Silly Gimmicks

EdK

KrazeeEyezKilla wrote: »

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

The Bushwhackers were bad too, but I kind of strangely liked them

ShawnRaven

EdK wrote: »

The Bushwhackers were bad too, but I kind of strangely liked them

Horrible gimmick, but jesus, they were violent as hell as The Sheepherders in the NWA! In the late 80s those guys KNEW how to blade!

EdK

The look on Sandmans face haha




Can you say buried?

ShawnRaven

EdK wrote: »

Can you say buried?

Actually no, quite the opposite. Despite every attempt at burial by Vinnie Mac, he was over each and every time. The crowd never failed to cheer for him or get behind him from his entire time in the promotion from 89-91.

That's not a burial in my own honest opinion.

EdK

Rappin PN (See recently on the AWR tour as Cannonball Grizzly I believe)



You can add to the No Limit Soldiers too

EdK

ShawnRaven wrote: »

Actually no, quite the opposite. Despite every attempt at burial by Vinnie Mac, he was over each and every time. The crowd never failed to cheer for him or get behind him from his entire time in the promotion from 89-91.

That's not a burial in my own honest opinion.

I know he got over by some miracle but the gimmick was a joke

ShawnRaven

EdK wrote: »

I know he got over by some miracle but the gimmick was a joke

Oh no question. Dusty was booking NWA who was stealilng viewers from Vince in the 80s, so when Dusty left over a dispute, he came crawling to Vince, Vince couldn't wait to stick it to him. He'd already done so by naming DiBiase's manservent after him.

It backfired horribly, and it wasn't by a Miracle. People in the mid and the south remembered Dusty and everything he did, there was no chance he was ever going to be booed. Even up north he was hugely over, listen to the reaction he gets in Philadelphia at Summerslam 89!

You can't kill a legend, you can try, but you'll fail miserably. Even Vince himself will admit it. He has no choice.

KrazeeEyezKilla

EdK wrote: »

Rappin PN (See recently on the AWR tour as Cannonball Grizzly I believe)



You can add to the No Limit Soldiers too

You're getting these from the same place I got that New Zealand one from.

http://www.bedofnailz.com/wcw.html

EdK

Dusty had been around too long and had done too much at that stage to be brought down that easy, to be fair he just rolled with it seemed to have fun and still got over, I'd love to have seen Vinces face

EdK

KrazeeEyezKilla wrote: »

You're getting these from the same place I got that New Zealand one from.

http://www.bedofnailz.com/wcw.html

Nope

ShawnRaven

EdK wrote: »

Dusty had been around too long and had done too much at that stage to be brought down that easy, to be fair he just rolled with it seemed to have fun and still got over, I'd love to have seen Vinces face

Exactly. Vince failed to see the concept of the term "booker". Dusty knew how to get anything a reaction, regardless of how bad it was. Vince was outmatches, and by the time 91 came around, he knew it which is why the polka dots stopped.

EdK

The Juicer, obviously enough modelled on Beetlejuice



An early incarnation of Big Bossman Ray Traylor



Zodiac

Red Sleeping Beauty

Hotlink failure there Edk.
Might have to do a screen grab , some of them angel fire pages are just one htm file I think. Or something.

ShawnRaven

GI Bro - Can you dig it?

EdK

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

Hotlink failure there Edk.
Might have to do a screen grab , some of them angel fire pages are just one htm file I think. Or something.

Sorry bout that, they are working for me?

Red Sleeping Beauty

ShawnRaven wrote: »

GI Bro - Can you dig it?

Oh yeah, that was some military stable angle with eh... Captain Reaction was it ? There were a few of them I think. Help me out here, my memory's failing me. 1999 I think the year was

EdK

Listen here,see!

EdK

God i dislike Glenn Gilberti, he has such a distorted few of his place in wrestling history

ShawnRaven

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

Oh yeah, that was some military stable angle with eh... Captain Reaction was it ? There were a few of them I think. Help me out here, my memory's failing me. 1999 I think the year was

It was M-I-A along with General Rection (a play on Huge-E-Rection, Hugh Morrus), Major Gunns (a play on Tylene Buck's fake tits) and a couple of others.
Although Booker did use that in the indies several years beforehand.

ShawnRaven

EdK wrote: »

Listen here,see!

Hah, Big Bully Busick! He didn't last pissing time! He was actually scheduled to be on the 1991 Survivor Series. He was the first guy Harvey Whippleman managed in the WWE, but Warlord took his place in the event.

Red Sleeping Beauty

ShawnRaven wrote: »

It was M-I-A along with General Rection (a play on Huge-E-Rection, Hugh Morrus), Major Gunns (a play on Tylene Buck's fake tits) and a couple of others.
Although Booker did use that in the indies several years beforehand.

Ah yes, that was it.
I think we may have peaked , this thread's bursting with rubbish gimmicks. Are there more ?

