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Sunday, March 25, 2001
The rumored gimmick battle royal at Wrestlemania next week will be amazing if it comes off, attracting the attention of anyone who's had even a passing interest in professional wrestling over the past 20 years. Imagine a current match featuring Sgt. Slaughter, "PS" Michael Hayes, the Iron Shiek, Nikolai Volkoff, the Gobbeldy Gooker, The Bushwackers, and Doink the Clown. It might not be a spotfest or a non-stop brawl, but the nostalgia factor would be incredible. As I was watching one of my many old WWF tapes tonight, I was reminded of one incredibly bad wrestler gimmick: Tugboat. This large man was marketed as being big as a Tugboat and they stuck him in a striped sailor's outfit. I understand that the fantasy element of old-school wrestling had its place, but man was this a weak gimmick. Sure this might not be as big of news as the WWF purchasing WCW, but it makes for just as interesting of a discussion. So come on out, you closet (and out-of-the-closet) wrestling fans... what wrestling gimmicks were the lamest of all-time? (Matt, I expect an essay from you!) -ram Comments
FROM: liz
DATE: Sunday March 25, 2001 -- 4:47:24AM what about hulk hogan!! no pro ultimate matchup would be ok without him. FROM: Paul DATE: Sunday March 25, 2001 -- 11:29:53AM I think the whole thing with Zeus back when No Holds Barred came out was pretty lame. I did see the movie, of course, and it was just as bad, if not worse. FROM: Robert DATE: Sunday March 25, 2001 -- 2:57:19PM Lame gimmicks? Are you familiar with a little place called WrestleCrap.com? FROM: Ryan DATE: Sunday March 25, 2001 -- 5:32:06PM I forgot about WrestleCrap... FROM: Aaron DATE: Sunday March 25, 2001 -- 5:33:16PM What about Jimmy "superfly" Snooka? FROM: Matt Wright DATE: Sunday March 25, 2001 -- 5:46:03PM There are three sites that point fun of wrestling, and it's not as easily forgetable past. Like Robert said you have www.wrestlecrap.com, then there is also it's predecessor Xavier Doom's Slayground, and Scoopthis.com. For the web address of Xavier Doom, head to www.ddtdigest.com and check out their links pages. FROM: Old Fezziwig DATE: Monday March 26, 2001 -- 1:33:51PM For anyone that watches The Man Show, you may remember the episode where Jimmy & Adam go to wrestling school and take on the personas of The Caligrapher and Ostrich Sack. FROM: Robert DATE: Monday March 26, 2001 -- 1:54:27PM Fezz--Those were GOOD gimmicks. Too bad they never saw a real ring. FROM: TIMOTHY ADAM ABAD DATE: Friday May 18, 2001 -- 4:22:45PM REPO MAN WAS THE GREATEST WRESTLER OF ALL TIME. HE WILL ONE DAY RETURN TO THE RING AND DEFEAT ALL THE LOSERS IN THE WWF. FROM: Matt DATE: Wednesday May 23, 2001 -- 5:56:16PM Greg Valentine--greatest villian ever. By the way, the Repo Man was much cooler when he was in Demolition. It was just cool to see him get another gimmick after Demolition stopped being cool. FROM: Matt DATE: Wednesday May 23, 2001 -- 5:59:35PM Greg Valentine--greatest villian ever. By the way, the Repo Man was much cooler when he was in Demolition. It was just cool to see him get another gimmick after Demolition stopped being cool. FROM: hhh DATE: Saturday August 18, 2001 -- 10:42:34AM hey what about the FAKE undertaker FROM: jones DATE: Monday December 3, 2001 -- 10:39:00PM Brian Lee was the fake undertaker. Anyone ever notice at the 1990 survivor series, brother love announced the undertaker as "kane the undertaker" FROM: DATE: Thursday December 12, 2002 -- 2:49:17 pm i think the best gimmic of alltime was the bushwackers FROM: mike DATE: Sunday January 19, 2003 -- 2:20:47 pm Shockmaster, The Juicer, Ace Dagger FROM: dion DATE: Tuesday March 4, 2003 -- 9:03:33 pm worst gimmck ever? FROM: Ryan DATE: Wednesday