10 Old School Wresting Gimmicks That Need To Return
6. Road Warriors
The recent passing of Joe "Animal" Laurinaitis was a reminder when one wasn't particularly needed that people just loved The Road Warriors.
As disparate attempts proved at various points in their legendary careers, they cannot be imitated, duplicated or reformed in a way that captures the brutal magic seeing Hawk and Animal brutalise poor mugs for the first time. But has there been a better time for the aesthetic of ostentatious bad*sses to make a return than 2020?
We are living through an era never more fragmented in terms of tastes and hobbies. "Niche" is beginning to look like an impossible - or at very least improbable - concept, and the world's better for it. If a wrestler wanted to capture the dystopian chaos of the Legion Of Doom and adopt similarly insane names and clothes to get it done, they'd be beloved by a tribe that would find them.
The main roster probably wasn't ready for The Ascension before they were buried by legends anyway. The Retribution names are as lame as they are as much because of the gimmick as anything else. The 80s and 90s remain en vogue though - use the good bits for a change.