10 WWE Stars Who Desperately Need New Gimmicks

3. Ricochet

Tomasso Ciampa
WWE

Oh, Ricochet, what could have been?

Three years into his WWE tenure, the highlight of the former US Champion's WWE career remains a wacky vault out of the ring into the grid of Velveteen Dream. Well, that and being squashed in Saudi Arabia by Brock Lesnar, maybe. Ricochet's athleticism and body control are off the charts, the best in a company full of elite athletes. The problem is that the whole thing just sort of ends there.

If anything is to really happen with Ricochet in WWE, he needs a gimmick that is different to 'flies around and looks shocked a lot'. Why not put him under a mask and see where that goes? That Prince Puma was a pretty cool character, right? WWE loves its merchandise and there are few things cooler than a high-flying dude in a mask. Ricochet doesn't need to go the way of Sin Cara, Kalisto and others, but there's no reason to think he won't catch fire under the hood.

That is exactly what it reads like, an advocation for a total overhaul of the Ricochet character, right down to a different moniker. Give him a mask, a mouthpiece and meaning, and let's see what happens.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.