April 9, 2003 -- 1:07:17 pm Clearly the greatest/ worst gimmick ever was the RED ROOSTER. This guy could have been a nasty wrestler. He had the talent, the looks, and the charisma. But leave it to Vince McMahon to ruin a good thing. I nominate the RED ROOSTER as the worst gimmick in wrestling history FROM: tobias lane DATE: Wednesday April 9, 2003 -- 3:51:56 pm The greatest or worst gimmick of all time has to be Doink. C'mon didn't anyone ever see Killer Klownz from Outer Space. FROM: Saibot Enal DATE: Saturday April 12, 2003 -- 3:32:39 pm The worst gimmick was the Shockmaster. The guy trips and falls and loses his helmet at the same time. Then puts his helmet back. Is that beliveable or not. Doink was good. But the shockmaster is terrible. FROM: Krow Hampton [E-Mail] DATE: Saturday April 26, 2003 -- 11:27:12 am Loch Ness- fat bloke from WCW FROM: Krow Hampton [E-Mail] DATE: Saturday April 26, 2003 -- 11:31:27 am Red Rooster FROM: Dave Walls DATE: Saturday April 26, 2003 -- 1:51:58 pm I was never a fan of the WCW Tag Team PG-13. Two skinny white boys, thought they were rappers, and carried..hub caps?? The sad thing is, if you saw them in the indie, they werent bad wrestlers. FROM: gracie DATE: Friday May 2, 2003 -- 10:27:12 am anyone heard of Bugsy McGraw, Dr. Red Roberts, or are they just local boys? FROM: damien (not demento) DATE: Friday June 20, 2003 -- 4:46:11 pm well, virgil sucked so much it was unbelieveable - was he related to SD jones or something? FROM: steven dunn DATE: Friday July 4, 2003 -- 9:18:20 pm if anyone is still talking about any gimmick,how could it be bad?by the way,i hated it too.but,the bank loved it.i welcome all response. FROM: Troy Lowe DATE: Wednesday December 3, 2003 -- 10:28:31 am Sure, there are a lot of really bad gimmicks, but it can sometimes bring the best out of a wrestler. Mick Foley had been over for years, but , after a slow start, his Mankind gimmick put him way over, so much so that we could accept even a gimmick as goofy as Dude Love from him(I know, I know, it was supposed to suck, but I digresss...). FROM: J-Mar DATE: Monday January 12, 2004 -- 7:52:12 pm Steve Dunn, if that's really you, the bank may have liked Well Dunn back then, but did the bank like it so much last February when you were wrestling at the Chetser County Highschool Gym? Then Jerry Lawler came out and knocked the mess out of you...Heck, I'm just a college student, a 5'7" college student at that, and the promoter asked ME if I wanted to wrestle for him sometime... FROM: Mike Hennessey DATE: Thursday January 29, 2004 -- 6:51:53 pm There has been alot of bad gimmicks . The ones I remember the most one is rikishi rapping and that bright ass jacket he use to sport, that was really gay. WWF tag teams: Well Dunn the colors and and that g-string on top of the regular tights was a killer to see, truely homo. Lodi and Lenny lane aka the West Hollywood blondes, Then there is Billy and Chuck man this would be a fued for the gay community. Survivor series when Shawn Michaels took place for Jerry Lawler and had the Knights of the Round Table as tag partners another bad gimmick. El Gigante that suit with the patch furr over the private part. Men at Work , Mark Starr and Chris Kanyon that just screamed Village people. Vicera I have no idea why they kept this fat fuck around he had like three moves Punch, Kick, Splash. There are so many bad wrestling gimmicks that failed but are remembered by true wrestling fans, that's what makes the business interesting to watch and sometimes laugh and cringe at times. Well I think this would be fun angle for a one time John Cena and Akeem the African Dream tag teaming coming out to slick's old music. FROM: The Franchise DATE: Tuesday September 14, 2004 -- 8:07:35 pm I have a lot of Favs of