10 Very Bad WWE Ideas That Only Lasted 1 Day

3. Friar Ferguson

Gunther Stark
WWE.com

WWE were asking for trouble with this one.

Mike Shaw was at very least willing, even if the religious connotations attached to the his monk persona were sure to eventually land WWE in hot water. Hotter than the stuff he guzzled out of his little in-gimmick flask for his one match.

The former Norman The Lunatic and future Bastion Booger was a versatile sort even if every character he was asked to play was destined to fail. At one point in his one and only appearance on Monday Night Raw, he used Friar Ferguson's attire to cover the face of his jobber foe. The company never stopped to ask if this spot was a) funny, or b) offensive to monks or those of any faith at very least didn't p*ss themselves enough to carry it on.

Ferguson's debut played out to confused silence in the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, and Shaw was Booger for his next show a month later.

 
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