9 Awful Proposed WWE Gimmicks That Thankfully Never Made It To TV

Gimmicks are important in wrestling. A guy or girl might be a good wrestler, capable of putting on four star matches on a regular basis, but if they don't have a decent gimmick/character then they're not going to be considered marketable and won't truly make that connection with the WWE universe. There have been some truly disastrous gimmicks in WWE over the years. It's something that's very hard to come back from. A bad gimmick can end a career, regardless of how talented the worker is. Indeed, many promising wrestlers have been written off after they have failed to get over with a poor gimmick. Mike Awesome was a great worker who was capable of having great matches, but a series of lame gimmicks in WCW pretty much finished him off as a player in American wrestling. Kevin Thorn was a wrestler whom WWE had high hopes for, but his Undertaker rip-off gimmick Mordecai killed his credibility. His re-emergence as the vampiric Kevin Thorn finished him off. The list goes on and on. Some wrestlers, however, managed to dodge a bullet. There have been major stars whose careers could have been over before they even had a chance to start, had they been saddled with gimmicks proposed to them by the creative team. Here are nine truly awful ones which, mercifully, never made it to television.