10 Very Bad WWE Ideas That Only Lasted 1 Day
10. Von Wagner: SmackDown Security
Unintentionally hilarious NXT 2.0 goober Von Wagner is kind of a delight on Tuesday nights.
Or, as he'd say, "CUM TOOSDAY". Not intentionally, but his pronunciation of the words "come" and "Tuesday" resulted in the line becoming memeworthy just like everything else he's done and said on that ridiculous misfit show. Wagner's a big guy with a unique anti-charisma that, in today's marketplace, actually stands out quite well amongst those doing a very good job indeed.
It was this that somebody at SmackDown presumably saw when they inserted him as a one night security guard to deal with the blowback towards the increasing lawlessness being overseen by heelish incompetent authority figures Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville.
He didn't have to do a lot beyond just just standing there and looking menacing, and even that looked ever so slightly off. The Wagnerholics watching 2.0 weekly presumably got a kick out of it, but those backstage in WWE were less than impressed.
He wasn't just disappeared the usual way - he went without trace. The second generation star's presence hasn't been mentioned ever since. Only by being so idiosyncratically memorable can we even confirm it happened for sure.