10 Brilliant WWE Success Stories That Should Have SUCKED
These WWE successes had no business being as great as they ended up being!
Sometimes, the strangest things get over.
Daniel Bryan's impassioned "YES!" chants spring to mind, and so does some supernatural, WWE-created zombie creeping around the place shooting lightning bolts out of his fingers. Often, it's the charming performances of the men and women playing successful characters that makes them click - that was certainly the case with Bryan and The Undertaker.
Looking back through WWE's archives, there are so many gimmicks and ideas that should've flat out sucked. Fans would've been forgiven for palming off these schemes and yelling, "Move on" at the folks in charge, but they didn't. Why? Well, that's quite the question, but again comes down to those tasked with making them work on TV.
It's relatively easy to look back at every example on this list and wonder aloud quite how they became success stories. There are goofy superheroes, parodies of other characters catching on with the audience around the same time, worrying revamps of beloved match types, tag-teams wearing what looked like rubber d*cks on their heads and more.
So much silliness, and yet it produced some of the most memorable content ever!
10. Vince McMahon’s Stooges Goof Around
Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco weren't just past their respective primes by the late-1990s - they were genuinely old men who had no business being inside company rings. Somehow, despite that, the pair became quite brilliant foils for the ultra-successful Mr. McMahon character who just couldn't get the best of 'Stone Cold'.
It was genius.
Patterson and Brisco tripped over one another to try and impress the boss, but they'd always come up short. So, mind you, would McMahon. His quest to cut down the edgy rebellion of Steve Austin shouldn't have included borderline pensioners, but everything gelled nicely and the "Stooges" became an invaluable running gag to add levity.
The clownish duo worked as backup to Vince for longer than anyone could've reasonably expected them too. They weren't really shunted aside full-time until deep into 2000, and even then they successfully managed spin-offs like challenging for the Hardcore Title or erm...working lingerie matches.
Comedy. Genius.