The first Botchamania that was officially made by Maffew. It featured no Randy Savage quote at the beginning and began Maffew's trademark video editing style of mixing "in-ring" botches with cuts to "promo" botches and the occasional feature on a string of botches from one particular match or matches. The soundtrack was not the familiar video game soundtrack of Maffew's current videos but featured a variety of different styles
With less hits than SmackDown, it's Botchamania 184: Lance Storm Eagle! Music...(mostly from Mega Man X2) Money by Flying Lizards Opening by Kissing The Mirror (Everytime I Bang -ZERO-) Wheel Gator Stage by Yuki Iwai (Mega Man X2) Sigma 1st by Yuki Iwai (Mega Man X2) Wire Sponge by Yuki Iwai (Mega Man X2) If You Want Blood, You Got It by AC/DC Title Theme by Akito Nakatsuka (Excitebike) Theme of Zero (Zero's Theme - MegaMan X2) by Capcom Sound Team (Marvel vs Capcom 3) Superstar by Murray Head with the Trinidad Singers Thanks to... BillZeroism for the Wrestling Pro Weekly show link Deep Throat for the FWA footage. Tyson Kidd for the Delhi footage. Cheers Tyson! Kenady13, MXWF, WWXWCE and drpickledickle for the endings.
The video that’s basically filler until Dixie Carter does another ‘Ask Twitter’, it’s Botchamania!
Worn out like John Cena’s elbow and Kurt Angle’s liver, it’s Botchamania!
Botch.
Blacker than Michael Hayes, it’s Botchamania!
More surreal than Kane with real hair, it’s Botchamania!
With more delays than the WWE Network.
With two unannounced matches, it’s Botchamania!
The video series that listens to it’s fans almost as much as WWE does, it’s
Punk is dead, long live Botchmania!
The appendix of wrestling (and by that, I mean it can be removed at any time).
Cheaper than a night with Buff Bagwell and guaranteed to last longer.
More filler than a ham and pease pudding.
Easier than Sunday mornings.
A more guilty pleasure than red-flavoured Doritos.
We could all do with a cheer up after the streak ending, the Ultimate Warrior passing away and TNA putting the belt on Eric Young.
What better way to celebrate the site being not-dead than with Botchamania 250?
The hole in the wrestling doughnut.
Fuelled by Patreon.
Quick, watch this video before Emma stuffs it into her purse and buggers off out the shop.
More of a letdown than that Sting advert (or rather ”more of a letdown when you people finally see him wrestle”).
As life-changing as the cancellation of Impact.
Funnier than Bully Ray getting inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame and immediately leaving the company.
Every time you watch Raw, you're reminded to watch Botchamania and every time you watch Botchamania you're reminded to wipe your arse. Anyway, here's Botchamania 262: Tony Hawk's Heath Slater 2! Thanks To... The great Jim Smallman and the even greater PROGRESS Wrestling crown in the Electric Ballroom for making me feel like Elvis for one night with the chanting. Thanks forever and thanks for the cider. You may consider including these clips in this video self-indulgent. You'd be right. Codster9 for the Eye Power Rangers ending. Music... You Talk Too Much by Run-DMC ARMOR ARMARGE STAGE by Capcom Sound Team (Mega Man X) E. Gadd's Lab by Kazumi Totaka (Luigi's Mansion) I've already typed about Survivor Series on the website and on OSW, so I'll just compliment the main event again and move on. progresswrestling.com is a site you should pay attention to and that's the end of the description box.
As welcome as finding shit on your pillow, it's Botchamania 265: Velvet Skyrim! Thanks To... Kenny Williams for the lovely intro Codster9 for pointing out Kane & Big Show's elimination The Philadelphia crowd for the salt God for the bad weather Music... Cursed Prison by More Yamasan, B. Hasake, S. Kajiya, Mayu, Miya, Kaori Nakabai, L. Shigeno (Ninja Gaiden) Why Can't We Be Friends? by WAR Nothing Ever Changes But The Shoes by The Wildhearts Fortune Teller by Koji Kondo (The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past)
Like Jeff Hardy on a quad-bike you know it won’t end well but you’re going to watch them anyway, it’s Botchamania 274: Bo Dallas Baseball! Thanks To… SMASH Wrestling for the huge bag of cash Enrique The Superfan for the lovely Bobby Fish intro Nick Maniwa for Corp. Robinson G-Man for the 1PW DVDs Talk’n Shop podcast for the audio of Gallows and Anderson @nickrockradio for JR/Heyman ending Codster9 for even more Simpsons endings Sam Baxter for helping suggesting the Barney ending. Blame him if you didn’t like it but praise me if you did. Music… Everything Is AWESOME!!! by Tegan and Sara feat. The Lonely Island Main Theme by Paul Webb, Kingsley Thurber (WWF Royal Rumble, SNES) Jurassic Dope by AKI, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Michiru Yamane (Contra Hard Corps) Have I Got News For You by Big George
Hotter than Hell, colder then gin it’s Botchamania 275: O Captain! My Captain Lou Albano! Music… Title Theme by Nathan McCree (Asterix and the Great Rescue) Main Theme by Jon Hey (NBA Jam, SNES) Snake Eyes by Matt Furniss, Shaun Hollingworth (Wiz n’ Liz) William Tell Overture (Abridged) by Wendy Carlos A whole load of 80s and 90s cartoon intros. See how many you can name and win fuck-all! Thanks To… Attack Pro Wrestling’s Eddie Dennis for the fabulous intro Hoodslam, Mark Johnston, Juice Appleton, Nick Maniwa, Kevin Ford, Indie Wrestling Archive, George From Macomb, Dickie Divers (yeah, the actual one) and Michael Jordan (no, not that one. Well maybe) for the misc. clips section Chris Ferguson for pointing out the Xavier/Kofi mix-up. ChristaThorWhor for the He-man. Nick Maniwa for Jimmy Jacobs and the table. Elijah Grimes for the Regal ending. Tri.Moon for doing the blood on the golDEANeye 007 ending. I love that there’s references to Clockwork Orange, Cape Fear, NBA Jam (the old one), plus Mega Drive music and a ton of vintage cartoon intros…and kids watch these. These should come with disclaimers to say ”Recommended 25 years and above, not because of content but all this shit will be lost on you.” It’s a good thing ‘people falling over to music’ is timeless.
The best series of accidents online since Dixier Carter last logged onto her e-mail account, it's Botchamania 276: Whore of The Orient Express! Thanks To... Oleg The Usurper for the fabulous intro and tripping over Xircon Zircon for sending me that Seal cover sirwombat for the Eden moment I missed George from Macomb for the crazy lucha dive Kris Levin for the Mr. Fuji trip RobViper for Argos Adam Lash and The Indie Wrestling Archive for the glass match Shane Kotlyar for Texas Dingo Ruben for Kingston's fall Codster9 for the I Quit ending Music... Seal - Kiss From a Rose [VRC6 Cover] by Fearofdark Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) by Joan Jett Zephyr by AKI, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Michiru Yamane (Contra Hard Corps) Donut Plains by Soyo Oka, Taro Bando (Super Mario Kart) Silence by Yumiko Kanki (F-Zero) The Nutsmasher (Parodius DA!) by Anonymous DoD Contestant
Two words, shit sandwich. It’s Botchamania 277: Yoshi’s Woolly World Wrestling Entertainment! Thanks To… MK Mckinnan and Trent Seven for being very polite considering they would have been justified slapping the shit out of me. The match they’re talking about was at CZW Down With the Sickness 2011 against BLK Jeez and Joker. And yes, it was awful. BUT THEY’RE GOOD NOW, GO FOLLOW THEM. Codster9 for suggesting Randall from Recess because I don’t know anybody called Randall. Alex Ewing for suggesting that Smash Mouth song. Brad Smith for the awesome Ed, Edd and Eddy CZW lever. Music… TOMAHAWKMAN STAGE by Capcom Sound Team (Mega Man 6) All Star by Smash Mouth (Mario Paint Composer) by phantomtaco132 Bentley Bears It All (Crystal Castles [Atari 2600]) by Anonymous DoD Contestant Ode To Joy by Ludwig van Beethoven Notes… It’s amazing to see the biggest wrestling company in the world somehow manages to mess up the audio for big events. Fastlane and it’s quiet-arse crowd was bad enough but at Elimination Chamber nearly every spot-call could be heard clear as day, no matter how well the wrestlers tried to hide it. I didn’t put every example in as too much spot-calling in the videos annoys some so I just put the best examples in. Plus the whole point of EVERYONE TALKS TOO MUCH is mocking bad spot-calling, so when the issue is with the mics/the tech guys it doesn’t seem fair. Cena’s got no excuse though. You may disagree on other teams stopping other teams pin-fall attempts in elimination matches, but it literally makes no sense so I stand by it. I’ve done the Full Metal Jacket audio before for Homicide in the Steel Asylum match, but it’s too good to use just once. Kevin Owens vs. John Cena was the highlight of a weird PPV. Raw and WWE PPV are generally great at the minute though. There was a lot that couldn’t be fit into this video thanks to how messy the IC Title Chamber match ended up being. So it means the next v
Dumber than buying PC games on the day of release, it’s Botchamania 278: A Boy Named Hugh G. Rection! Thanks To… Eddie Kingston for the lovely intro xSmootx for pointing out the BroMans thing Too Hot For TV and Jerry Springer for the great clips Music… Opening Credits by Tanaka/Yoshitomi/Totaka (Mario Paint) Careless Whisper (Chiptune cover) by Kubbi Clockwork by Yoshinori Sasaki, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto (Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse) Gourmet Race Stage 1 by Jun Ishikawa, Dan Miyakawa (Kirby Super Star) GRAVITY BEETBOOD STAGE by Kinuyo Yamashita (Mega Man X3) Battle 1 by Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger) Notes… Money In The Bank had some great wrestling and some shite decisions. That review could have been said for most WWE PPVs of the last few years. Eddie Kingston’s done an intro before but I don’t care. He scared me on Twitter for ages by repeatedly asking me ”when are we fighting?” The AJ Styles table is hopefully one that ‘works’. It’s hard to tell sometime. Argos is the first Sin Cara’s brother. The crap one. The TNA/ROH ending footage is from Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 Ending audio is from Dr. Strangelove.
Music… The Doomsday Zone by Howard Drossin (Sonic 3 & Knuckles) Bottles’ Puzzle Challenge by Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Kazooie) Level 4 ~ Germany by Nathan McCree (Asterix and the Great Rescue) Thanks To… Euegene for the lovely intro Excerpt from The Bryan & Vinny Show bosox1304 for the shin destroyer Gregory Conley for Darren Young clip SOME GUY for Michael Dante breaking up his own pin Kevin Raphael Ferrigano and Phillip Ferrigon for the Steiner chair
Bigger than Magic Mike XXL, it's Botchamania 280: A Matter Of Life and Dr. Death Steve Williams! Music... Dr. Fetus' Castle (Ch 5 Dark World) by dB soundworks (Super Meat Boy!) Stage 4 Part 1 by Naoki Kodaka/Nobuyuki Hara (Batman: The Video Game) Endless Mine by Howard Drossin (Sonic 3 & Knuckles) Thanks To... Flash Morgan Webster for the fabulous intro Joshua Montell for the horrible WCW match Codster9 for the CZW Pokemon lever and the first three endings.
Now with 100% less Hulk Hogan, it's Botchamania 281: Prometheus & Bob Holly Music... LAUNCHER OCTOPULD STAGE by Setsuo Yamamoto (Mega Man X) Level 1 Boss by Nathan McCree (Asterix and the Great Rescue) Credits by Grant Kirkhope (Perfect Dark) Funny Angry by Kazuo Hanzawa, Jun Irie, Hideki Matsutake (Dynamite Headdy) The Odd Couple Theme by Neal Hefti The Poets 1 by Motohiro Kawashima (Streets of Rage 3) Thanks To... RoleplayHumor for the Minecraft intro @TallShowSW and @Brindmeister for pointing out the 2013 graphics. Good eyes, guys.
Pointless as a broken pencil it's Botchamania 282: CJ Parker & Recreations Music... Star City by David Wise (Diddy Kong Racing) Storyline by Tommy Tallarico, Donald S. Griffin (Aladdin, Mega Drive) Stage 03 by David Wise (Beetlejuice, NES) Thanks To... The great Beaver Boys for the fabulous intro Giancarlo Dittamo for the Jake The Snake Porta Potty incident. That nice guy on twitter whose name I lost for the Summer Rae clip and match. @thesixthchild for the STELLA ending. He used to type for TheWrestlingFan.com so go him. Martin Croser for the now-topically incorrect Havok ending. eimoyano for Prokane and Prokane accessories Jermaine de la Motte for the Owens' Troll Jonathan Palmer for CHOICES Tonny Benne for Zoidberg (he suggested it, I made it) Wrestling Memes for the GOT spoiler fest
it's Botchamania 283: Born Under a Bad Sign Guy Dudley! Music... Downtown Sweet Day by Hajime Wakai, Ryo Nagamatsu (Nintendo Land) Stolen Materia by Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy VII) Sunshine Of Your Love by Cream Welcome To The Jungle by Guns 'n' Roses Level 7 (Eyeland) by Fumito Tamayama (Decap Attack) Thanks To... Dan Edler of IPW: UK for the fabulous drunk intro DVLH & Nick Maniwa for the JCW Table Wrestling Memes for the Mortal Kombat ending Codster9 for another fancy Pokemon ending that'll get uploaded elsewhere and un-credited by CenaLad and WrestlingJokesLOL and the rest
Lucha Underground's over but let's cheer ourselves up with Botchamania 284: It Takes a Nation of Domination to Hold Us Back. Music... Relight my Fire by Shigeki Sako (Outrun 2019) Cloud Cuckooland by Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Tooie) Thanks To... The great Pastor William Eaver for the fabulous intro @Profsomething for the instagram of Barrett falling over in ''Auustraayylia'' @VLPhotography2 for the photos of the briefcase Rw Jc for the video of the fans getting thrown out
Hitting wrestling lower than The Undertaker's kicks, it's Botchamania 285: Mo Sean Mooney Mo Problems. Music... In Paris Chiptune by Ralph Vickers (Rakohus) Sky Sanctuary Zone by Howard Drossin (Sonic 3) Stage 5-3 Technocity by Masanori Ohuchi, Aki Hata, Masanori Adachi, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Michiru Yamane (Rocket Knight Adventures) Thanks to... The Amazing And Handsome Enrique for The Human Tornado intro Codster9 for suggesting the Missingno intro GetDown for the Samoan Drop TNA WRESTLER WHO MAY OR MAY NOT BE DJ Z for the DTU footage M M for the Uso pen Bryan & Vinny for the Smackdown audio
Buffering quicker than The Network (hey, that's not joke) it's Botchamania 286: Enter The Wu-Tang Clan: 36 Elimination Chambers! Music... Area 2 - Vexin' Volcano by Jun Chikuma (Mega Bomberman) Boring by Masaya Matsuura (Parappa the Rapper 2) You Talk Too Much by Joe Jones Thanks To... The Bucky Boys (who were together for er, contractual reasons) and the just-as-good Wee Man for the fabulous intro G-Man for the Stixx vs. Camerama footage. ''For fuck's sake'' Hunter DeSander @HDmexiqtione for sending me the Joe Jones song Some guy on the BM FB who suggested the Dumb and Dumber audio. Message me for credit, sorry mate. Rikki Cook for the Incredibles idea. Kelly Samperi for suggesting The Simpsons Movie bit. I added the shitty Dunn head though. A whole bunch of people for requesting the Vegeta DBZ Abridged audio Steve Austin's podcast with Sean Waltman for the audio for the last match
Botchamania 287: Roddy Piper at the Gates of Dawn is recommended for all wrestling fans. Even the ones that chant ''We Are Awesome.'' Music... Heggy's Egg Shed by Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Tooie) Boss Battle by Jake Kaufman (DuckTales: Remastered) Darkmoon Caverns by David Wise (Diddy Kong Racing) Thanks To... Josh Shooter & JXT for the fabulous intro. Cheers fellas! The Invasion Podcast for the big wad of cash. Cheers fellas! JKL Network for the Dean Ambrose fan footage. I think they're the ones that shot it, sorry if this isn't true. chris op & WWEHampton for the Owens/Cena footage wrestlerx and half of Squared Circle for the Bob's Burgers ending Codster9 for the Zoidberg ending and I take full blame for the other endings, including the Snuka one. Thanks to Alex Ewing for the idea.
