This is it.
An incest angle by itself would be stupid enough, but the amount of layers of weirdness on top of it is what really makes it so baffling: It parodies a decade old sitcom, it has the wrestler break kayfabe and it was originally intended to be a heel swerving the crowd.
And to top it off, they debuted the vignette in the UK at one of thet overseas, nothing happens shows. A country that has never seen that sitcom and have no idea what a Beaver is.
Just why?
Or have Chris Nowinski come in and talk about the concussions and such & then say he’s gonna knock some Harvard sense into Eugene with a punch or smack him on the head with his book and then BAM, Eugenius
Sadly nick Dinsmore was stil doing this gimmick on the indys the last time I saw him, been several years so idk if he still is or not. Too bad, cause he's actually a very sound worker
It was his idea. He pitched it to Vince himself and he continued to run the gimmick after leaving WWE.
It’s as much his fault than anyone’s. Arguably more.
It's a strong case of "you had to be there"
Eugene was red fucking hot and people loved him. Adults and children. It could have been worse but was oddly wholesome. It was helped by having Regal as his manager which made it a sort of redemption arc or anti hero type deal. Very charming.
That being said:
-Having Eugene use other people's finishers got old. If he had tried a different one each time... maybe it would have worked.
-They eventually cooled him off using the favored method of that time period. A match with Triple H.
A match where nobody came out looking good or got anything. Just another victim of the Reign of terror.
I mean R-Truth does Cena’s 5 Moves of Doom pretty much every week and it still gets pops every single time. He wears Cena style pants to emulate his childhood hero who is younger than him too lol
*Especially* if you want them to have any hope of getting clean & sober. Heaping shame and humiliation on addicts only drives them further into the arms of addiction.
Sure, but it could work. Make it less literal and not about a small boat and you have a decent strongman gimmick. Something like dreadnought would've worked better.
The whole segment is funny, Ric Flair slowly leaving the scene and standing at the doorway looking like a cardboard cutout, Shockmaster falling as Davey Boy Smith is heard saying "he fell right on his arse!", Sid yelling at Shockmaster but Shockmaster thinking it's his voice actor and attempts to act it only to be cut out by the actual voice actor, the weird laughter he makes at the end, and Sid randomly having a breakdown at the end and telling everyone to "SHUT UP! SHUT YOUR STINKING MOUTHS UP!" even though no one was speaking as unfitting jazz music was playing
When I became an adult I thought about this way more than I should have. Like, this should have been a huge feud. IRS should've been a face. Coming after tax cheats and millionaires? I'm all for it. Tag him with Repo Man to go after those degenerates!
When I was a kid, I didn't get his gimmick at all. I'm from Germany and we don't know what IRS means. I understood he was the assistant of Million Dollar Man, but I always wondered why he wouldn't wear wrestling clothes. Million Dollar Man didn't wrestle in his suit either.
For a while she was farting a lot as a gimmick, and we still haven't figured out what the fuck that was meant to achieve or what story it was intended to tell
Yeah this is very clearly a Vince McMahon idea.
He notoriously loved toilet humor. There are many stories about this. They used to be weird, funny stories. More recently they've become weird, horrifying tragedies.
Hornswoggle made the mistake of standing next to her and it almost sent him to the hospital.
That's the problem with midgets - they're always getting their nose up in your business.
A wrestling fitness instructor fits right into 1995 WWF and that's not a good thing.
When you had a talent such as Nova and turned him into that, it's pretty awful.
For god sake why didn't they just have Nova show up as a supervillain and foil to the Hurricane? We could of had some great matches and the merch sales would of been insane. After the feud, team them up and you have a Tag Team and more new merch to push.
Simon Dean was hilarious, never more than a jobber but funny. Think it was a rumble where he came down, did some push-ups and then got thrown right out.
