8 Schizophrenic Wrestlers Who Couldn't Figure Out Who They Were

The man who would eventually become Bill Eadie’s Demolition tag team partner also shares with him the distinction of changing from a reasonably successful regional gimmick to a bigger nationally recognised one.

In the NWA Krusher Kruschev was part of the feared Russian trio with Ivan and Nikita Koloff using the Freebird rule to defend the tag team gold, managing to tick the boxes of evil foreigner and 6 man tag team member with just one gimmick, who else could the WWF possible turn to when looking for the right man to become Smash of Demolition.

Coming into the mid-nineties Darsow realised that he needed a new gimmick, something that wasn’t as off the wall as a face painted, leather wearing brawler, something that was as cutting edge as the rest of a WWF roster that included evil clowns, wrestling bin men and a man/bull hybrid.

Enter, Repo Man, the wrestler who had intimate knowledge of your credit history and repossessed your belongings in the style of the 1960s Batman TV show villain The Riddler.

When this gimmick never caught on Darsow went visit some old friends in WCW and catch some shows but an altercation with Dustin Rhodes led to him getting a job with the company – which in later years a South African wrestler thought was how you applied for a job and tried the same with Randy Orton - and becoming The Blacktop Bully a gimmick for which I have no counter reference to, please feel free to enlighten me American readers.

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Now the mid-nineties WWF roster, rightfully, gets a lot of flak for its ridiculous assortment of gimmicks but most of them could be at least tenuously portrayed as someone tough and or threatening but golfers have not and will never be a suitable gimmick for a guy who’s supposed to be a tough guy grappler so Stewart Pain or the later “Mr Hole In One” Barry Darsow were never going to be more than jobber gimmicks