This episode was hugely delayed because my SSD died on it’s arse and then when I got a replacement, I was moving house. The Kingston brands are supposed to last about five years, this killed itself after two and a half, must have been all that shitty wrestling. So the special thing for the 350th episode is this getting made. If you’ve sent me something like an ending or a clip, don’t worry about it not being in THIS episode. This one is held together with duct tape and prayer (and that’s just the hard drive). Because of the huge delay, obvious things like IWA-MS Elbow Guy and AAA TripleMania are clearly absent because of the fifteen minute time limit. So they’ll be in the next vid, honest. Especially considering IWA-MS Elbow Guy sent in a video assuring people he wasn’t dead. Summerslam 2017 was a hell of a slog but the main event, Usos vs. New Day and Cesaro & Sheamus vs. Not The Shield were worth watching. But whatever your feelings were, we got a new EVERYONE TALKS TOO MUCH intro from Braun so hooray! Best Summerslam since 1992. TREE FIDDY was mandatory. ”Evacuated” is from the first episode of The Wire Season Five. Because of relentless re-watching, I will never forget the correct way to use that term. The music from the botch bit is from the cool Mega Drive tribute called Duck Game. I love it (but don’t play random people online, it’s worse than COD.) Catchphrase was a popular game show in the 90s in the UK. I don’t apologise to the Americans who want to see Bob Barker or something, the rest of the world put up with The Ball Family, you can put up with UK stuff. ”I got that line fucking wrong” is from Bottom, another UK classic from the 90s. The Brain On Drugs advert is older than 90% of the viewers but I think it still works. I actually didn’t think Enzo’s version of Eat The Feet (or Eat Defeat, whichever one it is) was that bad because I’m so used to seeing Enzo’s unique style of wrestling. I was
Fuck me dead, Triplemania. Where to begin? I can’t remember the last time an entire event dominated a Botchamania. Victory Road 2011 or Elimination Chamber 2015 probably. DJ Z, Aerostar and others were involved in fun matches but the bad bits were SO FUCKING bad that it cancelled those out. Easily the worst PPV of the year. What’s the worst PPV of the year so far, Battleground? That was like caviar compared to this dog food. Here’s Kevin Gill’s length defence of the commentary at the event (in the interest of fairness): ”The ring announcer announced winners before matches were over in some cases. The ring music of winner was played before matches ended in some cases. The Spanish announce team sat out the “key to glory matches” that we were asked to jump on commentary for right before they went to the ring. We had no names for any of the around a dozen people in these two matches. And no one went through the Spanish announce table at any time which is just wrong! The trios match features team members fighting each other for some reason. The team battle royal had lumberjacks surrounding tjenring and TEN teams of trios aka teams of 3, except in the case of team global force who were all seperate individuals. 2 of them inexplicably fought each other and disappeared from the screen never to be seen again, while a possibly socially lubricated JJ threw tortillas and beer at the crowd. Ps the lumberjacks all disappeared as well. There were no onscreen identifying graphics for ANYONE. No one in the crowd recognized ray escoprion in street clothes but I’m a bad commentator because I also didn’t recognize him. Meltzer reports backstage production people did not have a show format. Rules were ignored so it made me Cautious to emphasize rules or stips until I saw them actually be enforced. And finally, maybe someone can smarten up the LuchaBlog community to the concept of announcers being given guidelines to work with. That w
”I made a mistake” is from Get Carter. It was the first thing I could think of involving ”brits” and ”messing up.” Sin Cara’s new gear match is from months ago, I gambled on them not using them for ages to make it better in hindsight. And it paid off, Cara’s still not been on TV. In the time it took to use Cornette in a clip in GFW, he left. There was a wrestler in the 70s called Hercules Cortez, this wasn’t him. Alan4L assures me the reason he got Jurn Simmons and Matt Riddle mixed up was because he watched Matt Riddle vs. WALTER from PROGRESS immediately before commentating that wXw match. When I say ”many lucha fans were angry” I’m going by that one guy on Squared Circle comparing not knowing Wagner’s catchphrase to not knowing Macho Man said ”ooooh yeah” a lot. Pretty sure WWE only lost to WWF and Jesse Ventura in lawsuits.
That’s supposed to be a ring-post hiding Cesaro’s teeth. It’s a hard thing to place over Marge Simpson and look normal. Yes I know Cesaro didn’t lose teeth, they went inside him but I’m working with what I’ve got here. The film with Death playing Cluedo is Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. It’s way better than the first film. AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THE RULES is of course The Big Lebowski. Jesus don’t tell me you’re reading this description to find out about that film. The GFW commentator said on Twitter he meant Bobby Roode was jumping from NXT to Raw. Of course he did. Considering all the stuff that gets sent to me and I live in the UK, I’m surprised I only found out about that PROGRESS Three-Way Tag Match recently. I assume everyone in the crowd was paid off with shut-up money. A bunch of people suggested the Shrek kick but oldgregch actually made the ending so he gets the thanks. I went to Germany for wXw and it shows how many frigging WWE PPVs (network specials) there are now as there’s been two since the last Botchamania and TLC is soon too. I mean it’s great and all because it’s keeping the Botchamania boat afloat but I’ve already forgotten most of the matches from No Mercy. I’ll not forget Braun vs. Brock though which is my vote for Biggest Letdown 2017.
TLC was better than expected thanks to meningitis but yet in the modern world of a million hours of wrestling a week, was still forgotten a few days later even with Angle and Styles. But that’s always going to happen when you make the PPVs DREAM MATCH FACTORIES with nothing affecting the weekly shows. No idea what the point of Kalisto’s CWC title reign was. Ditto Tozawa, but at least Kalisto gives better promos. Cuphead was a great game but fuck playing it again for A+ ranks. Avalanche is a nice guy so he did his best to play a dick. Bad Bones was more convincing as a dick because he did his video the day of the table not-breaking, whereas Avalanche had to be interupted playing Gears of War. Christi Jaynes’ dive off the top is being discussed on Twitter because people can’t believe she was trying to go corner-to-corner off the top rope, which is something not even King Ricochet could pull off. But it also doesn’t make sense for Saraya Knight to walk towards her and even less sense for Jaynes to see Saraya hasn’t walked out the corner and not come down off the top rope or…ah whatever. Get Jesse Ventura on it. NJPW was weird in 2002, Kendo Kashin took on Daijiro Matsui (?!) and Great Khali was in a main event tag match. The cameras don’t show (as the editing team did their job) but Julian Nero missed the knee-drop on Da Mack, which is why he was trying to kick out. Ref must not have noticed it which is why he counted the pin despite Mack kicking out so Nero could presumably do it again and hit. When he’s shrugging at 6:14 he’s looking right at me in the crowd, unsure if it was deliberate but we had a moment. I shrugged back, couldn’t think what else to do. If you don’t watch Raw every week, Corey & Cole have been prodding Booker T during every Jason Jordan match mostly because there’s not much to talk about him other than his deadbeat dad Kurt Angle. So they get bored and turn on Booker who has been doing his best to fill
Yeah sorry for this not being on a Friday as usual, was waiting for some clips from some guys who will remain nameless. It’s usually my fault so I’m happy to be able to blame someone else. Was going to add the appropriate botches from Raw this week to this but then there was about three minutes worth of fuck to add and I hit my 15 minute time limit so the next video will be a doozy. Impact BFG wasn’t flat-out awful but it wasn’t great either. Slammiversary destroyed this show, with LAX vs. oVe being the highlight and everything else being forgotten quickly. Loads of Canadian fans sent the fan-cam footage of the PWA tables match so the guy who shot it proprly sent me the properly-shot footage. May use the fan-cam stuff later because lots of people have seen it but we’ll see. Didn’t mean to use this much Sonic Mania music. Unless you enjoy it, in which case I did. I was at Raw and Smackdown in Manchester and have nothing to report apart from DAMMIT they edited out Enzo apologising very quickly for messing his words up. They work fast, these fuckers. I’ll be at ICW Fear & Loathing (or couldn’t you tell with the sneaky plug in the corner of the intro) so if you see worn-out looking DJ Qualls-type, make sure to say ”hi”.
Survivor Series was so full of botches, what a gift. The first accidental elimination, first one since 1996? Yeesh. On the plus side, Shield vs. New Day, Usos vs. Bar and Lesnar vs. Styles were all great. Jim Cornette’s rant on Halloween Havoc 1997 has sadly aged well. ”You are a legend but exactly how many albums did Frank Sinatra sell last year?” There were so many Raw proposals and Kalisto entrances there wasn’t any space for a big ass indie botches bit, sorry. Oh fuck, missed the camera crew falling over Nikki Storm. NEXT VID NEXT VID promise Me and ICW are chummy so I asked if the William Grange bit was deliberate and they insist it wasn’t, so fuck
To quote Jim Cornette, ”I don’t know what they got for putting a live mic in front of Sarah Logan but I hope it was at least 5-10 years.” Thanks for increasing the life-span of this series Sarah. The IWA-MS tryout kid going splat (a lot of that happening in IWA-MS recently) was OK. Nothing a hotdog couldn’t fix. I debated on including Booker T’s Simoleon comments, it’s close enough to sound like something nerdy to be acceptable on here where good wrestling is ruined with geek stuff but not that bad in the overall scheme of Booker T things. The Impact triple-incorrect-name wrong isn’t fake as some have asked. Hey a perfectly acceptable BACK AND TO THE LEFT. It’s been a while. Love that Impact is pre-recorded and they still left that in. DDT are mostly silly so the press conference is hardly being ruined, but it made me laugh and I have friends who can translate Japanese so eh. I’ve no idea who what Drake & Josh is, hopefully you do.
Kalisto getting blasted in the face fucking sucks and I’m not advocating people throwing shit at wrestlers, at least do it outside so they have a chance to hit you back. I know it’s all well and good me saying this while also featuring the video in Botchamania so I’m having my cake and eating it and you’re right. But still, don’t do that shit. I think it’s sad that Ziggler had that entrance fuck up on Smackdown and no-one messaged me about it, meaning no-one noticed or cared. I get messaged every time someone so much as stutters yet this one went un-noticed. Clash Of Champions was skippable. Whether or not being dull is worse than being bad is debatable but it’s on-par with Battleground this year as Worst Network Special/Most Skippable Show. Pretty sure Nick Jackson meant to ”fall” at PWG but I’m sure he didn’t intend on landing on his head in the process…which meant I could finally use that ”retired Nick Jackson” clip from months ago. Thanks Nick! I was there live at ICW Fear & Loathing when Rey no-showed his own entrance. Apparently allegedly maybe there wasn’t any monitor backstage so he didn’t know he was up. I don’t know if that’s true but I know ICW are a lovely bunch of lads and everyone else made their way to the ring on time so who knows? The Southside Tables Match is my favourite thing of the year, well done Joseph Conners. The David Allen Coe ending is one of the easiest crap jokes to make but that didn’t stop me. I usually try and avoid anime endings because the majority of the ones submitted expect you to know what the anime is and that’s the joke. This one works even if you don’t like that weeb pillow-wife filth that isn’t JoJo.
It’s been a few weeks since the last episode which causes people to freak out and send me HWHEN BOTHC tweets, the reason was ”lack of botches.” Luckily the solution is always simply waiting another week and it starts raining botches. Audio from the eye-poke is from Three Stooges, I think that reference is 1000 times older than most of the people reading this. No idea why they’d show a replay of the Balor/Rollins match and have the commentators shit all over the ref rather than go ”oh he was using his hand to adjust” or whatever. I also don’t know why Booker started pissing himself laughing but I’m Ok with that. WAIT A MINUTE. I featured the Banks/Haskins match in the Worst Finishes of 2017 video but it’s not been in Botchamania yet. Yeah I’m that anal. I’m trying harder with the title graphics now I’ve noticed nearly every other video series on YT has them moving or at least looking nice whereas mine hang in the air like a fart in an elevator. Lemme know if they’re good or bad. Other than that thanks for watching and riding on the botch train, hope you enjoyed your trip.
