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Extreme Rules has been an annual event ever since 2009 and has definitely been the stage for some interesting match stipulations. The show is billed as "The one night of the year where WWE gets extreme" and over the past decade, the company has definitely followed through on that promise.
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Whilst there have been no official match stipulations announced for this years show yet, it's the one night a year where the creative team can come up with some of their strangest stipulations and the WWE Universe will lap it up.
This year's Extreme Rules definitely has a reputation to follow, since there have been some interesting gimmick matches at the event in recent years.
#5. Handicap Hogpen Match where the winner gets the title of "Miss WrestleMania"
At WrestleMania 25, Santino Marella, dressed as his own twin sister Santina entered the Miss WrestleMania battle royal and shockingly managed to win after eliminating Melina and Beth Phoenix. After successfully defending his title of Miss WrestleMania against Phoenix, he put it on the line against Vickie Guerrero on an episode of Raw and lost.
The feud between Santino/a and Guerrero heated up before it was decided that they would face off at Extreme Rules in a hog pen match, which is exactly as you would imagine, with both stars fighting it out in a mud pen surrounded by pigs.
Ahead of the match, it was announced that Chavo Guerrero would be wrestling on behalf of his aunt and the match then became more of a one-on-one affair before Santino was able to knock Chavo out and pin Vickie to win back his title.
Interestingly just a few weeks later Donald Trump was a guest host of Raw and he fired Santina and the Miss WrestleMania title was then forgotten about, so in the grand scheme of things, this was quite a pointless match.
#4. Extreme Makeover Match
The Women's Revolution wasn't in full swing back in 2010 which could be why Michelle McCool and Beth Phoenix weren't allowed to wrestle in a hardcore match, so the company toned it down into an Extreme Makeover match for the Women's Championship.
This was much like a Hardcore match except there were all sorts of women's products scattered around the ring including ironing boards, hairspray, and mops. This was a match that really didn't need a stipulation since both women were capable of stealing the show if given a chance, but the added objects seemed to take down the tone and only served to help Phoenix to become a three-time Women's Champion.
#3. Tag Team Country Whipping Match
After Michael Cole defeated Jerry Lawler at WrestleMania XXVII, it was decided that the best follow up match at Extreme Rules a month later was a tag team match that also included poor Jim Ross and former World Champion Jack Swagger.
Rather than this being a normal match, the week before Swagger and Cole attacked Ross with his own belt which is why it was decided that the stipulation would make this a "Country Whipping match."
This match could easily be seen as one of the worst that the pay-per-view has ever housed, somehow it was able to last for around 10 minutes and saw some intensity when it came to whipping each other, but the end came when Cole was able to pin Jim Ross so that the feud between him and Lawler could continue much to the dismay of the WWE Universe.
#2. WeeLC Match
Even though this match did technically take place on the pre-show back in 2014, it could still easily be considered one of best gimmick matches in the history of the show. Hornswoggle and El Torito had been brought into the feud between Los Matadores and 3MB and so the duo was forced to fight it out in this incredible match.
With their teammates at ringside, WWE put together an assortment of TLC objects that were made much smaller as well as their very own announce team who had some incredible names including Jerry Smaller, Micro Cole, and JB-Elf.
The match itself saw both Hornswoggle and Torito show off their skills in the ring as they were even able to take the fight to the outside and their full-size teammates before it was Torito who picked up the win with an impressive springboard through a table.
#1. Kiss Me Arse Match
Unsurprisingly, this was a match that Sheamus actually challenged Dolph Ziggler to, after weeks of the two superstars being at odds. As ever, Sheamus and Ziggler pulled it out and put on a fantastic match before "The Showoff" seemingly pulled off the win from out of nowhere and left The Irish star in a position where he had to kiss Ziggler's ass.
Ziggler put himself in position, but Sheamus shockingly assaulted his opponent before he then forced him to kiss his arse whilst he was seemingly out cold. This feud continued into Payback the following month where Ziggler got his revenge when he finally forced the former World Champion to puck up and return the favour.
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