Eugene is the epitome of the Don Corleone on "Look what they did to my boy" meme. Nick Dinsmore was a fucking artist in the ring. His technical skills easily put him on the level of Malenko and even \*Redacted\*. I will give Nick credit, he worked his ass as Eugene but everyone knew he would never get more than a comedy push. Instead they should of introduced him as Technical Powerhouse working for Bischoff to take out wrestlers he had issues with. So if 3 Minute Warning was a double barrel shotgun, Nick would of been Bischoff's silenced 22. They could played up his abilities and eventually after going out on his own could of been use to target faces who needed some great Mat Matches to help push them over.
The funny thing is, the idea of Eugene was actually pitched by Dinsmore himself. According to my memory, he came up with the character to give those types of children someone they could admire and look up too.
As a Mexican, the Mexicools weren’t that cool. They were just landscapers that liked to fight, kind of like my uncles. Eddie coming out in the lowrider was awesome, the riding lawnmower was not
> that catchy ass theme song.
The best thing to come from Psicosis and Juvi being released was that Super Crazy got to keep it, but they added on his “I AM SUPER. I AM CRAZY. I AM…. SUPER CRAZY!” and then cut to the chorus. Gem of a theme and it went way too hard for its position on the card.
I watched Mike Shaw a lot when he was with Stampede Wrestling. He was a solid heel and more mobile than his size would suggest. He was grossly misused.
I see this a lot, but I have to defend it. It was a generally interesting angle that didn't have anywhere to go, but it gave him purpose, there was a lost opportunity with Cavity Creeps, and it lead to my favorite crowd chant for a heel: Brush Your Teeth. He was interesting to watch. Not great, but not as bad as people make it out to be. Like Nailz.
This. Middle eastern hate was at such a fever point when Hassan was around, they had a legitimate counterpoint with him to push the "we aren't all terrorists" narrative. Then they made him a terrorist. Then the London bombing happened and Undertaker killed him. Total waste.
See this is where the "content farm" format of making posts that consist of nothing but a title and a picture shows its limitations: Deacon Batista isn't even in the top 20 for worst gimmicks of all times. I mean don't get me wrong, it's bad, but there is so much worse in the history of wrestling.
Beaver Cleavage, Incest Paul Burchill, Kervin White, Farting Natalya, the Mortal Kombat trio in WCW, the Yeti, the six different characters Ed Leslie played in WCW: that's already 14 gimmicks that are WAY worse than Deacon Batista, and that's just from the top of my head. I'm sure that, given time, I could think of at least twice as many.
Kerwin White was so annoying because it could have been a really cool / unique gimmick:
1) Chavo Jr disavows his Mexican heritage.
2) Chavo Sr turns up on Smackdown disgusted by his son’s behaviour. The two have a match which Jr wins easily.
3) Realising he’s too old to beat sense into his son, Chavo Jr invites Mexican wrestlers / legends into the WWE, acting as their mouthpiece, and giving Chavo a series of talented luchadores to have great exhibition matches with.
It gives Chavo a chance to show what he can do and keeps the show fresh with new talent appearing frequently, even if they only have a few matches before leaving.
Even though he only appeared once, we really should mention The Final Solution.
Yes, there was a professional wrestler in WCW who actually went by the name The Final Solution.
Take your pock from early 90’s wwe: Duke the Dumpster Droese, Bastian Booger, the Goon, Isaac Yankem, fake Razor and Diesel, the Repo Man, Abe “Knuckleball” Schwartz…
This was why I stopped watching wrestling til I randomly caught Scott Hall on WCW Saturday night at the start of the NWO.
Lmao I was just explaining to someone the other day that this was Batista’s first gimmick on wwe tv. Terrible. However I gotta go with Beaver Cleavage for my answer to the question. A gimmick so bad the wrestler dropped it mid promo. Yikes.
[Phantasio](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jwmxqEJnzHE)
A bad magician with black tights that looked like a slutty cocktail dress with slits all over wearing a bad V for Vendetta looking mask with ring skills only worsened by Tom MaGee who executed every move then waived his hands around like he’d just finished a magic trick, which he did to a couple of mid match, and won his sole match by yanking out the jobbers underwear and wrapping him up. Then did the same to Hebner. Corny shit at its worst. 12 year old me loved it.
