Botchamania 297 & Most Botched Matches 2015 (Patreon)

Yes, two videos for one! Above is BM 297 and here's the Dailymotion alternative link in case it buggers itself like that one time:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3l13c5

And here's the Vimeo (and Dailymotion alternative link) for Most Botched Matches 2015:

https://vimeo.com/150810085

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3kxb7t

Again, password for all videos is bangbang

Here's some descriptions:

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Botchamania 297

New year, new vid, new me, same old music, it's Botchamania 274: To Pimp Drop A Butterfly

Music...

What's Going On by Marvin Gaye

Green Grove Zone 2 by AKI, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Michiru Yamane (Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island)

Fat Lip by Sum 41

AC Violence by AKI, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Michiru Yamane (Contra Hard Corps)

Thanks To...

Bryan Alvarez and Vinny Verhei for the fabulous (and long) intro

Sam Smith for filming and sending said intro

Kevin Ford for the AIW fuckflip

MikevsPhilly for the AAW clips

Suplexes and Blunts for Chris Masters in AAA (nice username)

The Firebird for the UCW Sunset fuckflip

Craigslistescort for the WWF Sunset fuckflip

The owner of AIW for evil council table #1

EddieC85 for the evil council table #2

WrestlingMemes for listening to JBL talk about the low population

Alpha 1 Wrestling for sending Santa fucking up.

levikeinz for the Inside Out ending. Still not seen the film so I assume it's been edited

tjlynch and good people of Squared Circle for the slapslap ending

dave john on the BM FB suggested the Grammy ending and I made it so he gets a credit.

Notes...

The ''Where's the kaboom?'' audio is from the Looney Tunes classic Hare-Way to the Stars. I never get tired of it.

The COUNCIL OF EVIL TABLES from Robot Chicken has been suggested a few times but I genuinely can't remember if I've used it before. I am officially old.

FUCK IT WE'LL DO IT LIVE is from a famous out-take of Bill O'Reilly. Just in case you'd never heard of it.

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2015 Most Botched Matches

Ah, the Most Botched Matches Of The Year list. 2014's edition got some flack for featuring matches that were bad because of the crowd reactions than because of the match itself, so it's all shite matches (and video game music) this time around. Getting this under fifteen minutes was a bitch, so there was no time for a DISHONOURABLE MENTIONS bit so feel free to list your alternatives.

DAS LIST...

10. Tag Team Elimination Match (WWE Elimination Chamber 2015)

9. Genichiro Tenryu vs. Kazuchika Okada (Tenryu Project Retirement Final)

8. Sin Cara vs. Myzteziz (AAA Triplemania XXIII)

7. Battle Hive vs. Wrecking Crew (Chikara For British Eyes Only)

6. Lucha Dragons vs. New Day vs. Prime Time Players vs. Los Matadores (WWE Summerslam)

5. Nick Gage vs. Chris Dickinson (Beyond Wrestling When Satan Rules His World)

4. Wyatt Family vs. Dudleys, Rhino & Tommy Dreamer (WWE TLC)

3. Nikki Bella vs. Charlotte (WWE Hell In A Cell)

2. Akebono vs. Jun Akiyama (AJPW Royal Road Tournament 2015 Final)

1. IC Elimination Chamber (WWE Elimination Chamber)

Notes...

Los Villanos vs. Los Psycho Circus from AAA TripleMania XXIII got a -***** rating from Dave Meltzer, but a match has to actually feature wrestling to have botches in it. Hence The Worst Match Ever not appearing on this list.

Sin Cara I and II are both in this list. I don't know what happened to Sin Cara II this year but he really did just start cosplaying as his clone twin. The gimmick is cursed like The Monkey's Paw.

I wasn't going to include Tenryu's last match until it was voted Match of The Year in Japan.

A match between Gage and Dickinson was always going to be scrappy, so I felt like mentioning how good the match was to balance it being on this list. After all, I don't want to see a fucking Figure Four Leg Lock from these two.

The members of The Wrecking Crew would like me to remind whoever is reading this that they were all incredibly jet-lagged and so we should be a bit more considerate. Aye.

NJPW is on everybody's lips at the minute and then you watch AJPW and see Akebono winning tournaments when he looks like he should be headlining a morgue.

Number One shouldn't be a shock for anyone who's seen it. Everything that could go wrong went wrong, the commentators didn't know what was happening, Mark Henry looked lost rather than a grizzled vet....yeah. You can tell me numbers two to ten were wrong but nothing's going to change my views on this 'un.

Music...

Wookie Hole by David Wise (Battletoads)

Stage Theme 2 by Hirohiko Takayama, Tsukamoto (Lemmings, Mega Drive)

Rocket Rider (Ch 3 Dark World) by dB soundworks (Super Meat Boy)

Fight 2 by Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy IV)

Level 1 That Old Army Gameby Patrick Collins, Andy Blythe, Marten Joustra and Allister Brimble (Toy Story, Mega Drive)

The Vital Vitriol (Plague Knight Battle) by Jake Kaufman (Shovel Knight)

Hydrocity Zone 2 by Howard Drossin (Sonic 3)

Italy by Jeroen Tel (OutRun Europa, C64)

Empire - The Final Assault Kazuo Hanzawa (Gunstar Heroes)