worst wrestling gimmicks of all time

[basquebromance]

i'll start with Damien Demento...he appeared in the 1st main event of RAW, in a losing effort to the Undertaker

The Booty Man played by Brutus Beefcake

Darren "Puke" Drozdov, whose gimmick was that he could puke whenever he wanted. ugh

Chris Kanyon as Mortis

The Berzerker character was meant to win the child audience. it alienated everyone else

The Master Blaster, a lame gimmick played by Kevin Nash

 

[basquebromance]

Rellik (Killer spelled backwards)

 

[Muhammed]

The Sheik.

Back in the 1970s he would bite his opponents. It was around when color TVs were the new thing and you could see the blood.

 

[JoeMoma]

The Sheik.

Back in the 1970s he would bite his opponents. It was around when color TVs were the new thing and you could see the blood.

I remember seeing the Wrestling Mags in stores when I was a kid in the 70s. The wrestlers would often have bloody faces (usually from razor cuts near the hair line for the purpose of bleeding). I also watched Mid-Atlantic Wrestling on Saturdays after the cartoons went off. There was no bleeding for the matches on TV. People had to go to the main events in person on Fridays to see the blood.

 

[basquebromance]

Kevin Thorne, a sci-fi inspired character

El Gigante, a failed Argentinian basketball player drafted by the Atlanta Hawks. WCW was in Atlanta, so they thought we might as well sign him

Glacier!

 

[braalian]

Never been a fan of the lucha libre masks. Wish they had stayed in Mexico

 

[basquebromance]

Major Stash aka Hammer liked to smoke weed!

Earthquake was known as The Shark Man in WCW

 

[basquebromance]

Never been a fan of the lucha libre masks. Wish they had stayed in Mexico

what about the masked Japanese folks? it's Al Snow as Avatar!

 

[braalian]

Eugene. His gimmick was literally that he was “special needs”

 

[basquebromance]

"The Dicks"

 

[braalian]

I guess you gotta dig deep when all the good gimmicks have already been taken

 

[basquebromance]

The Renegade! a gimmick created by Hulk Hogan as a ripoff to the Ultimate Warrior. Hogan was famously jealous of the Warrior and refused to lose to him in WCW, while losing to everyone else...he committed suicide in real life after being released from the company in 1998

 

[JoeMoma]

he committed suicide in real life after being released from the company in 1998

Suicide is a bad wrestling gimmick.

 

[basquebromance]

Suicide is a bad wrestling gimmick.

i said in real life he killed himself...get some new reading glasses will ya

 

[JoeMoma]

i said in real life he killed himself...get some new reading glasses will ya

I will as soon as you stop being a fag.

 

[Polishprince]

Eugene. His gimmick was literally that he was “special needs”

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There have been other developmentally challenged folks in wrestling, George the Animal Steele wasn't all there and neither was Norman the Lunatic

 

[Polishprince]

The Toxic Turtles were a tag team that only lasted one match in the WWF.

 

[lg325]

HulkHogan, Ultimate Warrior was all gimmick. Not a lot of moves in their matches just a lot of posing then one or two moves.
I have seen a lot of bad gimmicks over the decades. The Boogeyman comes to mind and when I was a kid an opening match wrestler dressed up as his low-rent version of Satan. It was awful but we kids were supposed to BOO! so we did.

 

[lg325]

Anyone remember this guy ? Quasimodo. Although he seen a lot of success in the prorasslin game. He Performed world wide.
I always even as a child I thought it was one of the worst gimmicks.

 

[braalian]

The Toxic Turtles were a tag team that only lasted one match in the WWF.

They probably got a cease and desist letter