10 WWE Booking Gimmicks And Characters Other Companies Are Doing Better

You'd think something as niche as this would give WWE room to make it their own and even own it.

When Angel Garza made his debut back in 2019 on the NXT brand, his boyish charms were accompanied by his penchant for ripping his trousers off mid-match, much to the fluttered joys of Beth Phoenix and Nigel McGuinness. This brief run was incredibly entertaining and fairly popular, and led to Garza capturing the Cruiserweight Championship in a belter of a match with Lio Rush.

However his main roster run has been a raving dud, from the false-start stable with Zelina Vega, to putting flowers up people's butts, flirting with Nia Jax, 24/7 Championship fodder, to now, a hopefully new beginning with cousin Humberto Carillo as part of Los Lotharios.

Meanwhile on the other side of the pond, NJPW's Taichi enters the ring as a singing 19th Century goth Lord whose attire gradually decreases, the more powerful he gets. For years now, Taichi has won matches, championships, the hearts of the crowd, and the heart of valet Miho Abe, with 2020-2021 being particularly fruitful for the Suzuki-gun member, capturing the IWGP Tag Team Championship three times with Zack Sabre Jr., and pulling out incredible performances against Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Tetsuya Naito and Kota Ibushi.