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sjboyd0137

Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 8:37 am

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WaitingforRuffcorn wrote:

Koko B Ware he liked birds. Giant Gonzalez, a man who could not move, but he was tall and wore some weird hairy body suit. WCW probably owns this though. Kevin Nash as the Great Wizard might be the dumbest thing ever attempted.

Oh yeah...Oz..ugh

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Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 8:38 am

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sjboyd0137 wrote:

Curious Hair wrote:

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.

They tried it again with The Vaudevillians in NXT. They were pretty over in NXT. They were not used well on the main roster. In fact, I think their claim to fame was almost killing Enzo during a PPV in Rosemont.

It was justified.

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PortageP_Chi

Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 8:47 am

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Mantaur was also horrible in the mid 90s.

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Terry's Peeps

Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 9:39 am

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PortageP_Chi wrote:

Mantaur was also horrible in the mid 90s.

You shut your fucking mouth!

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WaitingforRuffcorn

Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 9:42 am

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KDdidit wrote:

Also, this guy was...uh...problematic...

I honestly forgot about that. What was the story behind introducing him?

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sjboyd0137

Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 10:04 am

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WaitingforRuffcorn wrote:

KDdidit wrote:

Also, this guy was...uh...problematic...

I honestly forgot about that. What was the story behind introducing him?

Eric Bischoff's "special" nephew who was a wrestling savant.

Dinsmore could go...just stuck with a terrible gimmick. Damn shame.

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Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 10:06 am

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He was introduced as Bichoff’s nephew who just liked wrestling. As someone who works in the special recreation field, it’s pretty spot on generalization though. If you want to strike up a conversation with someone, just start talking about wrestling and you’ll probably get an excited response.

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PortageP_Chi

Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 10:29 am

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Terry's Peeps wrote:

PortageP_Chi wrote:

Mantaur was also horrible in the mid 90s.

You shut your fucking mouth!

Lol. For only being in the WWF a year he wrestled some pretty big names.

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long time guy

Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 11:32 am

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Raven's Flock was one whack gimmick too. Raven was a helluva talent and extremely underused but that "Flock" of his consisted of one of the worst stables that I have ever seen in Wrestling.

What a collection of ham and eggers.

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sjboyd0137

Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 11:32 am

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long time guy wrote:

Raven's Cult was a whack gimmick too. Raven was a helluva talent and extremely underused but that "Flock" of his helped to comprise one of the worst stables that I have ever seen in Wrestling.

What a collection of ham and Eggers that they were.

Kidman and Saturn weren't bad.

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RFDC

Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 11:33 am

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Raven may go down as one of the most underused talents in the business.

Kidman and Saturn were both good as well.

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Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 11:37 am

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RFDC wrote:

Raven may go down as one of the most underused talents in the business.

Kidman and Saturn were both good as well.

I agree on the other two too. Perry Saturn was a big time talent.

WCW was so balls deep into the NWO crap that they were perfectly content to screw over any and everyone else.

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sjboyd0137

Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 11:42 am

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long time guy wrote:

RFDC wrote:

Raven may go down as one of the most underused talents in the business.

Kidman and Saturn were both good as well.

I agree on the other two too. Perry Saturn was a big time talent.

WCW was so balls deep into the NWO crap that they were perfectly content to screw over any and everyone else.

Yeah, unfortunately, Saturn was too far gone by the time he got out of there, and Kidman wasn't used right until the WWE started the cruiserweight division

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Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 11:42 am

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Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 11:43 am

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sjboyd0137 wrote:

long time guy wrote:

RFDC wrote:

Raven may go down as one of the most underused talents in the business.

Kidman and Saturn were both good as well.

I agree on the other two too. Perry Saturn was a big time talent.

WCW was so balls deep into the NWO crap that they were perfectly content to screw over any and everyone else.

Yeah, unfortunately, Saturn was too far gone by the time he got out of there, and Kidman wasn't used right until the WWE started the cruiserweight division

Kidman was fine, he had Torrie Wilson.

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WaitingforRuffcorn

Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 11:46 am

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KDdidit wrote:

I mean if that was what they truly wanted to do, make a wrestler for people like that it would be a nice thing to do. But I would assume knowing Vince that it didn't go down like that.

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Terry's Peeps

Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 11:58 am

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FrankDrebin wrote:

sjboyd0137 wrote:

long time guy wrote:

RFDC wrote:

Raven may go down as one of the most underused talents in the business.

Kidman and Saturn were both good as well.

I agree on the other two too. Perry Saturn was a big time talent.

WCW was so balls deep into the NWO crap that they were perfectly content to screw over any and everyone else.

Yeah, unfortunately, Saturn was too far gone by the time he got out of there, and Kidman wasn't used right until the WWE started the cruiserweight division

Kidman was fine, he had Torrie Wilson.

Yep.

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Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 12:01 pm

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RFDC wrote:

Raven may go down as one of the most underused talents in the business.

For sure.

He had great psychology and got people invested.

His best work wasn't seen by nearly enough people.

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Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 3:57 pm

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Carlito ate apples. And he would spit in the face of people who don't want to be cool.... something like that.

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Post subject: Re: Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 10:34 am

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sjboyd0137 wrote:

BigW72 wrote:

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.

Yeah...bad.

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