It was fucked already, but people seem to forget that part. They had not had any significant angle in years, they were a revolving door of various people, all of their significant talent had been taken from them, and they hadn't shown any ability to make new stars. The final months of ECW was utter shit, and not just because of "The Network" holding them back.
To be fair WCW didn’t really know how to push Raven either. His mic skills and wrestling ability should have had him as an upper midcarder but instead he was squashed by Goldberg, lost his stable, and floundered until finally getting his release. And Taz had several recurring injuries that kept him from staying on the active roster.
Tristan Aultman Kenny Shitter? Really? That's the best insult you got? I take it I'm dealing with a edgy 14 year old. Don't you have some tide pods to eat?
Without Raven, WCW would have started losing the ratings war in 97.... The NWO was rapidly becoming boring and obsolete in 97, The Flock was the hottest new stable
Y'all should rename this: 10 awesome gimmicks Vince didn't create and thus would have NEVER pushed. Seriously, unless he's responsible for it or the person has the RIGHT family connections/body type then Vince will NEVER PUSH IT.
And Stone Cold started WWF as Stunning Steve Austin. Stone Cold is the sole example of Vince caving and allowing somebody to use a gimmick from another company and still get over.
You got it exactly right. Theres too many examples of that to list here, and they could have inifinite videos of gimmicks that were great til Vince got involved with it.
Not everyone from NXT has made the main roster on RAW or Smackdown y'know? Velveteen Dream doesn't have to go nor might go there, when is time in NXT is over.
The way DDP was handled still pisses me off to this day. Having him be revealed as the stalker made no sense. He was revealed as such in my hometown just to rub salt in the wound.
That bs story was my first exposure to DDP as a kid n it still pisses me off... Even as a child I thought that was some stupid shit even though I didn't know DDP before it
@@matthewcarpenter6202 It sucks that this stalker bullshit was your 1st time seeing DDP when you were a kid. Thankfully, I got to see him in the mid-'90s in WCW and he was much more enjoyable to watch in those days.
@@marcus813 oh i know I grew to love wrestling more n more growing up n watched some of ddp's matches n promos in wcw n I have more respect for him than almost any other legend
Seriously, people vastly overrate the whole situation about Goldberg's first WWE run. He still got to look pretty dominant whilst remaining enough of a sympathetic figure. In my opinion, WWE did the right thing by making him lose to HHH first, then beating him the second time, which made his triumph even bigger in hindsight. The only reason people complain about that run is that he didn't squash HHH in 2 minutes with the Spear and Jackhammer. Trust me, if WWE went that route, he would have been booed massively, even to Roman Reigns levels. Don't believe me? Have a good look at his second run one more time. Supposedly the run where he was treated exactly how the fans wanted but instead it backfired. People started to jeer him after he won the Universal title to the point when Brock would suplex him, fans would jump out of their seats and count along, all the while booing Goldberg when he got his offence in at Wrestlemania 33.
Donathan Scott Unfortunately I wasn't alive when Taz was in his prime, but my uncle had a vhs tape of ECW, I saw it, and he was awesome. That tape had alot of amazing matches, ECW was really good back then.
Did you see the shoot Paul Heyman did about the WWE? He mentioned how Taz was essentially a force to be reckoned with & they have him during commentary. It was on SmackDown long ago
He’s actually the first person I thought of when I saw the title. Hopefully this new run in 2019 will be different, but WWE never knew what to do with Bray.
