@@Choob1 According to the man in the mask, whoever made the wall fucked up and added a cross beam at shin height. So, when he's supposed to bust through, unable to really see shit through his mask, he trips over that cross beam and the rest is history.
It's crazy how Gallows went from that, to Straight Edge Society, to Aces & Eights in TNA, and making history with Bullet Club in the span of 4-5 years.
As a fan since 81. I rolled my eyes every time they debuted any of these ridiculous gimmicks, its on thing to look at it in retrospect but to those of us that lived it and had to wstch this crap they tried to make us like night after night was harsh. . Thats part of why wrestling popularity almost died in early to mid 90s
the same can be said of Mike Awesome as "The Fat Chick Thrilla"! with all this body-positivity business going on nowadays it could go over rather nicely, especially with true BBWs like Piper Niven, Wendy Choo, Jordynne Grace, Alley Katch, Willow Nightingale, etc.
Molly Holly has a nice big ass too When they did that angle insulting her big butt I was like "How is that a diss to say she has a big butt when there's men into that ??"
Whenever I do a GM mode in 2K, I draft Doink and he’s my US/IC champ, so much meat on that heel doink bone, his gimmick works with everyone no matter who he’s with because he’s crazy. People get too stuck on the he’s a clown and not holy shit this dude is insane.
New Generation Era was the era of occupation gimmicks. That's why there were so many of them. There were a lot of WCW gimmicks in this video I was not familiar with
Poor Brad Armstrong. One of the best hands in the ring, never heard anyone in the business or a single fan say a bad thing about him, but got saddled with multiple bad gimmicks. Candy Man, Arachnaman, and Badstreet.
Tommy Rich lost a loser leave town match to Ted DiBiase and came back with a character, Mr, R, They unmasked him one week as Brad Armstrong. I didn't remember the Bad Street one, till I was watching old WCW ppv's on Peacock. And yeah Arachnaman was fine, at least I think he won a few matches.
What's crazy about the Moppy gimmick was that it was supposed to be punishment for Saturn legitimately hurting another wrestler during a match and it got him over so hard lol
Just gonna nitpick a few of these: Leviathan was OVW, FCW wasn’t a thing at that time. He said The Stormtrooper debuted in 1988 (which is true) but he said it was in SMW, (which wasn’t a thing until 1991) so it’ll have just been an Indy show in Tennessee. Thanks to Tony Schiavone The Yeti will always be The YeTay to me
The Paul pirate gimmick was legit over and Vince buried him for the incest gimmick I loved it and how he swung around and had a sword like a pirate and spoke pirate speak
@@CharlesChristinaWH No. Vince just canned the pirate gimmick because he didn't get the popularity of pirates as fan-favorites (thanks to the POTC film franchise starting when that gimmick was around for Paul Burchill to do his best Jack Sparrow impersonation), as he was still stuck in the mindset of pirates being cutthroat thieves, pillagers, rapists & the like, akin to real world history of them OR one half of The Quebecers as Jean Pierre-Lafeet during the New Generation Era, rather than the romanticized portrayal of them from Hollywood films & the Disney theme parks ("Yo ho! Yo ho! A Pirate's Life for Me. Drink up me hearties. Yo ho!")
Sorry, Wrestlelamia, but Repo Man was a great gimmick, clearly inspired by the villains from the 1960s Batman show like the Riddler. You weren't supposed to take him seriously, he was a comedic heel. He had an awesome theme song, too. Back when wrestling was fun and able to laugh at itself.
Shark Boy actually won a lawsuit with Pixar or Disney over the use of his name. Let's just say he settled for an amount where he never has to wrestle again.
@@larrygonzales5245 Probably due to the _Shark Boy & Lava Girl_ film, I'm guessing. Yet, Shark Boy's best time was when he was basically lampooning Steve Austin ("Gimme a SHELL Yeah!").
If I remember correctly, the Piggy James stuff was so hated by the rest of the company that Vince was forced to end it early. It ended in a squash title victory for James (which apparently wasn’t even the original plan, as the point of the storyline was to shame Mickie to lose weight. It was never about Laycool, it was just Vince trying to body-shame an employee on national television), and Vince was forced by Stephanie and Linda into privately apologizing after a sponsor complained.
