10 Occupational Wrestling Gimmicks You Won't Believe
3. TL Hopper
In defence of TL Hopper (as uttered never before in human history), he was one of several performers brought in specifically to do jobs to other wrestlers WWE were trying to push.
Hopper, The Goon, Who, Freddie Joe Floyd and select others were part of a collection of characters slapped on old pros to juice up matches that were jobber squashes masquerading as something else. With Raw getting pumped in the ratings by Nitro with such force and ease, WWE attempted to present the bouts as all-star even only 50% of the tagline was true.
All reasonable then, so why did WWE go with a dodgy-looking plumber to be a heel when the job centre needn't have been mined for ideas? In short, because Vince McMahon's sense of humour has always been crass and "nothing is funnier" that excrement. On the SummerSlam 1996 pre-show, Hopper fished a piece of sh*t from the bottom of the pool and then ate it.
You know, like real plumbers do, PAL!