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Ranking WrestleMania Participants by WAR: Numbers 230-211

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Take a Picture, It Will Last Longer: WrestleMania Participants by WAR: Numbers 230-211

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We are at the moment you have all be waiting for..."0" WAR! That means that several people could've easily been replaced and WrestleMania would have been the same with or without them. Ok, so some of them are Hall of Famers and the best in the business today, but in theory that makes them of no value to the overall product of WrestleMania. Let's see what other losers appeared just in the negative value.

Prequel-How Rankings are Calculated

Numbers 389-371

Numbers 370-351







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230. Matt Bloom Etc. ( Prince Albert, Albert, Hip Hop Hippo, A-Train, Giant Bernard, Lord Tensai, Sweet T, Jason Albert, Good Lord)

2 Matches
SCORE= -0.15

Yes, the man with many nicknames and none of them good, Prince Albert was in a can-do spirit during his two Mania matches. He managed to pick up the victory against the legion of rap stars at Mania 16, but lost at Mania 19 to Undertaker and Nathan Jones. So a lost to the Undertaker is a good mark Calloway on your skills. But rest assured, Bloom has now moved on to greener pastures and about 4 new nicknames.

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229. Luna Vachon

2 Matches
SCORE= -0.15

Up next is perhaps the craziest female in the history of the WWE roster. This lunatic appeared in the only inter-gender/height/clown matchup in Mania history at Mania 10, then appeared in an inter-gender/boxer/Goldust matchup at Mania 14, splitting the winnings. She then disappeared to chase trick-or-treaters off her lawn every Halloween.

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228. Rusev (Alexander)

2 Matches
SCORE= -0.15

RUSEV CRUSH!!! The Bulgarian turned Russian turned Bulgarian turned celebration day Brute was undefeated going into his first Mania match for the U.S. Title at Mania 31. He faced John Cena for the title, take a guess how that went? But he got a redeeming victory over New Day at Mania 32, only to be greeted by Mick Foley, Shawn Michaels, and Stone Cold. Take a guess how that went? It was not a very happy Rusev Day at Mania.

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227. "Big" John Studd

2 Matches
SCORE= -0.15

Up next is "Big, but nowhere near as big as Andre The Giant thereby looking minuscule by comparison" John Studd, towering over most of the roster of the 80s. But he looked like Dink against Andre during the WrestleMania 1 Body Slam Challenge, followed up by getting eliminated by William Perry at Mania 2. He did a few more referee jobs and won the 2nd Royal Rumble for some reason, then he fled back to Narnia never to be heard from again.

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226. Marty Jannetty

3 Matches
SCORE= -0.13333333333

In another world, Marty Jannetty is the greatest wrestler of all time. But in this timeline, he just competed at Manias 5-7 alongside some lame blonde hair guy. He lost to our next competitor at 5, Murder on the Orient Express at 6, and beat the Geico Cavemen at 7. Then his face met the glass of a barbershop and he was cut from WWE programming. Still quite a hairy situation.

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225. One Man Gang (Akeem the African Dream)

5 Matches
SCORE= -0.08

The 80s had a lot of weird and terrible gimmicks (not as many as the 90s), but one of the less weird was One Man Gang. He appeared in the infamous WrestleMania 4 "Greatest Tournament of All Time in Theory" twice, getting a win and a loss. Then for some reason, Vince thought "Apartheid is a good subject to bring up, let's make him Akeem the African Dream" and appeared in back to back Manias 5 & 6, once again splitting. Thankfully, it would take another decade for the Gang Man to return, making him one of the 5 best gimmicks in the Mania 17 gimmick Battle Royal. So maybe sometimes Vince should reconsider a few gimmick ideas.

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224. Don "The Rock" Muraco

4 Matches
SCORE= -0.075

Ah, ah, I told you in the last section "The Rock" would be on this section very low. Ok, so it's the boring guy (albeit Hall of Famer, so congrats) with a bunch of blah matches in the early years of Mania. But it was at Mania 4 when he had his greatest match of all time in the tournament, taking on Dino Bravo in an "Audience Falls Asleep" match, and he won! We think, no one ever re-watched that match to remember. But give it up for Muraco for just being a notch below mediocrity.

