Category Archive for "Active Inductions" | WrestleCrap

Induction: The WWF Sumo Match – Yoko and Quake battle for squatter’s rights

32 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 25 August 2016, 20:00

WWF, 1994 WWE Raw has seen a lot of unconventional competitions over the years, from arm wrestling to posedowns to musical chairs, but its first non-standard bout came in May 1994, when future friend of Wrestlecrap John “Earthquake” Tenta and Yokozuna squared off in a “sumo match-up”. This was not to be your typical WWF match, and to hammer this Continue Reading...

INDUCTION: Adrian Adonis’ Assistants, Mr. Bruce and Jack Darling – Just What You’d Expect from 1986 (or 2016) WWF!

40 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 18 August 2016, 20:00

WWF, 1986 From the “You Don’t Need to Be Gary Spivey to Know This Won’t End Well” file comes this tidbit, courtesy of our pals over at f4wonline.com: No. No no no no no no no no no. NO. Wait, that wasn’t quite large and bold enough. NO! Please please please, WWE, please…just…don’t. Please? I’m asking nicely? I say that because Continue Reading...

Induction: Sable Unleashed – What was she doing on the leash in the first place?

24 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 11 August 2016, 20:00

WWF Home Video, 1999 Sable was without a doubt the WWF’s top “diva” during the Attitude Era. But back in early 1999, times were hard on a male wrestling fan with a difficult-for. Excuse me, I mixed up my words. I meant that times were difficult for a male wrestling fan with a… uh, never mind. My point is, back Continue Reading...

Induction Special: The Commitment Ceremony Revisited- I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Billy

34 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 11 August 2016, 16:00

WWE, 2002 As part of a three-part induction special, I have decided to revisit the Billy & Chuck wedding, which bridges the gap between last week’s HLA induction and next week’s induction of the HLA match. The original induction of Billy & Chuck’s commitment ceremony is available rightchere for Crappers with access to the Archives. Have you heard of the Continue Reading...

Induction: HLA – 2 Girls, 1 Cup… of Crap! Uh, Wrestlecrap.

73 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 11 August 2016, 15:00

WWE, 2002 WWE is no stranger to publicity stunts. Whether it be the “sale” of Raw to Donald Trump, the “Battle of the Billionaires,” or basically any angle involving Donald Trump, Vince McMahon has been known to make desperate grabs for mainstream media attention, typically at the expense of regular viewers who watch his programming in spite of (and not Continue Reading...

INDUCTION: Ric Flair on Lizard Lick Towing – A Repo Reality Show With NO Barry Darsow? FOR SHAME!

27 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 04 August 2016, 20:00

Reality TV Show, 2013 I remember when I was a kid wondering why there were never television shows that just followed normal people around during their daily lives. Surely, I thought, there are folks in this world that are interesting enough all by themselves that they wouldn’t need scripts or props or sets to make for entertainment worthy of my Continue Reading...

Induction: NXT Kids – No kangaroos were harmed in the making of this pilot

16 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 28 July 2016, 20:09

WWE, 2015 WWE is always cooking up new programming for its Network. Many of these shows target specific demographics, like women (Unfiltered with Renee Young), middle-aged men (Legends’ House), and really immature teen boys whose moms don’t know how to use the parental controls (Camp WWE). And of course, kids. Early this year, WWE taped an episode at Full Sail Continue Reading...

INDUCTION: The Nitro Girls Website! All You Chameleon Fans, Your Day Has Finally Arrived!

41 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 21 July 2016, 20:00

WCW, 2000 I know it sounds impossible to believe, but I am forever on the lookout for new ideas for the site. In my quest for such freshitude, a while back I did the first ever WrestleCrap Deadsite Induction (stealing the idea from our friend Matt over at Dinosaur Dracula), in which I jump into a time machine and go back Continue Reading...

INDUCTION: The Tables vs. Ambulance Match – Who Knew These Two Inanimate Objects Hated Each Other?

25 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 07 July 2016, 20:00

WCW, 2000 WWE is trumpeting the fact of late that they’ve just put the last 80 or so eps of WCW Monday Nitro on the Network. Good for them. Better for us. Actually, I should say BEST for us, because if you are on this here website, that means that you yearn to see the absolute worst of pro wrestling and Continue Reading...

Induction: Racket Girls – Sleaze? In women’s wrestling? Impossible.

28 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 30 June 2016, 20:00

Movie, 1951 This week’s topic may just be the oldest thing ever inducted into our hallowed halls. It’s older than WWE. It’s older than the WWF. It’s older than the WWWF. It’s even older than the Capitol Wrestling Corporation. It’s… …it’s a T&A flick from 1951. “Racket Girls”… …or, “Pin-Down Girl”… …or, “Blonde Pick-up”… …was a 70-minute long excuse for Continue Reading...

