10 Bad-Ass WCW Gimmicks Wasted On Terrible Wrestlers

4. Vampiro

If we're going to be fair, WCW didn't create the Vampiro gimmick. After spending the better part of seven years in Mexico, and doing some minor stints in Japan, Vampiro finally showed up in WCW in 1998. There was a lot of buzz surrounding his arrival, as he was a huge star in Mexico for those years, transcending wrestling and appearing in television shows and movies while he was there. As a dreadlocked, rock star vampire, Vampiro just had a look that captured your attention from the moment you saw him. He was something different, which is always good in wrestling. Unfortunately, he never was that great in the ring, even in Mexico. It was his look that allowed him to become a huge star in Mexico, but that look didn't exactly match the hype he was getting while in WCW. Hulk Hogan praised him as one of the better upcoming stars in the business, and he got to work with the likes of Sting and The Great Muta almost right off the bat, even picking up a pay-per-view victory over Sting (albeit in a Human Torch Match, which goes down as one of the dumbest gimmick matches in the history of the business). That's a lot of pressure to live up to, but things just weren't working the way they once did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGIISUJCe4k Less than two years after his arrival in WCW, he was gone, and he went back to Mexico and Japan, but even there, he never quite found the same level of success that he had before WCW, almost as if working for them tainted his career and his legacy.