I think Zack Ryder actually had a nice attire, it's creative and different from what we were used to plus the colors he used would mostly fit well together
It's a cool look. Unique, but without being over-the-top crazy. Right after Ryder, the presenter suggests that appreciation of Shawn Michaels' exceptionally goofy mini-mirror outfit was subjective....
Meh he was being a freak back then but if i had to chose my favorite that he was dressed as i would choose his 1997 (i think) christmas tree attire cuz its a tiny bit cute to be a christmas tree :3
The Artist Formerly Known As Golddust was an obvious rip on Price becoming the Artist Formerly Known As Prince. Stupid costume designs for Dustin though.
It was the 90s Dustin hit it over the park his outfit was perfect for that time I don't see what wrong with it in the 90s everything was going on the age of ATTITUDE ERA
@@rlanger3108 I don’t think it’s meant to be something like The Rock taking off his elbow pad or Adam Cole removing his knee pad, but to just point out the significance.
"find any cheap rubbish you can, put it together anyway you want & make sure there's a bit of thigh showing" whilst an advertisment for cultaholic shop hits the screen lol.
I thought Brutus's male stripper look kinda worked with him, rather he made it work. It was classic. There is a revisionist history about him and people forget that he was over.
It was perfect. His character before being The Barber was that of a male stripper, so when he became a maniacal barber (probably a Sweeney Todd inspired idea), it was the perfect evolution for him.
Revision no just previously unheard opinions he was probably over with America the rest of us just thought you f****** weird dude like most of that 80s crap lol Roddy Piper Jake The Snake and big boss man where abouts the only American wrestlers I knew before the Undertaker Yokozuna Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels made North American wrestlers the household names. Before that it was more local ones French Irish British basically it took the Undertaker to make Americans relevant outside of America Hulk Hogan is a boring shower of s*** and Macho Man did too much cocaine lol.
"[Dusty Rhodes's] popularity not coming from having a handsome face, or a hulking physique." I mean... yeah, he didn't look like the athlete of the day was supposed to look, but he was bad, and we knew he was bad.
Brutus looked sexy to me, and wore the mask as protection after coming back from a parisaling accident that crushed the bones in his face and was reconstructed with metal plates
Max Moon? Nah.. the Gyrator can't be on this list, because Connan stole his boots when he quit WWF. Not even Chilly McFreeze and Mason the Mutilator went that far. If you don't know, what all those references are, look up OSW 😉
Now I'm envisioning Vader as Mantaur running over everybody and trying his best to make a mooing sound menacing. He probably would have altered the more ridiculous aspects of the costume, too.
We are still talking about Bastion Booger and it was, what 25 years ago? I remember watching him as a little kid. Awful ring gear? Maybe, but has stuck with me for 25 years. His punishment ended up being a blessing.
Everyone: so Shawn you’re tights aren’t finished you gonna use something else from the past? Shawn Michael: no I like the color and I got this new cowboys!
Ryder's look was interesting, though I have to wonder if it was meant to mirror Hawkins, as they were not far off from their days as the Edgeheads. I've always wondered what the deal was with Shawn's vest. he looks less like Joker in 2019 and more like Psycho Clown.
Adam talks about wrestlers who have a "so-so" look and the editor uses CESARO??? Built-out-of-granite Big Dick Tony definitely does NOT have a so-so look.
I really think if Dustin Rhodes was in the right head space and it good shape at the time i really think the Black Reign gimmick could have been pretty great and work it liked cool
10:27 The singlet Ultimate Warrior wore for the _SummerSlam Spectacular_ special when teaming up with Macho Man vs. The Nasty Boys presaged Giant Gonzalez's bodysuit. The only reason I even remembered it is WWE's _Self-Destruction of the UW_ DVD drawing attention to it.
When I first saw the TAFKA Goldust costume at 9:10 (it may have been a similar one) in a late-1998 Expert Gamer magazine at the end of their back-to-back articles for WCW/nWo Revenge and WWF War Zone; I thought that Dustin was actually trying to shoot on Wolfpac Sting...