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223. Mosh

3 Matches
SCORE= -0.06666666666

Fairing slightly better (in matches, not attire) than Headbanger "A" is Headbanger "B" Mosh, also know as Chaz in some circles, who basically just laster longer in all of the forgettable tournaments and elimination matches of the Attitude Era Manias than his counterpart. But oh he was so close to making it to the Malcolm in the middle, so Frankly Muniz'ed us into the level playing field (that one sucked, make a better pun...oh wait this is live....screw it we'll do it live!)

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222. Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart

6 Matches
SCORE= -0.06666666666666

I feel a little bad for Jim Neidhart. He is one of a handful of wrestlers to compete in 6 straight Manias. He finished 3rd at Mania 2's NFL Battle Royal, won a six-man tag match at Mania 3, entered another tournament at Mania 4, won a tag match at Mania 5 and 6, and lost the tag titles at Mania 7. But you would never know that because his partner basically took all the spotlight while Jim ran back to Canada via moose-mobile or something like that.

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221. David Otunga

2 Matches
SCORE= -0.05

One win at Mania 28's circus act, one elimination at Andre Royal 30, one relationship with Jennifer Hudson law degree, and one commentary job that can be described as "There". Ok we're good.

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220. Harley Race

2 Matches
SCORE= -0.05

Just missing out on absolute 0 (or -373 degrees Kelvin) is all timer Harley Race. He was in a battle royal once and humiliated Junk Yard Dog in another Mania, and that was the extent of his Mania time. Like Bruno before him, I don't think Harley could give a hoot about WrestleMania and proceeded to just beat up people in a saloon somewhere.

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219. Danny Basham

1 Match
SCORE= 0

We've reached 0! Our first 0 is obviously this buffoon, who lost a 4 way tag match at Mania 20, but didn't take the pin like his partner Doug. So oh Danny boy, the 0's the 0's are calling, from end to end....I'm not Irish so I'll move on.

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218. Rene Dupree

1 Match
SCORE: 0

Same situation as Danny, the other four-way tag match had Rene Dupree losing as well, but not taking a pin like his partner. But he's French so he has some good puns I could make. Let's see, he was Nice in his effort, but it was a very Siene performance. Escargo was not in WrestleMania expertise and you can baguette up for another profession! Yay, I win!

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217. Nunzio

1 Match
SCORE= 0

The rest of this list today contains seven of the ten members of the WrestleMania 20 Cruiserweight open who appeared and lost, never to be seen on Mania matches again. So our lowest is this loser, because I wanted to make Italian puns, but then I fear the D'Amico crime family would make me sleep with fishes. I'll bass!

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216. Shannon Moore

1 Match
SCORE= 0

This isn't what Shannon Moore looks like in the Mania 20 match, but this is definitely funnier.

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215. Akio (Jimmy Wang Yang)

1 Match
SCORE= 0

This isn't what Akio looks like in the Mania 20 match, but this is definately funnier.

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214. Jamie Noble

1 Match
SCORE= 0

While Jamie Noble was relegated to serfdom in this match, he gets bonus points for at least appearing in a Mania later as an ironically unfit security guard for Seth Rollins.

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213. Billy Kidman

1 Match
SCORE= 0

He's really good at flying, he's the first man that gravity forgot, but he forgot to land a victory in this match.

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212. Ultimo Dragon

1 Match
SCORE= 0

I was going to give him the top spot of the losers of this Mania 20 match, but he meant less to WWE than the other guy, even if he is a breath of fresh air in other promotions.

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211. Tajiri

1 Match
SCORE= 0

Gotta give it to the Japanese Buss Saw, he almost made a bigger name but he just...green mist...the victory at Mania 20.

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And that covers the losers section of that match and ultimately this countdown, as everyone else has either a net WAR, or positive contribution to Manias. Tomorrow we climb up the positive ladder, including these rungs:

-Two of our best "0" performers have recent Mania experience, but I have a feeling you may know them for their contributions outside of Mania a little more.

-The greatest hero in wrestling history, although more-so for his outside wrestling heroics.

- The guy Ric Flair sends to Vegas when there is a signing and he doesn't want to attend.

- A man who was the greatest at his craft tries his best in the ring.

We are about halfway there! Now we are living on a nightmare to get through this. Until tomorrow.

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