Raw 25 was exactly what it was advertised as: A Jerry Lewis telethon of Legends and old stars trotted out to remind us what 1998 was like. I laughed a lot at the saltiness of the Manhattan Centre because I am a miserable human being. If you haven’t seen Super Dave’s appearance on Norm’s video podcast, I recommend it. I don’t listen/watch any other podcast apart from Gilbert Gottfried’s. D-X + jeep + fake cannon = TANK TANK TANK BETRAYAL is from Halo. I think it’s still in the games, haven’t played it since 3. The Daniel Bryan entrance failure is from Smackdown a few weeks ago (same episode as Dolph’s music failure) but I try and keep variety on this show so it’s been pushed back like an Impact recording Everyone with ears and eyes sent in the Mixed Match Challenge spot-call so thanks According to Luchablog on Twitter, Drone posted on FB insisting he wasn’t drunk it was simply sleep medication. He then removed the FB post so who knows. Apparently Wrestling Memes did the Austin Car ending months ago but screw him, I waited until Rick & Morty name-dropped him for no reason so joke’s on him. I coudn’t think of any tasteful or appropriate way to tie an Enzo joke into the video, which is probably for the best so even though I try and be somewhat relevant with the content, this time it’s an assortment of crap non-problematic jokes. Yes that ending was by Little Kuriboh. I thanked him for the Yuri On Ice video and he told me it was Devilman Crybaby so clearly I’m on the ball. Who’s going to win the Rumble? Fuck knows, I’ve never been right so I say Reigns.
Sorry for the delay, last week was such a busy week filled with little sleep and not much time to sit down and digest the 180 hours of wrestling that happened this week so I apologise for not meeting my own deadlines, hopefully this longer-than-usual episode makes up for it. And if it doesn’t, gimme money on Patreon and I’ll save up for that time machine. And what a week to be busy. The Rumble, NXT Takeover, Raw, Smackdown, NXT, 205 Live, Mixed Match Challenge, Booker out, Coachman in, Spud debuts, new Raw tag champs, 5 Star Wrestling starts, Booker threatening to beat Graves if he sees him…being a wrestling fan is like being a diabetic in a sweet shop, you can only realistically eat so much before dying. I’ve never seen Cat In The Hat, just that one scene on YouTube. I watch a lot of shit films but I’ve never been able to find anyone sit through and endure it. The Guru was enough for me. Greg Hamilton claims he didn’t forget Lince Dorado’s name and the pause was something else, but I wanted to make a crap joke in the video. If you message me saying ”that wasn’t Justin Roberts, please have a word with yourself. I thought Alunda Blayze was putting on an act. I also used to think Booker was pretending to play an angry, confused old man on commentary so don’t ask me for any lottery numbers. For all those watching with kids: I’m sorry for making you watch Peppa Pig for the 60th time today. The Brock vs. Braun moment made our entire room go OH SHIT OH SHIT IT’S REAL IT’S REAL and was the highlight of a garbage fire of a match. I enjoyed the Women’s Rumble but me giving it further compliments will be taken as me enjoying the botches so maybe it’s better for me to be quiet. I’m serious though, as serious as I am about missing Booker vs. Graves. I love Dream so I’m half-sad about having to include his stuff with Hero, but he was still over as fucking fuck regardless so he’ll be OK. The people who accuse me of adjus
I have absolutely nothing to add this week in terms of observations, sorry. ”Mustafa Ali is nice”, there that’s all I’ve got.
This is a special-length episode due to being away last weekend in Germany for wXw, so hope you enjoy the amount of crap I’ve shoved in here from Raw, Smackdown, 205 Live, Mixed Match Challenge, Elimination Chamber and Fast Lane. Oh and if you were at wXw and saw me fuck up, I don’t have the footage yet but when I do get it, it’ll be in here don’t worry. A load of people suggested the Elimination Chamber/Lion King idea so I credit everyone. I hope Tyrone is still relevant. All the 5 Star Wrestling footage was from week 3 and I didn’t use all the mistakes because I wanted some variety. In fairness to them, episodes 2 and 4 were practically clean but they made up for it with 5. If you’re wondering what the big deal is, this is a company on national TV in the UK & Ireland. It’s insane. I debated putting Sami’s baseball massacre in due to the gruesome injury but people requested it so I get to blame people. Who aren’t here to defend themselves. That 205 Live bit aired live, some have said ”it was deliberate to give Maverick character” which is one of the worst excuses I’ve ever heard. I’m flattered wrestlers have started re-enacting bits of Botchamania live on shows. It’s the equivalent to checking betting websites while at a call centre.
I don’t watch many NJPW shows a year but it’s a testament to how good the wrestlers were that they were able to overcome shitty editing and bad-but-got-better commentary to put on a hell of a show. Omega x Ibushi vs. Bullet Club is the best and I am obviously saying that because of the gay elements and it has nothing to do with me noticing they’re coming to the UK and wanting free tickets OH NO I’ve always loved NJPW, my favourite wrestler is El Samurai Defiant Wrestling in Newcastle was a nice night, I’m not going to criticize them when they brought WALTER to Newcastle. Primate’s had to retire due a severe jaw injury, he hasn’t died. I’ve literally been waiting for WWE to upload that one episode of WCCW and checking every week to see if they’ve uploaded it as every other part of Parade Of Champions 2 has been put online except this one. Next BM will be Wrestlemania so there’s a good chance it’ll be even longer than this episode. If your ending/clip submission hasn’t been used, it’s because it was too similar to something already in the video, I try and have variety as much as possible in this so don’t feel bad. Unless it sucked, in which case you should feel bad.
First Wrestlemania I can recall not being able to stay up for (fell asleep before Nakamura vs. Styles) so I’m officially old now, sorry Holy shit fuck that WM main event. Nothing could entertain a crowd after seven hours but dammit they tried to entertain me.
It’s on a different day than usual but the Network Special was on a Friday and Titus nearly broke my phone so yeah. Decided to mix the endings with Titus so he doesn’t get run into the ground (unlike in Saudi Arabia). If you’ve sent an ending that’s similar to the ones featured, sorry it’s pretty much first-come first-served with these things. Nice of Titus to take one for the team on a seven hour show absolutely loaded with mistakes, maybe because of the time or the heat or the WHY WOULD YOU HAVE THAT FINISH FOR REIGNS VS. LESNAR, WHO BOOKED THAT WITHOUT TRYING IT OUT FIRST, FIRE HIM/HER Unsure why that one turnbuckle caused so much issue for Impact, which was a shame as the show was pretty good outside of that and the work experience lad they’re still allowing to do the video production I love the idea that an entire generation is going to see Titus O’Neil’s flop the same way as old fuckers like me see Shockmaster. It’s very heart-warming in a weird way. Thanks for saving what was going to be an unimpressive episode with Graves saying ”bullet club” as the highlight Genuinely amazed wXw put that match on their Now service when it was filmed weeks ago previously. I don’t think Veda Scott is as bad as others say, she’s solid and non-botchy but that match was rougher than a badger’s arse
I wasn’t a huge fan of TotalBiscuit or anything like that but he hailed from either Spennymoor or Darlington which is a short bus ride from where I hail from (Bishop Auckland) so I respect the hell out of him for existing near me. He tweeted one time about enjoying the Undertale music in Botchamania so there’s that too, R.I.P. Posh Geordie. I don’t want to hear any arguments about whether or not Lashley headlined Wrestlemania. Main event? Sure (with some reservations) but headlined? Lord no, that was Cena vs. HBK. End of. There were many possibilities for the FAKE WALL bit but I’m happy with the Quake and Zelda references. I doubt WCW Millennium Tour 2000 will ever appear on the Network so enjoy these sparse few clips of David Flair vs. Vampiro and Scott Hall vs. Cameraman. There’s no special reason for it to have taken this long for the last episode of 5 Star Wrestling to appear, I’ve got a non-wrestling video job and watching Raw, Smackdown etc. every week pushed it to the ”do next week” file. There was a ref fuck up from the show but the ref in question politely ask it not appear in the video and I have a ”if someone asks to have it not included, I don’t include it” policy to justify me being a piece of shit the other 95% of the time. 5 Star never made the Top 10 most viewed shows of the week on the channel it aired on so I’m sure the 180 people who saw it will be devastated. Also not in this video: The clip of the PWA show with the dude setting himself on fire. A wrestler from the show politely asked it not be included as apparently PWA are embarrassed by it going viral and people thinking that’s what the company is like. Plus setting yourself on fire sans shirt is fairly fucking brutal. And yeah, I’m appearing at Starrcade doing a panel. How it’s going to work is something that will need to be figured out pretty soon but with Funches, Casio and TONY FUCKING SCHAVIONE on the panel who cares. I’ll also be at All I
It’s been a very long four weeks since the last video due to my hard drive crapping out. Luckily I’d backed up most things but everything needed to be re-installed and whatnot so apologies for the delay but the important thing is my copy of Red Alert 2 still works. R.I.P. Vader, a wrestler I liked as a kid because of Boy Meets World and loved as an adult when I could discover his feud with Sting. R.I.P. Coachman’s credibility as a commentator, holy shit what the fuck happened. MITB was a fun show if you skipped Mahal/Reigns and Charlotte/Asuka. NXT was great as usual aside from that miss from Black. I’ve never see a wrestler literally quit a match (aside from the Luger vs. Brody cage match if that counts) so thanks Emil. Wish I had interesting stuff to type here, I’ve got nothing apart from ALL IN COMING SOON WOOO but you probably already know that. Thanks for reading Windjammers, see you next video.
I’m sure everyone’s going to inform me that the reason for the WWE UK Triple Threat match being announced as a Four-Way was because Jinny was supposed to be in it but got hurt so they re-shot it, that’s fine but this was shown a week later and no-one edited that out? EC3 must have brought some of those Work Experience kids when he left Impact because their TV has been pre-recorded and fine for months First CZW bit in over eight months I think. I virtually gave up on watching the product as I have little interest in it but people kept on sending me clips so if it’s once a year and there’s no death match bits included I’m sure you people won’t mind as long as we ge a lever-pull and that Zandig sound-bite Those are my attempts at referencing ketamine during the Flair bit. Yeah it ain’t great but it stops me horsing around WWE aired clips from Victory Road 2011 in one of those WAIT WHAT moments in the Hardy 24 documentary and aired it without commentary so you could hear Bischoff’s instructions clear as day for the first time which is amazing (for me) On the other hand, Bayley shouting YOU AIN’T SHIT was likely planned but people will want to see/hear it so there you go. The clip after it is Tank Abbot yelling I COULD FUCKING KILL YOU from Superbrawl X because I had nothing else That’s everything so thanks again for WAIT FUCK is this the first video in months to not feature Simpsons and/or Sonic Mania music? Oh no, now everyone’s going to think I’ve died and been replaced like Ultimate Warrior in 1992. Or in my case, Renegade
I didn’t think the Sin Cara clip was that bad but only the basis of seeing a Frankensteiner off the top rope to the apron go so much worse elsewhere. But the people spoke and DEMOCRACCYY I’m in the group that enjoyed the fans cheering a clock over Rollins vs. Ziggler because who the fuck thought having an Iron Man match over the IC Title in a dead-feud after 5 hours of wrestling was a good idea? Slammiversary XV was a great show, Impact may have issues behind the scenes but their PPVs have been consistently fun, especially the LAX vs. Original LAX feud The wXw clips are from their annual out-take special, I didn’t put everything in as I’m sure they’d love that so go check out their Now service for the rest. Thanks Melanie Grey for doing the SEND FOR THE MAN line That MSG Royal Rumble 1994 show is a beautiful find and the best thing is: WWE filmed at least some of it as this was the show The Quebecers won the titles when Raw was on at the same time (think it was the only day they could book MSG or something) so maybe we’ll see it on the Network one day I’ve had that Bo Dallas ending ready for about a year and a half, waiting for Bo to actually win something so it works. I never gave up Some of the music choices have been ”songs I’ve used before but different console/ports/remixes” as my HD killed my huge playlist of songs I’ve used so sorry if you’re one of the crazy Windjammers that’s been watching these for ten years going HEY HE USED THAT SONG FOR A TNA PPV IN 2012 Sorry for the gap of three weeks between videos but with a real life job, I’m doing my best to spin plates and get these done on a regular basis but honestly, it may be easier these going to a once-monthly thing. We’ll see, I appreciate your patience
Given up on Dailymotion and it’s bizarre insistence on telling people ”the user has geo-blocked this in your country” when I click DO NOT GEO BLOCK ANYWHERE, ALLOW ALL COUNTRIES repeatedly. The advantage of Dailymotion is videos rarely get removed but the negative is if there’s a problem, they will never get back to you. So continuing to upload while this is happening is a waste of time and results in ”why have you blocked this in England, don’t you live there too?” messages. Lashley butchering Rockin’ Robin was brutal but I guess it didn’t help that Elias played it at 33% speed but I’m not a guitar player so eh. Cole shouting BLISS TAPS was amazing, someone sent a message that said ”my small child noticed this” and no shit. Dead people and rocks also saw it. The wXw wrestlers were lovely in real life so it thrilled them to tweet me ”you’re welcome” after their tables match. Danke. I’ve used HBK-while-completely-fucked-up’s ”teeth down throat” bit before but I only recently found out LOD mocked it a few weeks later. I don’t want to brag but I was happy with how that Tom & Jerry ending turned out. The timeline is all messed up but I think enough of it works for me to go ”OK I’ve made some crap but THIS was ok.”
Well this episode has taken a while to come out, to say the least. The original plan was to air it at Starrcast because I was told we’d be OK showing copyrighted material and the Fite App would simply show the crowd’s reaction but they changed it when I got there and we ended up playing like six clips haha. So then I edited in some All In botches and the Bella’s dives because they were awesome. The anime at the start is JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure because the rule is ”all anime is shit apart from jojo.” Originally Summerslam was going to be first but Triplemania is much more deserving of the headline position as WWE’s big show didn’t have Vampiro farting, demanding music during a run-in when he’s ringside, Jack Evans possibly shooting on Chessman, Fenix blading and Pena’s sister taking a dive to the face. I freely admit I don’t enjoy lucha so I’m almost sorry to be ruining AAA’s big show for fans of lucha but when a guy is YELLING for his FUCKING MUSIC to be played live on air, it’s hard to ignore. I totally think Rousey’s ARE YOU READY was part of her cocky act as she destroyed Bliss but Coach bungled things with his speech as usual and made people think she was calling spots. But people asked for it and I aim to please so eh. Also trimmed down the JFK BACK AND TO THE LEFT as people are right, that bit can draaaag. I’ve been looking for footage of that Nash MTV clip for years, I love YouTube. All In was awesome and I definitely haven’t been co-opted with the rest of wrestling media, honest. I will be typing more when I have got my sleep pattern back on track and have got Manchester Media Con out of the way. Oh and move house. I picked a hell of a time to go to Starrcast huh. Also to everybody I bumped into, spoke with and enjoyed the company of at Starrcast, thank you. The pleasure was all mine, it was an awesome experience to meet you all in person and to eat shit food together. See you next time!
