15 Mid 90s WWE Superstars You Totally Don't Remember
7. Friar Ferguson (1993)
At some point in the history of wrestling, the story has to be told about Mike Shaw, a man who went from being incredibly super over with his first gimmick to having a lessened level of success with each gimmick thereafter. If a student of wrestling, check out Mike Shaw's work with the Karachi Vice stable in 80s Calgary as "Makhan Singh." A big hairy white guy playing a hairy native of India in an area of the world with racial/cultural prejudices against Indians? Seems odd, but it works. After playing escaped mental patient Norman The Lunatic in WCW, Shaw moved onto the WWF - and before being cast as disgusting, yet lovable fat dude Bastion Booger - he was a "mad monk" named Friar Ferguson for April of 1993. The gimmick was deemed insensitive by the Catholic Church of New York and dropped, but wow...from Makhan Singh to Friar Ferguson. Wrestling, lol.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
