]], fresh from his gold medal win in the 1996 Olympics, attended this show to set up working a program with Taz; he refused to do it after seeing the Raven-Sandman crucifixion. Angle went so far as to refuse calls from any wrestling promotion for a few years, and he threatened to sue ECW if they aired the footage of him at that show. The footage of the crucifixion ''and'' Angle's appearance at the show was revealed for the first time on ''The Rise and Fall of ECW'' DVD, which was made well after WWE had bought ECW.

* There's also the infamous "Mass Transit Incident". New England resident Erich Kulas wanted to get a chance to wrestle when another wrestler faced travel issues and had to no-show an event. The problem? Kulas weighed 350 pounds, was seventeen years old, and had no in-ring ability. The solution? Kulas [[Really Seventeen Years Old|lied to ECW bookers about his age]], experience, and schooling background (he said he was trained by Killer Kowalski) -- and even had his father back him up. Kulas, who wore a bus driver's uniform and went under the name "Mass Transit", was thrown headfirst into a hardcore match alongside D-Von Dudley against The Gangstas (New Jack and Mustapha Saed, the former of which is pretty much ''synonymous'' with [[Garbage Wrestling]]). The lowlight of the match came when New Jack bladed Kulas on the forehead and made him bleed ''heavily''. Either way, he was left in a pool of his own blood. The fallout? New Jack was arrested, ECW's first pay-per-view ''Barely Legal'' was cancelled (it was quickly uncancelled after fan outcry), and a civil suit was filed against New Jack well after the event (although the criminal charges were dropped when it was discovered Kulas lied to the bookers and personally asked New Jack to blade him, via audio from the incident). Unrelated to the wrestling, but still somewhat sad, is the fact that Kulas died in 2002 from complications during gastric bypass surgery at the age of 23.

** Longtime tag team partners John Tatum and Jack Victory end up at odds...over profits from a pizza delivery service they owned together.