When WWE booked Diamond Dallas Page as a stalker on his WWE debut. Just let him be his WCW character! Man I hate Vinces treatment of WCW stars so much (And am so happy Goldberg became a champ as his WCW character. At least one slipped through!)
For me the worst gimmick is the anti USA one. They pick a wrestler who looks different and just forces him to do the anti USA shit. It's not just annoying but also totally destroys the guy's career. Look at Jinder Mahal.
The Red Rooster by a country mile. Aside from the gimmick being stupid as fuck with zero upside, it buried Terry Taylor’s credibility in the eyes of the casual fan. Hindsight being 20/20, he was actually a fantastic worker with a great mind for the business.
I’m pretty sure everyone has said “worst” in terms of taste and appropriateness.
For worst gimmick that made no sense - Dean Malenko as a James Bond ladies man. 😂
Firebreaker Chip.
A firebreaker is a multi tool used by wildland firefighters, part-hatchet, part-rake.
This mans gimmick was "rake". How you gonna cut a promo as a rake?
Beaver Cleavage
This is it. An incest angle by itself would be stupid enough, but the amount of layers of weirdness on top of it is what really makes it so baffling: It parodies a decade old sitcom, it has the wrestler break kayfabe and it was originally intended to be a heel swerving the crowd.
>decade old sitcom Dude leave it to Beaver was nearly 4 decades old by the time they tried that gimmick
And to top it off, they debuted the vignette in the UK at one of thet overseas, nothing happens shows. A country that has never seen that sitcom and have no idea what a Beaver is. Just why?
You remember the venue for raw where a vignette premiered 25 years ago? My hat is off to you.
Must be Cornette's reddit account.
> have no idea what a beaver is Whichever meaning of the word you mean, that's definitely not true
Average British redditor probably doesn't know what a bathtub is, let alone a beaver. Source: lives in Britain
U didn't like the incest angle??
Right? What's not to love about a man named Cleavage tryna get a taste of his own mom's beaver?
There it is.
The only correct answer.
There’s been so many bad ones but it’s hard to beat that
Was going to reply with the gobldygooker, then I saw this. Beaver Cleavage is the winner for many reasons.
I absolutely LOVE Russo defending this shit. LoL https://www.wrestlecrap.com/vince-russo/what-didnt-you-understand-about-beaver-cleavage/
Emma acting like she was Mentally Disabled.
Why would you choose this gimmick and not go for Eugene? Far, far worse than Emma.
At least Eugene had a storyline that had an ending.
I’m surprised Vince never had Eugene get hit in the head with a chair shot and have that turn him into a super genius.
That sounds exactly like something Vince would book, like, frighteningly so
I hate myself for really wishing that had happened now.
Same lmao
Science tells us that that would’ve only worked if a chair shot is what originally disabled him.
Source: Dr. Heinie
Or have Chris Nowinski come in and talk about the concussions and such & then say he’s gonna knock some Harvard sense into Eugene with a punch or smack him on the head with his book and then BAM, Eugenius
Isn’t that what happened with Perry Saturn but in reverse technically with Moppy?
Yeah, he got clobbered in the head and then broke up with Terri for Moppy. You’re welcome.
Omg I remember the You’re Welcome quote 😂😂😂
Or the magic trick of putting him in the Straight Edge Society with Festus.
Because Eugene was great. Tasteless, but great
Sadly nick Dinsmore was stil doing this gimmick on the indys the last time I saw him, been several years so idk if he still is or not. Too bad, cause he's actually a very sound worker
He still is. He did it at promotion in Sioux Falls not lo g ago.
The Eugene gimmick was fucking repugnant. What a waste of an exceptional talent like Nick Dinsmore.
It was his idea. He pitched it to Vince himself and he continued to run the gimmick after leaving WWE. It’s as much his fault than anyone’s. Arguably more.
