Arn Anderson & Dangerously in a tag match where the Maryland Athletic Commission ruled that man-on-woman contact would not be allowed. But then Windham was moved to the World title match, leaving us with Rick Steiner & Missy Hyatt vs. The night was topped off by a second cage match that was supposed to feature the Steiner Brothers & Missy Hyatt facing Arn Anderson, Barry Windham & manager Paul E. The show started with a Scaffold Match where the competitors were prevented from falling off the scaffold due to ridiculous “capture the flag” rules, and top to bottom the show was filled with friends of Flair who had their spirits broken by his firing and were in no mood to put in any effort on that night. Now, a bad main event might have been a hole that the show could have dug out of, but everything that preceded it killed them off in advance. KEITH: Four times wrestlers held their belts hostage! The audience completely rejected everything about the situation, chanting “We want Flair!” throughout the entire show and essentially crapping all over the main event like it was Roman Reigns against Brock Lesnar. Champion, and the match was booked to end with Lex turning heel (because WCW) and taking on Harley Race as a manager. Even worse, Luger hit his stride as a top babyface and long-reigning U.S. The replacement main event was hastily turned into Luger facing Barry Windham in a Cage Match for the vacant title, and no one was buying what they were selling with that one. So that backfired on him, as Flair called their bluff and left for the WWF with the belt, just days before the Bash show where he was scheduled to lose the title to Lex Luger. WCW was already a raging dumpster fire in 1991 as it stood, but President Jim Herd took things to another level by firing Ric Flair as a contract negotiation ploy - while he was World champion. This one is basically the go-to answer when wrestling fans are asked what the worst PPV of all-time is, and for good reason. Granted, some of these are shooting fish in a barrel, but not everyone has been watching for decades and had to live through it. So here then are my picks for the five PPV disasters that were somehow even worse than Backlash, and the fallout that they had on the industry. Well, I mean, they could be. But for the sake of variety, we’ll pretend there’s other companies in contention. Sure, it caused “RAW” to crash with one bad rating, but there’s been shows so bad they’re brought down regimes. Still, even though Backlash was terrible to levels that could easily be called “historical,” we still haven’t had time to properly process where it lands in the annals of the truly wretched shows that have plagued us over the years.
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