10 Old School Wresting Gimmicks That Need To Return
1. Lunatic With An Animal
Albeit in controlled and safe circumstances.
At AEW All Out 2019, Cody's poor dog Pharaoh was put through the ringer by a load of pyro and lights going off before being made to walk to the ring with the 'American Nightmare' as part of a particularly grandiose entrance he didn't even need. This brought back into focus the pointlessness of an innocent animal being exposed to a world they don't really need to be a part of...but villains making monsters of nature's creatures was often the right side of wild.
Jake Roberts setting his cobra on Randy Savage was easily one of the most terrifying moments in company history. Scott Steiner rocking up on the October 23rd 2000 edition of Nitro with a tiger added yet another layer of insanity to the 'Big Bad Booty Daddy's aesthetic. Bad News Brown's "sewer rat" was f*cking massive.
What episode of SmackDown wouldn't be enlivened by The Fiend terrifying the opposition with a real life buzzard parked at ringside? Or Raw Underground coming under threat of alligator attack? Or Retribution's "locusts of contempt" being countered by The Hurt Business' attack dogs. It's been said Vince McMahon treats his wrestlers like animals as it is - might as well book some more.
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