old school the best I like is Waylon Mercy and there is some that have grown from jobbers to huge stars that I can't stand, that would be The Hardy Jobbers and Suckkind and John Cena. FROM: Shayne DATE: Tuesday September 14, 2004 -- 8:10:21 pm FAV salvatore sincere and WORST the man that copied sals finishing move The Rock, The Sincerely Yours came before The Rock Bottom, remember that FROM: B.B.O DATE: Sunday October 31, 2004 -- 12:24:12 pm FROM: B.B.O. [E-Mail] DATE: Sunday October 31, 2004 -- 12:26:15 pm go to my site if u like the wrestler repo man. its hilarious. leave somethin in the repo guestbook or ill kick ya leg out ya leg FROM: B.B.O DATE: Sunday October 31, 2004 -- 12:27:04 pm so it didnt post my site, its www.repomen.tk FROM: Superman DATE: Monday December 6, 2004 -- 10:46:29 pm there were so many bad gimmicks. repo man, what's the point? same with gobbledy gooker, hector guerrero must really needed work. that was worst than his lasertron gimmick. the yeti trying to bearhug hogan. looked like he was trying to hump him. billy kidman with what appears to be crabs. take a bath. akeem the african dream. glacier a slow ninja, savio as kwang, a fat ninja. red rooster. hacksaw jim duggan, he couldn't wrestle his way out of a wet paper bag. shock master, all of brutus beefcake's gimmicks except the barber, all of dungeon of doom, right to censor, the most annoying music ever followed be christian's. it's so many that i can't name them all right now. FROM: david DATE: Monday March 28, 2005 -- 11:37:00 am does any one know were i can find out info on marchman randy savitch? FROM: Dave Walls [E-Mail] DATE: Monday March 28, 2005 -- 1:31:09 pm Man, when "Randy" is the only part of the name you get right, you need more help than any website can give you. FROM: LJ DATE: Sunday May 22, 2005 -- 6:09:13 pm my comments FROM: Hulk Rules DATE: Friday July 22, 2005 -- 12:12:25 am The worst gimmicks ever are: FROM: Hulk Rules DATE: Friday July 22, 2005 -- 12:30:16 am Additional Comments: FROM: josh mason DATE: Thursday February 2, 2006 -- 3:45:44 pm i hate hulk he trys to come back every year and quits because he cant take over vinces WWE FROM: JEM, a Diamond in the Rough DATE: Monday June 5, 2006 -- 1:11:20 am A lot of people have suffered from horrible gimmicks, but lets also not forget the greatest Indy wrestler of all time, the one and only Straight-Edge King, CM Punk, who was forced, by the WWE none-the-less, into changing his gimmick into something that made no damned sense, which was unnecessary, as well as being made to drop his finisher, the Pepsi Plunge and covering up tattoos. All of this is totally uncalled for, I mean really, who wouldn't have loved to see someone get a Pedigree from the top turnbuckle? The WWE has some great gimmicks, and no one can take that away from them, but they have also made us all suffer through the past years by taking some of our Indy favs and turning them into punk ass sell outs. I think it is time for us all as fans to stand up and say that we just won't accept shotty gimmicks anymore. If it sucks, let the company responsible no it, and this DOES include TNA, as well as some mid sized Indy feds. I mean, really, should we as fans be accepting WEW's (Women's Extreme Wrestling) so called chairman? A guy who runs around, uses the same quotes that the Rock made famous, the same moves, every one of them in fact, but somehow feels he is doing something right by changing his name to "The Smoke"...is this really necessary? We have had one Rock character...let's not be forced to suffer through another, shittier version of him...please.
From: ben canary
Giant Machine.......Andre
Skinner.....croc hunter Did Tito Santana ever wrestle Mantaur when he was the elmatador? Dude Love... Roadblock rochester!
