10 Wrestlers Who Piggybacked Their Way To Success
3. Garrett Bischoff
We enter deep into the realm of nepotism, now, with the inclusion of Garrett Bischoff.
And, while pro wrestling history is so littered with nepotism that it warrants a list of its own, Garrett is at least the second most odious example, because it's not as if he had some super-working, traditional dad who imposed the life on him to relive old glories. He was the son of a carny executive, and appropriately enough, there was more bullsh*t than wrestling in his blood.
Hulk Hogan had to literally ask the Impact Wrestling audience to get him over. "Everything you've given to me," he said, in front of an eye-watering UK crowd, "I want you to give to him." Fans gave their support to Hogan because he was an actual magician of a worker. Garrett Bischoff, with his punchable little Martin Shkreli face, somehow wasn't an entitled heel but rather a never-say-die babyface with the most b*llocks histrionic selling you've ever, ever seen. His phony badass posturing was more offensive. The pissant once squared up to Kurt Angle, and the referee just had to hold him back, in case he got his hands on one of the industry's hardest ever shooters. Bischoff motioned towards Angle as if he was a hissing cat, absolutely pathetic in his lack of intimidation yet infuriating in his claim of it.
He was successful, only in that actually making it to screens was, truly, an accomplishment.
As for the dirt worst...