As a newbie to the wrestling thing but hearing about things here and there from what I can see I think wrestlelamia would be recording the video for years if they had to cover everything Surprised that Eugene wasn't in the video list as it was just awful
@@ACanOfBakedBeans If you mean regal I can't really think of a way to make it look tough By the looks of it from the clips and videos that I've seen I genuinely thought they were heading towards a village people kind of character as the real mans man even sounds a bit camp I'm Looking at it from today's point of view and I think it would still be laughed out of the building even if they tried to make it more bad arse Probably a lose/lose either way
@@TehJew22 In your opinion what's the best gimmick I unfortunately discovered wrestling about a year and a half ago and thought the bray Wyatt (rip bray) fiend character was interesting The idea of a character who knows your deepest darkest secrets and insecurities was interesting
Watching this from beginning to end, will give you a good idea on Vince's psyche and how most successful gimmicks we've seen, were doomed to fail were it not for the wrestlers who pulled them off and the convenient stronger booking for them.
Hard to believe that was a real gimmick, but yep it certainly was. I remember that whole faction, Misfits in Action, had Booker T and Chavo Guerrero, too. And a valet named Major Gunns (big-boobed model, of course).
19:30 Also, it wasn't that they just turned him heel, but also (I'm pretty sure dur to Matt's personally problems in his life at the time), they also changed the person who was protesting him at the time, and once he turned Baby Face and it wasn't even the same guy, it was just doomed. It's wild to think a heel clown could get over, but tbh, Matt really did portray that character wonderfully and was actually a great heel character in his time in the company and with the gimmick he was given tbh. Imo, you could've given 100 other ppl the exact same gimmick and it doesn't get over, but it's like he knew exactly what do to get it over. And I'm not even a huge fan at all of him personally, especially the bs he pulled against Hacksaw back in the day trying to shoot on him during a match and just being an all around asshole tbh. But when It comes solely to getting over the Doink gimmick, idk if anyone else would've been able to do what he was able to do with that gimmick tbh.
I remember the fake diesel and Razor Ramon. if i can remember, I remember Kevin Nash saying how they thought that they secretly resigned with WWE and was going to leave WCW and Nash was like what are you talking about? and McMahon was advertising the return of Diesel and Razor, so when they "Returned" to WWE on an episode of RAW i believe Nash said how he laughed at this because of McMahon didn't wanna let go of these characters or something like that.. (correct if wrong) but either way that was a wild time lol
21:00 The funny thing about General Hugh G Rection, was I was a big fan of the Misfits in Action stable in WCW. But when I originally saw the stable they had already shortened his name to just General Rection so I knew nothing about the full name.
The story goes that Van Hammer didn't like his MIA gimmick name being Private Stash, he wanted a higher rank so he was given Major Stash instead...the very definition of missing the real issue :)
IM SORRY i think the "Run In Man" needs to be revised by......... R TRUTH!! can you just imagine Truth running into random matches, hitting people who would no-sell the hit, Truth looking at them, saying "My Bad" and running back out the ring??? ONLY R TRUTH COULD MAKE THIS GIMMICK GOLD!! im tellin ya
Repo Man... imagine being one half of the most badass tag teams in the history of the WWF, and the next thing for you is basically a jack legged ass Hamburglar.
Just as bad were Blacktop Bully and "Mr Hole In One" Stewart Payne this gimmick was based on golfer Payne Stewart , after the death of Payne Stewart WCW dropped the Stewart Payne part of the name .
Interesting tidbit about the 1990 Survivor Series, Ross, that it was at the same PPV that also marked the Legendary debut of The Undertaker that kickstarted the 30 Years of Destruction for the Deadman. So In hindsight, it's rare that this PPV has had its best and its worst.
@@stingersplash Yeah, that would've been horrendous for sure. But everyone got a sigh of relief that Taker's the better Mascot and attraction figure as a wrestler than the shitty-ass Rooster. So it was no wonder that Survivor Series 2021 brought that piece of trash Golden Egg into the fold when it should've been the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of The Rock.
