10 Times WWE Saddled Wrestlers With HORRENDOUS Names
8. Irwin R. Schyster
In the early ‘90s, Vince McMahon found the US government breathing down his neck for possible tax impropriety. Befitting a man of his means, McMahon combatted this not with a crack legal team, but by saddling one of his employees with the gimmick of an overbearing bureaucrat, thereby lampooning his pencil pushing foes. Take that, The Man!
Mike Rotunda (longtime pro and father of Bray Wyatt and Bo Dallas) was given the role of Irwin R. Schyster (be sure to note the clever acronym), whose heelish gimmick was suggesting that viewers ought to pay the amount of tax that they were required by law to contribute (boo!). The gimmick wasn’t as bad as the name suggests, mainly due to Rotunda’s skills and his inexplicable but fun partnership with the apparently tax-positive Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase, but the notion that this was a thumb in the eye to the real IRS is simply madness.
A true showman, Vince would continue to air his dirty laundry on national TV for decades to come, but Irwin R. Schyster is symptomatic of this cartoonish era. For managing to make the gimmick work for four years, Rotunda deserves immense praise.