10 Weirdest Wrestling Characters (That Didn’t Work)

By Chris Quicksilver /

3. Bastion Booger

Wrestling is a fairly athletic pastime when all is said and done. You need to have a good level of strength, stamina and general fitness if you want to make it in the wrestling business, which is why the idea of a wrestling slob just doesn€™t make a lot of sense. The central conceit behind the creation of Bastion Booger appears to be that the pasty skinned and overweight Mike Shaw wasn€™t exactly a pleasure to look at, so they might as well stick him in an oversized, pre-soiled singlet and present him to fans as a disgusting slob. ...Yeah, because that€™ll catch on. For the rest of his tenure, Mike Shaw was eaten alive by just about everyone he encountered, even losing to the actor Virgil in his debut match.