As Good As It Gets

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

1st Match: Savio Vega vs IRS. A dark match that's actually shown on the PPV, strange, but it's a good start. If anything it's less than 5 minutes, so it's pretty harmless. Rating: 3/5 2nd Match: Savio Vega vs Yokozuna. An OK match until it ends via countout. Rating: 2.5/5 3rd Match: The Roadie vs Bob Holly. Interesting to see Bob Holly before his Hardcore gimmick. The match is pretty good, even if I have to put up with Jeff Jarrett for 7 minutes. Rating: 3.5/5 4th Match: Shawn Michaels vs Kama. The match of the night, even though it ends in a time-limit draw. A lot of action crammed into 15 minutes. Rating: 4/5 5th Match: Mabel vs The Undertaker. Strange to see Taker lose this, but they were taking a chance pushing Mabel. Not much to this. Rating: 2.5/5 6th Match: Savio Vega vs The Roadie. Vega had quite a push, 4 matches in one night, and the crowd is with him throughout the whole night. Another decent match here. Rating: 3/5 7th Match: Bret Hart vs Jerry Lawler, Kiss my Foot match. As I've said before, watching a heel Lawler getting beat up is always fun. The match stipulation is pretty gross, but it's at least better than a "Kiss my Ass" match. Rating: 3.5/5 8th Match: Mabel vs Savio Vega. So Mabel wins, and becomes probably the most uninteresting King of the Ring yet. The crowning ceremony goes on way too long, mostly because the crowd isn't buying it at all and throwing garbage at Mo and Mabel. The match is OK, certainly not the worst match I've seen, but it's hard to take Mabel seriously as a threat. Rating: 2.5/5 9th Match: Tatanka and Sid Vicious vs Diesel and Bam Bam Bigelow. A pretty good tag team match to end the show, not as good as Michaels' match from earlier, but as a replacement for a title match, it's a good way to end the show. Rating: 3.5/5 Final Rating: 6 out of 10. Often considered to be one of the worst PPVs WWE's ever put out, I've seen a lot worse. It's not great, but a lot of the matches are less than 10 minutes, so even if they aren't great, they're over and done with pretty quick.

Live from Philly, PAYour hosts are Vince McMahon & Dok HendrixAttendance 16,590KOTR qualifying matchSavio Vega (W/Razor Ramon) Vs I.R.S (W/Ted Dibiase)Vega wins with a spinning heel kick. This is a pre-show bonus match that Coliseum Video gave us. The best compliment I can give this match is that I expected a lot worse. I.R.S would leave the WWF for WCW soon after this.*KOTR quarter-finalsYokozuna (W/Jim Cornette & Mr. Fuji) Vs Savio Vega (W/Razor Ramon)Savio advances by countout after a brawl on the floor. This was a really boring match with hardly any exciting moments. Vega is certainly a decent wrestler, but he can't do much with Yokozuna. The Cinderella story continues for Savio. *A closeup is shown of Jerry Lawler's tattered looking sock over his foot. He promises that Bret will kiss his stinky foot later tonight.KOTR quarter-finalsThe Roadie (W/Jeff Jarrett) Vs Bob HollyHolly leaps off the top towards Roadie, but Roadie gets his boot up in Holly's face, and manages to pin him with that to advance. The effort from both is commendable, but it failed to generate any true excitement. The first minute is awesome with several near falls, but neither could really take advantage of that no matter how hard they worked. It just felt inconsequential. **KOTR quarter-finals Shawn Michaels vs Kama (W/Ted Dibiase)The match ends in a time-limit draw, meaning BOTH are eliminated from the tournament. After the match, Shawn delivers Sweet Chin Music to Kama. It's such a shame that Kama had to bore the place to tears with his crappy offense for most of this match. Whenever Shawn was on offense, the match got better, which is why the last 5 minutes were good. The finish is one of the stupidest booking decisions you'll ever see! Shawn was way over with the Philly crowd and he would have been a great choice to win KOTR.*1/2KOTR quarter-finalsMabel (W/Mo) Vs The Undertaker (W/Paul Bearer)The winner of this match gets a bye into the finals. Mabel wins with a legdrop, thanks to outside interference from Kama. Another crappy match from this PPV. The Undertaker was the last hope the crowd had for somebody good to win the KOR. Mabel beating The Undetaker was simply inexcusable! Kama and The Undertaker would continue their awful feud after this.*1/4KOTR semi-finalsSavio Vega (W/Razor Ramon) Vs The Roadie (W/Jeff Jarrett)Vega wins with a roll-up after failed interference from Jeff Jarrett. Yet, another boring match. The crowd revolted a bit during the match with loud booing. Nobody cared about Savio Vega's Cinderella story and they damn sure didn't wanna see a KOTR final between Vega and Mabel.*Kiss My Foot MatchBret Hart Vs Jerry "The King" LawlerBret wins with the Sharpshooter. Bret shoves his foot in Lawler's mouth after the match. To add insult to injury, Bret forces Jerry's stinky foot with the tattered sock in Lawler's own mouth. I wouldn't exactly call it a good match, but it was fine for what it was. Many people wanted to see Lawler get his comeuppance and this was the perfect way to do it. The crowd enjoyed it and so did I. *3/4KOTR finalsSavio Vega (W/Razor Ramon) Vs Mabel (W/Mo)Mabel wins the King of the Ring with a big splash. This match was so boring that Vince pleaded with Savio to "make a move" during a reverse chinlock.from Mabel. The crowd revolted big time as well with thunderous ECW chants. Mabel winning the King of the Ring is a complete joke in every sense of the word. Awful. Just awful. ½*We get the coronation for King Mabel that nobody gives a rat's ass about. Jerry Lawler literally pukes in the sink from having feet shoved in his mouth, then tries to get the taste out of his mouth by eating toothpaste. Sycho Sid & Tatanka (W/Ted Dibiase) Vs Diesel & Bam Bam BigelowDiesel and Bigelow win after Diesel pins Tatanka with a jackknife powerbomb. Diesel wanted Sid, but Sid bailed. What a dull main event to cap off quite possibly the worst WWE PPV in history. This didn't have a big match feel to it, but you can blame that on the lack of depth in 1995. As much as I like Bigelow, he is not a very good face and he looked out-of-place with Diesel. I also couldn't take Tatanka seriously as a top heel.*1/2Final Thoughts:This might just be the worst PPV in history. I saw it a few years ago and decided to give it another chance. What a mistake that was! This is an agonizing experience and something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. There are so many problems with this PPV. It features some of the stupidest booking decisions you'll ever see. I really don't see how Vince could pass over Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker to make Mabel KOTR. With all due respect, Mabel was a crappy wrestler and he had no business getting this kind of push. Second of all, Savio Vega's Cinderella run flopped miserably. I get that Vince wanted to give Savio the Rocky Balboa treatment, but in order for that to work, people have to actually ROOT for you. Savio got barely any reaction out of his four appearances all night. I could go on, but there is a word limit here. Unless you're a masochist, stay far away from this PPV. Life is too short.

