10 Embarrassing Times Wrestlers Tried To Look Cool
3. 123 Kid > X-Pac
Your periodic reminder that the 123 Kid was amazing, and it's a shame that the performer is more synonymous with the X-Pac gimmick because 'X-Pac' is synonymous with a once-great worker feeling two years out of date.
Two years!
Virtually every WWE star has - sigh - "X-Pac heat" in 2021. "X-Pac heat" is the norm. Think of X-Pac still working as X-Pac in 2006, and you are close to the heavy malaise that saturates WWE programming.
As X-Pac, Sean Waltman was still a dynamo between the ropes, and his brand of edgy humour was a perfect fit for the day, but that day has aged horrendously. To wit: X-Pac, playing the hard man trash-talker in 1998, wasn't particularly convincing in the role, but it was cool that he smoked such copious amounts of weed. That was the standard back then. There was a tag team called Kronik, for f*ck's sake.
Armed with this knowledge, X-Pac was fond of saying "Your ass is grass and I'm gonna smoke it," like a dorm room poster transmogrified into a professional wrestler. X-Pac was essentially dril.
"Ass" and "grass" rhymed, you see, which was sufficiently cool enough to forget about the suboptimal mental image.