It's a strong case of "you had to be there" Eugene was red fucking hot and people loved him. Adults and children. It could have been worse but was oddly wholesome. It was helped by having Regal as his manager which made it a sort of redemption arc or anti hero type deal. Very charming. That being said: -Having Eugene use other people's finishers got old. If he had tried a different one each time... maybe it would have worked. -They eventually cooled him off using the favored method of that time period. A match with Triple H. A match where nobody came out looking good or got anything. Just another victim of the Reign of terror.
I mean R-Truth does Cena’s 5 Moves of Doom pretty much every week and it still gets pops every single time. He wears Cena style pants to emulate his childhood hero who is younger than him too lol
this is someone who wasnt watching at the time. Eugene was over
Wait, when the fuck did that happen?
Drunk Scott Hall/ Drunk Hawk/Drug Addict Jeff Hardy/Drunk Jake Roberts/ You get the picture. Anytime they bring personal demons in.
I’m with you. It’s just bad taste
Sandman is the only man who’s capable of doing drunk gimmick
Tbf, you can get away with pretty much anything in ECW back in the day
*Especially* if you want them to have any hope of getting clean & sober. Heaping shame and humiliation on addicts only drives them further into the arms of addiction.
The shockmaster
Who saw a glittery stormtropper helmet and said, "Yep. That's the one." 😂
Darth gayder
Emperor Pimpitine.
Ole Anderson
Only good thing to come out of Shockmaster is Haku laughing his ass off over the gimmick on DSotR
And Davey Boy Smith's reaction at the time. "He fell on his arse! He fell on his fucking arse!"
Best part of his debut was when booker t said “who is this motherf**ker”
Tugboat was a poor gimmick too.
Sure, but it could work. Make it less literal and not about a small boat and you have a decent strongman gimmick. Something like dreadnought would've worked better.
Ahhh the falling master lol
The whole segment is funny, Ric Flair slowly leaving the scene and standing at the doorway looking like a cardboard cutout, Shockmaster falling as Davey Boy Smith is heard saying "he fell right on his arse!", Sid yelling at Shockmaster but Shockmaster thinking it's his voice actor and attempts to act it only to be cut out by the actual voice actor, the weird laughter he makes at the end, and Sid randomly having a breakdown at the end and telling everyone to "SHUT UP! SHUT YOUR STINKING MOUTHS UP!" even though no one was speaking as unfitting jazz music was playing
IRS seemed fucking stupid when I was young. Then I grew up and started paying taxes
As an adult, why would IRS and The Million Dollar Man be tag partners? Shouldn't they hate each other?
You think the tax man doesn't favour those with more in their pockets?
Millionaires don't stay rich by paying their fair share in taxes.
And who let's them away with that?
When I became an adult I thought about this way more than I should have. Like, this should have been a huge feud. IRS should've been a face. Coming after tax cheats and millionaires? I'm all for it. Tag him with Repo Man to go after those degenerates!
Imagine thinking they actually go after millionaires. Even Vince was wise enough to not make them a face.
IRS and Repo Man together sounds amazing.
Better question: If the Million Dollar Man bought the Million Dollar Belt, shouldn’t he be broke?
IRS had the potential to be the ultimate heel. Motherfucker takes a portion of your paycheck for god's sake.
When I was a kid, I didn't get his gimmick at all. I'm from Germany and we don't know what IRS means. I understood he was the assistant of Million Dollar Man, but I always wondered why he wouldn't wear wrestling clothes. Million Dollar Man didn't wrestle in his suit either.
I’ve actually always liked money based characters on TV. Maybe it’s why I love GEICO commercials.
My question is; did wrestling pay so bad that all these guys had to have second careers?
Farting Natalya. Eugene. Drunk Scott Hall. Simon Dean.
I stopped watching for a large duration, what the fuck is farting Natalya?
For a while she was farting a lot as a gimmick, and we still haven't figured out what the fuck that was meant to achieve or what story it was intended to tell
Ask Vince.
