7 Wrestling Gimmicks WWE Should Recycle

7. The Maniac With No Regard For His Own Safety

The PG era makes such a resuscitation difficult, but if part-time non-wrestler Shane McMahon is allowed to launch himself from the top of the Cell to get himself over, so too should a willing full-time roster member. Though, perhaps not Charlotte...

50/50 booking remains a critical problem for WWE. The Clash of Champions Chris Jericho Vs. Sami Zayn match, good as it was, may as well not have happened. Both men are, more or less, in the same position. Why should we care about their progression, when the creative team doesn't?

Implementing a Tommy Dreamer-esque character - one who is as equally willing to lose as they are to maim themselves in the process of doing so - would provide an emerging WWE talent with a leaving, breathing, sympathetic barrier through which to smash en route to the top of the card.

This man (or woman - that division, too, needs a hierarchy) wouldn't have to go to lunatic lengths to make the character work. The essence, not the extent, is all that would be required - think more Spike Dudley than Mick Foley (5:49).

More long-term, their status as pitiable punching bag would lend itself well to a push based on audience sentiment months - or even years - down the line.