10 Weirdest Wrestling Characters (That Didn’t Work)
7. Isaac Yankem, DDS
Lets face facts; dentists are natural heels. They tell you not to eat sweets, they shine a light in your eyes at every conceivable opportunity, they cost you A LOT of money and sometimes they hurt you purely for the sake of it. ...OK, that last claim is purely conjecture, but can you prove that it ISNT true? ...Didnt think so. With this in mind, WWF creative decided to green light the character of a wrestling dentist and put him in the ring with their top hand of the time, the legendary Bret Hitman Hart. Now, Glen Jacobs, the man behind Isaac Yankem (yank em geddit?) was a genuinely fine wrestling talent, who would later find stardom as the diabolical pyromaniac Kane, but, somewhat predictably, the idea of a wrestling dentist was about as well-received as a fart at a wedding.
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