INDUCTION: Throw Mickie From The Train – You Didn’t Tie Her to the Tracks? FAIL

50 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 23 June 2016, 20:00

Impact Wrestling, 2014 This here website loves Mickie James. I dare say that no single person in the business has been mentioned more by us; we’ve been doing WrestleCrap Radio for over ten years, and in nearly every episode she has been referenced. While Blade Braxton obviously obsesses over the poor girl, I just find her to seemingly be a Continue Reading...

Induction: The Teddy Long-Kristal Marshall Wedding – Holla Holla Matrimony

37 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 16 June 2016, 20:00

WWE, 2007 Today’s induction certainly is a timely one. Just two weeks ago, the subject of this story was featured on Raw, only to be put down, berated, and completely undermined as a viable character by Stephanie McMahon. No, I’m not talking about Charlotte or Kevin Owens or Seth Rollins or Lana or AJ Lee or Kaitlyn or Big Show. Continue Reading...

INDUCTION: The Bungee Cord Match – If You Like Dangling Feet, This is the Match For You!

44 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 09 June 2016, 20:00

Global Wrestling Federation, 1992 It’s somewhat amazing that after over sixteen years of running WrestleCrap.com, I still come upon horrible matches, stupid angles, and ridiculous characters I’ve never seen. The bout I’m inducting today falls into that category. It’s not that I’d never heard of it; as a guy running a site about the very worst in pro wrestling, I Continue Reading...

Induction: Gene Snitsky, Accidental Abortionist: A Miscarriage of Justice

44 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Fri, 03 June 2016, 14:00

WWE, 2004-5 (For part 1 of this induction, click here) As a rule, wrestling pregnancy angles never end well. First of all, they are very difficult to follow through on: the “pregnant” woman must for up to nine months avoid taking bumps, wear baggy clothes or some sort of prosthesis to appear to be with child, and sell the angle Continue Reading...

Induction: The Saga of Matt Hardy and Lita and Kane: You people found this less awful than the Diva Search?!

33 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Fri, 03 June 2016, 12:59

Nary a year goes by without a wedding taking place in a wrestling ring. This year, Bully Ray tried to tie the knot with Brooke Hogan. Last year, it was Daniel Bryan being jilted at the altar by AJ Lee. Wrestling weddings are so commonplace and so consistently wacky that, frankly, about the only thing you would never expect from Continue Reading...

Claire Lynch: The 2012 Gooker Award Winner

86 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Fri, 03 June 2016, 12:50

TNA-Impact, 2012 It was funny, prior to the Gooker voting this year, the very great Justin Henry and I were discussing the various candidates. Make no mistake, there were some doozies in 2012, from all the goofiness with the Aces & 8’s to AJ Lee’s various lovers to Natalya’s nonstop flatulance. Despite the multitude of choices, he explained to me Continue Reading...

Induction: WCW’s Asylum match – La Cage aux Folles

17 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 02 June 2016, 20:00

WCW, 2000 As I’m sure you all know, it was way back in the 1880s that Ferdinand von Lindemann and Karl Weierstrass proved in their eponymous theorem that you can’t square a circle. Still, that hasn’t stopped wrestling announcers from calling the ring a “squared circle” anyway for the past century or so. This week’s induction, however, gave new meaning Continue Reading...

INDUCTION: Afa and Albano on Miami Vice – Capt. Lou Takes Chokeholds Too Far

15 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 26 May 2016, 20:00

NBC, 1987 Text by Guest Author LeVar Ravel It was the 1980s. America had fallen in love with a sharp-dressed detective in sunglasses and his racial minority sidekick fighting bad guys, with heaping helpings of drugs, murder, and mayhem all amidst the sunbaked glitz of Miami. You know the show. What you may not know is that there was actually Continue Reading...

Induction: Pierre, The Hardcore Reindeer – Did we ever see him and The Barbarian in the same place?

36 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 19 May 2016, 20:00

WWF, 1999 The year 1999 was a hard one for Al Snow. For one thing, that was the year Wal-Mart stopped selling his action figure because it came packaged with a toy mannequin head. See, according to two professors of Communications, the woman’s presumably severed head promoted “the brutalization of women” to young, impressionable boys. It sounded as silly and Continue Reading...

INDUCTION: The Menagerie – FUNFACT: Carnies Frown Upon Pro Wrestling

39 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 12 May 2016, 20:00

TNA Impact Wrestling, 2014 A few weeks back, during an induction about the first WWF video game ever made, I dropped in a note about how I am now helping to run The Skycade arcade at The Skyline Drive In in Shelbyville, Indiana. It’s been a fun endeavor, and I urge everyone to come and check it out when you Continue Reading...

