10 Wrestlers With 1 Great And 1 Terrible Gimmick
Wrestlers that have tasted both greatness and garbage.
Characters are a huge part of wrestling. You could be the best high flyer in the world, but if your gimmick is outright garbage, then the audience as a whole is going to struggle to care.
Heck, it even works the other way around. Some of wrestling's all-time most memorable characters haven't necessarily been the most technically gifted folks, but you cared because you were invested in that persona.
The ability to reinvent must be something that every professional wrestler is thankful for. You might not get unlimited chances, but when you're in need of a refresh, a good gimmick change is always an option. It allows for, with some careful consideration, some experimentation too. Got an idea and need to see how it fares in front of a live audience?
Take it for a test drive and see what happens.
Some wrestling characters are so great that they are all that a star needs, but that doesn't mean that they didn't go through some pretty awful ideas to get there. Similarly, once amazing gimmicks can be cast aside to try something new that blows up in their portrayer's face.
The wrestlers on this list have seen both ends of the spectrum.
10. Drew McIntyre
Whilst the WWE universe popped big for Drew McIntyre finally ascending to the WWE Championship, there was one man who told us this would happen many, many years ago.
For eons, much talk has centred around Vince’s pet projects (such as a decade-long obsession with Roman Reigns), but Drew got to play this role on TV in his best gimmick to date. At his true coming out party in 2009, Vince McMahon announced that he had personally signed McIntyre and that he was a sure thing future WWE champion. Drew’s slow and meaningful “Broken Dreams” entrance felt regal, imposing and said so much about the man’s promise.
Under this character, Drew would capture Intercontinental and Tag Team gold.
However, after a string of strange booking decisions, Drew was placed in a stable that would certainly be a low point of his career. 3MB, with Heath Slater and Jinder Mahal, really made no sense whatsoever and was a perfect example of throwing names together to give them something to do. Whilst they had their moments (like the WeeLC match that had no right to be as good as it was), it was ultimately poor usage of a man that had so much more to give than air guitar-ing and jobbing.