10 Bad-Ass WCW Gimmicks Wasted On Terrible Wrestlers
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WWE and ECW gimmicks that could and should have had worlds of potential, but were given to the wrong person, for one reason or another... this one will be hopping the fence to the other side of the Monday Night War, and looking at WCW. Maybe the person just wasn't a very good wrestler, unable to keep the gimmick prospering in the ring. Maybe they simply had a run of bad luck, and things never quite fell into place. Maybe they just had injuries help to take fate out of their hands. Whatever it is, they simply were not able to hold up their end of the bargain after being given something special by writers. WCW has certainly had their fair share of moments and decisions, bad and good, and this will be looking at both sides of that. Sure, they came up with some very good gimmick ideas, but they also decided to give those very good gimmick ideas to the wrong people. Unfortunately, Norman was a lumbering, stumbling mess in the ring at this point, so the gimmick never really went anywhere, even though he did receive some decent pushes. Fortunately for Mike Shaw (the man behind the gimmick), this was still better than what he got in the WWF, where they turned him into Friar Ferguson (a pissed-off Monk) and then Bastion Booger (a hunchbacked slob who burped and farted all the time).
After our previous trip down memory lane spent looking at various