Wrestling feuds are really strange sometimes. Edge and Booker T once fought over a Japanese shampoo commercial. The Repo Man and PCO stole The Macho Man’s Hat and Bret Hart’s jacket respectively. Those quirky reasons might have resulted in mundane, humdrum matches. Other times, feuds are started for more traditional reasons and wind up in big time event matches like a Ladder Match or Hell In A Cell.
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Then, every so often there’s a program where all points lead to a completely ridiculous match stipulation. Usually an embarrassing one too. Here are 10 matches with humiliating stipulations.
10 Cry-Baby Match
At In Your House 6, the feud between former friends, Razor Ramon and The 1-2-3 Kid had escalated to the point that would compete in a...Cry Baby Match. The stipulation was decided due to the antics the newly minted heel Kid was pulling.
The loser (which was Kid) would have to be dressed in a diaper. It’s an image that you can’t get out of your head, and not in a good way, either.
9 Kiss Me Arse
Several times over the years, WWE has had matches where the loser had to pucker up and kiss the winner’s backside. The SummerSlam ‘97 match between Austin and Owen was a Kiss My Ass match.
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As the company got more PG, they still tried to have these types of matches, most recently Dolph Ziggler and Sheamus in a “Kiss Me Arse” match at the 2015 Extreme Rules.
8 Personal Assistant For A Month
Several years ago, The Bellas and Daniel Bryan were feuding with the Authority. But at SummerSlam 2014, Nikki turned on Brie and helped Stephanie defeat her.
At the Hell In A Cell event, The Bellas fought each other with the stipulation that whoever lost would be the winner’s Personal Assistant for a month. But the truly embarrassing part came afterward when Nikki won.
7 Kiss My Foot
The Kiss My Foot Match inadvertently became a staple of Jerry Lawler’s. He’s only had two and he’s 1-1 in competition. While he was gearing up for his first one with Bret Hart, Lawler would walk around barefoot in mud and other gross places.
But that night, he lost and Bret actually made him kiss his own foot. Years later, he’d be in another one of these matches, with Michael Cole. That time, the King reigned supreme.
6 Tuxedo Match
Having two grown men, who are not athletes, duking it out while they rip each other’s tuxedos off humiliating for them. It also just so happens to hurt the audience's eyes.
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Who wants to see guys like the great Howard Finkel and Harvey Wippleman try to have a match, much less try to grab each other’s clothes and tear them off? Matches like this showcase how much of the WWE is for an audience of one.
5 Hair Vs. Hair
Speaking of that audience of one, Vince McMahon has long been known to be a guy who would never ask his roster to do something he wasn’t willing to do himself. That was put to the test when the Chairman lost his hair at WrestleMania 23.
Over the years there have been kinds of Hair Vs. Hair matches. There aren’t much more humiliating things you could do to a person - just ask losers of this match like Molly Holly, Kurt Angle, and Jeff Jarrett.
4 Loser Eats Dog Food
Last fall on Smackdown, King Corbin went after The Big Dog and humiliated him by handcuffing him to the ring post and covering him in dog food.
But Roman Reigns would be able to get his revenge on Corbin when he defeated him in a Loser Eats Dog Food contest. Corbin got a dose of his own medicine and then went on a complete crazy tirade on random crew members.
3 Paddle On A Pole
It's clear that during The Attitude Era, the ladies were on screen more to pop the male audience with their beauty than with their in-ring style. Ladies like Trish and Lita were the exception to the rule, but they couldn’t escape getting down to the delight of male fans. Several times, the WWE had Paddle On A Pole contests.
Somehow even more tawdry than a Bra and Panties match, here one Diva has to climb a pole to get a Paddle, and then she could use it however she wants, usually to spank her opponent.
2 Til’ Death Do Us Part
At the 2004 SummerSlam, to the victor went Lita when her boyfriend Matt Hardy fought Kane in a Til Death Do Us Part Match.
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As a spin on Personal Assistant or Slave For A Month type matches, Lita would have to marry the Devil’s Favorite Demon had he won, which he did. Their union didn’t last long, ending shortly after Lita’s kayfabe miscarriage.
1 Custody Ladder Match
Only two legends like Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero could pull off a storyline like this and make it come off more like a high stakes drama and less like the hokeyness that it was.
The Mysterio and Guerrero families had come together to determine the custody of Rey’s kid Dominick. The buildup to the Ladder Match had Eddie being as sleazy and gross as he possibly could be espousing “I’m your Papi!”
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