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The fuck is this guy taking about? The whole Kane debut thing and backstory of him being Takers baby brother was amazing and fitted the attitude era perfectly, it's just a shame the WWE screwed it up (as usual) and fed him to Austin
Nah, it always sucked big time. To me, The Undertaker gimmick being altered a little bit and given to another wrestler was about as much fun as watching Bob "Good Golly, You Suck" Holly and Bart Gunn parading around as the "new" Midnight Express, or Tiger Ali Singh ripping off The Million Dollar Man. It was a time full of shitty recycled gimmicks.
no loud at all. I didn't even notice it the first time I watched and then I read your comment and started the video from the beginning and it sounded normal to me. have you tried turning down your volume?
Grimlock, totally agree with you. I still have no clue why WWE put the belt on him. I have never seen such a bland, boring spot monkey in my life. If Broken Matt had an old, lazy monkey in "his" animal sanctuary, I hope he'd call it the Artist Formerly Known as Suicide. Or maybe they can steal an old gimmick and call TJ "Justin Tolerable".
well, we know that WWE, aside from it being a sports entertainment company, it is also a marketing vessel. perhaps, they put the belt on TJ to expand their southeast asian market.
Ripping on a person for not being smug and British despite having a great topic for a list and not willing to give that person a chance ever? Yep it's official, you guys are wrestling fans alright.
His voice is awful to listen to, WC is all about British people and it should stay that way. It's the soul of this channel and all other WC channels. He tries way too hard to funny but fails miserably like Jack. It doesn't matter he has a great topic, everybody from WC could've done this, and better.
Well as stupid as dayjob-gimmicks are, Nailz story did make sense in that Bossman back when he was a heel was presented as a former prison guard who was known to beat up the prisoners for fun. So in a sense, his past sins came back to haunt him.
Let's be honest....Broken Matt Hardy has a shit backstory. He was "broken" by his brother Jeff in a last man standing match and, after being gone for a few months, came back with a blonde streak, a ugly coat and the WORST English accent ever. He claimed Jeff tried to end his career but seriously, Jeff's done crazier shit than what he actually did. Broken Matt then went on to chant about "the seven deities" and deletion. It is quite possibly one of the worst gimmicks ever. It is also one of the best gimmicks ever.
I think that Matt should've became "broken" after he suffered a "broken" Heart from Lita when she cheated on him then he could've DELETED! Edge and make him OBSOLETE!
Blacker Adam I thought he was broken after having to give up the tag titles wit Jeffs broken leg and he wanted to punish him, make Jeff broken too but to give him power to re capture he titles to pay his brother back- which they now have. But now, with their broken brilliance they are stronger and that way they shall remain, powerful and with a bond of brothers again so to speak.
LORD CHARLES Yes it wasn't in this top 10 because this is a list of "terrible" back stories as in stories that were stupid or didn't make much sense. MVP's backstory wouldn't have fit in. Did you even watch the video?
Personally it's just minor things that add up like "Sound off below" bothers me for a reason I don't understand, I don't like his voice or delivery, etc.
People on the internet, myself included, sometimes look for something to hate. Even if there's no reason to hate it. They *need* something to hate. "I HATE THE GOOGLE LOGO THAT CELEBRATED SIGMUND FREUD'S 200TH BIRTHDAY!" CAPS LOCK RAGE!
The only thing bad about Kane's backstory is when he took off his mask, his story was fine before then, even if a bit inconsistent/confusing. Had he not taken off his mask or rather, had WWE done a better story when he did take off his mask, then we wouldn't even be talking about Kane's story.
man I hate this comment section "he's an American so he shouldn't be allowed to do his job because of where he was born" "the British pronunciation is the only pronunciation dur hur"
Robert Harmon I hate Andrew and, as an American, I apologize for his terrible mid-west accent and even more horrible talking skills, along with his non-existent charisma.
Oh Paul Bearer (as Percy Pringle) gave the most comprehensively plausible and funny account of Undertaker and Kane's childhood in an interview with Cornette
All because some inbred fuckwads couldn't spell nuclear properly back during WWII, we now have an entire generation of retards that actually think nukular is a proper pronunciation. Idiocracy is real. Might as well start throwing feces at eachother.
Not only was Christoper Daniels Suicide, but so was Frankie Kaz too! Daniels was also Curryman (who should have made this list too, a guy with curry on his head?)
William Moody (Paul Bearer) has broke down Kane's back story in an interview. Kane is takers half brother who was born from an inappropriate relationship between a young Paul who was working at the funeral home and Mrs. Undertaker which Undertaker Jr. ( Mark Calaway) witnessed. 9 months after their affair baby Kane was born, taker jr started the fire in a jealous rage over the new babies attention from his parents. At least that's the rough version lol this was supposedly the story they had worked out.
0:45 "It would likely take a 500 page book and a couple of college courses to try and explain Kane's backstory in a satisfactory way." Except WWE already did. Back in 2005, WWE came out with the 300+ page fictional kayfabe biography of Kane entitled "Journey Into Darkness". I own it. It's actually a really good read and explains his origin perfectly. It talked about him growing up with his older brother Mark, the fire that killed his parents, his family's relationship with Paul Bearer, and it even gives the whole backstory on his relationship and death of his old girlfriend Katie.
With like 2 exceptions, you could've just put up a title card that says "just watch some early to mid 90s WWF (dumb gimmicks persisted in WCW til the end)" Max Moon, Damien Dimento, Skinner (who's gimmick was that he was from the Everglades or something)' the Berzerker, the Lumberjack, Rad Radford (aka the grunge gimmick from 2 years after Kurt Cobain died) Papa Shango, the IRS (actually those last 2 worked surprisingly well).
In the spirit of Suicide (not as depressing as it sounds), there was also Sub-Zero and Mantis in WCW in 1995. WCW management wanted to capitalise on the success and controversy surrounding Mortal Kombat and decided on having two of their lower card guys dress up as two of the most popular fighters from the game. There was no backstory to them, and they had the most ridiculous entrances ever. What made it even more ridiculous was when when Ernest "The Cat" Miller came out dressed up as Scorpion later on. Yes, "The Cat". Wow, inspired story writing there.
Here's one for you guys. My friends and I used to backyard wrestle when we were all in middle school. I stopped to focus on my martial arts, but my friends continued on. Anyway, there was one kid that joined up with them, wore a mask joined a group called Gothic Era (think of it as Wyatt Family, but without talent). His name was Minyon. All well and good except, he was supposed to be a robot.... a grunting, groaning, gasping, fluid-motion, punch-selling robot. I don't think they ever did explain WHO put the robot together. I can only assume he was the prototype android 1 for Dr. Gero in DBZ.
Zeus was playing the character in the film, and he was mad at Hulk Hogan for beating him, except Hulk Hogan wasn't playing Hulk Hogan in that film, he was Rip Thomas. THE KAYFABE IS SHATTERING!
Re the KISS Demon: I'm still waiting for other old metal bands, like the Y&T Demon, or the Cinderella Demon, or the ultimate one: Armored Saint, which would have been a legitimately cool name.
Good write up kinda wish you mentioned a few things for the #1 entry. First the TNA game had been in development for years and was still half baked. Second when suicide debuted it was looonnngggg after the games release so no one was really buzzing about it anymore. Also I’m surprised you didn’t mention the “Real” double J Jesse James in the Jeff Jarrett piece
