10 Times WWE Accidentally Brought Awful Gimmicks Back From The Dead
8. Slam Master J & Too Cool
Poor Ray Gordy. Son of wrestling legend Terry Gordy, Ray soon found out that a famous name is no guarantee of success in the wrestling industry.
After working a redneck gimmick for two years alongside Doc Gallows, Ray found himself inexplicably transformed into a Vanilla Ice wannabe call Slam Master J. WWE may have hoped that any lingering audience affection for John Cena's discarded "Doctor of Thuganomics" gimmick would attach itself to Master J, but all it did was remind us of Too Cool.
Too Cool - the team-name of Scotty 2 Hotty and Grandmaster Sexay - were incredibly over in the Attitude Era, but are regarded by modern wrestling fans as a flash in the pan. Teams like The Hardy Boyz, the Dudley Boyz and Edge & Christian are lionized to this day, but Too Cool have largely been swept under the rug.
Too Cool were in the right place at the right time, whereas Slam Master J just looked like a man out of time - an uncle throwing shapes in a nightclub while his nephews look on in horror.
(Yes, John Cena got over with a similar gimmick but Ray Gordy, with all due respect, was not John Cena).