10 WWE Wrestlers You Can’t Believe Got Over
2. Steve Blackman
Steve Blackman was, in a word, generic.
His gimmick, loosely, was of a martial artist. The nunchucks were a giveaway. He also wore black baggy pants, à la Kane circa 2015, and possessed essentially zero attributes required to get over in North America at the turn of the millennium. He wasn’t a great talker, possessed little in the way of charisma, and didn’t have the technical flair to truly steal WWF mid cards away from the turgid likes of Mideon and Gangrel.
What Blackman did possess, in addition to his tribal drumbeat of an awesome entrance theme, was a stoic believability and what must have been 0.01% body fat. The man was ripped, and looked profoundly capable of beating the sh*t out of you. That crucial lack of personality even created scope for comedy; as Al Snow’s reluctant tag team partner, the man was a deadpan delight.
Suspension of disbelief is the prerequisite for wrestling success, and in the absence of any other marketable characteristic, Blackman made it his very essence.
He was, to use a more appropriate word, a badass.