10 WWE Joke Pushes That Stopped Being Funny

10. Hornswoggle

John Bradshaw Layfield flooring Hornswoggle with a hilarious garbage can throw at WrestleMania XXIV wasn't the first point the ludicrous leprechaun gag had been beaten into the ground.

The persona was four feet tall and six foot under a year earlier. Revealed as Vince McMahon's bastard offspring in a panicked rewrite following Mr Kennedy's loose-lipped implosion and wellness suspension during the company's problematic post-Benoit summer, Hornswoggle's occasionally enjoyable sidekick gimmick swallowed up hours of television time in chronic cartoon segments with McMahon and his idiot goons Jonathan Coachman and William Regal.

Once a 'Little B*stard' (that paid off, at least...) that 'lived' under the ring as an able assistant to Finlay, his child-friendly gimmick was a sh*t hit until the pops dropped. It was only after the ideas well ran dry that he gained such undue profile, linking up with D-Generation-X, Brodus Clay and The Three Man Band before a release that still came as a shock in 2016.