30 Greatest Gimmick Match Types in WWE History
- I Quit Match
Number 19 on our list is the I-Quit match, which has provided us with some classics like Mankind “saying” I Quit and John Cena and JBL absolutely destroying each other.
Making an opponent tap-out is very similar to beating them so badly that it’ “forces” them to say I Quit. The I Quit has normally been used as the rubber match in big time feuds (JBL/Cena, Cena/Rusev are two that come to mind).
It is the combination of a Street Fight with absolutely no rules. The referee’s lone job is to ask a superstar if they want to quit.
The I-Quit Match loses a bit of value because being forced to say I-Quit doesn’t have the same type of luster of a Last Man Standing type match. But the I-Quit match has been a storytelling device for two guys who keep beating each other, but can’t put each other away.
Now, in the current era of the WWE, the I-Quit match just doesn’t seem to mean as much as it did when John Cena and JBL stepped into the ring with the WWE Championship on the line. Without the level of violence that past I-Quit matches had, the I-Quit match feels more like a spot fest than it does two guys wanted to beat the tar out of each other.
Notable Match: The Rock vs Mankind at Royal Rumble 1999
Next: No. 18