The man that portrayed both Bastion Booger and Friar Ferguson was Mike Shaw. He's not on here because he was a tall man, but he was a superheavyweight that was billed at around 400 pounds for most of his career. His Friar Ferguson gimmick started in April 1993 and it was off TV within a few weeks because a "mad monk" character upset people from church groups that complained to WWE about it. Two months later he was in there as Bastion Booger. It was as if the geniuses in WWE thought that a guy that was a monk would have no problem turning into a disgusting fat guy that ate food as his gimmick. Both of his gimmicks failed miserably. He didn't have any memorable matches or feuds and as we sit here 20 years later we're left to wonder what WWE was thinking by putting these characters on television. Is this really the best thing they could come up with? It was awful. Maybe he should be higher up the list, but it's not like he was playing characters that received a substantial push.
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