10 Insane Wrestling Gimmicks That Morphed Into Another Level
5. Seven
A pallid character that beckoned small children into joining him in "complete bliss, mmmm, that's right," Seven was a child molester.
He was.
If this wasn't the intention, whomever wrote that vignette needs putting on an FBI watchlist because "Mmmm, that's right," is actual pornography cliché. Seven also said, in that 33 seconds of utter wrong, "Awake, my son". So he wanted to bang what he fantasised was his own offspring, too, Christ almighty.
We'd like to write that it doesn't get more insane than a pro wrestling paedophile, but this is an industry with previous.
Still, to actually have an actual boogeyman sweet-talk a kid, on television, was insane. Insane. Before it was mercifully aborted by, of all people, Vince Russo, this threatened to become the very worst of pro wrestling - and the insanity escalated because the worst of pro wrestling then exposed pro wrestling as a sham. "Not only are we living down to the worst perception of pro wrestling," WCW seemed to say, "we are telling you that everything is bullsh*t." Russo scripted this lunacy because he, like Dustin Runnels, was aghast at this Uncle Fester-looking abomination. He couldn't put this on TV, Jesus, it was in such appalling taste.
He then booked his hack mate to mock Jim Ross' battle with Bells Palsy.