10 Wrestlers Who Visibly Hated Their Own Gimmicks
3. Dean Douglas
"It wasn't two weeks in to my run, and I thought "I've made a f*ckin' mistake," Douglas told HannibalTV.
This ostensible rib was next-level in its creative cruelty: we can't even be bothered to teach this guy a lesson, so have the poor prick teach it to himself. Shane Douglas was a rebellious, influential vanguard of the new school in ECW, and to underscore the extent to which WWE so often gets it wrong with guys imported from elsewhere, he became the establishment...
...of an Ivy league university?
It was all so consummately backwards, and one doesn't require a posthumous shoot interview to learn that the Dean hated his lot in the WWF. Cutting a promo aimed at Diesel, to whom he graded a "big D" - how the f*ck did Vince not know what an F was, having A) devised this gimmick and B) looked at the pay-per-view revenues during Diesel's run as WWF Champ - Douglas looked silently mortified.
That promo was stunning in its lack of application, and there's a great tell towards the end. He described himself as "perhaps the next WWF Champion," immediately following which he appeared vacant for a two second moment that lasts for a lifetime. It's as if he knew how ludicrous a notion that was, and how little conviction there was in the verbiage.
"Perhaps".
"Probably not."