Mantaur still wrestles! He's in Impact Wrestling & is apart of a group named Decay with Crazy Steve & Rosemary! He's actually looking better now than he ever did!
I'm surprised Aldo Montoya the Portuguese Man-o-War isn't on this list as far as worst ring attire goes. His whole ring attire was atrocious the jockstrap mask was terrible
Nice swerve. You almost lost me with the shawn michaels trunks. Because those were some of my all time favorites. The black with the red and silver hearts with his dirt bike boots that looked like sneakers. But i completely forgot about the brown with cowboy boots. Good one.
I feel like both Dusty and Dustin shouldn't be on the list. As silly as Dusty's polkadots were, he did manage to make them work. And as for Dustin, I feel like the bad attire was part of the gimmick so shouldn't count as a genuine bad outfit.
Funny how the half tights look terrible on Zack Ryder but perfect on Ruby Riott - the fact that her whole look has a chaotic asymmetrical theme to go with it as if, unlike Zack, she actually put thought into the decision to wear them probably helps.
Zack Ryder wasn't the only one with that look. When WWE gave a tryout to former WCW tag team the Fantastics in 99- 2001 they faced each other. One of them wrestled with long trunks the same way which was missing a pant leg.
How can you forget Big Vito? I would also argue that Demolition's bdsm gear was pretty horrendous. Also, who can forget the time William Regal wrestled in what looked like a plus sized women's bathing suit.
CSB: I rememeber a small show about 20 years ago in Winnipeg. There were about 100 people there and one of the better talents on the show wore those half trunks half tights. I was puzzled. Bonus: There was a skinny kid in board shorts in a ladder match that night called Kenny Omega.
Obviously, these things are subjective, but I'll defend most of Beefcake's outfits. Not so much the ones at 6:24 or 6:43, the latter mostly because doing that sort of thing in Hogan's colors makes you look like a bleeding chicken, but I liked his overall look most of the time.
Great video, I don't agree at all with your Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake ring tights attire. Nor do I agree with the Dusty Rhodes "polka dot" criticism either. With both stars, their attire looked great. Slang: "Now ya done it Cultaholic." Ya made fun of Bastion Booger (Mike Shaw was also Norman The Lunatic). Not so much the costume, you're absolutely right on that. Lol! It was this one time where amongst his grossest stuff, he did the best one yet. He tried to blow bubbles in his pudding. I mean g** dang it. That's what I loved about the character, he was doing "Punk'd" level stuff before anyone caught on.
(Dis)Honorable Mentions: Rikishi, Max Moon The Ding Dongs (look them up if not familiar), The Shockmaster, Repoman, Rocky Miavia, the “Kool-Aid” version of Mark Henry, Asuka, Mable/Viscera (I swear Big Vis wore a giant trash bag), Perry Saturn in a minidress, Andre’s street clothes, and pretty much everything from the “New Generation” era. *Note: Terry Funk’s tights deserve their very own video. **Also, let’s not forget Hogan’s helmet.
Totally wrong about Brutus. Beefcake's attire was one of the few things that was actually great about him. He was a male stripper who became a maniacal barber, so the look was the perfect evolution for him.
9:46 How dare you imply Cesaro is only so-so in the looks department? That man is an Adonis. Hell his first gimmick was 'handsome manifestation of manliness that the GM's girlfriend is having an affair with"
11-year-old me saw the Half Trunk/Half Tights Zack Ryder gear and thought it was CLEAN
Yeah, I weirdly liked it
@@KillerEggFromOuterSpace i like it too
I like it! Memorable, interesting and different. AWOOWOOWOOWOOWOOOOO
@@KillerEggFromOuterSpace same
No cappppp
Ten best wrestling attires of all time
1. Doo rag Vince
I still can't believe this dude did this
That wasn't an attire. It was a transformation into a god.
Drips McMahon.
@@johncooper7919 yeah true
Laughed way too hard at this... MY N***A!!!
I think Zack Ryder actually had a nice attire, it's creative and different from what we were used to plus the colors he used would mostly fit well together
Agreed, it was supposed to look goofy that was his gimmick and in the case of always using purple that was kind of his signature color
I will never understand how Rey thought he could dress like Joker without looking like Doink. All clowns are Doink between the ropes.
