5 Worst wrestling matches of 2006

#1 TNA Reverse Battle Royal

I’m going to try and explain the rules of this match as best I can. If you get confused, please don’t blame me; blame TNA for taking a time-tested concept like the battle royal and transforming it into something asinine.

The match starts with twenty or so wrestlers brawling around the ring chaotically, with the first eight wrestlers to get into the ring by climbing over the top rope moving onto the next phase. These eight men then had to fight in a regular over-the-top-rope battle royal, having spent the first half fighting desperately to get into the ring. Then, apparently, the final two men would compete in a singles match to determine a winner.

As you can imagine, this was a complete mess. Wrestlers were brawling incoherently around the ring, and because only a select few were supposed to enter the ring, there were a few men that were literally standing around doing nothing because they knew they weren’t supposed to enter the ring.

It was completely asinine, convoluted and unnecessary. TNA was so desperate to be ‘innovative’ and ‘novel’ in wrestling that they took a simple and time-tested concept and made unnecessarily stupid and hard to follow.