10 Wrestlers With The Worst Motivations

6. Lose Weight By Being Bastion Booger

Bastion Booger
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Vince McMahon is a strange cat. He makes decisions that seemingly make no sense at all, and he has a way of motivating or punishing people that is borderline psychopathic. Remove the ‘borderline’ part of that. The man is insane. WWE history is littered with examples where Vince punished an individual in a way that almost guaranteed that the situation would get worse.

None were more egregious than the creation of Bastion Booger. Arguably the most disgusting gimmick in a decade full of the things, Booger was portrayed by Mike Shaw, a Killer Kowalski-trained veteran out of Michigan. Previously known as Norman the Lunatic, Shaw was initially booked in WWF as Friar Ferguson, but the Catholic Church wasn’t about to let that happen. Yes, the Catholic Church quashed a Vince McMahon gimmick idea.

Forced back to the drawing board, Vince and the creative team decided that they weren’t very happy about Mike Shaw’s weight. What was the best way to encourage improvement on that front? How about giving Shaw the gimmick of a fat, slovenly pig, wrestling in dingy tights that redefined the word ‘tight’, with grease and all the rest included? Thought not.

Bastion Booger was a gimmick from hell, designed to punish a human being for being overweight. Booger's vignettes largely revolved around him eating gigantic amounts of food, displaying a gluttonous streak that was matched only by the psychopathic man-management of Vincent Kennedy McMahon.

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