10 Awesome Gimmicks Wasted On Terrible Wrestlers
1. Sean O'Haire
Late in 2002, Sean O'Haire debuted on SmackDown via a series of vignettes in which he spoke intimately with the WWE fans. Rather than inspiring them to do good, he spoke to their human nature. He insisted they partake in the seven deadly sins, a grin on his face and a glimmer in his eye while doing so. He appealed to the younger males in the audience, most of whon enjoyed morally questionable characters who broke the mold of the prototypical good and bad guys.
The character was so good, and O'Haire had shown such promise during his days in WCW, that it felt like an idea guaranteed to succeed.
The problem was, O'Haire was never the singles worker that he was in tag team competition. Without the chance to explode into the ring off of a hot tag, delivering his high-impact offense and finishing foes with this Seanton Bomb, he was exposed as the limited worker with little experience that he was.
Add to that the fact that he could not cut a promo outside of a pre-taped environment and you had a recipe for disaster.
The final nail in the character's coffin? His status as a lackey for Roddy Piper during the 6,000th program between Hot Rod and Hulk Hogan in 2003.
But I'm not telling you anything you don't already know.