If you didn't know Ross, Y2J's real life father Ted Irvine was a former pro hockey player in the NHL, so had they given him the Goon gimmick, there would have at least been some reasoning behind it. But they probably would have billed him as being from Toronto.
The Broadus Clay/Funkasaurus thing pissed me off more than Tyrus just because my mother sings the Funkasaurus theme song EVERY time I see her. EVERY. TIME.
The song was originally used by Earnest Miller in WCW. Then Brodus Clay/The Funkasaurus. Then "GOD" (after Vince told The Almighty [not Bobby Lashley, but The Man Upstairs] to "get jiggy with it" in 2006). Then Xavier Woods during his pre-New Day babyface run.
The problem with The Executioner gimmick is it has been overused in just about every wrestling promotion worldwide in both singles and tag team action . Perhaps the best Executioners were in the WWWF/WWF/WWE who were Tag Team champions back in the 1970's under the Executioner masks , at that time , were Killer Kowalski and Big John Studd . A third Executioner was added during a title defense which was deemed illegal and the titles were vacated . For reference the third Executioner was Nikolai Volkoff who would hold the WWF Tag Team titles , legitimately , with Iron Sheik after beating Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda (IRS) at Wrestlemania 1 .
There have been Executioners in almost every wrestling promotion worldwide in both singles and tag team action . In the 1970's Killer Kowalski and Big John Studd wrestled under masks as The Executioners they were even WWWF Tag Team champions . After they added a third member the title was vacated . The third member was revealed as Nikolai Volkoff who won the titles with Iron Sheik after beating Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda (IRS) at Wrestlemania 1 .
Akeem was supposedly a veiled shot at Dusty Rhodes in WCW. Similar to how Ted Dibiase's servant was named Virgil, which was Dusty's real first name, "Akeem the African Dream" and "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to put 2+2 together.
Well believe it or not Florida Championship Wrestling during the 1980s actually had a wrestler called the Spider-Man. He wore almost the same outfit as the comic book guy.
And Japan has had wrestlers cosplay as LEATHERFACE, JASON VORHEES & FREDDY KRUEGGER. Make of that what you will. Hell, even CHUCKY showed up on WCW TV during the Steiner VS Steiner fued between "The Dog-Faced Gremlin" & "Big Poppa Pump".
What is the worst wrestling gimmick yall have ever seen 🤔
Nikki ash aka nikki cross
I wasn’t even born but I heard of Sparky Plugg and it was stupid cause it was supposed to be a stock car racing gimmick but it didn’t work at all
@@flybirdsfly2091Was that during the Alexa bliss and the Feind storyline or after
@@flybirdsfly2091kids loved her and she was decent..you mean its worse than mantuar,red rooster, akeem African dream ,tensai ,bostion booger?
Dean Ambrose heel gimmick
Shockmaster is the funniest gimmick ever lol. Man literally was in blue jeans, a feather vest, cowboy boots, and a bedazzled Storm Trooper helmet LOL
would have been funny to see it played out if the dude didnt trip and 1 shot the whole gimmick
I can't lie, I'd like to have the original helmet in my collection.
@@Choob1 According to the man in the mask, whoever made the wall fucked up and added a cross beam at shin height. So, when he's supposed to bust through, unable to really see shit through his mask, he trips over that cross beam and the rest is history.
i always found the promo he did after falling on his face even funnier :D "you wanna piece of me? fight me!" xD
When you hit randomize in character creation
Bro put the "Johnsons" the "Dicks" and the "Ding Dongs" all in order... I know he did that shit on purpose 😂
lol i think he did like the Fake Diesel and Fake Razor Ramon in order
I want to know how they didn’t put Big Dick Johnson on here with all that..
@@BrianSchaffer OR the Toxic Turtles (TMNT ripoff) after Arachnaman (aka "Great Value" edition wannabe Spiderman).
Kid : "Mom? I wanna see Spider-Man."
Mother: "We do have Spider-Man at home, see?"