Well, em, keeping with the 1999 wcw theme, here's Perry Saturn cross dressing. Of sorts.

KrazeeEyezKilla

The KISS Demon

ShawnRaven

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

Ah yes, that was it.
I think we may have peaked , this thread's bursting with rubbish gimmicks. Are there more ?

Well, em, keeping with the 1999 wcw theme, here's Perry Saturn cross dressing. Of sorts.

Poor Saturn, despite being super talented, never got a break in the big leagues.

EdK

Loch Ness:o





The Dog (apologies for the poor image quality)

Red Sleeping Beauty

ShawnRaven wrote: »

Poor Saturn, despite being super talented, never got a break in the big leagues.

Everytime I think of him this comes into my head :





That Radicalz stable was a bit of a poor idea I thought.

ShawnRaven

EdK wrote: »

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OYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! I posted him already!!

EdK

Apologies I did look back through only at the purdy pictures though, must have missed him

EdK

they werent too bad until the crossdressing started

Ruu_Old

Has T.L Hopper (plumber) been mentioned?

Shockmaster footage that I mentioned earlier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3CL28vgE4U

Red Sleeping Beauty

EdK wrote: »

Apologies I did look back through only at the purdy pictures though, must have missed him

In fairness the pic he posted was pretty small

EdK wrote: »

they werent too bad until the crossdressing started

They debuted with the skrits didn't they ?

EdK

The Hugh Morrus joke telling gimmick, complete with question mark tights

EdK

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

In fairness the pic he posted was pretty small



They debuted with the skrits didn't they ?

Don't really remember it was the full on net stockings and lingerie look which was too much though haha

Kid Nothing

Lads this is hands down one of the best threads this year....kudos

rossie1977

ShawnRaven wrote: »

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

correct he didn't float he walked, i was there with a great view of it

EdK wrote:

Loch Ness

loch ness as a gimmick started in stampede and was over there big time and he was over huge as haystacks everywhere in europe during the 1980s, they had huge matches between andre and haystacks in the 80s, i remember when haystacks used to do shows in mayo in the 80s and the place would be buzzing in anticipation. fast forward to 1996 and nobody in america wanted to see a washed up 650lb 48 year old who could barely move.

ShawnRaven

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

They debuted with the skrits didn't they ?

Yeah but after the Beaver Cleavage/Chaz period when Glen Ruth came back from injury, they turned heel again and ended up wearing massive cone bra's and stuff. They were dissolved around the time of Wrestlemania 16 i think, Ruth was first to be released and then Warrington followed a few months later.

EdK

Double J complete with flashing lights suspenders and The Roadie at his side

Red Sleeping Beauty

Jarrett coming to the ring on a horse was worse.

Or am I imagining this ?

ShawnRaven

EdK wrote: »

Double J complete with flashing lights suspenders and The Roadie at his side

Pretty much the gimmick they wanted to saddle Bret Hart with in 1984, lol!

EdK

And no, he is not the Ultimate Warrior

ShawnRaven

EdK wrote: »

And no, he is not the Ultimate Warrior

He wasn't the worst Warrior clone in WCW, Jungle Jim was far worse.
Although Warrior only had one thing to say about that poor bastard when it was mentioned about him blowing his brains out in his shoot interview:

Warrior: "Bwahahahahah!"

ShawnRaven

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

Jarrett coming to the ring on a horse was worse.

Or am I imagining this ?

I don't recall that happening, that's what they wanted Bret to do when the idea was presented to him ten years earlier.

EdK

Could you imagine how different Bret's career could have turned out if he had gone with it, the options were basically create yourself a gimmick or we will do it for you, And you didnt want option B as indicated by this thread haha

ShawnRaven

EdK wrote: »

Could you imagine how different Bret's career could have turned out if he had gone with it, the options were basically create yourself a gimmick or we will do it for you, And you didnt want option B as indicated by this thread haha

Bret, to his credit knew there was no hope in hell that was going to work, unlike the likes of Jake and the Bulldogs who had to carry their pets around with them the whole time, even to the hotel rooms. What the f*ck was Bret gonna do with a horse?!

EdK

Divorce her?

Red Sleeping Beauty

I don't know if this counts, ye be the judge...

RebelRockChick

Kerwin White anyone?

ShawnRaven

RebelRockChick wrote: »

Kerwin White anyone?

Cos if it ain't White, it ain't right!
(Anyone else thinks he looks like a skinny version of Eric Bischoff there?)

ShawnRaven

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

I don't know if this counts, ye be the judge...

Nah, not really, that was more of a skit than a gimmick.
One which nearly got the WWE into a rakeload of trouble as they went too far with it and it's allegations about Turner that Turner Broadcasting ended up filing a cease and desist order against Vince McMahon.

ShawnRaven

EdK wrote: »

Divorce her?

I thought he did!

EdK

Harsh?