10 Wrestlers Who Visibly Hated Their Own Gimmicks
5. Braden Walker
Wrestling promoter Vince McMahon has a tendency to ban words. He doesn't like the words "hospital", "shot", "international" and "wrestling" - and, in the case of poor Braden Walker, he didn't like the word "vaseline" when he absolutely f*cked him over.
Walker's WWE career was outstandingly unremarkable - so much so that he is now the byword for it. WWE could not have cared less about him. It was a black comedy pièce de résistance, Walker's career; a very entertaining personality as part of America's Most Wanted, he debuted in WWE as...a guy, which might preclude him from a list centred on gimmicks, were it not for his quasi-comedian schtick.
"Knock knock," he said, infamously, to Armando Estrada. "Braden Walker," he answered. "And I'm gonna knock your brains out."
Now, Braden aimed for a gruff, no-nonsense delivery - but he couldn't have looked more uninterested.
Actually, yes, yes he f*cking could have. This was a wrestler so haunted by his inevitable fate that he literally put his hands on his hips as he made his ring entrance. He was a bit like Orange Cassidy, only Orange Cassidy does the whole couldn't-care-less thing as a bit.