Silly Gimmicks

Bounty Hunter

rossie1977 wrote: »

OZ, complete with worst entrance ever, "Welcome to OZ"

^^reminds me of SOS.

in recent time Mordecai sucked pretty bad, so much so infact that i dont think they ever even got to feud him vs Taker which was surely the plan.

KrazeeEyezKilla

The gimmick that ruined both Perry Saturn and Ravens WWF careers.

ShawnRaven

Raven ruined his own WWE career by being a small fish in a big pond and not being able to get himself over to over a year prior to that. With the exception of ECW, Raven wasn't worth sh*t anywhere. Only because Heyman saw something nobody else could.

Red Sleeping Beauty

KrazeeEyezKilla wrote: »

The gimmick that ruined both Perry Saturn and Ravens WWF careers.

I think this had somethng to do with the moppy thing...

And these threads do win

Gerry81

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

Max Moon v Shawn Michaels from the first raw. What the hell was Max Moon!!!!

max moon was in fact later to be known as Konnan

Bubs101

Does anyone remember during one of the early ECW's they had Macho Libre? Awesome

brick tamland

the Repo Man.

Cant remember is he was the Viking 1st then the Beserker or vice Versa but he was **** with a finisher of chucking his opponent out of the ring

"Fake Superstars"


Duke " the dupster ". Yes he's a binman

Isaac Yankem, a evil dentist

the big bossmans nemisis " Nailz"

Bobalicious93

Anyone remember this guy?

:DWWE'S first one-legged superstar

ShawnRaven

Gerry81 wrote: »

max moon was in fact later to be known as Konnan

Sorry Gerry, you're wrong there. Not the 93 Max Moon. That was Paul Diamond of Bad Company in AWA aka Kato from Orient Express. In fact it was widely known for the Royal Rumble that year that he and Tatanka had numbers quite far apart because Chavis' wife was having an affair with Diamond and they literally wanted to tear each others head off during that period of time.

Gerry81

ShawnRaven wrote: »

Sorry Gerry, you're wrong there. Not the 93 Max Moon. That was Paul Diamond of Bad Company in AWA aka Kato from Orient Express. In fact it was widely known for the Royal Rumble that year that he and Tatanka had numbers quite far apart because Chavis' wife was having an affair with Diamond and they literally wanted to tear each others head off during that period of time.

god damn it, missed it by a month, taken from wiki : Konnan's last appearance as Max Moon is presumed to be on December 12, 1992 in Los Angeles when he pinned Repo Man. Max Moon's next appearance at a WWF show was against Shawn Michaels in the first ever Monday Night Raw episode on January 11, 1993, then presumably played by Paul Diamond

Vince135792003

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

Waylon Mercy - another character Vince and his team copied from films. This time it was Cape Fear's Bobby De Niro. I was never too excited about this guy although he had a ten year career (including 2 at WWF) prior to this stint. He tagged with Undertaker as the "Skyscrapers" in WCW for a while.

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I liked the Waylon Mercy character as a kid. I don't think he was gonna be a main eventer or anything but he was a good at coming across at being a creep and a character like that would get over today I think. Unfortunately he got injured apparently.

gimmick

Haha, anyone remember Salvatore Sincere. Think he might have had a RAW match or two? Big tall bloke who was abolsutely rubbish.

Gerry81

rossie1977 wrote: »

OZ, complete with worst entrance ever, "Welcome to OZ"

his vinny vegas gimmick was'nt much better,was kinda like diesel version 1.0. actually saw him compete as vinny vegas in the point on paddys day 93.

ShawnRaven

Gerry81 wrote: »

god damn it, missed it by a month, taken from wiki : Konnan's last appearance as Max Moon is presumed to be on December 12, 1992 in Los Angeles when he pinned Repo Man.

Yeah, Konnan as Max Moon wasn't a long an memorable stay at all, the difference was noticable as Diamond has somewhat of a height difference to Konnan if i recall correctly.

ShawnRaven

Gerry81 wrote: »

his vinny vegas gimmick was'nt much better,was kinda like diesel version 1.0. actually saw him compete as vinny vegas in the point on paddys day 93.

Vinnie Vegas as a character was funny though. WCW bad as it was were able to use Nash's best asset for years before WWE did, and that was his comedic attitude. Nash is one funny motherf*cker.

ShawnRaven

gimmick wrote: »

Haha, anyone remember Salvatore Sincere. Think he might have had a RAW match or two? Big tall bloke who was abolsutely rubbish.

