10 Absolute Worst Gimmicks In Wrestling Today

2. RAW Underground

Robert Stone
WWE.com

Is RAW Underground dead? One can only hope. Utterly directionless and void of any purpose, Shane McMahon's underground fight club has been fully deserving of every bit of ridicule that has come its way. Even if it has been giving the kibosh after a relatively short time on our screens, it will forever be remembered as another lame creative misstep by 21st century WWE.

A weird mix of Fight Club, Brawl For All and modern-day WWE, RAW Underground has achieved nothing outside of belittling the sanctioned matches that take place on the rest of the show. Are we supposed to believe that these 'shoot' fights are of any meaning? If Dolph Ziggler can truck fools in a ring without ropes, why is he unable to transpose that success into the more streamlined nature of official competition? Are fans supposed to think that these fights are real and that the ones we've been watching all these years are not?

Putting aside the whole 'none of it is real' thing, RAW Underground has muddied waters and made a mockery of both itself and the show it claims to be an alternative to. Worst of all, it has brought Shane McMahon back to WWE TV.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.