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

3. Big Vito The Cross Dresser

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Speaking of gimmicks that never ever work, only one man has ever managed to get the cross-dressing thing over and that man was Perry Saturn. The former WCW Television Champion somehow managed to look even tougher in a dress, taking lemons and making sweet lemonade in the process.

Big Vito was presented with those same lemons in summer in 2006, and he was unfortunately not able to make lemonade from them, In fact, what he made was something a little closer to drain water, or Dandelion and Burdock maybe. Vito started wrestling in a dress in June 2006, much to the chagrin of his teammate Nunzio and every one of his opponents.

The gimmick went down like a fart at a funeral, and by the end of the year the big man from Brookyln was removed from television.

His stint as a cross-dresser became the defining gimmick of Vito’s career, and needless to say he isn’t remembered fondly. Pro wrestling isn’t exactly a paragon of progressive thinking, but its approach to cross-dressing is particularly damning.

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