*arachna-man appears*
Kid: "That's not Spider-Man!"😭
43:40 When he said “number 3 festus” it was over I knew Ross would die of laughter 😂😂😂😂
It's crazy how Gallows went from that, to Straight Edge Society, to Aces & Eights in TNA, and making history with Bullet Club in the span of 4-5 years.
My little brother and I wouldn't shutup singing, "Biscuits and Gravyyyyyyy" when Gallows was Festus lol
i actually liked that gimmick. He was a pretty tough dude. He lasted longer than anyone in The Undertaker's Hells Gate.
As a fan since 81. I rolled my eyes every time they debuted any of these ridiculous gimmicks, its on thing to look at it in retrospect but to those of us that lived it and had to wstch this crap they tried to make us like night after night was harsh. . Thats part of why wrestling popularity almost died in early to mid 90s
Arachni-Man: "Let's hope nobody at Marvel has a TV."
And legitimately pissed off
He was the Candyman before. (The Wonka one, not the horror movie one.)
It’s crazy how they made fun of Molly Holly and Mickie James for being on the thick side. Now it’s all the rage 😂
the same can be said of Mike Awesome as "The Fat Chick Thrilla"! with all this body-positivity business going on nowadays it could go over rather nicely, especially with true BBWs like Piper Niven, Wendy Choo, Jordynne Grace, Alley Katch, Willow Nightingale, etc.
@@triplestar100 Love me some Mike Awesome…. The Fat Chick Thrilla baby!
Also not to mention that neither one of them was "heavy" at all.
Molly Holly has a nice big ass too
When they did that angle insulting her big butt I was like "How is that a diss to say she has a big butt when there's men into that ??"
Fans see a mid-thick to thick girl, "Oh, she's here to beat some ass!" They see a thin girl, "Bro, she gon' snap like a twig."
36:22 I knew you would crack up there, I died of laughter immediately after seeing that
You need to look at Doinks promos in the evil run. He was incredibly creepy.
Yea, he was... disturbed
Yea that ecw stuff was so dark
Heel Doink was great
Whenever I do a GM mode in 2K, I draft Doink and he’s my US/IC champ, so much meat on that heel doink bone, his gimmick works with everyone no matter who he’s with because he’s crazy. People get too stuck on the he’s a clown and not holy shit this dude is insane.
He was initally supposed to be a darker version of Krusty the Clown from The Simpsons
I'm really loving these longer videos! I know they arent the best algorithm-wise but i always preferred longer videos as opposed to sub 10 minute ones
Same here, I love it when he drops 30+minutes videos.
What if Ross and Dub did 30+ videos or at least 40+ videos that would be dope
New Generation Era was the era of occupation gimmicks. That's why there were so many of them. There were a lot of WCW gimmicks in this video I was not familiar with
Poor Brad Armstrong. One of the best hands in the ring, never heard anyone in the business or a single fan say a bad thing about him, but got saddled with multiple bad gimmicks. Candy Man, Arachnaman, and Badstreet.
and of course Buzzkill as they mentioned as well being a rip off of his brother's gimmick.
Exactly what I was thinking. BA was so underrated.
Tommy Rich lost a loser leave town match to Ted DiBiase and came back with a character, Mr, R, They unmasked him one week as Brad Armstrong. I didn't remember the Bad Street one, till I was watching old WCW ppv's on Peacock. And yeah Arachnaman was fine, at least I think he won a few matches.
Bro the gimmicks back in the New Generation Era and in WCW were so WTF and cringe lmao 😂😂😂
Yeah, it was some of the most cheesiest gimmick in wrestling especially in the WWF in 1995.
True, but we did get some good ones like Razor Ramon
Spider-Man’s drunk cousin.
Bastion Booger
If Spider-Man was a wrestler and wore gold and purple instead of Red and Blue😂
12:17 I had the same exact face bruh WTF😳
They weren't even trying to hide their blatant plagiarism. Poor Brad Armstrong had some shit gimmicks.
What's crazy about the Moppy gimmick was that it was supposed to be punishment for Saturn legitimately hurting another wrestler during a match and it got him over so hard lol
The heel doink promos had a lot of heath ledger joker vibes before it was a thing
Yeah he had potential but then one they turned him face he became a joke.
