10 Awesome Things You Don't Remember About WWE's Attitude Era

2. Gillberg

Poor Duane Gill, few people have quite the in-ring reputation that he has. He orginally joined WWF back in the early nineties as one-half of an incarnation of The Executioners, but left after two years in 1994. In 1998, Mr. McMahon brought him back as someone for Mankind to squash in the WWF Championship tournament. He went on to join The J.O.B Squad and even capture the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship. It was shortly after that he came Gillberg, a parody of WCW's Goldberg character. He came out to manufactured chants of "GILLBERG" with sparklers instead of pyrotechnics and was the premiere jobber of the late nineties. He was eliminated immediately in the 1999 Royal Rumble and only ever won one match as Gillberg. What's remarkable is how little he defended his championship, and as such he enjoyed a fifteen-month reign before WWE realised he still had it and immediately gave it to Essa Rios. He's come back a few times since, most notably for the much-anticipated clash with Bill Goldberg himself in 2003.