Pentagon Jr definitely did the Joker theme better.
I actually liked Rey's Phoenix Joker attire, the one where he looked like Ledger's Joker is way better though.
What about jncos and the devil horns?
Diddy did better lmao
I loved Ryder’s attire when it came out, definitely lost some shine over the years lol
It's a cool look. Unique, but without being over-the-top crazy. Right after Ryder, the presenter suggests that appreciation of Shawn Michaels' exceptionally goofy mini-mirror outfit was subjective....
that shit is DRIP in the basketball community bro😭
I think Ruby pulls off the short leg long leg style the best
I still unironically like Zack Ryder’s old gear
The Artist Formally Known As Goldust sure did freak me out back in the day.
Dustin had so many bad characters, purple reign, 7 n so on
Meh he was being a freak back then but if i had to chose my favorite that he was dressed as i would choose his 1997 (i think) christmas tree attire cuz its a tiny bit cute to be a christmas tree :3
The Artist Formerly Known As Golddust was an obvious rip on Price becoming the Artist Formerly Known As Prince. Stupid costume designs for Dustin though.
It was the 90s Dustin hit it over the park his outfit was perfect for that time I don't see what wrong with it in the 90s everything was going on the age of ATTITUDE ERA
It freaks me out on the present day
You forgot Tucker before he was released😂 they put that man in bowling shoes😂
Yesss😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂
LOL that was hilarious
LMAOO
Bowling shoes😭🤣
Lmao
I think Ryder wore the half pants because his left thigh is the one that connects the rough Ryder.
At that time he used the zack attack as his Finisher😄
Because 0.1 mm of spandex provides all that padding
@@rlanger3108 I don’t think it’s meant to be something like The Rock taking off his elbow pad or Adam Cole removing his knee pad, but to just point out the significance.
"find any cheap rubbish you can, put it together anyway you want & make sure there's a bit of thigh showing"
whilst an advertisment for cultaholic shop hits the screen lol.
50
I still fear what the Sister Abigail Wyatt attire would've looked like in action....
Couldn't have been much worse than the Pumpkin King Finn Balor.
@@DoNotPassGO Yeah I don't know what was with that image. It looked so fake
Probably badass knowing Bray
When i was like 10, I used to ask my mom if I could cut my sweatpants to look like Zack Ryder’s 😂😂😂 what a mark
😂 Ha! That is frigging adorable.
Cesario has a so-so look? The man looks like a Swiss James Bond villain, combined with a powerlifting supermodel.
Exactly
Or Jason Statham. Either way he's far better than Warrior.
Agreed. Cesaro has an excellent look
I looked for a comment with this point just to up the vote.
@@AddisonHughes955 Nah, he just looks like any dude at Gold's Gym.
I thought Brutus's male stripper look kinda worked with him, rather he made it work. It was classic. There is a revisionist history about him and people forget that he was over.
It was perfect. His character before being The Barber was that of a male stripper, so when he became a maniacal barber (probably a Sweeney Todd inspired idea), it was the perfect evolution for him.
@ItsStillRealToMe DamnIt Yeah it’s ridiculous. People love to clown Beefer nowadays but neglect how over and popular he actually was for a while.
Revision no just previously unheard opinions he was probably over with America the rest of us just thought you f****** weird dude like most of that 80s crap lol Roddy Piper Jake The Snake and big boss man where abouts the only American wrestlers I knew before the Undertaker Yokozuna Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels made North American wrestlers the household names. Before that it was more local ones French Irish British basically it took the Undertaker to make Americans relevant outside of America Hulk Hogan is a boring shower of s*** and Macho Man did too much cocaine lol.
"[Dusty Rhodes's] popularity not coming from having a handsome face, or a hulking physique." I mean... yeah, he didn't look like the athlete of the day was supposed to look, but he was bad, and we knew he was bad.
