DIRTY BASTARDS That Made Wrestling GROSS! ?

1. Bastion Booger

Bastion Booger
WWE

Gross because he was asked to be and not because the man behind the gimmick was, Bastion Booger was Vince McMahon's lowest common denominator impulses coming to the front because he'd been forced to push an extremely controversial character to the back.

The Catholic Church of New York pushed back on a Friar Ferguson gimmick that pushed the real-life Mike Shaw as a wrestling monk, scaring McMahon enough into making Booger a man who loved food so much that he'd go beyond eating it to redecorating his face and body with all the various remnants of the sloppiest snacks.

There's a long list of characters that had jobs rather than being wrestler, but it's not like Booger was an over-eater who put things to one side when he wrestled. He did almost nothing in his matches, going out there with the expressed purpose of being able to get back to his dinner. He'd have begged the question "why does the company employ him?", had anybody cared to ask in between averting their eyes from his grim indulgence.

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Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation nearly 8 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 35 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz" Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast and its accompanying YouTube channel, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 62,000,000 total downloads. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has covered milestone events in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live. Follow him on X/Twitter - @MichaelHamflett