Did you honestly use the words Charisma in high supply to describe Lex Lurger. The man never had much of any charisma. You can say WWE never used him right. But how much better did he fair when he went back to WCW. The most charisma he had was his ability to make his promo's entertaining threw the fact he would stumble and bumble his way threw them espiecally his famous Super Brawl promo.
not you why the fuck do you have to be so mean? O m an why are you so insecure that you have to lash out???? Are you trying to be cool? Fuck son, you need therapy, go see your elementary school principal and therapist, at this rate you will work on the steel mill and be sad at thirty
Paul Burchills “pirate gimmick” (or just Paul Burchill in general), The Hurricane/Gregory Helms, Ron Simmons in the nation, practically anybody from WCW and ECW because WWE is petty, Dolph Ziggler, Mr Perfect, R Truth (screw you whatculture), Jerry Lawler (WWE should’ve done more with him in my opinion, plus Jerry Lawler as a heel= gold), Vader, Jake Roberts, RVD (I’m keeping him separate from the WCW/ECW crowd because he could’ve been a star in 2001/02 when he was feuding with the likes of Austin and Rock... until he got fed to HHH), Goldust, The Ascension, 90% Of The NXT talent, Davey Boy Smith, Harry Smith, Joe Hennig (Curtis Axel) just to name a few
I kinda fell out of wrestling a couple years back. At that time Broken Matt Hardy was creating the biggest buzz in wrestling and a Broken Matt - Bray Wyatt feud was a common dream feud that was talked about. Fast forward about two years later I decided to watch the Raw 25th anniversary show with my nephew, and I see Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt in a little five minute throwaway match in front of a silent crowd that looked like they couldn't give any less of a shit about the two guys in the ring. Just goes to show how out of touch WWE is, and has been for years now
So after nearly 20 years, WWE still felt humiliated that WCW got better ratings than they did for a couple of years, so they brought over Sting just so they could take out their repressed rage on him? Yeah. Sad to say, that actually makes a lot of sense to me.
You're not even gonna mention that they salvaged "Woken" Matt Hardy when they got the rights to the Broken Universe? Or that through Matt, Bray Wyatt's gimmick was all but revitalized? C'mon, at least mention THAT in your intro. Or are you just going to focus on the negatives?
There is nothing but negatives with Matt Hardy. Bray absolutely has not been revitalized, unfortunately. They don't have the rights to the Broken universe. Matt does.
Most of these entries aren't gimmicks the wwe didn't know how to use, they're just underused talent. These lists are getting crappier at the moment unfortunately
Michael Goodwin You're quite right, I was immediately irritated by Gail Kim, which made no sense at all but your point is spot on regarding some of them.
Wait I thought these were like GIMMICK gimmicks, why is Gail Kim and lex lugor on this list? (Haven't gone further) is this just an excuse to post another "10 superstars wwe didn't book properly?"
I’m going to come out and say it. Legend killer Randy Orton. The fact that he got over was on him alone. It really seemed like WWE tried to kill his push at ever chance they got, from letting triple h take the championship from him immediately, to not having him end the streak (though apparently that was on him), go to not having him win his first wwe championship on his own, and all the way to having Hulk Hogan refuse to lose to him. Its an absolute miracle the legend killer gimmick wasnt killed.
Gail made her WWE debut in women battle royal match and left WWE in women battle royal match. I hope or want her to return back in WWE I love Gail Kim and miss her.
The Boondocks WWE dropped the ball on her TWICE they pissed me off completely with that. Like how do they have the world best female wreslter (at the time) who made the knockouts division an actually selling point, and completely fuck her over.
Wwe can’t handle any gimmicks from NXT because they don’t have creative minds writing for wwe anymore. Literally all NXT call ups are either buried or loose all the momentum they had in NXT. If I was in NXT I would never want to be called up to main roster because I would feel my career would be in jeopardy
To be fair to Tazz, as much as I really liked his gimmick as being virtually unstoppable man (and my personal favorite ECW guy), one could say that he had a lot of injuries that put his health into question, hence the transition to commentator, and a damn good one at that
Psycho Sid should be on this list. In WCW as Sid Vicious “The Man Who Rules The World” he played an excellent heel that was as ruthless as his name implied. He came to WWF as Sid Justice in a babyface role before a heel turn, and not a very good one. His character was not a psychopath, but more of a comic relief in horrible matches.
