Since there’s no Collision tonight to entertain everyone, let’s get weird.
Think deep folks. We’ve all watched a lotta wrestling over the years. What is/are the stupidest goddamned gimmick(s) you’ve ever seen that made you wonder how it got greenlit? Racist? Idiotic? Poorly timed? Name em!
(And let’s strike out The Gobbledy Gooker and The Shockmaster as honourable mentions).
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Most of the occupational gimmicks from late 80’s/early 90’s WWF were pretty shit. Though I’ll admit, some of them were at least amusing. You missed the point, Vince. Dusty was the son of a plumber.
I know pro wrestling started off carny af but I still find it funny that the 80s-90s settled on 'What would happen if a garbage man, a repossession agent, a dentist, a nuclear test accident and a barber on coke fought?"
(Not that it isn’t carny af now, you know what I meant lol)
I still occasionally threaten to repossess the careers of my friends and coworkers.
Let’s keep that secret between us, though.
And all y’all reading this better keep it secret too!
Or I’ll repossess your career.
Jokes on you, if I had a ‘career’ to repossess I wouldn’t be posting here as much as I do rofl
Sci-Fi, now SyFy, requested WWE incorporate something Sci-Fi into ECW when they got the rights to it. WWE introduced The Zombie, which lasted like one show and the channel dropped the request because they never tried again.
That was definitely one of the promos of all time.
I watched that episode as it aired. All hope went out the window within 15 mins of the first broadcast. It was so goddamned bad.
Akeem was just an awful gimmick full of racism.
How the shit they got away with that…I know the times but shit lol.
Beaver Cleavage.
Take an established mid-card tag team wrestler, and stick him in a solo run with a Leave it to Beaver-themed gimmick with huge overtones of incest which made no sense, was…ew…and was 30 years too late to be relevant to a small portion of the audience watching the show.
Vince was really into incest even wanting to do an angle with his daughter carrying his baby he was maybe before his time based on porn trends, but I digress. Sick fucks are sick fucks is all I can gather, maybe it’s something wrong with billionaires, because Orange Jesus, sorry if some of you like him, seems to have a thing for his daughter.
“What’re you doing, step-Vince?”
That’s been on reliving the war recently and it’s still so bad lol
Giant Gonzalez. Were we supposed to believe he was actually naked? And if we were, why did no one offer the guy pants?
he definitely hulked out from his el gigante days tho
i feel like it’s a cross between arachnaman, big josh, and pn news
gestures vaguely
Quite right!
I always found the Eugene gimmick to be in bad taste, regardless of whatever post-hoc justifications were created to defend it. See also Festus (although punting a fake baby is hilarious).
The Forgotten Sons was also just bad, and just came across as super American and badly written. I think there are legs in a disenfranchised ex-military type character that could challenge Murica’s faux patriotism and performative veneration of The Troops, but that wasn’t it.
All I can remember of Hidenrich is that he raped Michael Cole, so, also that.
The Forgotten Sons were the worst thing about one of the best eras of NXT. The only reason I remember them is because of the “We forgot you” chants. At least that was funny. On a relate note, Fuck da police. If you know, you know.
It’s also been a minute, I need to renew my ‘Fuck Jaxson Ryker’ card, brb.
Full agree. If nothing else, Heidenreich gave us memes lol. Eugene and Festus were just…yeah.
