5 Worst wrestling matches of 2006

#2 Shelton Benjamin vs. Viscera – New Years’ Revolution 2006

Unfortunately, 2006 would start off badly for two men saddled with bad gimmicks on RAW.

Shelton Benjamin was an excellent wrestler who had allegedly insulted a WWE legend backstage, and was thus saddled with a ‘Momma’s Boy’ gimmick which featured a heavy-set woman acting as his loud, over-bearing mother. Viscera was turning into ‘the world’s largest love machine’ and wrestled in silk pajamas, despite being a notoriously below-average wrestler.

So while Benjamin tried his best to make this contest work, he was fighting an uphill battle. This ended up being your typical WWE ‘swerve’ match, with one wrestler doing 90% of the offense, only to be screwed in the end by some kind of shenanigans. In this case, Viscera powered out of Benjamin’s holds and other offense and threw him around like a rag doll. At one point, he even got on top of Benjamin and started making not-so-subtle pelvic thrusts on him.

Worse, none of Benjamin’s earlier offense seemed to even dent Viscera, but getting hit with ‘Momma’s’ purse was enough to distract Viscera so that Benjamin could hit one move and win the match.

So to summarize, the person that had the biggest impact on this match was a non-wrestler shouting loudly and hitting someone with her purse. WWE’s midcard booking at its finest.