10 Worst Movie Tie-Ins In Wrestling History.

The Goods 

Right now, Raw is bad. It’s a bad tv show. It’s been bad for a while, but somehow it’s still not as bad as the guest host era of Raw, which was f***ing unwatchable. For those of you who were lucky enough to not be watching raw at the time, and bloody hell I sure wasn’t watching at the time. From mid 2009 to 2010, every week a new celebrity would host Raw, often to promote a tv show or movie and it was nearly all horribly written, cheesy w**k.

Imagine every week being zombie week. THAT’S WHAT IT WAS LIKE. WWE is a baby show for babies. Bob Barker was good, the muppets were good and that’s it. MacGruber turning up and murdering R-Truth with explosives was bad, The A-Team showing up and chokeslamming Virgil was bad, The three stooges segment is one of the worst ever, and that happened in 2012 when wrestling was starting to get a little better, terrifying everyone. But then there’s Piven.

Jeremy Piven, who turned up to host raw with Ken Jeong to promote a movie no one remembers called The Goods, he stunk up a bunch of segments, infamously called SummerSlam ‘The SummerFest’, before getting rough housed by John Cena later in the night and wrestling is the worst, stop watching it. And many did. For a long time.


Robocop

Oh man. The original prototype. Robocop is a very famous wrestling embarrassment so I’ll keep it as brief as I can, Robocop 2 was released in 1990, and I don’t know how much money the producer threw at WCW but goddamn they took one of their PPVs, Capital Combat marketed the entire thing about the fancy metallic gentleman.

The full title of the PPV was Captial Carnage: The Return of Robocop, implying that Robert Cop was an old friend of the promotion. In fact he was an old friend of Sting, makes sense, both big heroic idiots running on basic. Sting was feuding with the Horsemen who attacked him and bundled him in a cage that was at ringside, out came Robocop, called totally straight by Jim Ross, who ripped the cage door off its hinges.

So yeah, that’s dumb, that’s real dumb, but a bit of context to explain why WCW fans hated it SO much. See 1989, the year before, if often regarded as one of the greatest years in WCW history. That was the year that saw Chi-Town Rumble, and the much acclaimed Steamboat vs Flair feud reach its peak. To go from that, still one of the highest regards feuds ever, to Robocop was seen as huge slap in the face to WCW who have always been famously more into traditional wrassling than cheesy pop-culture crossovers, which makes this next one all the funnier.


Ready To Rumble

Awww yeah, you knew it was coming. When they put the belt on f***ing Dewey. On April 7, 2000, bad movie Ready to Rumble, about two hapless dorks who try to help Oliver Platt aka the lawyer from the west wing, become WCW world champion, was released in theaters. Two weeks later, to help promote the movie, David Arquette, the lead actor from Ready to Rumble became WCW World Heavyweight Champion, pinning Eric Bischoff, who wasn’t the champion of course, in a match alongside DDP his best friend, and top babyface, but also top heel in the ready to rumble movie to make it extra confusing for the mainstream audience WCW was trying to attract.

Oh WCW.

Arquette didn’t want to do it, none of the wrestlers wanted to do it, but hell the title had been vacated four times that year already. He won the title, filmed some skits in a Hollywood backlot where everyone made fun of him for being the champion, cool, thanks for that Kurt Russell, and the whole thing came to a head at Slamboree in a stipulation officially called a Ready To Rumble Cage Match which took place using the triple decker cage from the climax of the movie, saw Arquette turn up in Spiderman villain stripper cosplay, turn heel because swerve and basically hand the belt to Jeff Jarrett as viewership crashed and burned like Kanyon being thrown from the cage. 

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3 years ago by Adam Blampied

@AdamTheBlampied

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