Botchamania: Botches Of The Week #7

1. Seth Rolls-into the barricade

Rollins decided to answer the critics’ complaints of no-selling and recklessness by diving outside in the opening match of Raw and bouncing his head off the guard-rail. So there, take THAT critics.

2. JoJo’s Bizarre Announcement

The Raw Tag Team Battle Royal started but due to some crossed wires, the match began before JoJo got to announce the rules so she carried on like a trooper as the commentators could be heard stifling their laughter. Drew & Dolph had the right idea of dealing with the awkwardness, just sitting back and watching it burn itself out.

3. Ole Dirty

Tremendous blooper left in by WWE from the Brisco vs. Flair 04/07/84 Hidden Gems match on the Network involving Ole Anderson smiling pic.twitter.com/uU3KkTGh6W

— forever botchamania (@Maffewgregg) June 4, 2018

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The WWE Network’s Hidden Gems continue to impress with the sheer amount of uncovered content for fans… and also editors who decided to leave the footage of Ole Anderson flubbing his lines in the build for Flair vs. Brisco from 1984, presumably because it included footage of Ole smiling. After the match, the Loch Ness Monster interfered and challenged DB Cooper.

4. something about tables

The pure comedy timing of @TheKipSabian on the table malfunction…#Superbad #KingOfTiming pic.twitter.com/E8ddvcmxUO

— HOPE Wrestling (@HOPEWrestling) June 2, 2018

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I’m going to let Kip Sabian, HOPE Wrestling, a table and comedy timing explain this one.

5. Charles Wrong

On the latest episode of WWE Photo Shoot, The Godfather admits the finish to WrestleMania VIII’s main event was botched partly due to himself. As witch doctor Papa Shango, he was supposed to break up Hogan’s pin-fall on Sid Justice but the road agents mistimed the signal and also miscalculated the half-mile Papa would need to run to reach the ring and by the time he was told to go-go-go, Sid had kicked out. The DQ finish continued as planned but due to the delay, Sid was forced to kick out of the Leg Drop Of Doom, something that gave him bragging rights. For a week. Before he failed a drug test/quit/softball started.

Honorable Mention…

Alright this caused a lot of debate on Twitter the day it happened so I’m including it in the bit at the end instead of on the main list. So Seth brings in a chair, Elias DDTs him on it and the ref…doesn’t call for a DQ and Elias wins the match. This confused the hell out of me but Lance Storm explained:

We actually had a meeting once and addressed this. Since Seth introduced the chair, and Elias just did a legal maneuver, too bad for Seth, No DQ. https://t.co/Oni4rt9x3e

— Lance Storm (@LanceStorm) June 5, 2018

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Basically the same reason you don’t get DQ’d for using the steel steps and announce tables but get DQ’d for using tables in the ring. It’s still weird to me, dammit.