Saba Simba, the time they briefly made Tony Atlas run around doing an unga-bunga dance. It was so bad that Roddy Piper called it out on commentary and they felt they might as well leave it in.

The Yeti

Disco Inferno
Glacier

In 1986, Chris Champion and Sean Royal were put together as a tag team in Florida Championship Wrestling. Their gimmick had them claiming to be from the future, specifically the year 2002.[4] As a result, they often referred to Dusty Rhodes as "Mr. President".[5] They also believed that Lazer Tron was a real robot, since robots were supposedly common where they were from. They constantly referred to the flux capacitor, the fictional time conduit from Back to the Future. They also made many references to robot toys, referring to Lazer Tron as one of the Go-Bots, and using Transformers references like Cybertron and showing their loyalty to the Decepticons.[5] For a while they were managed by a robot called XTC-1[6]

Glacier would have been fine if he hadn't coincided with the nWo. He would have been perfect for early 1996 before everything changed. Then Hall and Nash throwing Rey Misterio Jr. into a trailer like a dart made a Mortal Kombat export look silly.

In the late 80's there was a tag team in whatever WCW was called at the time called "The New Breed." Their gimmick was that they were from the future (2002!) and being from the future they were supposed to be far more advanced technically and tactically than anyone else, at least that's what I remembered about them, other than they sucked. According to wiki though there was some stuff I forgot.

Those were my guys. They used to come out to the Beastie Boys as part of their intro. Just bad that their intro song was the one song that Beasties absolutely hated

It is quite unfortunate they got that turd of a gimmick, too...both could go, and would have easily kept up with the quality of teams in the NWA at that time...R&R, Midnights, Tully & Arn, etc.

It is quite unfortunate they got that turd of a gimmick, too...both could go, and would have easily kept up with the quality of teams in the NWA at that time...R&R, Midnights, Tully & Arn, etc.

I haven't followed wrestling since I was a yoot, but there are too man bad gimmicks to name. The one that comes to mind is Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake. Brutus the Beefcake was fine by himself, but the whole "Barber" bit was beyond stupid.

Bastian Booger
The Goobeldy Gooker
The Shockmaster
Dr Isaac Yankem
Repo Man
The Spirit Squad
Disco Inferno
Glacier
The Yeti

It's kind of funny though...some of the gimmicks that worked really well back in 1984 are just cringe worthy today...

What about Big Bully Busick?



I think that was a case where the guy couldn't work and they didn't really try to book him well, but an old-fashioned bully with a bowler hat and a handlebar mustache could be fun as hell if you wanted it to be. You could do sepia-toned silent film vignettes where this song plays and a guy says (on title cards, of course) "I think I'll have a delicious phosphate! Consarn it! It's that local hooligan!" and then the bully is lifting triangle-shaped dumbbells and says "A foppish dandy in my saloon?!? It's curtains for you!" And then back in real life, he talks in an old-timey trans-Atlantic accent and everyone is like "what the hell's that guy's whole deal," but then he still beats guys up. I don't know, I don't watch wrestling anymore, it might not work because everyone's name now is just Braden Brandon or some shit.

What were they?

The Big Show as Andre the Giant's son when he first broke into wrestling. Just bogus.

Yeah...bad.

Although, that shitty gimmick led to one of my favorite moments in old WWF: