10 WWE Gimmicks With Racist Undertones

10. Cryme Tyme

Vince McMahon's New Generation creative crutch was almost always the second job. His audience were asked to accept bin-men, dentists and plumbers moonlighting as WWE Superstars in the mid-1990s, suggesting that you could steal a living in the role. Cryme Tyme were an all-too-literal representation.

Despite looking and acting like the pro wrestlers the actually were, JTG and Shad Gaspard couldn't help themselves from going on the rob. There was the rather unpleasant suggestion that virtually all of their out-front wealth was accrued though thievery thanks both to tongue-in-cheek introductory vignettes and the actual actions of the characters once they made it to the main roster.

Ironically, their best days were stolen from them seemingly by the cynicism of others. After years of being the company's lowest-hanging punching bag, JTG's revealing autobiographies since his release didn't shy away from covering their fall from grace.

Popular and promising, the duo's trajectory was hampered by too many run-ins with the organisation's heaviest hitters behind the scenes. Gaspard in particular allegedly regularly raised the ire of John Cena, Triple H at al, without managing to chase off his maligned partner in the process. It was the only 'crime' he came close to committing.