10 WWE Gimmicks That Seriously Took The Piss
8. Kerwin White
With all due kudos to the lads at OSW Review, the state of your f*cking catchphrase/name/gimmick/life, mate.
Or are we the ones the wrong here here? "If it ain't White, it ain't right" so said Chavo Guerrero dressed as a middle class suburban golfer, in something so offensive to its bones that it was dropped instantly following his uncle Eddie's tragic passing.
With 'Latino Heat' sadly taken, it was down to Guerrero to pay tribute to his own family's immense legacy. This evidently wasn't of concern to the company in 2005 when they tried to hang a lampshade over their systemic racism by daring to suggest this was a piss take at the expense of the Connecticut elite.
A moment on that as well. Vince McMahon crafted Hunter Hearst Helmsley in the exact same image, keen to take a shot at the stuffy types he felt judged him for being such a godd*mn salt-of-the-earth local resident. A character he devised while sat poolside out the back of his Greenwich mansion. Kerwin White wasn't tone-deaf. McMahon just is.