From: joseph gonzalez
Here are my worst gimmicks ever. wcw beat the crap out of the wwf/wwe when it came to bad gimmicks. The only thing they did better than the wwf/wwe lol. They are:
.Gobbly gooker probibly the biggest what the f**k were you thinking moment in wrestling hystory ! Poor hector gurerro .Dan arquette as a wrestler: arguibly the second or third biggest what the f**k moment were you thinking moment in wrestling history (Vince getting car bombed is one or two). Worst champion ever. At least vince had carisma .Mantaur a guy in a bulls mask, why ????? .Repo man .Tug boat: this one was bad but he managed to do one even worse and it was.... . THE SHOCKMASTER LOL ARE YOU KIDDING ME !!!! This guy wore a cape and had a spray painted storm tropper helmet. After the falling through the wall incident the helmet fell off of and it was the one and only tug boat from his wwf days that same night he had the nerve to talk to his opponets and try to make himself seem tough, again are you kidding me ? .The ring master: in his biography he said that before he became stone cold steve austin vince was thinking about naming him the ice dagger true story lol .repo man .Duke the dumpster: thank god jerry lawler ended that mistake . The yetti: this guy looked like he was wrapped up in tissue paper.that match with hogan when he tried to bear hug him but it made it seemed like he was humping him gave me nightmares for a week .issac yakeem lol .fake diessel and razor .billy and chuck: they should go back in time and fight the hollywood blonds, that would be the gayest match in hystory. This would be a funny match. .Mr america: what was hogan thinking .The oddities .mr boring lance storm .The good doink the clown .aracnoman: why did wcw make a fake spiderman that tried to pass of that silly string he shot out of his arms as webs lol ! .Max moon: he came with a jet pack .giant gonzalez .alex wright: just pure gayness .glashier: fake sub zero. This guy just sucked period .the tag team the american males: add these two with billy and chuck and the hollywood blondes and have a triple threat match .gi bro: poor booker t. He must have stolen the bosses lunch or something and they punnished him by doing this. .big poppa pump scott stinner: this guy could barley move around the ring Sorry if this list is so long by the way .the real mans man william regal .the ding dongs .the head bangers .the baiston booger lol just plain afull .forooq when he had that goffey head gear .disco inferno: him dancing with alex wright and that japanesse guy was funny .THE GOON ! They painted his boots to make it seem like he had on ice skates lol .haku, fatu ... damm rakishi had a lot of crappy gimmicks .al snow with head: that manikan head he carried creeped me out. What does everybody want........ .the spirit squad. Why they stayed together for that long is byond me .irs .fake undertaker .brutis the barber and all the other gimmicks he did .dr death steve williams: had no talent .chainsaw charllie .bill goldberg: who's next my @ss. this guy faught so many creampuffs during his streak and he had no in ring ability and was horrible on the mic. He took so long to get to the ring and I'm surprised he didn't beat him self up before he got there. And he basicly ended bret hearts carrer when he injured him. Man I hate goldberg. The sad thing is gillberg the pairody version of him lasted longer in the wwe lol ! Who's first ! .the sultan again rakishi, damm .The truth commision .los baricuas: I'm purtorican and I even couldn't stand these guys .marvolus mark mero: if you wanna fall asleep quickly have him wrestle lance storm. unlike the wildman gimmick he had no carisma at all. at least he had sable .almost any angle with the divas: I'm sorry but a lot of these divas can wrestle for crap these days .scorpion sting: he was better as young sting .randy orton when he had that concussion which mysteriously vanished ... come on .china: who wants to see a man beast protray him self as a woman .Loc ness: three words... L O L .Crush .the stulker Long list isn't it . Sexual chocolate mark henry: when he admitted to having sex with his sister that did it with me when it came to him. Also that crap with may young when mark henry got her pregnant with the hand ! This is in my top 20 what the f**k were you thinking moments .hack saw jim duggan: HOOOOOOOOOO! .maven. ewww no talent at all .the blue mennie: just plain stupenity .The evil godwins .naked mideon: ewwwwwwww ! .steve blackman: dream match. him against glashier (sarcastic weeeeee) . Perry saturn when he had those cow prints on his wrestling tights .the real double j jessie james: how hilmiliating .and of course who could forget the imortal rocabilly! the wwe was acually trying to sign disco inferno so he could play this part but it failed so poor billy gun had to be the sacrifiscial lamb. Even more hulmilliating than the real double j. Of course sometimes two wrongs do make a right and these two became the new age outlaws
From: James
ok guys what about:
the moondogs? they look like zztop and to tag it was permitable for them simply to hop where they were. the Mulkeys? the midnight rockers? LASERTRON? i need a picture ..the internet dont seem to have one vampiro- i hate him..hes a cement head ey? the king harley race. iron mike sharpe and his "armbrace" the powers of pain! (roadwarriors ripoff for wwf) the taskmaster the honky tonk man the new breed stinky jimmy garvin and precious remember when rick steiner was retarded? the goombas? i think that was their name.. one was called johnny the bull the big boss man DOOM men on a mission the genius leaping lanny poffo with is poetry and frisbees adrian adonis' cross dressing act © 2009 The Daily Ping, all rights reserved. We are not responsible for the content of any comments on our site. We are also not responsible, in general, so it's all good. |
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