5 Worst Wrestling Matches of 1991

#1 Bobby Eaton & PN News vs. Steve Austin & Terry Taylor – Scaffold Match - The Great American Bash 1991

The scaffold match is one of the dumbest and craziest match types in the world. Its biggest premise is wrestlers on a high platform, and you know that a lot of people are going to watch just to see if someone falls off of it.

It’s also potentially career-or-life-ending if you fall, so the wrestlers involved in this match decided that none of them wanted to actually take the suicidal bump off the scaffold (after all, the actual scaffold was a three-foot-wide wooden plank which looked like it would snap at any moment).

So instead of winning the match by throwing someone off the scaffold, this match was a ‘capture the flag scaffold match’ which involved taking your opponent’s flag and bringing it to your side.

While that’s obviously safer than falling off the scaffold into the ring, it made the contest boring beyond belief. Almost nothing happened, there was only one actually dramatic moment, and the match ended flatly.

Though, let's be honest, anyone would’ve been terrified to be wrestling in such a position, so the fault here lies with the bookers for forcing four wrestlers to compete in one of the most asinine concepts ever conceived.

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