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Most Embarassing Gimmicks of the Attitude Era

  • 09-08-2013 11:24PM
    #1
    CSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,336 ✭✭✭✭


    Exactly what it says on the tin. I'm going to get the ball rolling with Naked Mideon.


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  • #2
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,007 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    val venis getting his private part cut off


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Beaver Cleavage was pretty strange. On one hand ya had this incestuous angle where Beaver (the former Headbanger Mosh) had the hots for his ''Mom'' and on the other ya had Chaz out of character supposedly beating Marianna (who played Mrs Cleavage) with the boys in the back turning on him.


  • #4
    Ando's Saggy Bottom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Ando's Saggy Bottom


    Hand.


  • #5
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,877 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Beaver Cleavage was pretty strange. On one hand ya had this incestuous angle where Beaver (the former Headbanger Mosh) had the hots for his ''Mom'' and on the other ya had Chaz out of character supposedly beating Marianna (who played Mrs Cleavage) with the boys in the back turning on him.

    I think it's really amazing how in wrestling you can have some wonderfully told stories alongside stuff that is just completely awful or totally bizarre :D


  • #6
    smellmepower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 829 ✭✭✭smellmepower


    Val Venis was quite embarassing,instant channel changer if one of your parents walked into the room.

    Real man's man William Regal,Sexual Chocolate and Shawn 'Meat' Stasiak were quite bad too.


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
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    smellmepower wrote: »

    Real man's man William Regal,Sexual Chocolate and Shawn 'Meat' Stasiak were quite bad too.

    Blasphemy!!!


  • #8
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    The Oddities must have been an embarrassing group for John Tenta to have been a part of.


  • #9
    GTR63
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,469 ✭✭✭✭GTR63


    PMS/Pretty Mean Sisters my lord how do you explain that to a first time viewer.
    Wasn't embarrassing but Dan Severn used to stick out like a sore thumb wrestling in a grey sweatshirt. Also remember Too Much teaming up with D.O.A. which was short lived but they used to come out with them on the back of the bikes on Shotgun or Heat and it was a riot.


  • #10
    Dancor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Dancor


    Probably a bit pre attitude era but anything Goldust. Great worker in all but try explain it to your mates.


  • #11
    Stereomaniac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,166 ✭✭✭Stereomaniac


    I found Goldust embarrassing at first, but the character has aged very well, and I look back fondly.


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  • #12
    GTR63
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,469 ✭✭✭✭GTR63


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    val venis getting his private part cut off

    Or when they got the guy who influenced that angle John Wayne Bobbitt to show up on Raw.


  • #13
    Mouzone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭Mouzone


    Al Snow and Pepper.


  • #14
    Stereomaniac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,166 ✭✭✭Stereomaniac


    The Big Show's father's death has to be up there in a so bad it's good way. Big Boss Man especially.


  • #15
    Unearthly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    Gillberg...

    And the 'Goodfather'


  • #16
    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    Stereomaniac wrote: »
    The Big Show's father's death has to be up there in a so bad it's good way. Big Boss Man especially.

    That feud was brilliant. It got Boss Man to a couple of main event matches, that's how good it was. Has no business being in this thread.

    The poem alone is genius.

    "If I could have a son,
    As stupid as you,
    I'd wish for cancer,
    So I could die too."

    :D


  • #17
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,116 ✭✭✭✭cena


    What about that storyline with boss man and al snow and his dog


  • #18
    Angron
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators Posts: 24,155 Mod ✭✭✭✭Angron


    cena wrote: »
    What about that storyline with boss man and al snow and his dog
    That kennel from hell match >_>


    I'm going with Goldust in his "artist formerly known as Goldust" stage, when he wore stuff like this:
    tafkag_display_image.jpg?1311275622

    Creeped the bejesus out of me.


  • #19
    CSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,336 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    Goldust was amazing. Can't remember exactly when Rico started in WWE but......RICO.


  • #20
    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    Bit after the attitude era but the homo eroticism of Billy & Chuck was odd.

    Also featuring Billy Gunn, when he had Honky Tonk Man as his mentor and was called Rockabilly, Jaysus thats horrendous.


  • #21
    JrdanB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 109 ✭✭JrdanB


    Nearly everything involving the divas were "change the channel in case the parents come in" situations

    I was about 12 when Sable would come out, say her catchphrase and then grind.


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  • #22
    12gauge dave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭12gauge dave


    Ya sables whip music theme was awkward with parents:p

    Was it al snow with head aswell like wtf?

    Gillberg was stupid aswell


  • #23
    Tramps Like Us
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭Tramps Like Us


    Anything sexual, was just embarrassing


  • #24
    GTR63
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,469 ✭✭✭✭GTR63


    Tramps Like Us wrote: »
    Anything sexual, was just embarrassing

    Awkward yes but embarrassing only sometimes. Like when Mark Henry went on a date with a tranny.


  • #25
    bobby_says_hi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 468 ✭✭bobby_says_hi


    How about a championship belt being defended in a gravy bowl match? Or said championship actually changing hands in an Evening Gown In A Pool match

    I'm in two minds about the Hardcore 24/7 rule. On the one hand, it killed any prestige the Hardcore title had. On the other it was bloody entertaining and a lot of fun


  • #26
    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    The Hardcore title had prestige?


  • #27
    Hematocyte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭Hematocyte


    Wasn't there a guy once called "Meat"? I think the gimmick was that he lost every match due to being already exhausted from shagging his entourage backstage before the match.

    Maybe I just imagined it though. I wasn't really following the wrestling much during this particular period.


  • #28
    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    Hematocyte wrote: »
    Wasn't there a guy once called "Meat"? I think the gimmick was that he lost every match due to being already exhausted from shagging his entourage backstage before the match.

    Maybe I just imagined it though. I wasn't really following the wrestling much during this particular period.

    PMS. Terri, Ryan Shamrock and I want to say Jackie.


  • #29
    smellmepower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 829 ✭✭✭smellmepower


    Yeah that was Shawn Stasiak,he was supposed to be knackered because he was Jackie and Terri Runnels' toy boy.


  • #30
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    smellmepower wrote: »
    Yeah that was Shawn Stasiak,he was supposed to be knackered because he was Jackie and Terri Runnels' toy boy.

    His tights design were very NSFW let's put it that way too:
    http://25.media.tumblr.com/194c9b8c775735c26ba450df21bfe05b/tumblr_meu2lp8VXS1rg89a6o1_400.jpg

    From the amazing Attitude Era podcast:


    Paul Ellering's Mr.Dotcom gimmick. He was supposed to be some internet tycoon but his background and how he would talk about it was:

    Internet
    ???
    Money

    Even before I had even seen the internet I wasn't buying it at all.


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