Botchamania 374 Music... Stage Dan by Shun Nishigaki, Setsuo Yamamoto, Tatsuro Suzuki (Street Fighter Alpha 2) Armadillo Mini Game by Chip Harris (Bubsy 2, SNES) Thanks To... Sean Mooney (yes that Sean Mooney) for the fabulous intro bornthisrich for the Rusev instagram the dude on twitter who reminded me of the YOU TALK TOO MUCH from Avengers luchablog for the stroke Spencer Shuba for the ring break Mint Mike Mitchell for the Janela clip Lindykatt and emegzar for the Shield vs table clips Chewfactor Creative for the cameraman falling Eric Sturrock for the Ring Warriors footage hallicks for the Wild Cherry ending ExtremeSlimer for the Charlotte DO I NOT LOOK HAPPY ending sylvester_terkay for Randy getting randy ending doctrine_darksol for Springfield Attitude 1999 ending mitch hidden vids for Lio Rush ending Notes... I'd usually use Run-DMC's You Talk Too Much for the Talk Too Much bit but Thanos and Loki do the Undertaker/HBK bit shot-for-shot so I had to use the old-school Hardcore Superstar riff instead. Feel free to make up stuff about James Gunn being a BM fan, everything else is going bad for him right now. As far as I know that's all the Rusev instagram footage available, I assume his last words were ''You know I'm recording now?'' before stopping the feed. I used to hate the idea of pineapple on pizza purely on principal but I was surprised to see it tastes awesome. Swerve etc. Apparently Mr. Niebla is renowned for showing up fucked up but he's not had a main event go four minutes due to his (in)actions as far as I know. I get all my lucha news from twitter, sorry. Simon Gotch did that interview over a year ago and I've been sitting on it, waiting for him to fuck up. I love how proud he is off having that record too, until his world fell apart. Thanks XWA, love you Simon. I don't have any info (or better video) of the Ring Warriors but ho-ly shit. WoS isn't my thing but if they fancy video game noises I may start wa
Music… One Foot in the Grave by Eric Idle Casino Night: Act 2 by Atsushi “Sushi” Kosugi, Jun Senoue (Sonic Generations) BGM Theme 1 by Kouji Niikura, Yukie Sugawara (WCW/nWo Revenge) Down On Me by Jackyl Thanks To… Jerry Lynn for the fabulous intro. I’d been told The Old F’N Show was a fan for years and I was glad to confirm it Thaddeus Archer The Third for the RCW powerbomb Robbie Marino (the JESUS guy) for his own botch MAXWrestlingWA for Alex Zayne and The Whisper itsalrightbro for ”cancerbero” ian hamilton for Midwest Militia vs Nasty tricks i forgot the names of the guys wrestling in the fair, sorry guys all the file says is ”will ospreay” but i don’t think that’s right JXT for the faceplant Hoodslam for the bizarre Dr. Luther interview luchablog for pointing out the La Parka/LA Park thing loads of people for the daniel bryan memphis/louisville thing randochirs for the charlotte/becky ending dubiouscubanx for curb your elias PunishmentNationale for bald bald BALD Notes… A lot of people have a said a lot about the Brie Bella kick, I think both parties were at fault as Liv leaned over and made the target smaller (as brie couldn’t kick her in the tit) but I’m not surprised or out-raged like many online as i’m so used to seeing wrestlers fucking up i’m numb at this point. I’m more pissed at the WWE medical team at ringside doing such an awful job of checking on liv and allowing her back into the match. I may have used all the good Sonic Mania songs so I’m back-tracking to Sonic Generations. Oh and I found a good rip of WCW/nWo Revenge so I hope you like N64 guitar distortion. the AAW Pro thing was described as ”completely killing the mood” of the evening and it was very weird. ”why no Yoshi-Hashi” because NJPW send hit-squads to the homes of people who use their footage now so fuck that. Just watch Titus O’Neil and draw a Chaos shirt on. some g
Bound For Glory was good but not as good as Slammiversary and I went a whole sentence without mentioning Austin Aries AW DAMMIT Alundra Blayze did as good a job as I would have done pronouncing Io’s name but I’m still throwing her under the bus. Roode’s spot-calling is amazing in this episode, holy shit. Only Cena’s NOW NAKAMURA NOW at Rumble comes close. BRIE MODE Lever may have to be a regular thing now I rarely watch CZW. I had no idea NWA’s PPV was even happening until people messaged me saying YOU’VE GOT TO WATCH THIS S**T so thanks people of twitter who know what I like. The Rey clip is from a Network special on botches, because it was Smackdown it was pre-taped. But I think more people have seen the botch than the actual segment. August 22nd 2002 SD in case you were interested.
I know Triple H got injured during the tag match, I’m not mocking that. Everything else about that match is fair game though. Roy Jones Jr. has more dignity in 2018 than those four, currently the most botched match of the year for me with Kane’s mask falling off, HBK’s no-catch moonsault and the HHH/Undi Irish Whip. Evolution ended up being one of the best WWE shows of the year due to the last three matches delivering (even The Bellas) which is more than can be said for Crown Jewel, an event so bad WWE would prefer to mention Buck Zumhofe before Saudi Arabia again. I’ve used the GET ROYALLY F****D song before but it’s so damn catchy and I never miss an episode of MaiNinja’s Salt series. I’m positive I’ve used Toejam Jammin’ too but music-wise I’m biding my time until Smash Ultimate’s OST gets leaked because nearly everything good has been used over the last twelve (jesus) years. The Eddie Gilbert vs jobber match can be found on NWA World Championship Wrestling 12/10/88 A bunch of people sent their version of Take On Me/F**k On Me but none of them slowed the audio to match the dramatic chorus so they looked nice but sounded crap. I’m not ungrateful but when it’s important to the fun-ness of the idea then it’s gotta be fixed or done myself. RandoChris apparently made his video under the influence of drugs. As opposed to all the tee-total people making the others. It’s been four long weeks since the last video, I know that’s basically an eternity in wrestling/youtube years but my life is a lot busier than it used to be I’m afraid. I work full-time and my spare time has been less spare due to the joys of the outside world and also buying a Switch to beat up Super Mario Odyssey. So part of me is sorry for the wait but the other half of me isn’t, because I’m not wasting my time outside of this (apart from doing those fucking ‘walk in a circle’ challenges on SMO, they’re almost as bad as the sheep walking bits.)
It was heard on the grap-line that AJ Styles got into a heated argument with the ref after the Starrcade match which is why the show abruptly ends after a quick pose from AJ, so the rules may not matter to YOU dear viewer but they mean a lot to The Face That Used To Run The Place The ref in the AAA match was Rudo but so were Blue Demon Jr. and Kross so I have no fucking clue what was going on there If you’ve sent a Simpsons ending and are surprised to not see it here, it’s because sometimes you have mix it up with other things. I know that’s rich from me but people on the BM FB are quick to point out that there’s a lot of it and you have to listen to people (when it works for you) Yeah another 4-week gap since the last video. I don’t think I can stress how little a life I had when I started doing these but now there’s a lot of wrestling to watch and a lot of stuff to do in my life (partner, shoot job, not being a sad cunt) that I don’t apologise for the wait as it means I’m being productive elsewhere. So yeah, it’s your fault for believing in me from 2008 rather than me from 2018 I’ll be heading to OTT for Homecoming in February but fingers crossed there’ll be another video released before then. But just in case, see you at the basketball arena thing And just as I uploaded this onto Patreon, I got told WWE is doing something called Botch Club on the Network with Gallows & Anderson
Impact Homecoming was sweet, even better than the last one they did. Sadly because of twats like me, the thing that people are talking about is the end spot and the guys from Survivor. Life sucks. Hey the first NEVER MIND THAT SHIT HERE COMES MONGO in years, thanks WWE Network! I’ve been informed Sasha Banks hit the spot as she intended, she just wants to prove she’s a hard-working motherlover. Banks if you’re reading this: PEOPLE LIKE YOU, STOP DYING. Yeah, fan cam footage. Botchamania has resorted to house show footage from 1994, further proof I’m about to be taken outside and shot by Gallows & Anderson. As people have been asking: no I don’t intend to stop doing these because Botch Club has been announced. There’s been no letter, e-mail or knock on the door from Stamford so until that happens I’m going to botch away until I run out of Simpsons references or video game music, whichever happens first.
Royal Rumble is always a treasure trove of botch gold and this SEVEN HOUR SHOW didn’t disappoint, if I missed anything I don’t apologise. Kofi and Xavier’s double-team wasn’t botched, only one foot touched the ground (even if Xavier fell on him) but Lashley’s elimination still causes me to scratch my head. They didn’t show a replay as I think Rollins was expecting Lashley to go all the way over, Lashley realised no help was coming so he let go like the guy in the wheelchair from Alien Resurrection.
Music… Dear Falling Angel by Shinsekai Gakkyoku Zatsugidan (The King of Fighters ’99) Sheep on the Run by Howard Drossin (Manx TT SuperBike) Cooperation by Sesame Street Thanks To… Effy for the fabulous intro will B for the clip of the aborted backdrop Lucky Ali for himself The Coach Kid for a series of unfortunate neck-falls Mattick85 for the puke Cain McCoy for the Cena table Dallas Troy for the other table Joey Allen for the other other table FunkNTonyDodge for the other other other table Damon Knight for the other other other other table Ian Hamilton for the PROG table and about 10 other things steve williams for the Bret Hart ending raven cyram for the Sponegebob ending coke ibushi for the lamb ending AsianA3AN for the dancing vince ending Athleticgeek89 for the futurama ending ayputangina for the Mafia ending Wrestling Memes for the Lacey evans ending RaldyV for the Ass Man ending Hallicks for that one music video ending iamcharleschase for the MST3K ending Notes… I used Dear Falling Angel years ago but I’ve used pretty much all the good video game music and it’s better to repeat some songs (or use different versions) rather than resort to Barbie’s Magic Adventure for the SNES or something. Elimination Chamber didn’t have much in the way of botches, I miss the days of Ziggler calling spots like an auctioneer or Kalisto climbing the ceiling with no plan. Thanks for helping Graves. Effy sent me that intro about two years ago but I didn’t know much about him. If I’d known he was such a big deal I’d have continued to not use it. I don’t think Rousey’s crossbody dive on Raw was THAT bad, feel free to disagree. I have a weird logic for things like that, if she misses an elbow by a mile then that’s fair game but a sloppy crossbody that connects with it’s target? I’ll allow it, it’s not synchronised swimming. The Cooperation song will never no
Music… Devil Trigger (Truongasm mix) by Casey Edwards feat. Ali Edwards (Devil May Cry 5) Mega Man 4 Medley by Jun Senoue (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate) Casino Night: Act 1 by Naofumi Hataya (Sonic Generations) Thanks To… New wXw Unified Champion Bobby Gunns for the fabulous intro truongasm for that amazing DMC/Missy Elliot mash-up ecclectic_nerd for making the SEND FOR THE MAN sign on Smackdown Live FayeJackson419 for the bad table Civil Fandon for the Sendai Girls table Jerry Lynn for showing the only part of the film that hasn’t already aired on WWE TV Will Greyson for A-Kid luchablog for the Sabu CRASH footage The Broken Prince for the thing Will Ospreay for tweeting about something we wouldn’t have known about if he hadn’t tweeted it Misiman23 for the Spice Girls ending everybody went mental over OsakanDestroyer for AHHH ending iamcharleschase for belts Elijah Grimes for the South Park ending Velveteenqween for the Thatcher ending ilovejason for tits StanTheDryBear for even more Daveposting Richard “retweeted by Austin” Tubman for the Stunner ending Shanafan for Daily Affirmation ending Kevin Banner for the Dirty Work ending idea Steve Williams for the Flaming New Jack ending Notes… Fast Lane was enjoyable but finding time to watch it wasn’t. I’m happy it happened just for that Tamina & Jax match. Link for that Missy Elliot/DMC mash-up Watched a load of early PROGRESS shows recently hence the clips of guys who are good on NXT UK in 2019 but a bit sloppy way back when The two guys discussing I AM THE TABLE are from True Geordie and they were evaluating KSI’s diss track at the time where he declares himself the table. If you’re here because of KSI, Hi Guys! This is it, sorry! People told me The Street Profits started at the top left but then after entrances, Moustache Mountain decided to tag from there so presumably they had that spot planned and cou
Music... Main Theme by Sean Conran (WWF Wrestlemania, Amiga) Artisan's World by Stewart Copeland (Spyro the Dragon) Basic Medals by MashupGFX Mad Maze Maul by Grant Kirkhope (Donkey Kong 64) I Am What I Am by Gloria Gaynor Thanks To... Justin Roberts for the fabulous intro Dan Goldman for the 450 splat RawAttitudePod for the beachball moment which I'd never even heard of before now, good call Dave Bixenspan for the COTC V clip Ethan Absler for the bad table uno futuramamaforlife for bad table dos Storm DeVogelear for bad table tres Simon Lacroix for bad table cuatro Pacormur for bad table cinco wrestling with unicorns for bad table seis Henderthegreat for filming Team Tropicana's friendly fire Guy Whose Name I Lost (sorry) for Davey Boy corpsing MashupGFX for the Kurt Angle and John Cena mashup thefoursweet for the Davis dick kick TWMNewsUK for the Simpsons video idea for Davis dick kick riderleangle for the Krusty crab ending steve williams for the WWE feedback ending eyerake for the Braun street fighter ending kidswol for the Cole Commentary ending charles chase for the DEMOCRACY MANIFEST and Goku ending Jesse Maximum for the Batista Birdie Song ending Notes... Managed to get a video inserted in between Fast Lane and Wrestlemania (which WWE probably wanted to figure out) before the onslaught of Wrestlemania weekend shows takes over the twitter feeds No reason for putting Kitao in the intro other than him having an amazingly impressive out-of-ring career for a guy who never had a match that was remembered for just it's in-ring quality. Shooting on Earthquake, getting KO'd by Takada, appearing in Van Damme films, fighting in UFC 9...RIP you stubborn bastard wXw 16 Carat was one of the best events I've ever been to so of course I'm going to highlight the negatives. They cut out an entire spot from Night 3 so it could have been worse I was going to use Worthless from the Brave Little Toaster for Angle 2019 because I'm a misery
