Beaver cleavage gotta be up there. Thay was one of the worst pieces of trash that russo ever came up with and i felt so bad for Mosh from the headbangers having to portray it and the funny thing is russo still thinks it was great 😂😂
The Worst part about the Funkasaurus gimmick was for months they'd built up Brodus Clay as this monster heel and then when he finally debuted it was so confusing to see how the build for his arrival came to a freakin dancing gimmick😂 and its a danm travesty how he of all ppl became NWA champion
and in becoming NWA world champ. he completely destroyed whatever momentum and cred the company had as it would worsen until he dropped the title but.... NWA would do something even stupider that would cost them a tv deal.
Sorry but im a minority here but Pirate Burchill was really an awesome gimmick. Disney ruined it because they think wwe are stealing jack sparrows char. 😂
Dark Alexa was entertaining to watch at first. Her facial expressions and line delivery was great and the story of her becoming brainwashed by The Fiend and becoming his pet was a great wrestler manager pairing. Reminded me a lot of Joker and Harley. However Vince ruined a compelling angle as usual as giving her supernatural powers and overshadowing The Fiend.
I agree the supernatural stuff during matches made it look really fake I hated when the fiend did it too. Ik I'm supposed to suspend my disbelief but that was way too much. The wyatt family worked because they didn't have magical powers besides turning the lights off Ig, they were just big scary men in a cult. Putting a sheep mask on Rowan and Strowman was brilliant from Bray it made them look more disturbing. Alexa should have been an unstable psychopath not magical girl. The doll while it did sell a shit tonne of merch, certainly didn't add to the creepy element of her character, if it looked something like Annabelle it would have but whatever vince came up with did not. I'm skeptical about the new wyatt 6 faction I fear they will go overboard with the magical powers bs and stain bray's legacy.
Here's my list 10. The Spirit Squad 9. Lance Storm: Dancing Gimmick 8. Simon Dean 7. Shad Gaspard: Brooklyn Beast 6. Chad Gable: Shorty G 5. Paul Burchill: Incest Gimmick 4. Chavo Guerrero: Kerwin White 3. The Dicks 2. Baron Corbin: Constable Corbin 1. Brodus Clay: The Funkasaurus Dishonorable Mentions 1. Daniel Bryan: Wyatt Family Member 2. Big Show: Authority Heavy 3. Karrion Kross: 2021 Main Roster Gimmick 4. Headbanger Mosh: Beaver Cleavage & Chaz 5. Val Venis: Chief Morley
6:17 Apparently a key reason Mordecai disappeared suddenly was that Vince simply lost interest after initially being very excited about this mirror Undertaker. It's a shame they couldn't train him up for a fun gimmick match such as Buried Alive.
Pritchard said on his podcast years ago it's because Kevin Thorne got into his head that he had to work like the undertaker but not like the undertaker from that era but like the old school early 90s undertaker so the matches in the ring were very slow paced and not great and they just thought nah it ain't gonna work
Simon Dean was a quality jabroni. Often got loud “Simon sucks” Chants. The spirit squad too were what they were and didn’t outlast their welcome. Kerwin White I reckon would be better looking back at. I thought it very cheap at the time, but seeing the footage back of Chavo pulling all these ‘middle class conservative’ cliches was amusing. Otherwise I can’t disagree with your list. What the hell were they thinking with making Albert Lord Tensai?!!! And doing a mist/iron claw…. Dogshit!
Alot of rhe gimmicks are apart of the times.they are not dumb as they mocked what ppl were into then.looking at ut from modern sense looks bad but other times its not
Alexa Bliss should return as the Goddess I know she would want to pay her respects to Bray but maybe do it while being a more improved version or reviving the character because dark Bliss isn't working
Lord Tensai had possibilities if they had done it right, Don't pretend Tensai wasn't Albert but just explain that after spending time in Japan he decided to embrace Japanese culture instead decadent weak Americaism
They literally said on his debut "he is a former WWE superstar who has spent time in Japan" At no point did they claim he was either new or Japanese. In fact, on the website they flat out stated he was Albert.
@@DMS-pq8 They literally said "he had been to Japan and now has come back" Obviously the live crowd did not hear this, and wrestling fans being the usual idiots that they are had to try and get themselves over by singing "Albert" because "LOL we so smart"
Most of these characters could've worked with the right booking, and plus sometimes you need goofy characters in wrestling, you can't have everyone relatable
I actually liked Mordecai back in the day. He had a good look, cool theme song and I just knew he'd face The Undertaker eventually. I was also looking forward to that Eddie Guerrero feud he teased on Smackdown but he disappeared a few weeks later.
Lord Tensai could have been a good mid-carder or something. But they presented him as somebody that the fans did not know, I think a few video packages of him getting special training in New Japan or something might have worked.
