10 Wrestlers Who Gambled On A New Catchphrase
3. "Your Ass Is Grass, And I'm Gonna Smoke It!"
The 1-2-3 Kid is perhaps the most underrated pro wrestler of all time - if he couldn't get a good match out somebody, that somebody couldn't be carried - but with that said, his Attitude Era catchphrase was the sh*ts. As a slender, big-bumping performer far better at getting his own ass smoked, this wasn't really equipped with the necessary intimidation factor. It was like an overload of very forced cool.
'I smoke weed, and I beat people up! I f*ck the hottest chicks too, brah.'
It's like something a 14 year-old reads on a dorm room poster or a gift shop magnet to shape their formative adult personality. It's the 1990s equivalent of the the smirk emoji which, incidentally, was actually modelled on the facial expression X-Factor stablemate Justin Credible used to make on the tron video.
Was it successful?
Absolutely, because we all had goatee beards and frosted tips and smoked weed and played N64 and listened to Korn and wore oversized jeans and wanted so desperately to get the mythical "laid", and this edgy word play was an aphrodisiac to the prospective big tiddy goth gf.
It got over because we were all a bit awful back then.