Music… Disco Necropolis (Graveyard Stage) by +TEK (Skeleton Boomerang) Athletic (Yoshi) by Koji Kondo (Super Mario World) Tag Barrel – Donkey Kong by Grant Kirkhope (Donkey Kong 64) Tag Barrel – Diddy Kong by Grant Kirkhope (Donkey Kong 64) Tag Barrel – Lanky Kong by Grant Kirkhope (Donkey Kong 64) Tag Barrel – Tiny Kong by Grant Kirkhope (Donkey Kong 64) Broodals’ Battle by Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii, Koji Kondo (Super Mario Odyssey) Home by Matt Furniss, Shaun Hollingworth (Wiz n’ Liz, Mega Drive) Just A Friend by Biz Markie Thanks To… Kit Osbourne for the fabulous intro JulioCesarF for the Mizdad image DunKology for noticing the audio from Raw being changed Joe Weller for the video he uploaded onto twitter george from macomb for spotting the Tor Kamata mistake Luchablog for the Espanto Jr. poison rana Arnold Furious & Ian Hamilton for watching every Wrestlemania Weekend indie show trunkshms25 for the Don’t Want Nun ending james stephen barnes for the Father Ted ending steve williams for the Fingerpoke Of Doom ending second questicles for the FUCK ON ME ending charles chase for the Hulk ending super nerd daniels for the Street Fighter ending Notes… sorry for the delay in this, ended up being harder than I thought to fit all the wrestling, two Cultaholic podcasts and a trip to Dublin for OSW Review. so if mad, blame them OK not 100% sure Hogan intended to work himself into a shoot but it’s Hogan, fuck it I enjoyed wrestlemania because i was able to watch it without falling asleep, making it better than last year’s by default I only did a sampler of the Wrestlemania Weekend Indie shows because there were about sixty of the bastards this year and this video is already over twenty minutes long and that single Blackheart show could have it’s own mini-series Special mention to GCW for having amazing shows with very little botches considering the crazy stuff they
Music… Ending (Part 2) by Matt Furniss (The Lost Vikings, Mega Drive) You’re The Best Around by You’re The Best Around Monkey Smash by Grant Kirkhope (Donkey Kong 64) Match BGM #1 by Chris Granner (WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game) Stage 6 [Tragedy of Slaughter] by Michiru Yamane (Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon) Thanks To… Kurtis Chapman, TK Cooper and David Starr for the fabulous intro TheGoldenBolt for spotting The Iiconics tag Ishan Pandita of Useless, Unsuccessful, and/or Unpopular Wrestling Memes for the “i meant the real usos” idea Casey Echo Eichmann-Stewart for the AWF clip GetDown90 for the 205 Live callspot Marco Feiler for the WM callspots I didn’t hear cos it was a long show Blackoutvtw for the spinning table dive Ilikejason for the you are THE TABLE bit Julian_0904 for sending the Big Cass clip briantheguppie for inspiring the angle/lacey bit Joana Morais for the CZW ‘lever’ the missing joe experience for suggesting the quiet/riot/poison/ratt bit GameBoyzUK for the Paige Here ending Chris Leslie for the Fuck On me ending Charles Chase for the Family Guy ending Steve Williams for the NJPW/Simpsons ending that better not get this video taken down Notes… yeah yeah, cole isn’t really saying SHIT OUT POWERBOMB but he’s got that J.R. throat at the minute and I’m going to take advantage of it the Iiconics always sound like they’re 2 seconds away from losing it on camera so to actually see it happen is beautiful i hope “pulling a hawk” becomes the standard term for walking into a a live promo in honour of the Vader interview this is the second half of the Wrestlemania Weekend Indie Show catch-up as I know indie shows are about as a popular as badger-baiting with half the people that still watch these so it’s good to spread them out. Special Thanks to Ian Hamilton & Arnold Furious for watching every single one of them oh and BLACKCRAFT WRESTLIN
Music… Groovy Intersection …for “Stardust Speedway Zone: Act 2” by Tee Lopes / Falk Au Yeong (Sonic Mania) Sewer Speedway by Josh Mancell (Crash Team Racing) Title by Kinuyo Yamashita, Hiroyuki Iwatsuki (Zen Nihon Pro Wrestling) JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure themes Thanks To… Valoween for the Eddy Guerrero & Stevie Richards image from WMXX Andy Dalton for that dive davidedgetv for that head-drop Eric Shorey for making me find the DESTINEYS CHILD LESBIANS sign thejoecadena for the rikishi bad man ending charles chase for the whose clothesline is it anyway ending cultaholicedits for the shield simpsons ending JakeNiehl82 for the only stomping grounds ending i saw XVanpa for the HIAC dude ending stanthedrybear for the amazing IIconics ending steve williams for the Fatal Fury Shiek ending Notes… There’s times when I’m watching WWE and I get numb to the product and this is one of them, when even shitposting isn’t fun. These times are rare and I think they happen to everyone eventually but I had more enjoyment watching AAA’s double header (Pagano and all) than anything on TV these past two weeks. I’m not going “oh poor me having to watch Raw, it’s like going to the gas chamber” because I hate that weird attitude of being a martyr for fucking WRESTLING, just remember there’s AEW, GCW, wXw and tons of other companies out there to indulge in which is why indie/non-WWE footage will always be in these videos and that criticism is one I’ll always ignore, sorry. Apart from NJPW as they’ll take my knee-caps if I use their footage. “hey what’s that “annals” bit with graves/ricochet about?” ohhhh errr i have no idea no idea go away I appreciate Rory Gulak being so nice as he was in Botchamania a ton when he was Little Mondo but has a great attitude so yay Remember kids, all anime is bad apart from JoJo. Evangelion used to be OK until Netflix removed the gay. Best botch of t
Music… I Love Goldie Hawn by Kazuo Hanzawa, Jun Irie, Hideki Matsutake (Dynamite Headdy) Main Menu by Josh Mancell, Mutato Muzika, Mark Mothersbaugh (Crash Team Racing) Knock On Wood by Amii Stewart Thanks To… Xavier Woods for the new TALK TOO MUCH intro the_mighty_sham for the OTT Justy clip trent solie for the Piper & Snuka clip Eduardo Valencia for the stage dive CULTAHOLICEDITS for the Right Gay Guy & WALTER ending raven cyarm for the Shelton Benjamin thinking ending RAHITWOCENTSTV for the Ali ending WELSHCONDOR for the Darby Dive ending charles chase for the O. Montgomery Cassidy ending thedrakejaxon for the WHAT ending h7pV3p for the I’M ALIVE ending STEVE WILLIAMS for the Alvarez answer machine ending Notes… I can’t think of anything interesting to type here, sorry. I’m not being all “boo-hoo” about it but WWE’s current product has numbed me to the point of “monday morning call centre” levels of not-thinking, hopefully this doesn’t reflect in the videos.
Music… Racing Skulls (Bonus Stage) by +TEK (Skeleton Boomerang) Great Fairy Fountain by Koji Kondo (The Legend Of Zelda: The Ocarina Of Time) Papu’s Pyramid by Josh Mancell, Mutato Muzika, Mark Mothersbaugh (Crash Team Racing) 50 Rings A Pop …BOSS: Egg Dispenser & Heavy Leader by Tee Lopes/Falk Au Yeong (Sonic Mania) Thanks To… Boris Koslov for the fabulous intro BOTBVideos for editing the Usos bit so I didn’t have to. DUIs are funny! RefJoePoe for the hard-ass table BStiff_Hou for Ethan Page mocking the old TNA Wres Edits for Shane Simpsons, Shelton Simpsons and probably some other stuff as they’re very productive James Corrigan for the Father Ted ending AdamAda37802959 for the Braden Walker ending EricRauty for the HEY KAYLA ending Lance Madewell for the Doubtfire ending leo ryker for the O.C. (don’t call it that) ending steve williams for the Get The F out mix Art0Donnell for another inspiring Billy Gunn Simpsons idea Notes… Like last video I can’t think of anything interesting to put here so I’ll keep it brief. Hope you are all well and Botchamania is meeting your standards and fulfilling your botch-filled, video game flavoured needs. If not, I’ll make like WWE and ignore the fuck out of your complaints and carry on lighting cigars with £50 notes. oh and no EVOLVE stuff as they asked years ago to not be featured and I’m sticking to their polite request as I don’t need Gabe setting Austin Theory on me
Music… Mad Monster Mansion by Michiko Naruke (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate) Slow Moon by Yuzo Koshiro (Streets of Rage 2) Hanging Around by The Stranglers Liberi Fatali by Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy VIII) Thanks To… Kiddcage45 & Are_Jay_Emm for the HIAC live clips Matmaniapodcast for the Raw Corbin chair clip honasantino, camillenaredo, lindzlaracroft, Cobyoda, REALkikoo & YangQiMin for the Manilla WWE clips doradafan & RobViper for the CMLL clips wresedits for the fiend at HIAC ending pete molski for the Sanic ending RemingSteele for the THPS ending thedongside for the Bayley ending shortboypinoy for the BUBBLY ending Evilsj for the Simpsons ending stanthedrybear for the Honk ending Notes… That HIAC main event was still better than that fucking CMLL pin The Jack Evans clip was submitted by people (and generated a small Botchamania chant live) but is very obviously not a botch. But here it is anyway! Oh and also the WWE schedule has been changed dramatically (nice knowing you 205 live!) and this is going out on a Friday for Patreon people and Sunday for everyone else, so if anything dramatic happens on Smackdown then it’ll have to wait until next episode. There’s got to be some cut-off point or these videos would never get released.
Music… Gobi’s Valley by Yuji Masubuchi (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate) Davidian by Machine Head Mystery Caves by Josh Mancell (Crash Team Racing) Stoned Cold Steve Austweed by Bazookasaurus SandWorm by Norio Hanzawa (Wario World) Main Menu by Tomoya Tomita (Wario Land: Shake It!) Thanks To… Paul London for the fabulous intro Mikey Jay for the crazy guard-rail man Not Ojmo for the Kurtis Chapman tag match not an australian for FWA chandelier idkpinecone for the lada gaga footage FancyJesse for the King Corbin ending from last month GingerPimpernel for the Krusty ending stevexchaney for the Honk On Me ending kidswol for the Fuel ending fusiontimelord for the Robocop ending 2K20 footage from… ZombieVomit619 IGN NewLegacyInc MahNamesShaq List Of Wrestling Companies And Where To Find Them… Paul London’s new film Tigerman can be followed here WWE Network is still around, just watch NXT and you’ll be ok AEW Dynamite can be found here Game Changer Wrestling when you want to watch CZW but you want to be cool Sammy Guevara’s sexy youtube channel can be found here PROGRESS shows from 2014 with awkwardness can be clicked here Impact Wrestling’s PPVs That Are Good Now Honest TNT Extreme Wrestling’s Liverpool goodness is right here ICW New York can be followed here Highspots has the milk-filled Tracey Smothers shoot interview FWA Future Wrestling Australia for more matches with chandeliers CMLL’s YouTube can subscribed here That’s your lot, here’s your twitter and Facebook and remember tuna is an acceptable pizza topping.
Music… Industrial Insanity …for “Oil Ocean Zone: Act 1” by Tee Lopes (Sonic Mania) Would I Lie to You? by Eurythmics Out Of Reach by Gabrielle You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette Tell Me Lies by Fleetwood Mac Dragon Mines by Josh Mancell (Crash Team Racing) Thanks To… Jake Atlas for the fabulous intro DIEAMYDIE for rousey glitch clip BiBoyParm for Stars Of The Ring ropes Rodney Morris for Masters vs. ceiling tile flagrantstats for Gatoh Move, CMLL & AAA scorchingsanity for the HAMMER ending duel3000 for the Kofi DBZ ending uuuuwm for the idea for the GTA ending gifskull for the Smash bros. Ultimate ending steve williams for the 1984 ending Notes… Thanks Jake for doing the intro at PWG and then getting signed to WWE the next week so we look cool. Sorry for no AEW Full Gear but these go up on Friday for Patreon people then Sunday for everyone else and as much fun as I’d have fucking those nice people over, I need to go OK HERE’S THE CUT OFF POINT due to the sheer amount of wrestling happening per week. It’s a shame Crown Jewel didn’t have a monumental fuck-up like the previous Saudia shows, even Tyson Fury wasn’t *that* bad all things considering his competition was Undertaker vs. Goldberg and Titus vs. Ring. I need a logo or mascot to appear whenever HE DIDN’T GET ALL OF IT is said. I’ve noticed a few weird comments about AEW being featured in Botchamania so felt the need to clarify: them being included isn’t me “turning on them” or showing my bias to WWE or whatever the fuck strange tribal thoughts that run through your heads, they botch so I put them in these videos and that’s it. Wrestlers are just meat for the grinder at this point but I appreciate the thoughts that I have an “allegiance” with any company when I’m showing the lowlights of everyone. I didn’t include Bea Priestley destroying Mayu Iwatani or Toshiyuki Sakuda missing his balcony dive at
Music... Like the Deserts Miss the Rain by Everything but the Girl Thanks To... Brody King for the fabulous intro Enrique The Superfan for filming said intro Kolfan93 for the Preacher footage ILikeJason for the I AM THE TABLE bit that he made ages ago that I changed to NOT the table BTSports for following me on twitter Tom Campbell for letting me film him GManEmpire for the Attack Pro footage rickymotions for the amazing Persona ending ogsociopath for the horrible ending that I love remingsteele for the Mortal Kombat II ending thespyjavert for Blue's Clues ending AllEliteCAL for the Family GUY NXT ending steve williams for the Cornette Drive Through ending
Music… Arena 1 by Kenny Chou (One Must Fall 2097) Theme of Terry Gordy by Kinuyo Yamashita, Hiroyuki Iwatsuki (Zen Nihon Pro Wrestling) Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey
Music… Wave by Yuzo Koshiro (Streets Of Rage 2) ACID SEAFORCE STAGE by Toshihiko Horiyama (Mega Man X3) Mysterious Dry Dry Outpost by Yuka Tsujiyoko, Taishi Senda (Paper Mario) Thor by Manowar Chaos King by Toby Fox (Deltarune)
27th February 2020by maffew Full-screen YouTube (With Youtube-required cuts) Windowed YouTube Full-screen Vimeo Full-screen Dailymotion Windowed Dailymotion Music… Cradle To The Grave by Thug Life Mirror Mansion – Interior by Norio Hanzawa (Wario World) Thanks To… Alex Zayne for the fabulous intro Steve Williams for the AEW Dynamite intro and the Heidenreich ending Richard Land for the ring announcer clip RemingSteele for the AEW vs NXT ending Joseph Tapia & Manuel Ayala for the NXT War Games smoke. I didn’t forget to use the clips, honest. ric flair blade job for the Metal Slug ending sharkosaur for the Jurassic Park ending stevexchaney for the JEEZUS ending mark xd for the Joker ending Notes… Alright this one isn’t the greatest collection of botches ever put together but times are tough during this Amazing Period Of Great Wrestling we find ourselves in. Hopefully it’ll clear up and the shit can filter through again but until then, times are tough and I’m resorting to Onita FMW showcases. The endings are good this time though, honest. Oh and my PC got stuck in the Blue Screen Restart dance after I made this so this better be good enough.
