10 Wrestling Gimmicks Created By The Last People You’d Expect

1. Isaac Yankem

Who You Think Created It: The WWF's creative services dept.

Who Actually Created It: Occupational gimmicks were nothing new for the WWF in 1995. They had race car drivers, country singers, garbage men, plumbers and more, but the company somehow managed to squeeze an evil wrestling dentist onto the roster by way of big Glenn Jacobs.

Before becoming Kane two years later, the poor guy had to pay a dental surgeon with rotten teeth, and it was as thrilling as it sounds. The kicker is that this wasn't a gimmick someone on the creative team had blurted out. No, it was actually Bobby Heenan's work.

Bruce Prichard revealed via his pod that Heenan was the one who first cracked jokes about a dentist called 'I. Yankem' backstage. He'd quipped that it might not be a terrible idea to introduce a character called that and play it for laughs.

The company did exactly that a few years after Heenan had left for WCW.

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