10 WWE Attitude Era Gimmicks That Didn't Get Over

5. Naked Mideon

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Sex sells, it's a well known adage. Much of WWF's success during the Attitude Era was down to the ramped-up levels of raunchiness on Raw, as a primarily adolescent audience tuned in for a glimpse of buxom beauties such as Sable, Lita, and Trish Stratus.

A less commonly held belief is that sex sells in the form of flabby naked men. Save for a very specific subset of society, it's an axiom that has never rung true.

It didn't work for Dennis Knight either. After being forced into satanic servitude by evil Ministry of Darkness leader The Undertaker, a broken and beaten Mideon took to streaking between matches wearing nothing but a fanny-pack and a thong.

Such is the subtle spectrum of awfulness for Attitude era wrestling, it's hard to know if this gimmick was more or less degrading for Knight than being a pig farmer. What is certain, is that nobody was tuning in to see a naked Phineas I. Godwinn. Those who were should be ashamed.

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