Probably a bit too hard on the WASH YOUR HANDS bit but I just got back from Germany and finding out Trump has banned all travel from there to USA, along with the news that OTT Scrappermania has been cancelled and Wrestlemania will likely be too have got me ever-so-slightly over-cautious. That being said, the extra week away has meant there’s been a load of good botches so there’s some positivity. XThreeee is an up-and-coming YouTuber/social media guy and I reached out to him to do a bit for Botchamania to prove there’s more than WhatCulture, Cultaholic and Wrestletalk out there talking about wrestling and dumb-shit. Happy to have him and am going to continue to have Guest Stars reading out descriptions of botches where there’s not relevant shoot interview available…but next time I’ll make sure they know who the people are (“As-i-ah” ahahahahahaha). Oh and the game featured in the YOU TALK TOO MUCH bit is Samurai Shodown 4. It’s good, but not on the same level as the 2nd one.
THAT AIN’T RIGHT is from Head Of State, the film with Chris Rock as President with the tag-line “the only thing white is the house!” I wish I had something interesting to type here but I don’t. It’s a scary time right now and all I can do to help is make these silly videos, so I hope the fortnightly dose of schadenfreude and chip-tunes are helping.
Music… OSW Review Outro Theme Song – Neo Geo Inst. (FantomenK) Legendary Ghost by Kristofer Maddian (Cuphead) Loading by Diego Zaldivar (Earthworm Jim HD) Thanks To… Stan Gable for 1-on-1 smackdown that I missed TheWrestlingCollector for Hogan & Mr. T on SNL remi steele for the Mortal Kombat ending radio sick for the history-accurate Simpsons ending wres edits for Maude Simpson ending ric flair blade job for the Con Air ending michael pepsi plunge for that damn funeral meme jagriff2 for the Step-Brothers ending skellingtor for the Skyrim ending sam o’hara for the lockdown ending Paul Nicholl for the CALL AN AMBULANCE ending Kevin Smith of UUUUUWM for the Brody Lee ending MarkMVP01 for the Lion King ending DCTF_Tim for the WHAT UP ending Notes… I’m sorry this wasn’t up yesterday, I’d aimed for it to be up as soon as possible given the lack of distraction but the police decided it would be a good idea to go look for someone to arrest in my block of flats at 3 a.m. but couldn’t find the exact address so they just knocked on windows while yelling “hullo” until 5 a.m. which ruined my chances of a good night’s sleep. And me without a good night’s sleep over-compensates with caffeine which leads to me getting distracted with a forced Evangelion ending rather than focusing on finishing the actual video. Apart from that, Wrestlemania was obviously low on botches this year due to the whole “we pre-recorded it so we’d be the dumbest company in the world if we didn’t edit out the mistakes and spot-calls” so if you have complaints please direct them to Stephanie McMahon. Wrestlemania 36 will go down as the weirdest WM of all time so Wrestlemania 32 with it’s Ryder title win and Saiyans exiting via cereal boxes can finally rest easy. As far as the quality of the show, it all depends on if you’re able to ignore the empty crowd and if you enjoy the cinematic bits. I think the wrestlers did what they could with the ‘p
4th May 2020by maffew Windowed YouTube Full-Screen Dailymotion Windowed Dailymotion Bitchute Full-Screen Full-Screen Streamable Full-Screen Breach.TV And the completely NSFW XVideo link Music… Goomba Village by Yuka Tsujiyoko, Taishi Senda (Paper Mario) Thanks To… Gene Munny for the fabulous intro CSteele1982 for the House Show footage DickVanKlondike for the missed ladder isalrightnow for the KISS wrestling Greybeard79 for the ICW table Britishbrawler1 for bird shit TheWrestlingCollector for the ’84 footage SirLariato for Sasaki corpsing Brian Zane of Wrestling With Wregret for reading more Jericho mercythebuzzard for the clothesline/lariat ending DrumDevosDrum for SpongeBob Raiders ending skellingtor for the Goldeneye ending F4R_Mastermind & TimLeeTV for the Figure 4 Podcast ending Notes… I waited until after Smackdown to see if there would be anything worth putting in Botchamania but right now botches in modern wrestling is like a famous cowboy: slim pickings. Thanks to everyone for sending me the FF7 Remake table glitch, it’s been the best thing I’ve been tagged in these past few weeks (along with Kim Jong-Un’s botched surgery). The fan cam of the Lou King Sharp vs. Paul Robinson table match was sent over a year ago but I keep things like that for situations like this, where there’s no tables or fans or wrestlers. “how do you know the finish to the Rev Pro match was messed up?” They told me. I hope people are enjoying the cameos from Vaguely Famous Wrestling YouTubers reading excerpts from wrestler’s books because it’s a more reliable source of botches than Raw at the minute so I’m sticking to them. Let me know if you have any suggestions for future readers. The very end segment with Cedric and his alexander was produced for now-defunct the Figure 4 Podcast and they sent me the beautiful video to show this isolation is having a positive effect on s
This was uploaded onto Patreon on Wednesday with the intention of uploading on Friday…then Speaking Out happened and it was absolutely not the time for it. Some days have passed and I realise that there’s not going to be a ‘good’ day to post this so I at least wanted to get this online for the people who want a cheap laugh to get through lockdown. I have no clue what’s going to happen to wrestling and I don’t have any answers, but I apologise for supporting and promoting so many fucking horrible people for so long. Music… Tribute by Tenacious D Funky Stadium by Asuka Ohta & Ryo Nagamatsu (Mario Kart Wii) Tool World by Matt Furniss (Zool, Mega Drive) Slope by Yoko Shimomura (Super Mario RPG) Thanks To… The Voros Twi
It’s been a weird few weeks. Ever since the Speaking Out movement spread like wildfire, I’ve been wondering if these videos were worth continuing with given how many de-activated twitter accounts were highlighted as a result of these shows. After some soul-searching I’ve decided I’m not going to let the cunts win and going to continue until COVID kills wrestling completely in a few months time Plus I wouldn’t be able to feature some of the good people I’ve met thanks to these videos in the Someone I Like Reads A Wrestler’s Autobiography section Haven’t seen GCW’s Backyard Wrestling show 2 yet as I spent most of last week drinking whiskey and 100%ing Crash Bandicoot so you’ll have to enjoy vintage BJW clips instead Audio during the Cole height section is from Dominik Diamond’s rollercoaster ride on GamesMaster And I’ve met Adam Cole and I could see the top of his head
Music… The Monkeys’ Maze by Akio Ohmori, Ritsuo Kamimura, Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka (Earthbound) Liar by Rollins Band Thanks To… Luchasaurus for the fabulous intro Michael Lipton for Fyter Fest/Fyter For The Fallen 2/whatever the fuck it was Rob Smith who noticed the deliberate mistake I put in every video, his prize is nothing Famous Wrestling Artist ilyass for the Jericho book illustration Stu King for Evil Dead II Bixenspan for Alice In Chains Fabled Ways for Kairi Sane’s ending FxDE2BLxCK for the cookies (the cookies) the cookies ending Rawbserver for the Time Of My life ending shane brouwer for the Fuck On Me ending Notes… The Lashley head explode is from Red Dwarf and one of the good series too Hey it’s been a while since there was a load of live wrestling and actual mistakes, thank Christ because Extreme Rules had nothing but sadness People sent me Sasha Banks falling off the top rope and Shayna lowering her head on Raw Talk but they’re not here because Sasha was selling and Shayna wasn’t corpsing if you looked at the clip in a higher quality than youtube. I was disappointed too but I appreciate people messaging me these near-misses Slammiversary 2020 was a fine event, maybe I’m easier impressed after all these Cinematic Matches but if I’ve got MCMG, Rascalz, Mack and Bey I’m good I’m almost glad WWE bottled the Eye For An Eye finish and declined to show the gory version because there was nearly nothing on the show worth even mocking without it, thanks Vince Oh and Gallows & Anderson’s slip may have been only a small stumble but these fuckers had a show called Botch Club so they’re getting featured here even if they just blink incorrectly List Of Companies And Where To Find Them… BTE #212 can be found here and it’s about 30 minutes long WWE Network should be used to find Timothy Thatcher matches on NXT and that’s it AEW Dark aka The Taz Show can be found here Impact Slammiversary
Music… Visitor’s Center by Sam Powell (Jurassic Park – Mega Drive) You Blow my Mind (Dudley’s Theme) by Hideki Okugawa (Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike) Thanks To… The Rascalz (Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz) for the fabulous intro Damo1328 for the Roach image RSP for himself and a ladder Kylie Rae & HighSpots for the ponytail Zepoolio for the Adam Cole pad ending MercyTheBuzzard for the AEW Smash ending Remingsteele for Def Jam Underground thatretro for King Of The OH GOD Steve Williams/aeonlinear for the best stuff Notes… Two years since Tri.Moon passed and wrestling’s sucked ever since Might as well focus on the positives while the UK hits another recession, fuckin hell List Of Companies And Where To Find Them… WWE Network should be used to find Timothy Thatcher matches on NXT and that’s it AEW Dark aka The Taz Show can be found here Impact Slammiversary was a good show, honest HighSpots for the best 9.99 in the biz IWA-MS for the best 9.99 ladders in the biz DDT don’t have a proper twitter but their fan one is pretty great Likewise, go here for your NOAH needs Something To Wrestle With can be followed here GCW and their gloriously windy events can be followed here Simon Miller (qu’est-ce que c’est) might as well be on Botchamania as he’s everywhere bloody else That’s your lot, here’s your usual Twitter & FaceBook links and keep yourself safe until next video
Music… Let’s walk toward the universe by Hiroaki Sano (Division Guardian: Twinkle-Star) Airship Fortress by Shinobu Tanaka (Mario Kart DS) Thanks To… Odie Kenodi for the fabulous intro MLP_Shad for pointing out the 2K18 audio Self-hating Jusin Valencia for the ICW NY table Vinny Rattlocke for himself Jen Louise for the lovely reading kimberly magnuson for the amazing Metalocalypse ending Remi Steele for continuing the GTA Robert Stone feud Steve Williams/aeonlinear for his magnum opus Notes… Summerslam was way better than expected (if you can stomach the Thunderdome, overly-lit, fake crowd production) in terms of in-ring action. NXT was better than Portland too and I don’t know why people were tweeting me “hey lots of stuff for Botchamania!” during the ladder match because a sunset flip wasn’t perfectly hit. It’s a five man ladder match, not Gotch/Hackenschmidt. AEW Dynamite has been a blast too, I’m glad I’m here to point out the negatives when wrestling is very slowly crawling back to normal. Covering the Thunderdome shit-posting is fun because it means I get to preach HEY NOW, SHOWING KKK & EXECUTION CLIPS IS TOO FAR when I’m sat at home laughing at Benoit’s sudden re-appearance. We’ve all got our different sensibilities I guess and maybe I’m getting old but I think shit-posting with stuff like Mike Awesome or DSP clips or even K-Pop fancams is funnier than Liveleak clips. Far Cry 3 Never Die. Hope you enjoy Jen Louise, I’m trying to feature more than just the same five pale UK lads that dominate YouTube videos. And she’s good crack (when she’s not promising to drink you under the table followed by going home first). “why’s there two different full-screen YouTube videos?” OH THAT’S A GOOD QUESTION. The first one went up fine then was unavailable for a few days despite it saying “PUBLIC” in the settings. Apparently this happened to a few other people so it was an internal YouTube issue so I uploaded another
Music… March Ahead by Yuka Tsujiyoko, Taishi Senda (Paper Mario) Super Koopa Bros, World 1 by Yoshito Hirano, Yuka Tsujiyoko (Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door) Thanks To… Larry Legend, Ortiz, Santana, Jaka, Pinkie Sanchez & Monsta Mack for the ending they filmed years ago but I’ve only just used this week because it’s super-long (so I cut the intro to make room for more botches) Seth Money for the Moxley fan cam Gary Cassidy for asking Moxley about it during the AEW Post-Show Hurricane Helms for Hurricane Helms Excalibur for continuing to yell I AM THE TABLE That Retro for inspiring the GO BIG SHOW bit Ever-Rise/3.0 for possibly intentionally saying TALK TOO MUCH twice in one segment A.M.MO, The Lowest of the Low for BJW’s glass This episode’s guest reader: Wrestletalk & Under Consoletation’s Luke Owen! Mercy The Buzzard for the Shaun Of The Dead ending chuck_rick for the Angle ending lennon riley for the Fall Guys ending Codster for the Blazing Saddles ending Remi Steele for the SMB & Mortal Kombat endings CastleGorakk for the Old School ending Notes… Matt Sydal was well enough to be featured in these prestigious videos so don’t worry. I disagree with people comparing him to The Shockmaster as he wasn’t dressed ridiculously and has over fifteen years of impressive matches…but so far it’s the contender for Botch Of The Year 2020. Deliberately not showing Matt Hardy’s horrific moment will probably not stop people from asking for it. Botchamania isn’t a role model for morality but I’m not going to include things like this as much as possible. “yeah but you included (insert something I shouldn’t have included) in the past” i hear you type and you’re right. I have sucked and do my best to not suck. Ditto for Cedric pinning Ricochet with a two-count so they could end the match ASAP when Ivar got injured. All Out had some highlights (Omega/Page storyline, MJF, Rosa) but there were so many negatives th
Music… Chain Chomp Roulette by Asuka Ohta & Ryo Nagamatsu (Mario Kart Wii) Thanks To… Marcus Everett (aka IWA-MS Elbow guy) for the fabulous intro atnpgo on reddit for the dick fall 1flym for the Saint’s Row “You Talk Too Much” BK Falco for the Summerslam spot-call I missed last video toveluv for being funny Richard Land for the ring breaking Woolie Versus for the beautiful line-reading Remi Steele for the Clone High & Mortal Kombat endings Matt Myers for the always appreciated Evangelion content Johanna Swanson for the Muppets ending Charles Chase making his long awaited return Notes… I wouldn’t usually use this much BTE but them making fun of The Biggest Botch Of The Year and Trent?’s Mum making everyone die laughing were too good to not use. No table moments this episode because there weren’t any available but Roman’s I AM THE HEAD OF THE TABLE is custom-fit for it. I know there’s been three (THREE) matches on WWE TV to end prematurely (Mickie vs. Asuka, Hurt Business vs. Viking Raiders and A & A, last night’s Street Profits vs. A & A) but i’m only using the Asuka one for the “ha Mickie’s acting was so good it tricked the ref” because I try and avoid real injuries. The Ivelisse vs. Thunder Rosa match may have turned into SUPER-SHOOT MEGA-REAL but they edited so much of it out that the only remarkable bit of the match was the indifferent hold during the picture-in-picture. I don’t know what’s going on with the two of them but Ivelisse completely blanking out during the tag rematch the following week was amazing. And if those weren’t good enough, there was also Miro’s in-ring debut to enjoy because after months of nothing, the botch dam has been struck open and it’s spraying bad wrestling everywhere, hoorayyyy. But at the same time Clash of Champions was way better than expected, mostly thanks to TOPLESS ROMAN.
