5 Worst Wrestling Matches Of 1994

2. ‘Jungle’ Jim Steele vs. The Equalizer

Sometimes all it takes to ruin a match is a flat ending

This nothing match got rated -2.5 stars by the Wrestling Observer, and it’s easy to see why. It features two wrestlers with limited skill, one of them appears to be trying to impersonate Jimmy Snuka.

Bad gimmick aside, this match would’ve been completely forgotten had it not been for the finishing move Steele used to win. Out of all the hundreds or thousands of wrestling moves used by 1994, Steele won with…a Lou Thesz Press.

You know, that move ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin used to take someone down before punching them while on top of them. Only Steele didn’t even hit the punches afterwards. He just hit the move and it was enough to get a three-count. Not even Lou Thesz, who invented this move, has ever been recorded to have won with it.

The match was boring, uninspiring, and apart from that terrible finish, void of anything memorable. It just goes to show you how wrestlers in Japan, ECW and even WWE were lightyears ahead of some of WCW’s wrestlers in 1994.