Always thought it was strange that Jarrett looked more like Elton John than a country singer
Giant Gonzáles looks a bit like the Animal Titan in Attack on Titan
That's literally the best thing someone has ever said about Giant Gonzales
I almost suggested Naked Mideon for this list, but on second thought his attire might be my favourite.
What about spanky / the brain Kendrick from his early years
@Gunnar Huber Scott Steiner's King Arthur headgear?
Were you ininvolved in making this list?
Didn't realize Ace Trainer Liam was a wrestling fan! 😭
@@NotQuiteCupid How he mentions it a lot
Tbh, the ladies really loved Brutus Beefcake's ring gear.
Brutus looked sexy to me, and wore the mask as protection after coming back from a parisaling accident that crushed the bones in his face and was reconstructed with metal plates
It seemed like HBK decided to take Deadpool's advice in the 2002 Survivor Series when he said he “should have worn his brown pants 👖"
That Haircut of Shawn Michaels really added to the attire xD
The moment I read the title I knew HBK would be on here😂
*Insert the Shawn Michaels Brown Tights here*
Not the worst, just unfinished
He still pulled them off better than mankind did!
Good ol dukie droz himself hbk baby
His hair was the worst part of that look.
That was pretty nice imo
Anything that the artist formally known as Goldust wore during the Attitude Era
Edit:
8:27 Called it!!
Agreed
I felt it was part of the overall blurred-lines character
@@TheIllustriouBlueJay I don't wait for the thumbnails. Straight from the notification to play.
@@luedanger561 Sure you don't.
@@luedanger561 Zack Ryders one leg tights! I called it! Look at me!
Why did I know bastion booger would be number one...
This list is missing Max Moon
I kept waiting for Max Moon to show up on this list too!
Max Moon?
Nah.. the Gyrator can't be on this list, because Connan stole his boots when he quit WWF.
Not even Chilly McFreeze and Mason the Mutilator went that far.
If you don't know, what all those references are, look up OSW 😉
Oh look another OSW reference. And this one makes even less sense in context than most others...
Thats the point! 🤣
Zack Ryder’s gear paved the way for Ruby Soho
gonzalo titan suit was ahead of its time, imagine it happening in 2021, those attackoftitan fans would love it lol
I like Jarrett's "Double J" look more than his later shiny shorts style, which reeked of mid-card-ness
And that highway patrol 🚓 cop haircut pulling up you over for speeding lol
Fun fact: the suspenders were supposed to represent the strings of a guitar. They looked like the get-up of an overly enthusiastic S&M sub.
We need to consider ourselves lucky that Mantaur debuted when he did. Otherwise, Vince may have tried to force that gimmick on Vader.
Fuuuuuck you're right
Funny thing is Vader if allowed to just be Vader probably would have made it work.
Now I'm envisioning Vader as Mantaur running over everybody and trying his best to make a mooing sound menacing. He probably would have altered the more ridiculous aspects of the costume, too.
We are still talking about Bastion Booger and it was, what 25 years ago? I remember watching him as a little kid. Awful ring gear? Maybe, but has stuck with me for 25 years. His punishment ended up being a blessing.
I never thought we'd see pacitti and mr blobby on the same screen in any way ever again but oh my god... dreams come true.
Everyone: so Shawn you’re tights aren’t finished you gonna use something else from the past?
Shawn Michael: no I like the color and I got this new cowboys!
Personally I liked Zack’s gear but the left thigh joke hilarious 😭
Are we not gonna talk about how Ruby Riott also had the long half long tight/ trunks?
Ruby Riot is punk so the half tight half trunks fit her perfectly.
The fishnets and tattoos help the look. Fills in the negative space, but with that being said I like the half-trunk look anyway.
the brown pants are so overhated they aren’t even that bad
I used to love that Zack Ryder gear!
The commentary of Zack Ryder’s attire is gold! 😂😂😂😂😂
Rey looking like a teddy bear for a Match against Brock Lesnar 😂
"Little dutch boy haircut" I'm cackling
Ryder's look was interesting, though I have to wonder if it was meant to mirror Hawkins, as they were not far off from their days as the Edgeheads.
I've always wondered what the deal was with Shawn's vest.
he looks less like Joker in 2019 and more like Psycho Clown.