Music… Onett Theme by Akio Ohmori, Ritsuo Kamimura, Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka (Earthbound) Bye Bye American Pie [MAP23] by Bobby Prince (Doom II) Soleil Plaza by Motokazu Shinoda (Crusader of Centy/Soleil) Thanks To… Drew Gulak for the intro he filmed years ago that I didn’t use because he got signed by WWE but he seems job-safe now so it’s OK to use Liam Jumpertz on FB for the fan after Swerve pin ShaunOnSite for the JLA Talk Too Much Ian Hamilton for Andy Shep’s moment dctf_tim for the New Day sad ending vile_boss for the shark ending JMaq for MY WIFE ending mknight_penguin for the demos ending ellis drew for the Shockmaster Ed, Edd & Eddy ending steve williams for the Boogeyman ending salivaundead for the ending he sent 2 years ago morningmoonmeme for the lovely Phoenix Wright ending Notes… I Cameo requested an intro from a Famous Wrestler Known For Weed but he didn’t respond and my back-up plan of Hot Indie Wrestler Doing A Weed intro instead didn’t work either so instead it’s an old intro from Drew Gulak just because. The NXT fake commentators is my current favourite stupid thing of 2020, rather than admit COVID is a thing they install the Wish versions of Wade & Beth.
Music… Mount Lineland by Naoko Mitome and Chika Sekigawa (Super Paper Mario) Always Invincible…No Fear! by Tee Lopes (Sonic Mania) Thanks To… Rob Van Dam for the fabulous intro Josh Fuller for sending clips of himself Ian Hamilton for the OVW fall Craigo Lantern for pointing out Tucker and his script Paul Rudoff for spotting that NXT moment I missed Mark Lawson for spotting Randy’s head memberawa for the GCW chair WrestlingHDD for the trophy fall Jack The Jobber for the wonderful book reading Colonel XB for the Young MJFrankenstein ending evan germano for the amazing Fiend ending Redovd Danil & VSplanet pengueen for the Minecraft ending Retro Franco for the Simpsons Paint Your Wagon ending Shanafan for Indiana Jones ending Jonathan Wielbruda for the Otis ending IrishWrestling8 for inspiring the seizures JMaq for the Godzilla ending Duel 3000 for the AND MEEEE ending Notes… RVD delivered the Cameo! I’d been told by people “oh if it’s an endorsement the big name guys end up declining” but he must have been smoking the good stuff that day because it came through and I think it’s better it NOT being used for #420.
Music... FLAME STAGGER STAGE by Yuki Iwai (Mega Man X2) https://youtu.be/t5sQTAzzt6s “Bob-Omb Battlefield” (Super Mario 64) by YamaYama https://tributealbum64.bandcamp.com/t... E2M3 - Intermission by Bobby Prince (Doom) https://youtu.be/vVRbEvPvF7A Thanks To... Akira Tozawa for the intro he did in 2015 that I didn't use because he got signed but he's probably 24/7 champion when you're reading this so it's OK https://twitter.com/TozawaAkira Paul Ru for noticing the NXT Callspot http://www.thecornerpenthouse.tk Matt Okazaki on FB for spotting the Private Party in the woods because I was too drunk to notice the cinematography Ian Hamilton for being the one to spot the NXT commentators getting Anthony Greene's new name wrong https://twitter.com/IanWrestling Taz for name-dropping this video series that he loves so much https://twitter.com/OfficialTAZ Corey Graves for tweeting himself corpsing and sending for the man https://twitter.com/WWEGraves The awesome Mongo twitter account for the Ultimo Warrior bit https://twitter.com/ThatsOurMongo Acde Bradley for I Love It When They Call Me Big Pop-uh https://twitter.com/ace_bradley edoowinnie for the Red Dwarf bit https://twitter.com/edoowinnie/status... Pete Prickly for Killer Khan falling https://twitter.com/PetePrickly mercythebuzzard for Retribution sucking https://twitter.com/MercyBuzzard13 diavolta for the Super Mario 64 ending https://twitter.com/diavolta_/status/... thatretro for the Simpson yell ending https://twitter.com/ThatRetro snugglefur for the Eric Andre ending https://twitter.com/HappySnugglefur Osirius25 for the I'M NOT ALEXA ending https://www.reddit.com/user/Osirius25 Sephzilla for the political ending https://twitter.com/Sephzilla/status/... The Drake Jaxon for the awesome Murphy/Rey ending https://twitter.com/TheDrakeJaxon Notes... AEW Full Gear was good but you know that already because of that frigging SECRET AEW LIST
Music... Heggy's Egg Shed by Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Tooie) https://youtu.be/Pi0iugHeh3A Playing the Game by Yasunori Mitsuda (Mario Party) https://youtu.be/z2BVsJ8xYAg Thanks To... Sam Roberts of the WWE Network & SiriusXM for the fabulous intro (recorded outside a PWG show in Reseda five years ago) https://twitter.com/notsam Gustavo Fajardo on BM FB for pointing out Undertaker corpsed All Elite Scooby Doo for existing Swerve Video for getting hit by a wrestler https://twitter.com/swervevideo Harry Aaron for getting hit by a wrestler https://twitter.com/harryaaron Sugar Dunkerton's friend for not getting hit by a wrestler https://twitter.com/sugardunkerton Paul Rudoff for noticing the Dustin Rhodes/Blade cowbell bit www.thecornerpenthouse.tk Jason Hartley of MMA On Point for the awesome reading https://twitter.com/jasonthehart Tommy Toe Hold of MMA On Point for the other awesome reading https://twitter.com/TommyToeHold AllEliteCAL for the DBZ AEW ending https://twitter.com/AllEliteCAL That Retro for Beavis Fiend ending https://twitter.com/ThatRetro 1flym for the Dynamite ending https://twitter.com/1flym John Stallman for the AEW Games ending https://twitter.com/ImTrippinOutMan Ur-Gu-La for the Adult Swim ending https://www.reddit.com/user/ur-gu-la Cole Bendall for the Undertaker ending https://twitter.com/colejbendall Nic Roberts for the Bottom ending https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfYj... ColonelXB for the Demon Turkey ending https://twitter.com/ColonelXB Jesse Maximum for Gimme Samoan https://twitter.com/JMaq Notes... Survivor Series 2020 was "eh" due to the same irrelevant Brand Supremacy crap that no-one cares about. So I'm glad for Gooker returning, winning a title, tripping over Tozawa, losing his feet, walking off on camera and then losing his foot again. WOTY. MMA On Point is one of my favourite YouTube channels so I'm pumped Jason & Tommy said "yes" when I asked if th
Notes... I'm always cautious about including any tribute to a wrestler because Botchamania is seen as an important thing to some and direspectful to others, but hopefully regardless of your viewpoint you'll understand there's nothing but love intended here. I've made more of an attempt to mix up the WWE clips with other companies to avoid those pesky copyright issues which are more likely to pop up when the clips are together. I love WHANG's work and was flattered he responded positively to my DM when he could have easily told me to piss off. The site is back-up but uhhhh it's reverted back to 2016 for some reason. It's being worked on though so fingers crossed. Until then, it's no secret 2020 has been fucking shit but I have to admit that making Botchamania has been one of the anchors to keep me sane during all this and I hope in some small way it's helped whoever is reading this.
I can't wait for live shows again, the reactions from the crowds have already spiced up AEW Dynamite. Drew McIntyre and babyface Ryker are fucked, but the rest is going to rule. I don't apologise for the amount of Resident Evil VIII in this video, I've beaten it about six times in a month. I'm sure the old TAZ intro will return next video.
I've had a week of a heavy flu (I hope), so I was very happy to edit the dulcet tones of John Blud and have the wonderful Young Sovereign doing the illustrations for a lovely story to distract from coughing my lungs out. I don't apologise for the amount of Resident Evil VIII in this video, I've beaten it about six times in a month. I'm sure the old TAZ intro will return next video.
Music... Shotgun by Geoff & Tim Follin (Plok!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xwum... Berdly by Toby Fox (Deltarune Chapter 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPQCB... Thanks To... Fat Tapla for the thumbnail https://twitter.com/D_TaPla IAmTarynTerrell for the fabulous intro https://twitter.com/IAmTarynTerrell Heel MOC for the IWS table Chickenparmsub for the Tony Khan's Pro Wrestler 2 sign https://twitter.com/Chickenparmsub Brandonturrisi for the footage of the fan jumping the guard-rail https://twitter.com/Brandonturrisi HBomberGuy for the amazing book reading https://www.youtube.com/c/hbomberguy Jake Berry for the Scorpio Sky ending Labmp4 for the amazing Steam intro ending https://twitter.com/Labmp4 Matt Myers for the hair change ending https://twitter.com/MattMyers TheSpaceHippie for the Major League ending https://twitter.com/TheSpaceHippie FWCI for the bad cops bad cops ending https://twitter.com/FWCI Steve Williams for the Cure For The Common Raw (reprise)
It's time for another slice of Botch Pie, this week's edition stuffed full of the best chunks of No Mercy & Wrestledream served with a Mace & Mansoor gravy.
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Botchamania 488
Music... Hydrocity Zone 1 by Howard Drossin (Sonic 3) Main Title by Francis Monkman (The Long Good Friday) Thanks To... The lovely Batiri for the intro. John Cmar for having faith. Chikarason for the ECW stories.
Music… The Second Joker (Ash) by Tetsuhiro Ogawa, Iku Mizutani, Toshihiko Hiraguchi, Tomonao Niiya, Makoto Suehiro, Tasuku Mizutani (The King of Fighters XIII) Trio The Punch – Never Forget Me by Gamadelic Blurred Lines by Ralph Vickers Notes… Yeah the title is wrong. Because of that one Raw segment! Remember? No? Well whatever, trust me. Bad News Brown vs. Ken Patera is fucking shite. Summerslam 1992 was shown live in the UK but they had time to edit it for the USA broadcast, so if you’re going ”woah hey I don’t remember those” then that’s why. ”maffew how do you decide what years to put in?” by hitting the fifteen minute mark.
Music… Bad Times by GaMetal Set Point – Match Point by Motoi Sakuraba (Mario Tennis) Thanks To… Tri.Moon for sending me the HHH/Austin clip
Music… I’m Gonna Go To Hell When I Die by Conan O’Brien Paint It Black by Dance With The Dead Can’t be Touched by Roy Jones Jr.
Despite watching a shit-load of wrestling this week, I don’t have enough good clips for a proper Botchamania so here’s a look at the Taboo Tuesday/Cyber Sunday PPVs from 2004-2008 instead. Music… “Cruis’n Shuffle” by Uncle & the Bacon Vote or Die by South Park Turd or Douche by South Park On paper, these fan-voted PPVs were a good idea that ended up offering little in the way of interesting matches or choices and usually ended up as ”so your choices are normal match, submission match or NO HOLDS BARRED STREET FIGHT, go ahead and pick any match you feel like NO HOLDS BARRED voting for.” It rarely felt like a feud was getting settled and more like dragging something along and shoving a gimmick into it to squeeze every drop out of what’s left. Cyber Sunday 2006 and it’s WWE Champ vs. World Champ vs. ECW Champ triple threat match had even the bairns watching their first wrestling show go ”well there’s no way any title’s changing hands in this”. If it hadn’t been for December To Dismember that year, Cyber Sunday would have walked away with the title of Shittiest PPV Of The Year 2006 easily. It wasn’t all doom, gloom and Vader falling over though. Edge losing the public vote to HBK for a World Title match against HHH was the start of Edge’s glorious prick run, turning on the fans for picking injured HBK over healthy Edge and then interfering in the match to make sure he really didn’t win was gold. Also, bizarre as it sounds (and looks) Snitsky looked like the beast WWE wanted him to be in his match with Kane on Taboo Tuesday 2004. He won the match, broke a chair over Kane’s throat which caused him to spit up blood and then knocked over the stretcher sent out to help him. If it hadn’t been for the whole baby-killing thing Gene may have been something. Also King Booker trying to get Cena to team up with him against Show and accepting Cena’s demand of one night with his wife is great comedy, only upstaged by the I J
Rumblemania 1 (1988-1998) One of the benefits of the Network is being able to replace all those ancient VHS rips with supersexy swinging HD. Music… Origin ~Awaken~ (Theme Of Heroes) by Szk (Gain Ground, Mega Drive) Casino by Yasunori Shiono (Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals)
The Network version of Rumble 2001 is the unedited version so you can see Jeff and Matt fuck up everything at the start of the 2001 Rumble. But Rumble 2004 *is* edited so my plan of showcasing the unedited Batista vs. Evolution tables match went unrealised. This is the shit that keeps me up at night. Turns out I did a new edit of ”ah it’s still good” so ignore the Sky Box Office logo. And the X-Factor theme. Music… CORE by Toby Fox (Undertale) Glitter Gulch Mine by Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Tooie) Lobby by Nintendo (SPLATOON) You Think You Know Me (Edge) by James A. Johnston What ‘Chu Looking At by Uncle Kracker Let Me Take A #Selfie by The Chainsmokers —
Well it says 2006-2012 but there’s a few clips from 2013 because…well some of my selections sucked. Ah wey. Music… Stardust Crusaders by Yugo Kanno (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders) Death by Glamour by Toby Fox (Undertale) I Remember You by Frank Ifield
Oh man what a series of good Rumbles. Well, good for me anyway. Music… Area 1 by Naoki Kodaka (Blaster Master) I’m Back (Eric Bischoff) by Jim Johnston Spooktune by Toby Fox (Undertale) Thanks to… Duffy6Brett for suggesting the Sandow Insanity clip. Too good.
