The WORST Wrestling Moment Every Year (1989 - 2025)

36. 1990 | What’s In The Egg?

Terri Runnels
WWE.com

Ahead of Survivor Series 1990, the WWF wheeled out a gigantic egg prop on television and promised that it would hatch at the pay-per-view itself. 

This sounds and in fact was very stupid, but the WWF preyed upon the most basic psychological hook there is. When you withhold information from people, people are desperate to learn it. 

It was a gigantic egg. You don’t even need hindsight to realise that nothing cool was going to emerge from it. It was hardly as if Stan Hansen was going to hatch out of the bastard and lariat Hulk Hogan into next week. Putting something in a box and teasing the contents is very easy - WWE got people excited over some mysterious shots of shoes in December 2025 - but delivering a great reveal is the hard bit. 

The Gobbledy Gooker reveal was as bad as it gets. Inside the egg was Hector Guerrero dressed up in a turkey mascot outfit. Under the guise, the guy could not wrestle. He wore stupid claw boots and a novelty head mask that was at least a 6 on the McDonagh scale. This anthropomorphic turkey was an abomination. It danced with Mean Gene Okerlund as Roddy Piper very optimistically said that the Gooker had won the hearts of Stamford. Turns out Piper started saying deranged nonsense well before the mid-1990s. 

Apparently, the Gooker was meant to be the WWF’s mascot. It didn’t take, and after an apparent disaster at a house show, in which Guerrero fell on his ass after attempting a handspring, the turkey was killed off.

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