10 Wrestling Promos That Were Inadvertently Infamous

7. Bad Lucha Things

There are lots of cases of single promos making a career in a moment, but thankfully fewer that do the polar opposite. Kalisto is perhaps the leader of this inadvertently elite club after the live microphone he was afforded in 2016 morphed into a machine gun that riddled his main roster run with bullet holes.

Not every performer is blessed with verbal dexterity, but the NXT graduate had so little to actually do. Kalisto had only to say that he was excited to be on SmackDown and keen to take on Baron Corbin following their hostilities in previous weeks. What emerged from his inexperienced head was itself an advert for WWE's ordinarily obstructive over-scripting. Literally running away from the moment, Kalisto closed out his inane ramble by threatening to "make...a...good lucha thing" before darting out of shot. He's been trying to escape it ever since.

Though less prone to a botch in the ring as the first Sin Cara, he's now as associated with flubs as the former Mistico. WWE even added it to their front-of-house presentation of him, naming a dubstep reimagining of his entrance music 'Make A Good Lucha Thing'. It was yet another misstep for the gimmick, but thankfully one much easier to erase.

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