@CalebRay1-c9j yeah
The Run in MAN lolol 😂😂😂😂 just run in random matches and leave..😂😂😂OMG
So that's where The Bloodline got that gimmick from 😂😂😂🤣
Just gonna nitpick a few of these:
Leviathan was OVW, FCW wasn’t a thing at that time.
He said The Stormtrooper debuted in 1988 (which is true) but he said it was in SMW, (which wasn’t a thing until 1991) so it’ll have just been an Indy show in Tennessee.
Thanks to Tony Schiavone The Yeti will always be The YeTay to me
omg it WAS Tony who tried to dress that name uup wasnt it? hahaha I forgot it was him trying to get something cool from "The Yeti" He tried ahaha
Early 90’s had some of the funniest bad gimmicks to ever exist
Arachna-Man? More like Spider-Man's red headed step child.
If Spider Man is Harry Potter then Arachna Man is Ron Weasly 😂
Yellow-headed Step child. 😂
It took me way longer than i care to admit that Triple Hs Terra Ryzing was a play at the word Terrorizing
Funny thing is the "Run-In man" would probably work as a character nowadays heck surprised R-Truth never had that as a character he'd make it work
17:12 Ross tapped into The Undertaker for a sec.
this reminds me of how grateful i am that HHH is over creative now 💀
The Paul pirate gimmick was legit over and Vince buried him for the incest gimmick
I loved it and how he swung around and had a sword like a pirate and spoke pirate speak
SvR 2007
@@CharlesChristinaWH No. Vince just canned the pirate gimmick because he didn't get the popularity of pirates as fan-favorites (thanks to the POTC film franchise starting when that gimmick was around for Paul Burchill to do his best Jack Sparrow impersonation), as he was still stuck in the mindset of pirates being cutthroat thieves, pillagers, rapists & the like, akin to real world history of them OR one half of The Quebecers as Jean Pierre-Lafeet during the New Generation Era, rather than the romanticized portrayal of them from Hollywood films & the Disney theme parks ("Yo ho! Yo ho! A Pirate's Life for Me. Drink up me hearties. Yo ho!")
Dustin Rhodes was struggling with drug addiction during his time as black reign
Sorry, Wrestlelamia, but Repo Man was a great gimmick, clearly inspired by the villains from the 1960s Batman show like the Riddler. You weren't supposed to take him seriously, he was a comedic heel. He had an awesome theme song, too. Back when wrestling was fun and able to laugh at itself.
Give repo Man some respect
Ok Simon Millers alt account;) he is a big fan
You just being biased because your a fanboy of the character but to a casual or anybody it looks silly and terrible lol
@@Ccubed92L take, Repo Man was a fun character for the time.
Simon Miller gave this comment a golden up
4 Phallus Acts In A Row:
The Johnsons, The Dicks,
The DingDongs, and Ed Ferrara
33:00 konan definitely benifited from leaving wwe....damn his tna time was awesome
So many people were better off without WWE. Terry Taylor was never huge, but he didn't deserve The Rooster.
Looking at 58 The Shark reminding me of TNA Wrestler Shark Boy, who actually got over with the crowd.
Yeah they completely ignored anything not WWF/WCW
Shark Boy actually won a lawsuit with Pixar or Disney over the use of his name. Let's just say he settled for an amount where he never has to wrestle again.
@@larrygonzales5245 Probably due to the _Shark Boy & Lava Girl_ film, I'm guessing. Yet, Shark Boy's best time was when he was basically lampooning Steve Austin ("Gimme a SHELL Yeah!").
Slam Masta J theme had me crunking 😂
It would’ve been funny as hell if arachnaman fought macho man😂😂
oh yeah lol the Human Spider
I forgot the quote
“I got you for THREE MINUTES”
@@orenges7034"YOU AIN'T GOIN' NOWHERE! I GOT YOU FOR THREE MINUTES!"
It's not "Macho Man" , it's Bonesaw McGraw (Yes, I know Randy Poffo portrayed him).
Fun fact, Al Snow still wrestles as "The New Rockers" with OVW wrestler Kal Herro!
