10 Times WWE Accidentally Brought Awful Gimmicks Back From The Dead
7. Titus O'Neil & The Shockmaster
Wrestling fans love an argument, but one thing that unites us all is our love of a good botch. And no botches in history have ever been as widely loved as Titus O'Neill's tripping under the apron at the Greatest Royal Rumble and WCW's Shockmaster falling "flat on his f**king arse", as the late British Bulldog put it.
They were the perfect botches: nobody was injured, everyone watching got a huge belly laugh out of it, and both incidents are fondly remembered to this day.
Less fondly remembered are the gimmicks that followed, as both men were repackaged as clumsy oafs. Shockmaster was treated as an avuncular dork who fell over any loose object on the ground, and Titus found himself unable to enter a ring without risking serious injury. Unsurprisingly, these one-dimensional gimmicks failed to get either wrestler over, and audience interest in both wrestlers rapidly dimmed.
Fortunately for Titus, his sterling humanitarian record has helped soften the blow of the Greatest Royal Rumble, and he is now chiefly regarded as a good egg (who had a great fall).