9 WWE Gimmicks That Are Totally DEAD

5. Hit Row As…Anything!

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This isn’t said lightly or with any glee, but Top Dolla, Ashante Adonis and B-FAB are surely on the chopping block. Their return is now one year deep, has been a miserable flop, and they haven’t connected with fans as babyfaces or heels. Bummer!

If they are all kept around (fingers crossed WWE finds new roles for all three), then it’ll need to be as something else, ‘cause Hit Row has a stink attached to it now. People hear that name and either laugh or recognise that they should laugh lest they be verbally beaten senseless by a horde of social media addicts who gave up on the gimmick a long time ago.

It turns out that Vince McMahon didn't fail Hit Row. They failed him, and time spent under the watchful gaze of apparent fan Triple H has proved that. Sorry, but this is worse than the Mean Street Posse or The Social Outcasts (remember that?!).

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