Bret Hart finally got some revenge on Lawler, Diesel continued his feud with Psycho Sid, Razor Ramon pulled out with injury and we got a bizarre winner on this third annual King of the Ring PPV, one that's frequently mentioned in discussions regarding the worst WWE PPV of all time, I think unfairly.The big story going into the King of the Ring Tournament was that Razor Ramon, scheduled to face Yokozuna in the first round, had been forced out of the event by injury, so immediately before the event a match was held between Ramon's friend Savio Vega and the Million Dollar Corporation's Irwin R Shyster. Vega won the match and so advanced.The first match of the event proper saw Vega in action again, taking on former WWE Champion, and currently one half of the tag team champions, Yokozuna. There were shenanigans aplenty with Razor, Mr Fuji and Jim Cornette all at ringside. Vega won a real rubbish match by countout.Next up saw the Roadie, accompanied by Intercontinental Champion Jeff Jarrett, taking on and defeating Bob Holly. Neither one of these guys was the most exciting to watch, even at this stage. While this isn't terrible, it isn't good either. So Roadie wins through and will Savio Vega in the semi.Here's where things take a turn for the worse. In our next match we see reformed bad guy Shawn Michaels taking on the Million Dollar Corporation's Kama. In probably the best match of the night, Michaels and Kama fight to a time limit draw. Both are out, meaning the winner of the next match gets a bye through to the final.The next match was between Undertaker and Mabel, unfortunately, the Undertaker was in a feud with Kama at this stage, who of course interfered in a poor match and Undertaker was defeated and knocked out. This meant that the only men who could win the King of the Riung in 1995 were The Roadie, Savio Vega and Mabel.You can cross The Roadie off after our next match, in which he defeated the Roadie, overcoming the antics of Jeff Jarret at ringside. This was a decent match. So it would be Vega and Mabel in the King of the Ring final.The next match saw Bret Hart finally get some revenge on Jerry Lawler. Hart and Lawler had been feuding on and off since Hart had won the King of the Ring Tournament in 1993. At the previous PPV, In Your House, Hart had been forced to face Yakushi and then later lost to Lawler by interference. But tonight saw Hart victorious in a Kiss my Foot match. And that on deep kiss I can tell ya.Next up came the King of the Ring Final which saw Mabel defeat a gallant Savio Vega in a pretty poor wrestling match. All hail King Mabel, and that's all I've got to say about that.Finally brings us to the main event which saw WWE Champion Diesel teaming up with Bam Bam Bigelow to take on the Million Dollar Corporation's Psycho Sid and Tatanka (with Ted DiBiase at ringside). This match also stemmed from the In Your House PPV. At that event Tatanka had interfered in a title match between Diesel and Sid to prevent Sid from winning. Tatanka and Sid then destroyed Diesel with a vicious beatdown before Bigelow, who had recently been kicked out of the MDC, came to the Champion's aid. Well there'd be no disqualifications here as the good guys won, with Bigelow getting some revenge on he group that betrayed him, pinning Tatanka in a passable main event.This was not a great event. Mable was a strange choice for a winner, and Vega an even stranger choice as his opponent. The matches weren't great either. But there is a certain charm to this show, and, while missable, this is nowhere near the worst WWE PPV of all time.

King of the Ring was pretty average as far as King of the Ring events go but there was a bit here that could be enjoyed.(SPOILERS AHEAD)The King of the Ring tournament itself was fairly mediocre. The match between Shawn Michaels and Kama was awesome but the rest of the tournament matches were nothing special.Diesel and Bam Bam Bigelow beat Tatanka and Psycho Sid in the main event-it was okay.Bret Hart battled Jerry "The King" Lawler in a "Kiss My Foot Match." Hart and Lawler were bitter enemies (at least on TV)which made this a great match and the ending of the match was great where Bret Hart put his foot in Lawler's mouth before forcing Lawler's own foot into his mouth. Lawler then hurried back to the locker rooms almost spewing up-it was classic WWF comedy at the time.King of the Ring 1995 is worth checking out for the "Kiss My Foot Match" and the Shawn Michaels/Kama match.