I've re-watched this video like 6ix times😂😂😂😂 your reaction are hilarious especially arachnaman 💀🤣🤣😂🤣
Honorable Mention The Toxic Turtles
That reaction to the Triple K and Stormtrooper gimmicks was so funny that I thought Ross's eyes 👀 would pop out.
If I remember correctly, the Piggy James stuff was so hated by the rest of the company that Vince was forced to end it early. It ended in a squash title victory for James (which apparently wasn’t even the original plan, as the point of the storyline was to shame Mickie to lose weight. It was never about Laycool, it was just Vince trying to body-shame an employee on national television), and Vince was forced by Stephanie and Linda into privately apologizing after a sponsor complained.
12:10 We went from hilariously bad to atrociously bad back to back.
The match Festus had with The Undertaker was Lit
I dont care what anyone says Oz was absolutely hilarious and was absolutely amazing :D
Nice to see how much enjoyment you got out of these gimmicks.
To be honest, I actually liked a few of them.
There’s so many of these I didn’t know existed and now I’m like wtf
Crazy thing is, John Tenta was a legit bad-ass. There are a bunch of stories out there that he was not one to mess with
Nah I fucc with the running man that’s hilarious lol
Im shocked William regal as his real man gimmick was bad
As a newbie to the wrestling thing but hearing about things here and there from what I can see I think wrestlelamia would be recording the video for years if they had to cover everything
Surprised that Eugene wasn't in the video list as it was just awful
To be honest, the gimmick itself could have worked if they made him more of a badass rather than playing it up as a comedy act.
@@ACanOfBakedBeans
If you mean regal
I can't really think of a way to make it look tough
By the looks of it from the clips and videos that I've seen I genuinely thought they were heading towards a village people kind of character as the real mans man even sounds a bit camp
I'm Looking at it from today's point of view and I think it would still be laughed out of the building even if they tried to make it more bad arse
Probably a lose/lose either way
Maybe because Regal was a Real Man's Man as a tough guy IRL.
But they found 100 gimmicks worse than that.
@@TehJew22
In your opinion what's the best gimmick
I unfortunately discovered wrestling about a year and a half ago and thought the bray Wyatt (rip bray) fiend character was interesting
The idea of a character who knows your deepest darkest secrets and insecurities was interesting
Watching this from beginning to end, will give you a good idea on Vince's psyche and how most successful gimmicks we've seen, were doomed to fail were it not for the wrestlers who pulled them off and the convenient stronger booking for them.
i knew that 77 was gonna blow your mind, i was shocked by that one too. Vince was showing signs of seniliety a lot sooner than any of us thought.
Technially it wasnt as said by lamia, an independent promotion. But still. You cant be doin that
well yeah, it's kind of a no brainer that you cant do that or at least that's what we thought.@@thecodester6669
That was at an independent show. Not WWE. At least get the facts right.
Stunned by the lack of Eugene on this list lmao
Hugh G. Rection got me good LMFAO XD
Hard to believe that was a real gimmick, but yep it certainly was. I remember that whole faction, Misfits in Action, had Booker T and Chavo Guerrero, too. And a valet named Major Gunns (big-boobed model, of course).
Just saw Raw from Monday. Congratulations to you and dub for making the show
19:30 Also, it wasn't that they just turned him heel, but also (I'm pretty sure dur to Matt's personally problems in his life at the time), they also changed the person who was protesting him at the time, and once he turned Baby Face and it wasn't even the same guy, it was just doomed.
It's wild to think a heel clown could get over, but tbh, Matt really did portray that character wonderfully and was actually a great heel character in his time in the company and with the gimmick he was given tbh.
Imo, you could've given 100 other ppl the exact same gimmick and it doesn't get over, but it's like he knew exactly what do to get it over.
And I'm not even a huge fan at all of him personally, especially the bs he pulled against Hacksaw back in the day trying to shoot on him during a match and just being an all around asshole tbh.
But when It comes solely to getting over the Doink gimmick, idk if anyone else would've been able to do what he was able to do with that gimmick tbh.
