10 Most Underrated Gimmicks Of WWE's New Generation Era
Flash Funk > The Funkasaurus.
WWE's New Generation is best known as the buffer zone between two of the most beloved periods of professional wrestling- the Golden Age of the 1980s and the Attitude Era of the late 90s. In fact, if you surveyed longtime wrestling fans, the New Generation era would probably rank as the worst creative lull in WWE's recent history. It's not that the wrestling was bad, so much as the storylines were weak and the characters too wacky. This was the height of the occupational gimmick, after all, with WWE creative bringing in the likes of garbage men and tax professionals to round out the roster of goofy personalities, hoping that someone would catch on with the fans. Most of them didn't. In fact, most of them failed miserably. But in their slapdash approach to creating characters, WWE unfortunately overlooked a few bright and shiny needles in an otherwise woeful haystack. That's not to say they've all been completely erased by time (or scandal, as if more often the case with former WWE Superstars), but they were never given their due. They were either fleeting characters, on their way into the garbage pail before fans even had time to register what they were seeing, or they simply failed to catch fire the way they deserved. Either way, it's time they got their day in the sun.