10 Absolute Worst Gimmicks In Wrestling Today
10. Brandi Rhodes
Does Brandi Rhodes have a gimmick, or is the problem that she has too many? One week she is a cocky heel, the next she is the brave woman protecting her family. She cuts promos as if she was a wily veteran, yet backs it up with youthful exuberance. She seems to carry her action figure with her wherever she goes, despite not doing anything that justifies the figure's existence. Brandi Rhodes is all things at once, meaning she is none of them at all.
In fact, her gimmick seems to be that she eats at the top table and thus can be all things she wants to be, at all times. She clearly wants to be taken seriously as an in-ring competitor but it is way cooler to do that as a blurred-lines badass, so a blurred-lines badass she is. When the Nightmare Family is under attack, all signs of that heel badass are gone, replaced by valiance and bravery.
By portraying childish versions of everyone's favourite wrestling personas, Brandi Rhodes has become a performer without a character, with a mess of a gimmick that confuses and irritates. The sooner she settles, the better.