10 Embarrassing Times Wrestlers Tried To Be Funny
7. Erik Watts Thinks He's The Rock
Another pearler from @Iandrewdiceclay on Twitter to continue this series - click here for Embarrassing Times Wrestlers Tried To Be Badass and here for Embarrassing Times Wrestlers Tried To Be Cool - one Erik Watts really thought he was hot sh*t in the Impact Zone.
One might even refer to him as a trailblazer.
TNA Wrestling, bizarrely, was a place in which wrestlers, high on misplaced confidence, thought they were way better than that other company. This, despite TNA sucking more sh*t than a fetishist.
Aron Rex thought he was CM Punk for a while there in 2016. He had a live microphone. He thought saying this was going to get him over as some iconoclastic badass. It did not. He was the spiritual successor to - Jesus Christ - Erik Watts of Tekno Team 2000 fame. In the WWF, Troy and his partner Travis played futuristic cyber guys named after two country music singers.
In TNA, Watts played an even dafter gimmick; after doing the self-own "we are sh*te compared to our dads, aren't we?" second-generation bit, he played TNA's Director of Authority, an initialism that rather summed up a wrestling career doomed by his father's nepotism.
"That was a boring interview!" he once said, referring to himself as "Mr. Ratings!"
His facial expressions were excruciating. He thought with this zinger that he owned the room like a stand-up, or like The Rock. He was jabroni-bein', which is as close as he got.
Erik Watts was not The Rock.
Sometimes even The Rock wasn't The Rock...