10 Awful WWE Ruthless Aggression Gimmicks That Didn't Get Over

5. Stuttering Matt Morgan

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According to popular assumptions, there are certain physical characteristics that guaranteed a fair shot in WWE. If you were a jacked up guy standing seven feet tall, with chiselled good looks and no small amount of athleticism, the chances are Vince McMahon was going to give you plenty of attention. If you were a product of WWE’s own system, that was another notch on your belt.

Matt Morgan ticked all of these boxes, which makes it all the more befuddling that the future TNA World Heavyweight Tag Team Champion was saddled with a stuttering character on SmackDown in April 2005. Morgan swiftly defeated nameless opponents before stuttering his way through a promo, becoming more and more defensive as the crowd quickly jumped on his speech disorder.

Morgan was allied with Carlito and even given Brock Lesnar’s F5 finisher, before being removed from television in July 2005. The entire episode was over as quickly as it had started, and remains one of the most confusing creative decisions in WWE history. Matt Morgan seemed for all the world like the product of a Vince McMahon wet dream yet he was sent out to fail, and fail he did.

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