Yeah this is very clearly a Vince McMahon idea. He notoriously loved toilet humor. There are many stories about this. They used to be weird, funny stories. More recently they've become weird, horrifying tragedies.
You know he made a pass, got knocked back and this was his response.
her last name was Hart. Mystery Solved
After the shit that came up against him, him having a fart kink suddenly seems tame compared to the other shit (literally) about him.
Hornswoggle made the mistake of standing next to her and it almost sent him to the hospital. That's the problem with midgets - they're always getting their nose up in your business.
Natalya had a gimmick where she couldn't stop farting.
And keep in mind it wasn't HER farting, it was sound piped in. Garbage on every conceivable level.
They could have at least mic'd her asshole.
I like this take, that if it was real farts it may be redeemable. But it was edited in farts... absolutely deplorable.
Simon Dean wasn't that bad.
A wrestling fitness instructor fits right into 1995 WWF and that's not a good thing. When you had a talent such as Nova and turned him into that, it's pretty awful.
For god sake why didn't they just have Nova show up as a supervillain and foil to the Hurricane? We could of had some great matches and the merch sales would of been insane. After the feud, team them up and you have a Tag Team and more new merch to push.
We now realize why Vince came up with that farting gimmick.
Hopefully that logic doesn't apply to Eugene.
To be honest, I still find Simon Dean to be hilarious. Utter ridiculousness but fun to watch.
Simon Dean was hilarious, never more than a jobber but funny. Think it was a rumble where he came down, did some push-ups and then got thrown right out.
Eugene is the epitome of the Don Corleone on "Look what they did to my boy" meme. Nick Dinsmore was a fucking artist in the ring. His technical skills easily put him on the level of Malenko and even \*Redacted\*. I will give Nick credit, he worked his ass as Eugene but everyone knew he would never get more than a comedy push. Instead they should of introduced him as Technical Powerhouse working for Bischoff to take out wrestlers he had issues with. So if 3 Minute Warning was a double barrel shotgun, Nick would of been Bischoff's silenced 22. They could played up his abilities and eventually after going out on his own could of been use to target faces who needed some great Mat Matches to help push them over.
The funny thing is, the idea of Eugene was actually pitched by Dinsmore himself. According to my memory, he came up with the character to give those types of children someone they could admire and look up too.
As a Mexican, the Mexicools weren’t that cool. They were just landscapers that liked to fight, kind of like my uncles. Eddie coming out in the lowrider was awesome, the riding lawnmower was not
All I remember about the mexicools were the goofy ass faces they made in the 2006 Royal rumble. And that catchy ass theme song.
only thing i remember is that they do the entrance on lawn mowers
Shame they never used them as weapons 😭😭😭
"Bah God King, thats just like in Misery by Stephen King!"
> that catchy ass theme song. The best thing to come from Psicosis and Juvi being released was that Super Crazy got to keep it, but they added on his “I AM SUPER. I AM CRAZY. I AM…. SUPER CRAZY!” and then cut to the chorus. Gem of a theme and it went way too hard for its position on the card.
Underrated theme
Naked Mideon or Bastion Booger
Bastion Booger was one of the first gimmicks i laid my eyes on as a child. My god it nearly turned me off wrestling from the beginning lmao
The turkey carcass didn't help.
Poor Mike Shaw. I wish they'd just let him keep the Norman the Lunatic gimmick.
I watched Mike Shaw a lot when he was with Stampede Wrestling. He was a solid heel and more mobile than his size would suggest. He was grossly misused.
Red rooster. Terry Taylor was a solid talent
I feel like this one could've worked if it wasn't so literal.
Kanes dentist gimmick he started with
Isaac Yankem D.D.S.
Still better than Fake Diesel.
I see this a lot, but I have to defend it. It was a generally interesting angle that didn't have anywhere to go, but it gave him purpose, there was a lost opportunity with Cavity Creeps, and it lead to my favorite crowd chant for a heel: Brush Your Teeth. He was interesting to watch. Not great, but not as bad as people make it out to be. Like Nailz.
