10 WWE Sidekicks Who Were A Total Liability
1. Pepper
In 1997, Allen Al Snow Sarven finally began to get over, having come up with the notion of a schizophrenic gimmick with a prop mannequin head as his best friend. Head was incorporated into his theme music, prompted enthusiastic crowd response and was clearly more over with the audience than Snow himself.
However, in 1999 Head would be taken out of the game when Prince Albert (the former Albert/Matt Bloom/Giant Bernard/Tensai) impaled her on a spike. Sarven then began bringing a Chihuahua named Pepper to the live shows, claiming that she also spoke to him, and was his new best friend. The dog was the subject of a number of segments broadcast to the world, none of which covered Sarven or his character with glory.
Her biggest claim to fame, however, probably lies with the Big Boss Man angle involving her, in which she was held to ransom by the Bossman, who - we're not kidding - dealt with losing a match to Al Snow by cooking his dog and serving it to him. This led to the infamous Kennel From Hell blow-off to the feud, one of the most overbooked of the WWF's run at the time, a gimmick match of almost Russoesque proportions.
A Hell In A Cell style cage, fitted around a traditional case, with a pack of wild dogs let loose between the cages. The objective was to escape both cages without being attacked by dogs. Pepper was rolling in her grave.