10 Wrestlers Who Visibly Hated Their Own Gimmicks
6. The Stalker
No, not Diamond Dallas Page, but Barry Windham - a burly, credible JCP super-worker boasting an awesome brand of physical charisma, but f*ck that, he's in the WWF now, Jack, so repackage him.
This now-hapless motherf*cker emanated from the funniest wrestling locale ever. He was a game hunter, you see. A bit like the schtick Ryback is chancing on Twitter right now, who incidentally has as much chance of success. He stalked not the woods, nor the forest, but "the environment".
"The environment".
"The wild," surely, sounds far cooler, far more dangerous, but Vince McMahon and his synonyms ran wild over WWE long before the days of local medical facilities and eliminators and Asukas - you know, because by virtue of being Japanese, she is somehow a synonym of Io Shirai.
"I didn't really like it, you know, the face paint and all that," Windham told HannibalTV.
This much was evident from his onscreen appearances. "If it were dinner, I'd be full!" Stalker said, during a deeply poor introductory vignette in which he just did a laughably phoned-in, camp villain laugh. He also wrestled The Goon, in wrestling's version of that two Spidermans meme.
He wrestled with zero verve or physicality, but that might have just been the WWF telling one of Ric Flair's greatest ever opponents that he didn't know how to work.