Ding dongs
Friar Ferguson and Bastion Booger, both by the same guy
Didn't the WWF have to drop the Friar Ferguson gimmick because they were getting complaints from religious groups?
The Gobbledy Gooker
Kurt Angle tried to rape Booker T's wife, and Muhammed Hassan executed a terrorist angle against Undertaker. Those are tops for me
Muhammad Hassan was a GREAT angle until Vince couldn't help himself and dropped the subtlety. Once he did, it was doomed to fail immediately.
This. Middle eastern hate was at such a fever point when Hassan was around, they had a legitimate counterpoint with him to push the "we aren't all terrorists" narrative. Then they made him a terrorist. Then the London bombing happened and Undertaker killed him. Total waste.
cuck rusev
One of the weirdest eras of RAW was cuck Rusev running simultaneously with cuck Mike Bennett.
Mantaur
“Out of way, jabroni moose!”
See this is where the "content farm" format of making posts that consist of nothing but a title and a picture shows its limitations: Deacon Batista isn't even in the top 20 for worst gimmicks of all times. I mean don't get me wrong, it's bad, but there is so much worse in the history of wrestling. Beaver Cleavage, Incest Paul Burchill, Kervin White, Farting Natalya, the Mortal Kombat trio in WCW, the Yeti, the six different characters Ed Leslie played in WCW: that's already 14 gimmicks that are WAY worse than Deacon Batista, and that's just from the top of my head. I'm sure that, given time, I could think of at least twice as many.
Also he was the enforcer for an even dumber reverend gimmick and IIRC Bautista dropped this fairly quickly
It's pronounced Yet-AY
Kerwin white
Kerwin White was so annoying because it could have been a really cool / unique gimmick: 1) Chavo Jr disavows his Mexican heritage. 2) Chavo Sr turns up on Smackdown disgusted by his son’s behaviour. The two have a match which Jr wins easily. 3) Realising he’s too old to beat sense into his son, Chavo Jr invites Mexican wrestlers / legends into the WWE, acting as their mouthpiece, and giving Chavo a series of talented luchadores to have great exhibition matches with. It gives Chavo a chance to show what he can do and keeps the show fresh with new talent appearing frequently, even if they only have a few matches before leaving.
You don't even have to make it cringey like kerwin was. Just make him think that his Mexican heritage is irrelevant/ him stop caring.
I haven’t seen anyone post Kizarny
Tbh I like his gimmick he does now where he’s like Captain Spaulding
Even though he only appeared once, we really should mention The Final Solution. Yes, there was a professional wrestler in WCW who actually went by the name The Final Solution.
Take your pock from early 90’s wwe: Duke the Dumpster Droese, Bastian Booger, the Goon, Isaac Yankem, fake Razor and Diesel, the Repo Man, Abe “Knuckleball” Schwartz… This was why I stopped watching wrestling til I randomly caught Scott Hall on WCW Saturday night at the start of the NWO.
I went to school with Duke the Dumpster Droese. He was a cool and funny big dude.
The Yeti
You misspelled YET-TAYYYYY
I was not a Right To Censor fan.
Eugene was pretty wild
Paul Burchils incest gimmick with Katie Lee. That gimmick killed his entire career, he was such a good wrestler.
Piggy James was pretty awful
Nikki Cross wandering around like the zombie, and then didn't going anywhere with it. 😂
I don’t even remember this.
Seven (Dustin Rhodes)
7 and the thing he was trying in TNA too.
Black Reign
He teamed with Rellik, which is killeR spelled backwards
Kanes fake diesel and dentist gimmick
Lmao I was just explaining to someone the other day that this was Batista’s first gimmick on wwe tv. Terrible. However I gotta go with Beaver Cleavage for my answer to the question. A gimmick so bad the wrestler dropped it mid promo. Yikes.
Blue Blazer
Austin theory becoming Vince McMahons personal power bottom
No one gonna mention the Burchills and their incest gimmick??
bring back the hoe train!!! lmfao!!!
