10 Terrible WWE Gimmicks That Were One Tweak Away From Perfection
6. Ted Dibiase (1994 - 1996)
So few folk were watching WWE in the mid-1990s that it was easy to miss Ted Dibiase even retiring from in-ring action in WWE during the brief gap between his transition from full-time wrestler to retired manager/commentator. It's perhaps because of this that he never really quite felt like the loaded stable boss his Corporation so desperately needed.
For all the money he supposedly had at his disposal, Dibiase's hires were never all that successful, nor did he particularly hold many of them to account for multiple drab losses in the years he ran the group. Of all the dorks and losers linked to the team, only Bam Bam Bigelow paid the penalty for a heavy defeat, but in at least making the WrestleMania main event in 1995 he bettered the efforts of his colleagues. His firing resulted in the closest he ever came to a proper run atop the company.
Years later, Vince (and to a lesser extent Shane) McMahon fit this identical role to perfection. Obnoxiously rich folk paying goons to do their bidding, the bosses had believable clout Dibiase lacked despite all his years as the roster's richest wrestler. A bizarre case of what could have been, Dibiase's lack of an eye for talent undermined everything the company were trying to achieve with the gimmick.