I think you can have a perfectly good match and then fuck up the finish. And judging by this video, I’m not the only one. Das List… 10. Goldust vs. Stardust (WWE Fast Lane) 9. Green Phantom vs. MASADA (IWA-MS King Of The Death Match) 8. Eddie Kingston vs. Jaka (Chikara Aniversario) 7. Pinkie Sanchez vs. Juan Francisco (Chikara Key Decisions) 6. Bram vs. Matt Morgan (TNA Slammiversary) 5. Grado vs. Tigre Uno vs. DJ Z vs. Rockstar Spud (TNA Impact July 15th) 4. Roppongi Vice vs. Redragon (NJPW King Of Pro Wrestling) 3. BxB Hulk, Masaaki Mochizuki & Big R Shimizu vs. CIMA, Don Fujii & Gamma (Dragon Gate Rainbow Gate) 2. Eva Marie vs. Billie Kay (NXT September 2nd) 1. Charlotte vs. Becky Lynch vs. Emma vs. Dana Brooke (NXT August 26th) Music… Aquarius by Yoshinori Sasaki, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto (Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse) Ariston and on and on and on and on Doctor by Kozo Nakamura, Tomoya Tomita, Kenichi Matsubara, Yoshinori Sasaki, Satoko Minami, Kenji Fukui (The Lone Ranger, NES) Decide in the Eyes by Yumiko Kanki, Naoto Ishida (F-Zero X) How I Feel (Instrumental) by Flo Rida Notes… ”Maffew was this video made because of Eva Marie not appearing in Most Botched Matches and fans bugging you because of it?” Maybe. Jon Barber was the ref for both Chikara matches. He made the first two Botchamania videos so this is where Maggle Cole would shout ”How ironic!”
(For some reason this was never posted on the site. Christ knows what that was about) Three years in the making… I always said I’d make this video, but only after the guy left. Well, the original Sin Cara (Mistico) officially departed WWE this year on March 26th. Looks like they’re keeping the gimmick so the time is right for the long-awaited SinCaraMania. Amazing that the character was intended as a Mysterio replacement but despite a brief Bobby-Lashley-esque push, ended up in pre-recorded SmackDown land because he couldn’t be trusted to wrestle WWE-style. They must have forgotten Rey spent multiple years in WCW, getting used to working guys like Nash and Norton before WWE grabbed him. Rey also had MOTYC and feuds because he was against Angle, Edge, Jericho, Punk etc. Sin Cara feuded with Hunico for a bit, sort-of feuded with The Rhodes Scholars and got beat up by Del Rio every few weeks. Not quite the same, is it? It didn’t help that everything that could go wrong did go wrong in his first year. Injuries, wellness policy violation, fucking up his entrance, bungling his debut and not being allowed on any live show is pretty much a full line on the Botch Bingo Card. He’s still around in spirit (like Starscream after being blasted by Unicron) so let’s not rule out the possibility of a second video in 2017. Music… My Sacrifice by Creed Sin Cara Theme by SHINING WIZADO Pizza Theme by Spider-Man 2 Boss 1 by Fumito Tamayama (Tamachan) (Decap Attack) Leave The Memories Alone by Fuel Thanks To… The miscellaneous creators of the Spider-Man as Sin Cara images. The names are lost to history, so if you made one and want a credit, message me.
Ah, Khali. It was weird to re-watch some 2006 for this video and be reminded how well booked he originally was. Beating The Undertaker with one foot on his chest, stealing Cena’s title and having everyone bump off like him like similar magnets trying to come together would make anyone look good. Maybe if he’d arrived during a different period of history he would have continued to look this good, he would have left after a loss, go elsewhere, come back etc. Instead, he hung out for eight years and everyone quickly turned on him when they realised he moved around like Hank Hill’s dad. So making this video was a fun challenge, as he botch that much. As it’s hard to mess anything up when you’re incapable of doing anything. Which sounds like good advice for staying employed, actually. Music… Your Feets Too Big by Leon Redbone Title Theme Yoshi by Kazumi Totaka (Mario Paint) Giving the devil is due, here’s some decent Khali matches to watch: vs. Undertaker, Last Man Standing (Smackdown 2006) vs. John Cena (Judgement Day 2007) vs. John Cena (Extreme Rules 2007) vs. Triple H (Summerslam 2008)
Let's All Laugh At The Hardys The Hardys are wrestling at TNA's next real PPV and they were apparently left alone to film their own video to hype it. Opinion is split on whether or not it's supposed to be trying to be one of the worst segments (in terms of production, audio and everything else) in the history of wrestling. One side argues ''it's so bad they have to be in on it, nobody can make something that bad and not know'' and the other argues ''if that's the case, how the fuck is that supposed to sell tickets?'' Make up your own mind, but I think everyone's in agreement: It's a must-see. Included in the video is the full ''Director's Cut'' (their words, not mind) from TNA's YouTube, EC3 and other TNA wrestlers' own parody of it and some silly endings. Thanks To... Kenady16, SenorLariato & Wrestling Memes for the endings and suggestions. Warning: I'm not to be blamed for shouting ''BROTHER NEROOOO'' all day after watching this video.
Back by popular demand. It was either make a separate video of Hardy endings and submissions or fill the endings with BROTHER NERROOOOO
Gash Of The Champions. A collection of crap from COTCs 1-10. The first few are easily the best as they’re being used to sabotage Vince as best as possible. Wrestling doesn’t get much better than COTC VI (Steamboat vs. Flair) or IX (Flair vs. Funk). But you’ve got to take the good with the bad, especially with Dusty Rhodes in charge. The Ding Dongs, Jack Victory under several different masks and Steven ”Jobber who got a 17 minute match” Casey. So if you think this vid is full of crap, just wait until the next ones…
Ah, 3PW. Everyone’s third favourite post-ECW Viking Hall occupants. Music… United Kingdom by Don Veca (Road Rash 3: Tour de Force) Battle Theme by David Wise (Diddy Kong Racing) Race Theme 02 by P.Phelan/A.Bennet/P.Bennet (Top Gear 2, SNES) You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly! by Words by Sammy Cahn. Music by Sammy Fain. Vocals by Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Paul Collins, Tommy Luske, The Jud Conlon Chorus, and The Mellomen. Kid (Ending 1) by Shinsekai Gakkyoku Zatsugidan (The King of Fighters ’95) Headdy the Hero by Kazuo Hanzawa, Jun Irie, Hideki Matsutake (Dynamite Headdy) Stage Theme 11 by Hirohiko Takayama, Tsukamoto (Lemmings, Mega Drive) Stayin Alive In The Wall by Wax Audio 3PW’s biggest issue was finding an identity. It ended up being ”stuff you wouldn’t see in nearby XPW, CZW, ROH or JAPW” which meant Legends who couldn’t do anything but blade, your least favourite ECW guys (Pitbull #1, Jason Knight, Chad Austin etc.) and tits (Jasmine St. Claire). Which doesn’t sound that bad on paper, but with endless Todd Gordon segments, no direction and horrible commentary, the highlights were sparse. In fairness, Matt Striker, Joey Matthews and Rob Eckos all excelled in the company and looked like stars from the get-go. 3PW became known later on for the problems caused by Jasmine St. Claire and others. Here’s a brief list of 3PW Follies: Year End Mayhem… -Bam Bam Bigelow apologised to fans after his match with Abdullah The Butcher. -Syxx-Pac apologised for not being 100% for the second show in a row. Syxx said he wouldn’t return until he was 100% -Dusty Rhodes, Too Cold Scorpio and Ron Killings all no-showed. A New Era… -Sandman (subbed for 3PW Champion Sabu, who missed his flight for not the first time) and then lost it to Terry Funk. Justin Credible would later win the belt and have it vacated for the same reason. Five Star Four Way… -There was a long wait, because Chr
Life sucks. ”But you already knew that.” Music… In the Crane Game by Konami Kukeiha Club (Parodius Da! －Shinwa kara Owarai e－) Del Rio is the poster child for the PG era of WWE booking where only Cena, Orton and very occasionally Bryan and Punk are headliners and everyone is just making up the numbers, even former world champions. Del Rio made his debut after a series of cool vignettes and made an immediate impression by beating up Rey Mysterio. He was a new, amusing and cool guy at the time and a breath of fresh air…until it became apparent he only had three lines of dialogue and WWE didn’t have any creative ideas for him. He’s a rich guy and the only thing they do with him to show he’s rich is have him drive a new car every show. He wasn’t bribing any officials or paying people to lose to him or doing anything to do with wrestling with money. So in short, he was a rich guy but it didn’t mean anything. So why bother? The whole gimmick felt like Vince McMahon went ”you know what’ll be funny? A RICH MEXICAN!” in a booking meeting and nobody had the balls to object to it. I fully expect to have RICH INDIAN Khali on The Main Event now ADR’s gone, just so Vince can laugh to himself. ”HE’S AN INDIAN…WHO’S RICH! HAHAHAHAAH!” and then he’ll go and watch The Shaggy D.A. for the fifteenth time. So ADR lost a lot of steam by the time he won MITB and confused everyone by sticking his oar in and cashing in the shot against CM Punk in the middle of the Summer of Punk angle. He immediately lost the title to Cena at the next PPV and won it again in a triple threat match at HIAC before losing it to Punk at Survivor Series 2011. Everyone was excited for Punk and the Cena/WWE feud…and now WWE decided was the moment to pull the trigger and have ADR win a title or two. People were paid money to write this shit. ADR became a part of the scenery and feuded with Sheamus for about five years. The worst part about his whole st
Just realised I missed the September Q ‘n’ A, hopefully this makes up for it. Steiner got ”it” in 2011. He was let go because of tweeting anti-Bischoff/Hogan/Flair rants. They should have given him a Jim Cornette-style five minutes on Impact instead, so he could rant to his heart’s content. RATINGS.
There wasn’t enough crap this week so here’s a look back at the first year of Raw instead.
In (dis)honour of the last TNA PPV, here’s ten times the lights cut off/someone needed to stick a fiver in the meter.
Ernest Miller vs. HighSpots Nick Gage vs. Smart Mark Video Terri Runnels vs. HighSpots Ken Patera vs. Ring of Honor Chris Chetti vs. a fan at ECW Cyberslam 2000 Spike Dudley vs. HighSpots Ric Flair vs. RF Video Ron Simmons vs. HighSpots Necro Butcher vs. RF Video Ole Anderson vs. RF
R.I.P. The Brain
1. AJ Styles vs. Kevin Owens (WWE Battleground 2017) 2. Battle Royal (WWE Smackdown 02/21/17) 3. Johnny Mundo vs. Texano Jr. vs. Hijo Del Fantasma (AAA Triplemania XXV) 4. Travis Banks vs. Mark Haskins (PWG BOLA Night 2) 5. Julian Nero vs. Da Mack (wXw World Tag Team League Night 1) 6. Carmella vs. CJ Lunde (WWE Smackdown 10/01/17) 7. Grado vs. Abyss (Impact Bound For Glory 2017) 8. Rachel Evers vs. Marti Belle (Mae Young Classic Episode 2) 9. Christi Jaynes & Shotzi Blackheart vs. Lucy Cole & Saraya Knight (PCW vs IPW The Confrontation) 10. CCK vs. The Origin: Banter Edition vs. Extra Talent-Less (PROGRESS Chapter 52)
1. Torneo 25 Anniversary (AAA Triplemania XXV) 2. Sexy Star vs. Ayako Hamada vs. Lady Shani vs. Rosemary (AAA Triplemania XXV) 3. El Ligero & Joseph Conners vs. GBH (SWE Menace 2 Society VII) 4. Rachael Ellering vs. Christi Jaynes (Wrestle Circus Presents The Cody Rhodes Summer Circus 08/05/17) 5. Dos Caras, El Rayo de Jalisco Jr. & Villano IV vs. Canek, Cien Caras & Mascara Ano 2000 (CMLL Super Viernes Leyendas Mexicana) 6. Christi Jaynes & Shotzi Blackheart vs. Lucy Cole & Saraya Knight (PCW vs IPW The Confrontation) 7. Dragon Solar, Pardux, Solaris, Ashley vs. Bronco Gonzalez, Chicano, Fetiche, Hashtary (AAA Triplemania XXV) 8. Mario Bokara vs. Garza Jr. (TNA Xplosion 04/15/17) 9. El Hijo de Dos Caras vs. Drago (WCPW True Destiny 02/12/17) 10. Enzo Amore vs. Cesaro (WWE Raw 02/13/17)
Quick video to get hyped for Rumble
This started off as a silly tweet and got a bit carried away so here's a compilation of the best submissions. This is all from yesterday, what an age we live in.
Hey Windjammers! Wanted to say SO LONG AND FAIR WELL to the horrible year known as 2021 with a free recap of just the endings from the Botchamania episodes released this year (426-446) to see if this was a thing that people wanted to see! Also while I'm here: This compilation is a bit of a stop-gap as Christmas/New Year ended up being busier than I thought but the Top Ten Botches Of The Year 2021 video is in development, it just got in the way of the ugly world of life. But it goes without saying that the AEW Failed Explosion is #1 but it would be good to listen to your suggestions for the remaining numbers (Roman Reigns getting legit stuck during the Last Man Standing match against Kevin Owens, Adnan's three week run, the women's gauntlet match at Wrestlemania, Eva Marie's trip, Cody Rhodes in general etc.) If you don't want to make your opinions heard that's fine, I just wanted to use this time to say thanks again for your continued support and hope you're doing well and drinking
