10 Candidates For WWE's Bizarre Post-WrestleMania 37 Push
8. Papa Shango
Bruce Prichard lurves Papa Shango. He is a self-professed "mark" for the gimmick.
The cartoonish evil, the black goo, the dire '90s theatre: Prichard is essentially pushing Shango already through the vehicle of the ongoing Randy Orton Vs. The Fiend storyline. His fingerprints are all over this Alexa Bliss sh*t, and, looking at that Fastlane pin, they might prove useful somewhere.
Now, there's an obvious problem here. At 59, and having only wrestled 23 times over the last decade, the man behind the gimmick might not be able to go these days. Happily, he was never able to go, so that shouldn't prove much of an issue.
And with WWE still planning to host shows under its ThunderDome set-up after 'Mania 37 for the foreseeable, there's a not inconsiderable chance that Bruce, who has somehow conjured halfway respectable modern numbers on RAW in recent weeks, will realise his big dumb carny dream through the lens of a cinematic match.
It will involve a lot of cursing, but most of that will be on the part of the viewer: "Why in the f*ck do I continue to watch this dog sh*t?