10 Occupational Wrestling Gimmicks You Won't Believe
6. Tony D'Angelo
It was already karmically amusing that lifetime political chess player Triple H was to have his developmental vision warped beyond recognition in 2021 thanks in part to a damaging defeat at the hands of nascent upstart brand AEW.
It was even funnier when one of the debuting gimmicks on the reimagined show was a mafioso who believed his fortunes to be elsewhere beyond racketeering and "waste management".
Tony D'Angelo is at least extremely convincing as far as ludicrous caricatures go in 2022, thanks to the commitment to the bit from the previously unused Performance Center unknown Joe Ariola, But already the cracks and creaks in his attempts to normalise criminal behaviour in the literal and figurative pro wrestling arena are beginning to show.
The journey for Ariola and the D'Angelo persona will eventually have to be away from the gimmick, or at very least pivot towards a babyface that no longer chooses and uses literal crime as his route to success. That, or all of us simply have to fuggadeabowdit. But what sort of stereotype would ask us to do that?