I remember the fake diesel and Razor Ramon. if i can remember, I remember Kevin Nash saying how they thought that they secretly resigned with WWE and was going to leave WCW and Nash was like what are you talking about? and McMahon was advertising the return of Diesel and Razor, so when they "Returned" to WWE on an episode of RAW i believe Nash said how he laughed at this because of McMahon didn't wanna let go of these characters or something like that.. (correct if wrong) but either way that was a wild time lol
I see this list and it makes me believe that not everyone needs a gimmick just give them a character with personality and book them well
You could hear the record needle drop at #77! It’s crazy some of these ever happened
Hey bret, im arachnaman!
Bret: SHUT UP
DAMN SOME OF THE GIMMICKS THEY COME UP WITH ARE FUNNY AS HELL
😂😅🤣 ikr? It may not be the cup of tea but I still think there funny other unique in ther own way even tho they may not be the best
21:00 The funny thing about General Hugh G Rection, was I was a big fan of the Misfits in Action stable in WCW. But when I originally saw the stable they had already shortened his name to just General Rection so I knew nothing about the full name.
The story goes that Van Hammer didn't like his MIA gimmick name being Private Stash, he wanted a higher rank so he was given Major Stash instead...the very definition of missing the real issue :)
IM SORRY i think the "Run In Man" needs to be revised by......... R TRUTH!!
can you just imagine Truth running into random matches, hitting people who would no-sell the hit, Truth looking at them, saying "My Bad" and running back out the ring??? ONLY R TRUTH COULD MAKE THIS GIMMICK GOLD!! im tellin ya
Lucky you… you didn’t have to witness some of these in real time 😂
Yea dustin had some weird gimmicks
How did this video miss a blatantly obvious catch. Seven should have been in the number 7 spot LOL
Even though I watched the original video, this one was much more entertaining!!! 🤣 😂
When I was a kid, Issac Yankem was real man. And he was scary as hell. AS an adult, I won't how much cocaine went into that idea
Repo Man... imagine being one half of the most badass tag teams in the history of the WWF, and the next thing for you is basically a jack legged ass Hamburglar.
Just as bad were Blacktop Bully and "Mr Hole In One" Stewart Payne this gimmick was based on golfer Payne Stewart , after the death of Payne Stewart WCW dropped the Stewart Payne part of the name .
You gotta react to one wit dub y’all be funny fr a try not to laugh 😂
General Hugh G Rection 😂😂😂😂
Interesting tidbit about the 1990 Survivor Series, Ross, that it was at the same PPV that also marked the Legendary debut of The Undertaker that kickstarted the 30 Years of Destruction for the Deadman. So In hindsight, it's rare that this PPV has had its best and its worst.
Taker thought the egg was for him 😅
@@stingersplash Yeah, that would've been horrendous for sure. But everyone got a sigh of relief that Taker's the better Mascot and attraction figure as a wrestler than the shitty-ass Rooster. So it was no wonder that Survivor Series 2021 brought that piece of trash Golden Egg into the fold when it should've been the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of The Rock.
Look out here comes Aracnaman!!
Spiderman: Hey you stole me look
If you didn't know Ross, Y2J's real life father Ted Irvine was a former pro hockey player in the NHL, so had they given him the Goon gimmick, there would have at least been some reasoning behind it. But they probably would have billed him as being from Toronto.
Heel Doink was not a bad gimmick imo
not the Heel Persona Doink just the kid friendly Doink and the other miniture clowns.
The Broadus Clay/Funkasaurus thing pissed me off more than Tyrus just because my mother sings the Funkasaurus theme song EVERY time I see her. EVERY. TIME.
I personally liked that gimmick for the reason of “if the god father and the honky tonk man had a son”
The song was originally used by Earnest Miller in WCW. Then Brodus Clay/The Funkasaurus. Then "GOD" (after Vince told The Almighty [not Bobby Lashley, but The Man Upstairs] to "get jiggy with it" in 2006). Then Xavier Woods during his pre-New Day babyface run.
@@superwolf1515 "A Disgraceful one, Yes!" - Mr. Hattrick 2006
They could do a whole list off terrible gimmicks from Memphis and Smokey Mountain alone.
