[Discussion] What is the dumbest gimmick in pro wrestling.
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).
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.
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 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.
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.
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