Adam talks about wrestlers who have a "so-so" look and the editor uses CESARO??? Built-out-of-granite Big Dick Tony definitely does NOT have a so-so look.
Can't believe Braun piss pants wasn't on here🤣🤣
I'd take Black Reign over The Artist Formerly Known as Goldust.... hell, i'd take Seven over The Artist Formerly Known as Goldust!
Mo me meow
In his snazzy binbag attire.
I really think if Dustin Rhodes was in the right head space and it good shape at the time i really think the Black Reign gimmick could have been pretty great and work it liked cool
But he said wwe attire black reign was tna attire
@@kraymermcvey1701 yes but what we are saying is we would take Black Reign over the artist formerly known as Goldust
Gosh you brutalized the word Navajo 😂😂
Nothing wrong with Zack's gear imo
Flash Funk. Bro, it was simply... horrible? 🤣🤣🤣
Annnd with the Mr Blobby reference that's enough internet for today... The image of Mr Blobby with Dusty's face is going to keep me awake at night.
I love Double J’s paper lantern garms
Love the stable reference in Rey's bit, Adam 😆😆
10:27 The singlet Ultimate Warrior wore for the _SummerSlam Spectacular_ special when teaming up with Macho Man vs. The Nasty Boys presaged Giant Gonzalez's bodysuit. The only reason I even remembered it is WWE's _Self-Destruction of the UW_ DVD drawing attention to it.
Max Moon is definitly missing on the list. Also I didn't like Lord Tensai - but that was more the gimmick as such and not just the outfit.
Ah see I loved Ryder's one legged tights
I guess Jeff Jarrett's suspenders were supposed to represent guitar strings.
I love the Zach ryder tights I thought that was so cool back in the day
Its sad mike shaw got treated like that :( hes a legend
as a kid zack ryder became my fav wrestler because of that gear, it was different and cool
1:22 Zack Ryder
2:31 Shawn Michaels
3:47 Rey Mysterio
4:59 Jeff Jarrett
6:06 Brutus Beefcake
7:16 Dusty Rhodes
8:25 T.A.F.K.A Goldust
9:50 Giant Gonzalez
10:57 Mantaur
12:06 Bastion Booger
Honorable mention: The Shockmaster.
When I first saw the TAFKA Goldust costume at 9:10 (it may have been a similar one) in a late-1998 Expert Gamer magazine at the end of their back-to-back articles for WCW/nWo Revenge and WWF War Zone; I thought that Dustin was actually trying to shoot on Wolfpac Sting...
Mantaur still wrestles! He's in Impact Wrestling & is apart of a group named Decay with Crazy Steve & Rosemary! He's actually looking better now than he ever did!
That’s not mantaur lol
Love your commentary 😂
As soon as you said Shawn Michaels, I knew brown pants would be coming up!
omg i'm dying. Dutch boy haircut lololol
I'm surprised Aldo Montoya the Portuguese Man-o-War isn't on this list as far as worst ring attire goes. His whole ring attire was atrocious the jockstrap mask was terrible
Took me YEARS to get the image of zach Ryder's half gear out of my mind thanks alot!
Might be in the minority but ..........
I liked ryders half pants and half trunks
I did too I remember I used to make it for my Created Wrestler in SvR 2011
Nice swerve. You almost lost me with the shawn michaels trunks. Because those were some of my all time favorites. The black with the red and silver hearts with his dirt bike boots that looked like sneakers. But i completely forgot about the brown with cowboy boots. Good one.
I feel like both Dusty and Dustin shouldn't be on the list. As silly as Dusty's polkadots were, he did manage to make them work. And as for Dustin, I feel like the bad attire was part of the gimmick so shouldn't count as a genuine bad outfit.
Hey. Dusty’s polka dots are iconic.
Raven lol that man was stripped all the way to his drawls wrestling before he was fired In 2003
the black and yellow polka dots never bothers me
Chelsea Green was wearing the Ryder half tights for a recent Cardona GCW match, so good
I loved Jeff Jarrett and WCW was my childhood, I have done my therapy but I still miss WCW
Funny how the half tights look terrible on Zack Ryder but perfect on Ruby Riott - the fact that her whole look has a chaotic asymmetrical theme to go with it as if, unlike Zack, she actually put thought into the decision to wear them probably helps.
