10 Abandoned Wrestling Gimmicks That Would Have Been Awesome
1. The Devil's Advocate
Another casualty of the Invasion storyline, Sean O'Haire was brought into the company and continued his pairing with Chuck Palumbo. The two were packaged together in such a way that they immediately became the most milquetoast tag team on the roster.
After their brief and mostly fruitless team endeavors, Palumbo was kicked out of the alliance and joined the WWE proper, while O'Haire was sent down to OVW for development.
When he returned, O'Haire debuted his new gimmick as 'The Devil's Advocate'.
In a series of vignettes that featured him with long hair, a goatee, and a sweet duster jacket, O'Haire began prompting the audience - along with his fellow WWE superstars - to do all of the things society has deemed immoral or taboo.
Adultery will make your relationship stronger, he told us, because "you'll appreciate your wife more". Taxation is a scam, he said, and you shouldn't bother because "the IRS doesn't have time to go after a little guy like you". And drugs? "You just need to take a step back from reality. Tip one back. Light one up".
He also persuaded Spank to streak and Dawn Marie to flash the crowd.
He was awesome.
But in yet another case of a conceptual gimmick failing to capture Vince's imagination, O'Haire was all but stripped of the characteristics that made him so interesting in the first place, paired with Roddy Piper for some odd reason, and then shelved once Piper was released.