10 Stupidest Things WWE Attitude Era Stars Had To Do
3. Golga - Everything
Pick any Raw from late-1998 to mid-2000 and it's honestly hard to get a read on the audience profile beyond "mostly sh*tfaced dudes".
The company had done a magnificent job of securing that advertiser-friendly base, and were keen to point out that the children of Hulkamania were now the teens and young adults of the Attitude Era, but was that really true? Millions dropped off in the mid-1990s. but who's to say those were the ones coming back when Steve Austin and The Rock got hot, instead of college fraternities that couldn't get enough of Stone Cold's beer-soaked carnage and 'The Great One's p*ss funny command of a catchphrase?
All this is to say that bringing John Tenta back as the Earthquake that had quietly departed in 1994 (and let his legacy take a few knocks in WCW after the fact) probably wasn't the smartest move. But it wasn't the scale of problem that required "Golga" as a fix.
Masked in order to slot him with The Oddities, he was then booked as a South Park aficionado to ingratiate him to the masses as a babyface. His look was never stupider than at the co-promotional peak - as if working in a Cartman shirt while carrying the enormous doll wasn't enough, he also had a Cheesy Poof stapled to his f*cking head.
Golga is the masked ex-Natural Disaster that didn't fall through a g*ddamn wall. How did he end up looking just as stupid?