5 Worst Wrestling Matches Of 1992

#2 Sting vs. Jake Roberts – Halloween Havoc '92

This match being awful is not the fault of either wrestler. Instead, blame falls squarely on the head of Bill Watts, who was WCW’s booker in 1992. Watts had some unusual rules and creative ideas, and this was one of them. He had a concept called ‘Spin the wheel, make the deal’, which meant that the match type would literally be decided by chance.

The stipulation? A Coal Miner’s Glove match. A match that required two men to race up a turnbuckle and retrieve an item. This was a ridiculous concept that made the match look more like a joke than a serious fight between two bitter rivals.

Because of the random stipulation, Roberts and Sting couldn’t have a good match at all. The entire match consisted of a continuous holding pattern where one of them would hit a move, stare each other down, circle each other in the ring, and repeat. By the time the eponymous Coal Miner’s Glove came into play, it didn’t make any difference as outside interference by Cactus Jack and a ‘defanged cobra’ caused the match to end via shenanigans.

This was easily one of the worst ways to end a wrestling feud, and serves as the perfect example of why ‘spinning wheel with different stipulations’ is a disastrous concept that needs to be avoided at all costs.