Induction: John Cena vs. Michael Cole – Cena adds a “D” to B.A. S.T.A.R.

25 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 05 May 2016, 20:02

WWE, 2012 Have you heard the big news? John Cena is returning way early from yet another serious injury! This time around, he’s set to return to Raw on Memorial Day, which is only fitting given the history that Cena and Memorial Day have together. Back in 2012, Cena missed the Memorial Day edition of Raw, which drew a frighteningly Continue Reading...

INDUCTION: WWF Microleague Wrestling – The FIRST – and perhaps WORST – WWF Videogame Ever!

33 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 28 April 2016, 20:00

WWF Computer Game, 1987 Want to impress your video game geek friends? Then quiz them thusly: what, pray tell, was the first ever WWF video game? Be prepared to laugh heartily at them when they no doubt blurt out… WrestleMania on the NES! WRONG! Also, please mock them if they have any fond memories at all of this absolutely atrocious game. Continue Reading...

Induction: Barbara “BB” Bush – EMT stood for “Extremely Massive… Technician”

27 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 21 April 2016, 20:00

WWF 1999-2000 Well, Crappers, it seems that after a rocky start, the Divas Revolution has finally achieved its first major success: namely, getting WWE to stop calling it “The Divas Revolution.” In fact, WWE abruptly dropped the whole “Divas” branding entirely, creating a new Women’s title to replace that ridiculous butterfly belt the ladies had been fighting over for years. Continue Reading...

INDUCTION SPECIAL – The Worst WWF Magazine Covers of the 90s!

57 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 14 April 2016, 20:00

WWF, 1990s The following confession is probably going to drown me in hate mail, but I was never, ever a fan of the WWF Magazine. While the magazine was no doubt the best looking wrestling publication until WOW Magazine hit newsstands, it just did nothing for me. RD Reynolds? Always an Apter Mag guy. Give me Pro Wrestling Illustrated, Inside Wrestling, The Wrestler. I’d Continue Reading...

Induction: Mongo McMichael, referee – As easy as… pause… 1… pause… 2… pause…

22 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 07 April 2016, 20:00

TNA, 2008 Bound For Glory is TNA’s biggest show of the year, so you might expect them to emulate WWE’s biggest show, Wrestlemania. For example, when WWE knows a ‘Mania match is going to suck, they typically stick Steve Austin in as a special referee to spice things up. In the case of Bound For Glory 2008, the scheduled Monster’s Continue Reading...

Induction: Wrestlemania XI – The Grandest Stage of the Mall

84 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Sat, 02 April 2016, 02:00

WWF, 1995 When it comes to ranking the top ten Wrestlemanias of all time, Wrestlemania XI doesn’t exactly spring to mind, and this was true even in 1995, when there were only 11 Manias to begin with. The first thing you’ll notice about Wrestlemania XI is that its intro recalls moments from every Wrestlemania to date, but precisely zero of Continue Reading...

Guest Induction: Roman Reigns’s first year as champion – Sufferin’ Suck-otash!

10 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Fri, 01 April 2016, 12:00

In years past, we at Wrestlecrap have commemorated our anniversary on April 1st with guest columns. This year, we’re going one step further by reaching out to a writer not from another publication or field, but from another dimension altogether. For the first time ever, we’re happy to present a special induction written by Art0Donnell’s counterpart from a parallel universe. Continue Reading...

INDUCTION: Bad News Piper – Like Al Jolson, Michael Jackson, and Tiny Tim? This is the Feud for You!

41 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 31 March 2016, 20:00

WWF, WrestleMania VI, 1990 One of the highlights of running this here website for the last sixteen years (yes, WrestleCrap turns Sweet 16 this April 1!) has brought me is the ability to talk with various personalities in the wrestling business. Be it my dear friend “Earthquake” John Tenta, Lance Storm, or Vince Russo, I’ve been blessed to be able Continue Reading...

Induction: The Wrestlemania 31 Intercontinental Title Hunt – Turd is the Word

40 Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 24 March 2016, 20:00

WWE, 2015 By now we’ve all heard that Stuart “Wade Barrett” Bennett won’t be renewing his WWE contract later this year. It’s a shame, really, since Barrett was at one point, astoundingly, getting over with the fans with his “Bad News Barrett” gimmick — and as a babyface, no less. Then again, it’s perfectly understandable why Barrett wouldn’t care to Continue Reading...

INDUCTION – Sting and the Guard Bird – Memo to WWE: Induct the Bird! We Did!

36 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 17 March 2016, 20:00

TNA Impact Wrestling, 2011 I know a lot of folks who are really excited about Sting going into the WWE Hall of Fame. Without question he deserves the accolades being thrown about. While he was never one of my personal favorites, he generally seemed to be a guy who did what he could with whatever he was given. He never Continue Reading...