10 Most Underrated Gimmicks Of WWE's New Generation Era

6. Rad Radford

WWE gets a bad rap for sometimes for trying to remain too kid-friendly, staying with the unrealistic, often blindingly colorful gimmicks that people loved back in the age of Rock N' Wrestling. Simply put, wrestling has often needed to "get with the times". But to be fair, they WWE have tried to stay current from time to time, they just haven't always been sure how to build those types of characters. Aside from the typical, dubious alliteration that plagued far too many wrestlers of this timeframe, Rad Radford was a moderately edgy gimmick. (It was technically an occupational gimmick, though the idea of former grunge musician wasn't quite as ridiculous as Isaac Yankem D.D.S.) He not only used The Headbangers' entrance music before they did, but he embraced the dejected, pseudo-arrogance of the grunge movement, too. It wasn't the most nuanced portrayal of a Seattle acolyte, but the whole Rad Radford gimmick was worth it just to hear Jim Ross school Gorilla Monsoon on the finer aspects of grunge culture when the wrestler debuted: "Have you ever heard of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana? Are you familiar with Hole or Alice In Chains...any of those people?".