10 Wrestling Gimmicks That Only Lasted ONE Segment
8. Key
Technically, this is cheating.
Vic Grimes' short-lived drug dealing character did work a match on the 14 August 1999 episode of Shotgun, but...who was really watching Shotgun Saturday Night in '99? Seriously, it was perhaps the least-essential wrestling show of the era by that point, and that includes those dreadful Worldwide re-runs WCW ran on Channel 5 in the UK.
If you've spotted a digression, don't be surprised - Key didn't do much in the WWF. He showed up on the 26 July edition of Raw to confront The Godfather (a drug dealer feuding with a pimp, folks), and that was pretty much that. Somebody backstage must've pointed out that dressing a guy like he was covered in cocaine probably wasn't for the best.
Grimes' gimmick was shelved, Key was never seen again on flagship programming, and Grimes waltzed off to ECW. There, oddly, he became part of 'Da Baldies' with Phantasio victim Tony DeVito. Isn't it wonderful when things (kinda) work out well?