10 WWE Gimmicks That Overstayed Their Welcome
8. Funko Flop
Brodus Clay (January 9, 2012-December 16, 2013)
This was like getting excited at Christmas for the video game console with the quality graphics and getting a remote-controlled dancing turd that does nothing but scream and spew embarrassing catchphrases instead.
For TWO MONTHS, WWE ran hype packages getting fans pumped for Brodus Clay's re-debut, promising the same bruiser that served as Alberto Del Rio's heavy, ravaged NXT Season 4 and pummeled schmucks on the C-Show, Main Event. His debut kept getting pushed back until January 9, 2012 and then...
Planet. Funk.
These were the supposed whereabouts of what appeared to be a group of castoffs from Parliament Funkadelic known as The Funkasaurus and his Funkadactyls (Cameron and future 2-time Women's Champion Naomi). Bewildered fans watched as Brodus The Purple Dinosaur went on a near two-year run that included squashing promising careers like Damien Sandow, Dolph Ziggler and yes, even future WWE Champion Drew McIntyre. Peak insanity came at WrestleMania XXVIII, when Clay was given a flash mob segment with a bunch of women in nightgowns, old lady wigs and um... let's just say what looked like extra padding for a near 10-minute dance routine because his recycled theme song was titled "Somebody Call My Mama".
Between the joke being funny for only the first five minutes, delaying Naomi (who was MUCH more talented than partner Cameron) from her solo career, and scuttling Matt Bloom into a tag team called Tons of Funk, there's was a lot not to like here, provided you could stop cringing.