He was around for a good bit longer afterwards, just wrestling under his real name, Tom Brandi, replacing the pink gear for trunks with the Italian flag on them.

rossie1977

ShawnRaven wrote: »

Vinnie Vegas as a character was funny though. WCW bad as it was were able to use Nash's best asset for years before WWE did, and that was his comedic attitude. Nash is one funny motherf*cker.

yeah nash was funny as vinnie vegas, the character was a vast improvement on OZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB0fHIYvhnQ

HorseRadish

rossie1977 wrote: »

yeah nash was funny as vinnie vegas, the character was a vast improvement on OZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB0fHIYvhnQ

Vinster = Ratings

Red Sleeping Beauty

gimmick wrote: »

Haha, anyone remember Salvatore Sincere. Think he might have had a RAW match or two? Big tall bloke who was abolsutely rubbish.

He can shoot too

brick tamland

come to think of it, HHH's original gimmick was awful. A rich snob

:eek:

rossie1977

i liked HHH first WWF gimmick and he went on a really long winning streak after making his debut (whats new ), the blueblood was an american version of his last WCW gimmick the french snob Jean-Paul Lévesque

HHH today should watch video of his 1995 debut and try to get back to that size, which would give him a ton more mobility in the ring

Gerry81

let us not forget david arquette as, well, david arquette

the big shows debut in wcw as the giant being billed as andre the giants son which as far as I remember was conveniently forgotten about after about a month.

renegade the ultimate warrior clone (as far as I remember there was another one as well but I can't remember what he was called)

rossie1977

Gerry81 wrote: »

let us not forget david arquette as, well, david arquette

no lets try to forget that and anyone mentioning it deserves a week ban

HalloweenJack

IRS anyone? Or was it just me?

Gobbledy Gooker was pretty terrible. I feel sorry for Hector Guerrero.

What about the chicken suit guy that used to show up at Kane matches?

Red Sleeping Beauty

brick tamland wrote: »

come to think of it, HHH's original gimmick was awful. A rich snob

:eek:

I don't know, compared to some of the other silly gimmicks in 1995, Hunter's wasn't that bad and he could wrestle a good match which was a plus.

atom Adam Bomb , now that was ridiculous.





The Executioner was daft. Showed up at IYH 11 for the buired alive match, few more interferences on RAW , then again at the Survivor Series, then an "Armageddon" match with Taker on the december PPV and then he was out of there. He was Terry Gordy, a member of the Fabulous Freebird, had a great career that (along with his life) was nearly over after an overdose left him in a coma. His son wrestles on Smackdown as Jesse

Ruu_Old

I was watching something on WWE 24/7 a while ago with the worst gimmicks and characters. The Shockmaster was a laugh, he came out in one segment with his mask slipping off his face and fell through a part of the wall (Dusty Rhodes said someone had nailed a 2x4 across and he didn't know about it. How they were able to carry on keeping straight faces is beyond me!

The Genius was rubbish too.

CMpunked

brick tamland wrote: »

come to think of it, HHH's original gimmick was awful. A rich snob

:eek:

Ha, his original gimmick turned into his real life.

And they say hogan has it bad. :rolleyes:

Also, just in case anyone wants to make their own one:
http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Pro-Wrestling-Gimmick

Red Sleeping Beauty

rossie1977 wrote: »

HHH today should watch video of his 1995 debut and try to get back to that size, which would give him a ton more mobility in the ring

No chance. Gotta be big, gotta have muscles, gotta be big. You don't get anywhere unless you're big. gotta be big. This is the circus after all and the bigger the better. Gotta be big . Ooooh yeah!

Ruu wrote: »

I was watching something on WWE 24/7 a while ago with the worst gimmicks and characters. The Shockmaster was a laugh, he came out in one segment with his mask slipping off his face and fell through a part of the wall (Dusty Rhodes said someone had nailed a 2x4 across and he didn't know about it. How they were able to carry on keeping straight faces is beyond me!

I think you can hear Ric Flair laughing . I forget who it was, might've been Flair, but he pointed out that there was a 2x4 on the floor that he was going to trip over.

Red Sleeping Beauty

CMpunked

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

Oh my god, how did this NOT come up? This should have been first!

Red Sleeping Beauty

Comic-Book-Guy wrote: »

Oh my god, how did this NOT come up? This should have been first!

