Every WWE Gimmick Match And The Wrestlers That Defined Them
9. Battle Royal - André The Giant
WWE named its annual Battle Royal after the legendary performer, drawing from his history of dominance in a match that, really, isn't going to be defined by anybody else any time soon.
The match exists to either appease some 30-odd under-utilised talents or create a new number one contender, and was essentially rendered antiquated in 1988. The first half of every battle royal ever is a tedious mass of static flesh. The second half is often fun and dramatic, but if you were tasked with naming the winner of every match in descending order, you would lose as emphatically as the first hapless prick to be tossed over the top rope.
Patchy or perversely entertaining at best, the Battle Royal can also descend into total farce, as it did in Saudi Arabia recently. That the Iron Sheikh won one of the more memorable matches in WWE lore is quite telling.