VHS Tape, 1987 Text by RD Reynolds Special Help for this Induction Provided by the Awesome Sucio from the F4WOnline.com Board .Be sure to check him out on Twitter by clicking rightchere! First things first: no, I have NOT posted this before. I can understand why you WOULD think that, as years ago I covered “EXPOSED: Pro Wrestling’s Greatest Secrets Revealed!” (hey look, a bonus Continue Reading...

WWE, 1997-1998 Text by Justin Henry The ‘foreign heel’ is far from a foreign concept in the annals of wrestling history. From Nazi sympathizers like Hans Schmidt and Fritz Von Erich, to desert-dwelling madmen such as The Sheiks, both Iron and regular, to admirers of the Iron Curtain in Nikolai Volkoff and Vladimir Kozlov, you could fill a UN conference Continue Reading...

WWE, 2011 Text by Justin Henry After writing countless Headlies for WrestleCrap, providing numerous one liners for the Headlie Trolla, calling in a few times to WrestleCrap Radio (my favorite instance was playing “Zombie Stu Hart”), and giving feedback to Uncle Deal himself, the time has come to check off another box on my WrestleCrap Bucket List. I’m writing an Continue Reading...

WWE, 2002 Text by RD Reynolds With WrestleMania fast approaching, I was bouncing around in my skull any horrible WrestleMania stuff we hadn’t covered over the years. And there it was, way back in the recesses of my gray matter. Something I had long repressed because of just how much I hated the whole thing. The Saga of the Undisputed Champion Continue Reading...

WWE, 2005 Text by RD Reynolds This year’s WrestleMania card is nearing its final stages, and this week we got our “Let’s Cram Some More People on the Show So Everyone Gets a Pay Day, And Hey, We’re Not Doing Money in the Bank This Year So We Need to Do Something” encounter: Team Teddy Long vs. Team John Laurinaitis. While Continue Reading...

WWF, 1996 Text by RD Reynolds Shew, got my work cut out for me this week. I mean really, how can I possibly stretch an entire induction out of a guy who I can find three matches and two promo videos on? And to cap that off, in the videos, he speaks a foreign language! An impossible task to be sure, Continue Reading...

WWE, 2007 Text by RD Reynolds One of my favorite memories of my early days of wrestling fandom was gathering around with my friends to watch Saturday Night’s Main Event. Still to this day I remember grabbing the TV Guide at Ye Olde Food Mart and thumbing through it, hoping and praying that I’d see that Channel 5, Cincinnati’s NBC affiliate, Continue Reading...

TNA, 2007 Text by RD Reynolds It seems odd to me that as TNA, err, excuse me, IMPACT Wrestling nears its tenth year in existence, they’ve never quite figured out who they want to be. They seem to change on a weekly basis from being a company that wants to be the attitude era of the WWF to wishing to be Continue Reading...

WWE, 2003 Text by RD Reynolds One of the biggest complaints I hear about WWE today is that it’s PG. People don’t like that things are toned down, censored if you will, and long for the ‘good, ol’ days.’ I get it. I understand it. It’s because people remember seeing stuff like this: See, that’s the kinda thing you don’t forget. Continue Reading...

WWF, 1995-1996 Text by RD Reynolds Sometimes, things in a wrestling ring just leave you speechless. Things like this. I put serious thought into just posting that image, and being done with this induction. Poor Erik Watts. He threw that horrible dropkick like 20 years ago, and hardcore poindexters such as myself remember it to this day. The sad thing is Continue Reading...

Australian TV, 2009 Text by RD Reynolds I gotta admit, I’ve been pretty bummed out this week. My seemingly never-ending battle with step throat remains…uh…never-ending, and that, combined with Blade suffering yet another concussion (I think it’s time to buy that boy a helmet) have delayed WrestleCrap Radio #200 yet again. It really stinks, because I have been looking forward to Continue Reading...

WWF, 2001 Text by RD Reynolds I know I’ve mentioned it countless times over the years, but I am a huge fan of Chris Jericho. And not just because he emailed me once saying he made fun of the Hardys when I posted the Jynx Brothers induction. No, it’s because I think, when given free reign to do whatever he wants, Continue Reading...

TNA, 2007 Text by RD Reynolds How did this disaster survive for years without an induction? Look, I’m the first to admit that as I’m getting older my memory is going. I see things that I know are Crap-worthy, and after the grace period of the calendar year, I put them up for the Gooker voting. If they lose…I forget them. Continue Reading...