Mordecai, Simon Dean, Kerwin White, and Spirit Squad were all really good gimmicks Kerwin White was hilarious, and Spirit Squad were really entertaining. And Mordecai looked great and should’ve had a feud with Taker. The ECW Zombie doesn’t really count, as that was just a one time thing for Sci-fi. The worst gimmicks of the 21st Century in WWE are Eugene (How didn’t this get on the list, the worst gimmick ever) Pirate Paul Burchill The Boogeyman (This should’ve made the list) Jessie and Festus Deuce and Domino Kizarny Hornswoggle Lord Tensai Dancing Brodus Clay Fandango Primo and Epico as Los Matadores Spooky Alexa Bliss NiKki ASH (Superhero NiKki Cross) Retribution Mad Max BDSM version of Karrion Kross (when Karrion Kross originally debuted on the main roster Vince gave him a BDSM style mask).
The Boogeyman was on another recent list and I got loads of people saying they loved him, same with Eugene. Crazy I know! I really liked Fandango personally. It's very subjective, this kind of list. Goes to show no matter how bad the gimmick, someone will love them
@@StunnedByWrestling I fucking hated Eugene, even as I was a 9/10 year old kid watching Raw at the time in 2005/2006. I hated how fucking immature and stupid the character was. I wasn’t offended by the character, and nothing against Nick Dinsmore. But the character of Eugene is without a doubt the worst gimmick in wrestling history imo. The Punch and Judy type comedy that was Eugene, was fucking go away heat for me. And as I said, I was 9/10 years old watching Raw at that time, and I knew how fucking awful it was.
Albert was best known for his run as T & A with Test and Trish Stratus. The notoriety of his look was much less about his back than it was all the piercings, you know, the things that led to his naming in the first place.
Dark Alexa seems fun. I could kick myself for not watching while that was a thing because so much was really bad for so long. I like supernatural dark characters in wrestling. But somehow really only the dark ones. Not cartoony playful babies.
Sorry dude but Simon Dean was an outstanding lower card heel, Pirate wasn't Paul Burchills worst gimmick and Kane as Litas sympathetic sex offender is the worst.
I actually liked the supernatural version of Alexa Bliss. WWE was making plans to bring that version back when Bray Wyatt passed away. In my opinion, she didn't get enough build of the character to reach the heights it should have
Alexa i swear was meant to be shard of Sister Abigail, and even put down the Fiend in tnat terrible match at Mania Im not saying it made alot of sense or why she helped stop Fiend in a way, thats what im thinking was the intent
These gimmicks were bad, But shame on the video creator. There is a lot of misinformation that was said for most of these guys. He has made up a lot of convoluted crap. Just check them out. I don't even particularly like most in the video.
With the dark alexa gimmick she did what she could with it some of it was corny yea but it was fun. I will say I loved the Shayna fued though when she was in the room with the doll and mirrors
While I liked Dark alexa bliss at first due to her acting the supernatural shit during matches is was what I hated. They should have turned her into an unstable psychopath instead of magical girl.
Alexa Bliss needs to either come back as the Mean Girl/Goddess or get a new gimmick that isn’t goofy, irrelevantly magical, childish, nor even cringeworthy.
The ECW Zombie doesn't count. It was a one off as part of a string lame gimmicks for the Sandman to destroy. It was never a gimmick handed to someone to try and make a career out of. Why do people pretend it was when they stupidly put it on lists like this?
It was actually because of corporate BS. They re-launched ECW on Sci-Fi. As part of the TV deal they had to include zombies and vampires because - well ya know, Sci-Fi.....and it was beyond stupid.
It’s a good thing Triple H turned the company around and decided to never revisit all of Vince’s racist gimmicks ever again now that Old Fart is gone. All of Vince’s gimmicks like Samba Simba, Akeem The African Dream, and others have aged terribly and would never fit in today’s modern day “new generation” of WWE. Nick Khan has done a great job of putting their live events into international stadium shows, something WWE hadn’t done in a very long time since SummerSlam 92 in London.
The Fiend is #1 WORST gimmick of all time. Literally so glad never have to see that again.. or his stupid fun house, now if we can just get uncle howdy to croak
Thank you like rip to bray Wyatt but ngl that stupid gimmick made me not watch wwe like it was so cringe with alexa and her stupid doll and now they bringing this stupid uncle howdy like it’s so cringe
The crappy Alexa Bliss gimmick might as well be extended to the whole Fiend and Howdy whatever garbage that this idiot Wyatt was poisoning the wrestling industry with for years on end, just awful from start to finish to try and mask his inability to have a passable match with just about anyone.
How HIGH are you? Alexa Bliss could come out in a chicken costume and lay eggs and it would get over. She was the only reason I watched this new era of so called sports entertainment
