10 WWE Joke Pushes That Stopped Being Funny
9. Gerald Brisco & Pat Patterson
Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson hadn't lived outlived their usefulness as comedy characters by 2000 - such was the rich magnificence of the product at the time - but their dragged up Hardcore Title scrap at King Of The Ring that year was a case took good WWE humour and utterly decimated it with bad.
Brisco had hilariously robbed a sleeping Crash Holly of his Hardcore Title due to the champion's exhaustion, then lost it to fellow bumbling sidekick Patterson the very same night. The first ever Intercontinental Champion's attempt to disguise himself as a woman to avoid getting harassed resulted in the pair both donning wigs and make-up and brawling in and out of the Divas' locker room. A fuming Vince McMahon stumbled over the rubble of their cross-dressed hostilities and booked a Hardcore Evening Gown match to settle things.
The gags and references were dated by hour one, let alone during a listless three-minute clash on a loaded 'Big Five' pay-per-view that mercifully concluded with Crash taking back the battered strap anyway.