5 worst wrestling matches of 2007

#3 Team 3D vs. LAX – Lockdown 2007 - Electrified Cage Match

Team 3D vs. LAX

A prime example of ludicrous wrestling writing, this match can be best described as ‘asinine’. You had two tag teams who, under normal circumstances, could put on a good match together. However, this wasn’t just a normal cage match they were in; they were in an electrified cage match.

The basic concept was that there was some kind of electrical current connected to the steel cage, meaning that anyone that physically touched the cage wall would be ‘electrocuted’. Now, electricity isn’t usually seen outside of a natural lightning bolt, so the creative team in TNA had to do something do show fans that the wrestlers were being ‘electrocuted’. They did this by flickering the lights on and off and having the wrestlers convulse in a fake way as if electricity was coursing through their bodies.

As if this wasn’t enough, the bookers came up with a ‘way out’, of sorts, to deal with the cage being electrified. All a wrestler had to do was put on a pair of ‘rubber gloves’ and this would negate the effects of the electrical current (hey look, it’s TNA: The RPG, where you equip these magic items and you’ll be able to surpass the electrified cage).

How anyone could book this nonsense is still a mystery to this day.