The problem with The Executioner gimmick is it has been overused in just about every wrestling promotion worldwide in both singles and tag team action . Perhaps the best Executioners were in the WWWF/WWF/WWE who were Tag Team champions back in the 1970's under the Executioner masks , at that time , were Killer Kowalski and Big John Studd . A third Executioner was added during a title defense which was deemed illegal and the titles were vacated . For reference the third Executioner was Nikolai Volkoff who would hold the WWF Tag Team titles , legitimately , with Iron Sheik after beating Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda (IRS) at Wrestlemania 1 .
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When Jim Ross had a Bell's Palsy in 1999, Ed Ferrara once parodied him on Sunday Night Heat... so WWF did it first.
These names are literally like Lego Names for Characters 😂😂😭😭
Yesss!! My man ARACHNAMAN😂.
Moppy was Saturn's punishment for roughing up jobber Mike Bell during an enhancement match on Metal and Jakked.
Yup. Surprisingly, it actually got him over
So. The executioner was technically a character that existed waaay before the buried alive match. But they brought him back.
There have been Executioners in almost every wrestling promotion worldwide in both singles and tag team action . In the 1970's Killer Kowalski and Big John Studd wrestled under masks as The Executioners they were even WWWF Tag Team champions . After they added a third member the title was vacated . The third member was revealed as Nikolai Volkoff who won the titles with Iron Sheik after beating Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda (IRS) at Wrestlemania 1 .
Brooo. The Fat Chick Thriller one killed me. 🤣🤣
Akeem was supposedly a veiled shot at Dusty Rhodes in WCW. Similar to how Ted Dibiase's servant was named Virgil, which was Dusty's real first name, "Akeem the African Dream" and "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to put 2+2 together.
Pretty blatant
I shit you not, at 13:05 I got an ad for KFC 🤣🤣🤣
Run-In Man could have been something great
Wrestler being a shark can only go so far
* Sad shark boy noises"
Put evey gimmick from that video in a royal rumble to see who would win lol🤣🤣
Now I wanna see a six man tag match between the Johnsons, The Dicks, and the Ding Dongs.
Well believe it or not Florida Championship Wrestling during the 1980s actually had a wrestler called the Spider-Man. He wore almost the same outfit as the comic book guy.
And Japan has had wrestlers cosplay as LEATHERFACE, JASON VORHEES & FREDDY KRUEGGER. Make of that what you will. Hell, even CHUCKY showed up on WCW TV during the Steiner VS Steiner fued between "The Dog-Faced Gremlin" & "Big Poppa Pump".
i literally have never heard of the KKK and nazi gimmicks till today holy shit 💀
The only time I heard of a nazi gimmick was when Jon Heidenrich was supposed to debut as an unfrozen nazi put thankfully that was dropped.
Thank you independent shows for seeing this now
The 🐐 Sexton Hardcastle
41:09 I've never heard of The Yeti, but i have heard of "THE YEEEETAAYYY"
Bruh is there a vid of the instrumental? It's 🔥 🔥 🔥
I’m surprised he didn’t put the Brooklyn brawler in his video
1:25 "Why was this on TV back in the dayt?"
Cocaine, it was because of cocaine lol
Bastion Booger has to be number one, and I haven’t even watched it yet.
"General _Huge E._ Rection? There's no way."
_Goes back_
"Number 59, General Hugh G. Rection."
"General _Huge G._ Rection."
It's _HUGH!_ My goodness, Ross!
This is hilarious, I’m in 95 on a watch through and I’ve seen most of those crappy gimmicks make their debut 😂
12:27 and 13:21 ARE JUST INSANE glad them gimmicks were GONE YEAH I WENT FROM BAD TO WTF THATS TERRIBLE and I hate clowns 😂
"And your New Undisputed wwe heavyweight 24/7 eleven north America's Worcestershire sauce champion of the world ARACHNAMAN"
I sometimes wish I could explain the 90s to people who didn't live through them but showing them a bunch of this list would be a good start
Jim cornette ended up spitting in ed Ferrara face and calling him out to fight for making fun of Jim Ross’s cerebral palsy 😂😂😂
42:44 I laughed my ass off
at the dollar store version of Spider-Man