10 WWE Stars Who Are In Desperate Need Of A Charecter Makeover
Is the next Dwayne Johnson just waiting to be freed from a horrible gimmick?
Even some of the most talented professional wrestlers in the world cannot succeed when weighed down by an awful gimmick.
Imagine what wrestling fans would have missed out on if The Rock was forced to continue to portray his previous character ‘The Blue Chipper’ Rocky Maivia. Maivia was dull babyface character fans were supposed to cheer for because he was a third generation star, the descendent of two wrestlers most fans at the time hadn’t even heard of. If Dwayne Johnson had never become The Rock, fans would have missed out on some the greatest promos in the history of professional wrestling. More than a couple WrestleMania main events would have been quite different without “The Most Electrifying Man in Sports Entertainment.”
Furthermore, imagine a world where Steve Austin remained The Ringmaster, a drab technical wrestler with no personality, instead of the beer-guzzling roughneck that took the WWE by storm in the late 1990s. Wrestling would have been denied one of the best characters to have ever set foot in the ring.
The next Dwayne Johnson or Steve Austin could be in WWE right now, forced to portray an ill-conceived character...
10. Mojo Rawley
If there is one thing we know for certain when it comes to the former American football player known as Mojo Rawley, it’s that the man is clearly “hyped”….and stays “hyped!” Unfortunately, judging by the crowd reaction when he enters the ring, he isn’t getting the audience “hyped."
The Mojo Rawley character comes across as the loud jock that used to bang his head into the locker before gym class for no particular reason. He seems like the kind of guy who people would awkwardly laugh at his jokes because he was huge but nobody really thought he was funny.
If him being “hyped” is, in turn, supposed to pump up the crowd, then it isn’t working.
It isn’t clear if this character is supposed to be a comedy act or if fans are supposed to take this gimmick seriously. That is a problem.
An excitable former American football player is a gimmick that might have gotten over the 1980s, but today’s savvier wrestling audience will need more than that to get behind a character.
Truthfully, this character probably needs to be scrapped entirely.