I didn't forget it, I just had to get all them cartoony gimmicks out of my ****stem first

He had some rubbish gimmick in WCW when Russo was on telly, it involved a black coat and silver face paint I think . For the record I loved the first 6months of the heel Goldust character. That backlot brawl with Piper was a bit vicious, he took a few nasty shots - punch to the face, knee to the balls.

rossie1977

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

He had some rubbish gimmick in WCW when Russo was on telly, it involved a black coat and silver face paint I think .

Seven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7RLzLXDsAI

ShawnRaven

Reinvented six years later and called Black Reign in TNA

CMpunked

rossie1977 wrote: »

Seven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7RLzLXDsAI

I'm pretty impressed with that entrance! I dont think ive ever seen as much thought in a wcw than that!

Red Sleeping Beauty

Comic-Book-Guy wrote: »

I'm pretty impressed with that entrance! I dont think ive ever seen as much thought in a wcw than that!

It's very easy to take pot shots at WCW in hindsight but I think some of stuff people have said is a bit unwarranted.

Machismo Fan

Comic-Book-Guy wrote: »

I'm pretty impressed with that entrance! I dont think ive ever seen as much thought in a wcw than that!

That entrance had a great presence to it.

ShawnRaven

Comic-Book-Guy wrote: »

I dont think ive ever seen as much thought in a wcw than that!

You ain't seen much WCW then. WCW had pyro and big entrances about two years before WWE did. WWE took a load of WCW's production ideas to the next level, but if you think big video walls and pyro were WWE's creation, think again, my friend.

CMpunked

ShawnRaven wrote: »

You ain't seen much WCW then. WCW had pyro and big entrances about two years before WWE did. WWE took a load of WCW's production ideas to the next level, but if you think big video walls and pyro were WWE's creation, think again, my friend.

Wonder why they never made 'taker ''float'' to the ring.

Red Sleeping Beauty

WCW Nitro September ish 1995 :

WWF RAW Intro same period:

WWF RAW is WAR 1997:

I think it's fairly obvious who was copying off who there. And that's just the opening title sequence.

ShawnRaven

Comic-Book-Guy wrote: »

Wonder why they never made 'taker ''float'' to the ring.

They did everything else! Either that or they could get the hoverboards from the Back To The Future production crews

Red Sleeping Beauty

Comic-Book-Guy wrote: »

Wonder why they never made 'taker ''float'' to the ring.

Eh , they did didn't they ? WrestleMania XX ?? He floated to the ring amid some dry ice on the floor

ShawnRaven

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

Eh , they did ? WrestleMania XX ?? He floated to the ring amid some dry ice on the floor

I dont think he floated did he? he just walked slow didn't he?

orestes

Back on topic please guys? This is one of the better threads we've had in a while, let's not mess it up

ShawnRaven

orestes wrote: »

Back on topic please guys? This is one of the better threads we've had in a while, let's not mess it up

SIR, YES SIR!!!


TNA's abortion in 2002, the Johnsons, they had two guys dressed as Penises, named Richard and Rod. Yes, Dick and Rod Johnson.

Terrible sh*t, and i think that might have been before Russo too!

EdK

A wrestling afterthought



Well he did get paid alot of money!



American Males pre THE Dicks times (theres another one)



Ed Leslie as Booty man, wtf?

ShawnRaven

Oh jesus, That 70s guy, the schtick that cost him his career.

KrazeeEyezKilla

I don't know where this came from or what it was supposed to be.

EdK

Has Glacier been mentioned yet?



Roadblock

The Wall(later Malice), who I can't find an image of in his shirt and tie

Red Sleeping Beauty

EdK wrote: »

Hah, look at what's on his wikipedia page :

Post-wrestling
retired from professional wrestling, Theis has made a name for himself on the website YouTube, where he initially posted videos of his artwork and poetry.[1] Theis is also doing live shows on BlogTV and Stickam. On his show he takes calls and communicates with various viewers, usually resulting in intermediate rants. Phil has deleted all of his internet accounts (youtube, myspace, blog tv, stickam, etc)due to fear of losing everything to Vince K. McMahon for using WWE trademarks and copyrights. He has failed at a comeback to wrestling and lost any and all steam he had going for him, due to being a buttmunch.

Mmmm, nom nom nom, Vinny Mac buttmunching nom nom

CMpunked

KrazeeEyezKilla wrote: »

I don't know where this came from or what it was supposed to be.

Possibly from New Zealand?