10 Most Pointless Gimmicks In Wrestling History
Why WWE why?
Now, I know what youre thinking yet another article about crap wrestling characters. Its going to rant on and on about Oz, the Yeti, the Red Rooster and the Johnsons, take a detour into Vince McMahons eighties and nineties obsession with wrestlers having real world jobs and finish up with the Shockmaster, just like all the others, blah de blah. But no! Check yourself: for should you not, you may wreck yourself, and possibly those closest to you. First of all, a gimmick isnt just the persona that they ask a wrestler to take on in the ring, the motivations, mannerisms and costume of a character. Thats a narrow jargon definition. The word gimmick is used in the industry as a casual catch-all slang term for any plot point in an angle, feud or match... in fact, much as the word is used in everyday life. When Vickie Guererro banned the Undertaker from using the Hells Gate submission move, it was a gimmick. TNAs Lockdown pay-per-view features a steel cage in every match on the card: its the shows gimmick. Triple H likes to swing a sledgehammer on those occasions when he really means (this) business: its part of his gimmick. Secondly, the title is most pointless meaning terrible concepts, on the face of it doomed from the start, that also completely fail to achieve what theyre intended to. The Undertakers whole schtick is one of the most ridiculous gimmicks ever, and the fact that they booked Mark Calaway, one of the most agile big men in the business, to play a no-selling, slow-moving zombie would have shot it to the top of a list like this, had the WWF/E not fully committed to the absurdity and eventually allowed Calaway the chance to actually wrestle for a living. Terrible matches, terrible characters, terrible rules, terrible moves, terrible ideas full stop: and none of them do what theyre supposed to do...