10 Wrestlers Who Are The Most Overrated At Precisely One Thing
10. Johnny Gargano: Comedy
Johnny Gargano isn't painfully unfunny. He has not unimpressive comedic timing and a certain dorky charm with which he can get away with WWE material - and unless you're Sami Zayn, gutting through it via force of will is the only choice a performer has.
The problem is that the Gargano comedy character only worked in the context of what he had become in NXT mid-annihilation in the Wednesday Night War. 'One Final Beat' was an inadvertently hilarious joke and completely nuked the idea of Johnny Gargano: purveyor of epic matches. All involved in the process realised that the excesses had become cringe-worthy, and via The Way, Gargano's jumped-up knacker character worked in stark contrast. It was light relief from the most humourless, histrionic material imaginable.
The problem now is that this version of the character - still inexplicably nicknamed Johnny Wrestling - has rocked up on Raw, the effect of which is unflattering and alienating. He feels like the lamentably unfunny and grabby "cousin" character in a sitcom that the writers introduce deep into the run in a panic at tumbling ratings.
If you travelled 365 days back in time with a YouTube link to one of his segments and a print-out of his Cagematch listing, you'd never in 365 million years even venture a guess that Vince McMahon had been replaced.
(Unless you've realised that he and Triple H aren't so different.)