10 Awful WCW Gimmicks That Immediately Died

As lame as Arachnaman was, it was still perhaps only the second lamest gimmick ever test-driven by Brad Armstrong, who would also, during his time in Atlanta, get repackaged as "The Candyman".

This essentially just entailed him walking to the ring carrying bags of sweets, which he duly handed out to young fans on the front-row. If it sounds kind of weird, then it's because it is.

Fortunately, saner heads eventually prevailed, and by that we mean that someone in the WCW production crew apparently noticed that having a man wearing teeny-tiny pants trying to impress children just gave out the wrong sort of message.

The gimmick was dropped, and Armstrong was forced to go back to the drawing board yet again. If this is the sort of thing that actually made it to air, though, can you imagine how awful the stuff that writers felt compelled to reject was? Actually, scratch that - it doesn't bear thinking about.