Anything involving Ed Leslie
[Phantasio](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jwmxqEJnzHE) A bad magician with black tights that looked like a slutty cocktail dress with slits all over wearing a bad V for Vendetta looking mask with ring skills only worsened by Tom MaGee who executed every move then waived his hands around like he’d just finished a magic trick, which he did to a couple of mid match, and won his sole match by yanking out the jobbers underwear and wrapping him up. Then did the same to Hebner. Corny shit at its worst. 12 year old me loved it.
Giant gonzalez
Saba Simba.
Shockmaster. But also hilarious.
Moppy
Joey Ryan's cock gimmick is my least favorite ever and the guy was never that good of a worker either.
Eugine or Festus
The Roman Reigns “I only defend the title twice a year” gimmick
Akeem ,Bastion Booger ,Duke The Dump ,Bezerker(Brody Rip Off) Max Moon ,Goobly Gooker ,Kerwin White ,Seven ,Mantuar ,Repo Man , Phantasia ,Oz/Vinny Vegas ,The Yeti ,Shock Master ,Nailz
I will not sit here and suffer any Repo Man slander
Repo Man had catchy entrance music
Repo Repo Man ....., yea Demolition was awesome
Outstanding lineup
Eugene. Then. Now. Forever.
Festus
Mae Young’s hand is the right answer.
Beaver Cleavage
Oz. The Mummy.
Elias playing his own younger brother was all kinds of WTF
Big Dick Johnson
It wasn't my fault gene snitsky
When WWE booked Diamond Dallas Page as a stalker on his WWE debut. Just let him be his WCW character! Man I hate Vinces treatment of WCW stars so much (And am so happy Goldberg became a champ as his WCW character. At least one slipped through!)
Adam Cole
For me the worst gimmick is the anti USA one. They pick a wrestler who looks different and just forces him to do the anti USA shit. It's not just annoying but also totally destroys the guy's career. Look at Jinder Mahal.
Going to get downvoted for this, but the undertaker is a bad gimmick. It only worked because Mark Calaway is awesome.
Idk but it’s definitely not that one lol
Someone hasn't seen the shockmaster huh
Naked Mideon
Isaac yankem d.d.s
The WCW dungeon of doom
anyways as a child I really thought Eugene was mentally disabled
Isaac yankem
The Red Rooster by a country mile. Aside from the gimmick being stupid as fuck with zero upside, it buried Terry Taylor’s credibility in the eyes of the casual fan. Hindsight being 20/20, he was actually a fantastic worker with a great mind for the business.
Is the Funkasaurus too recent of a gimmick for me to mention?
The Ding Dongs, Gentleman Jack Gallagher, Eugene.
Glacier
Phantasmo, The Goon, Kizarny, Mean Street Posse, The ECW Zombie, The Berzerker, Santina Marella
Beaver Cleavage. Nothing else comes close.
Shockmaster and Gobbledy Gooker
The whole Eugene thing was pretty bad imo.
I’m pretty sure everyone has said “worst” in terms of taste and appropriateness. For worst gimmick that made no sense - Dean Malenko as a James Bond ladies man. 😂
Chavo when he was the white golfer.
Bastion Booger or the Stormtrooper, who had a swastika on his singlet
The Thug in the National Wrestling Conference. He’d dress as a klansman in full regalia to intimidate black opponents
Kizarny Everything about this one is stupid. They thought a gimmick that mocks your entire industry, both in name and profession, was a good idea.
I’ll say for myself, as an obedient little Baptist boy, the idea of Deacon Batista holding the collection plate was flipping terrifying.
Eugene - WWE
The black scorpion
Vince Russo : World Champion
Shockmaster 🤣🤣 even without that helmet fail... tf were they thinking?
Firebreaker Chip. A firebreaker is a multi tool used by wildland firefighters, part-hatchet, part-rake. This mans gimmick was "rake". How you gonna cut a promo as a rake?