Syndicated TV Show, 1989 – 1991 Text by RD Reynolds If you’ve been around this site for any time at all, you know that your old buddy and your old pal RD Reynolds is a huge video game freak. Whether it be rushing out to eBay hunting down old Dreamcast games, having a full-sized WrestleFest machine in my house, or playing Continue Reading...

TNA, 2010 Text by RD Reynolds Hot off the Faxtrolla comes the news that TNA is changing its name and will now be known simply as Impact Wrestling. While many in the know, such as Dave Meltzer, claim that this change will have zero effect on the struggling company and is more or less a waste of time, I respectfully disagree. Continue Reading...

WWF, 1987 Text by RD Reynolds Oh man, here we go again. Time for another “guy dresses up as a woman, amuses no one” induction. Can I just cut and paste the text from the Harvina induction and call it a night? Or Sammy? Or Kloudi? Sigh. After 11 years of writing inductions, I notice that a few of the same Continue Reading...

WWF, 2001 Text by RD Reynolds You know what I love? You know what really makes me laugh? The folks who point to the WWE Hall of Fame as if it’s some legitimate entity that really decides who the best in the business are. I can’t even fathom there are people in this world who really believe that this sham is Continue Reading...

WWF, 1991-1993 Text by RD Reynolds Let it be known that back in the early days of WrestleCrap.com, I got a lot of hate mail from folks who vehemently disagreed when something they had fond memories of hit the site as an induction. That was always strange to me; did people truly feel that if I wrote something it was cast Continue Reading...

WWE-ECW, 2009 – 2010 Text by RD Reynolds There were warning signs. There were warning signs that I shouldn’t do this induction. Now please don’t misunderstand me: there were no warning signs that The Abraham Washington Show shouldn’t be inducted. That was never in doubt, because that thing was horrible, and it was horrible for like 80 weeks straight or however Continue Reading...

WWF, 1985 Text by RD Reynolds Once upon a time, many years ago, there was no such thing as the internet. Older wrestling fans can recall the days of literally mailing tapes to each other, and the joy of going to your mailbox to discover what your pen pal (so named because you actually wrote to each other via a ball Continue Reading...

Text by F4WOnline Forum Member Bone Machine Note from RD: There aren’t a whole lot of rules ’round these parts at WrestleCrap.com, but we do have one: we never induct anything inside the same calendar year it’s begun. The logic behind the rule is that you never know when something that looks horrible will turn the corner and be great. Continue Reading...

WCW, 1999 Text by RD Reynolds; many thanks to the F4W BOARD (in particular Alan4L for providing the footage) Of all the amazing things I have seen in wrestling over the past 25 years or so of watching it, nothing has been more incredible than its unparalled ability to take gorgeous women and make me never want to see them ever, EVER again. Continue Reading...

WWECW, 2007 Text by RD Reynolds I know a lot of you hated the WWE re-incarnated version of ECW, and for years, I stood amongst you with the torches and pitchforks. Lately, though, I’ve had a fond recollection for the show. Think about all the great times we had on those Sci-Fi Tuesday nights. Remember when Kelly Kelly was an exhibitionist Continue Reading...

WWE, 2008 – 2009 Text by RD Reynolds and Triple Kelly So yes, it’s Halloween (or thereabouts) and as we always do ’round here, we start scrambling to figure out what to induct for the holiday. This year, it wasn’t even a question: I knew from the day he debuted that Kizarny was the scariest freakin’ thing I’d ever seen. Not Halloweeny enough Continue Reading...

TNA, 2008 Text by Triple Kelly and RD Reynolds Over the years, I’ve done a lot of interviews about this here website. I always enjoy doing them, as it’s a lot of fun to blabber on regarding the stupidity I’ve seen this last decade. Invariably, I wind up getting the same questions over and over, the most frequent of which is “has anyone Continue Reading...

WCW, 1999 Text by Triple Kelly and RD Reynolds The subject of celebrity appearances in wrestling promotions is a hot topic for fans of the sport. There are a few good ones out there (none of which are coming to mind) and bad ones (of which nearly all are coming to mind). Usually the worst appearances are when celebrities are worked into an Continue Reading...

TNA, 2009 Text by Triple Kelly with RD Reynolds OH. MY. GOD. I…….I…….I’m speechless. I am literally at a loss for words. I have just witnessed the absolute worst wrestling match I have EVER seen in my life. This accounts for everything I’ve seen in the WWF/E, Crockett’s NWA, Turner’s WCW, the original ECW, the AWA, Herb Abrams’ UWF, GWF, WOW, GLOW, WCCW, Continue Reading...