If Breeze and Fandango were still here, they'd arrest these guys on the spot just for these attires.
God I miss that gimmick.
Imagine being expected to eat fatty foods and then immediately have to wrestle. I can just imagine the side-stitches.
Thanks for the shout out to saskatoon!
5:27 the look on the referee 🤣
Triple H's bicycle shorts phase from 2003 was pretty bad too.
It was to help heal an injury but yeah it was pretty bad 🤣
*Jarrett's outfit was a perfect fit for his talent and personality : HIDEOUS*
Zack Ryder wasn't the only one with that look. When WWE gave a tryout to former WCW tag team the Fantastics in 99- 2001 they faced each other. One of them wrestled with long trunks the same way which was missing a pant leg.
i stand both flabbergasted and corrected lol
Loving all the Lists you've been putting out lately. I especially love that they're all voiced by our glorious leader.
How can you forget Big Vito? I would also argue that Demolition's bdsm gear was pretty horrendous. Also, who can forget the time William Regal wrestled in what looked like a plus sized women's bathing suit.
CSB: I rememeber a small show about 20 years ago in Winnipeg. There were about 100 people there and one of the better talents on the show wore those half trunks half tights. I was puzzled. Bonus: There was a skinny kid in board shorts in a ladder match that night called Kenny Omega.
Zack Ryder's half tights were cool. Nobody said a word when Ruby Riott wore ones like them ...
Probably because it wasn’t tacky looking
Y’all weirdos
2 words - Rob Conway 😂😂😂
Obviously, these things are subjective, but I'll defend most of Beefcake's outfits. Not so much the ones at 6:24 or 6:43, the latter mostly because doing that sort of thing in Hogan's colors makes you look like a bleeding chicken, but I liked his overall look most of the time.
4:20 wow, I never thought of that 😂
The WWE will never have a more hilarious gimmick than Bastion Booger.
That moment you realize that "F***" is subliminally written in Goldust's face paint.
Great video, I don't agree at all with your Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake ring tights attire. Nor do I agree with the Dusty Rhodes "polka dot" criticism either. With both stars, their attire looked great. Slang: "Now ya done it Cultaholic." Ya made fun of Bastion Booger (Mike Shaw was also Norman The Lunatic). Not so much the costume, you're absolutely right on that. Lol! It was this one time where amongst his grossest stuff, he did the best one yet. He tried to blow bubbles in his pudding. I mean g** dang it. That's what I loved about the character, he was doing "Punk'd" level stuff before anyone caught on.
(Dis)Honorable Mentions: Rikishi, Max Moon The Ding Dongs (look them up if not familiar), The Shockmaster, Repoman, Rocky Miavia, the “Kool-Aid” version of Mark Henry, Asuka, Mable/Viscera (I swear Big Vis wore a giant trash bag), Perry Saturn in a minidress, Andre’s street clothes, and pretty much everything from the “New Generation” era.
*Note: Terry Funk’s tights deserve their very own video.
**Also, let’s not forget Hogan’s helmet.
Farooq’s Gladiator costume. Man O’ War, Fake Razor Ramon
It's funny that Dusty actually comes out wearing the black and yellow polka-dot outfit in the video game WWE 2K20 lol.
Totally wrong about Brutus. Beefcake's attire was one of the few things that was actually great about him. He was a male stripper who became a maniacal barber, so the look was the perfect evolution for him.
Zack Ryder outfit was lit you trippin
The polka dots are Dusty’s trademark tho it’s probably one of the most iconic things in classic wrestling history
My friends and I always said Zack's ring gear was what a singular pant would be
9:46 How dare you imply Cesaro is only so-so in the looks department? That man is an Adonis. Hell his first gimmick was 'handsome manifestation of manliness that the GM's girlfriend is having an affair with"
Right, he's got a great physique, but overall the look is kind of bland.