10 Outrageous WWE Experiments That Failed
2. 'Fake' Razor Ramon & 'Fake' Diesel
Wrestling fans are not stupid, that's something the then-WWF found out to their detriment in late-1996. Both Scott Hall and Kevin Nash had departed a few months earlier to join chief rivals WCW, leaving a sizeable hole on the roster that the McMahon family were struggling to fill.
To plug the gap, the WWF made the worst decision imaginable. Believing the success of the Razor Ramon and Diesel characters played by Hall and Nash respectively was more due to the gimmicks themselves, McMahon made a grave mistake.
Other wrestlers were drafted in to play the roles, completely infuriating fans who must have wondered what planet management were on.
Glenn Jacobs (better known today as Kane) played the part of Diesel, and Rick Bognar awkwardly mimicked the mannerisms of Razor. The WWF audience was left far from impressed, and the cheap knock offs fooled nobody.
It was brazen of the company to expect fans to buy into such an idea, and both 'Razor' and 'Diesel' were off television just a few months into 1997. The experiment had been a miserable failure, which many could have forecast before it began.