10 Horrible Gimmicks That Wrestlers Pitched THEMSELVES
3. “This Is…Stang!”
Even bringing former WCW enhancement worker Hardbody Harrison up is depressing. He was arrested in 2005 on charges of sex trafficking, and was eventually found guilty of those charges in 2007. That's awful. Before revealing himself to be a terrible human being, Hardbody revealed he had terrible instincts for wrestling creative.
Chris Jericho wrote about some of Harrison's pitches in his first book. At one point, Hardbody wanted to steal a giant gem from DDP, drop it in a piranha tank and watch the 'People's Champ' swim with the fishes. Yeah...OK then. Another time, Harrison pitched becoming Sting's protege/arch nemesis (depending on who's telling the story).
His name? "Stang". STANG! Surely this was the only thing capable of besting the Starrcade '97 buyrate.
One can almost hear the entrance track now. "Man called Stang! He's a man called Stang!". Or, how about his signature move the Stanger Splash? It'd be a shocker if Hardbody wasn't laughed out of the room for this nonsense. Even WCW's braintrust must've thought it was garbage.