Maybe a few years for now Bayley sitting in the corner of a ring comparing her career to Sasha, Becky, Charlotte and others. 'What about me. What about Bayley'
WWE has a long history of burying and destroying the careers of wrestlers that aren't viewed as being WWE native. The WCW stars, the ECW stars, TNA guys, wrestlers coming from Mexico etc. Although there are indeed a small number of exceptions, for the most part going to the WWE if you made your name elsewhere has been the kiss of death one too many times.
At least Hardys and Wyatt's feud paid off in the Ultimate Deletion and they are arguably the best Tag Team around on RAW now. Given a proper feud there is greatness yet to come.
Lex Luger worked for the WBF because Vince couldn't legally hire him to the WWF thanks to his non-compete clause. But since the WBF wasn't a wrestling federation, the way was clear. So he sat around for almost a year touting ICO-PRO before actually getting to do anything in the ring.
Gail Kim's contract didn't run out , she asked for her release and literally walked out of a battle royal match she got so fed up. It was joked about for months after it since she literally eliminated herself and walked to the back lol.
Yep , its a video from August 1st , 2011. In it Kim isn't even touched barely and she basically rolls out under the ring rope and says f---k it since the women at the time were terrible. Even the announcers called the Diva's battle royal a trainwreck to watch.
Raven Was The Best On The Mic No Doubts About It That was the first wrestling toy my pops bought me when he started the collection fuck anybody who thinks anything else of the man he gave his body to wrestling not to mention the guy in an actual fucking genius Very happy y'all mentioned him Also held the hardcore title (not that it means anything to WWE) more than anybody a hall of fame induction would be very far fetched but it would be a dream
I'll point out that Vader did make a bit of a comeback after losing on PPV to Shawn and later Sid. A win over Undertaker at Royal Rumble '97 and then the awesome Final Four match in Feb.. I wish that match had given Vader more momentum given how he fought on with such a bloodied faced. This was actually just before the Bret-Austin match where Austin's bloodied face helped get him over. It occurred to me that the Final Four match was almost a "Mount Rushmore of Wrestling" match or at least many would pick Bret, Steve and 'Taker. But I thought Vader looked equally great in that match.
I may be the only one that liked Goldberg's first wwe run. The whole squash match thing got old in wcw and wouldn't have lasted long in wwe. On that note, him getting cheated at elimination chamber was the right move. It built heat and made it all the better when he beat Triple H 1-on-1
If this video were actually talking about gimmicks instead of just people that WWE has misused, you should have had Sean O'Haire's devil's advocate gimmick on the list. Those vignettes leading up to his reintroduction were SO compelling, then he just... did nothing.
raven, aj styles, christopher danials and the team of americas most wanted made me fall in love with tna in its early staged back in 2003 over a decade lated a lot has changed lol
In fairness, I think some things just work better when they can play to a niche audience and don't really work on the big stage where they have to have broader appeal. Same reason not every band is an arena act and every movie isn't a blockbuster.
Vader was 1 of my dads favs...along with flair...arn anderson...tully blanchard...pretty much every horseman...from the nwa days...he was a fan of heels...i can remember how dominate vader was in early 90s wcw...he is why dad kept watching when flair went to wwf(we didnt get the channel wwf was on...only nwa/wcw)...i would cheer for sting and would root for vader and if memory serves...vader came out on top more than sting in that huge fued...and it worked...my dad was happy i wasnt but was ready to see sting get his payback...wwe shoulda at least gave vader a chance with the title...they shoulda saw what wcw...new japan and a bunch of other major promotions at the time saw
I remember watching Kevin Nash tripping and yelling about his leg in a match, the week before McMahon disbanded the nwo in that monologue. You knew they were done, it was weird; also Scott Hall's sole of his boot ripped apart in another match at the time, it was mega distracting.
I'm pretty sure a number of these weren't actually wwe not knowing what to do with them, but rather burying high rated talent from their biggest competitors to basically say "he may have been a big deal over there, but compared to our guys he's just a small fish."
