WWE Gimmicks That FAILED The HARDEST Every Year (1985-2025)

32. Kwang (1994)

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Savio Vega could've used his entrance attire as Kwang when boring the life out of fans at the 1995 King Of The Ring, because at least then he'd have been able to hide his face. More on that pay-per-view in a bit. For now, the full spotlight goes on Savio's earlier ninja gimmick that struggled to ever really get going. Kwang became a meme-like internet joke years later.

'What's the sound of 300lbs of s*** hitting the fan? Kwang!'. That sort of thing.

People did not take to the character, probably because it was introduced as the kind of guise WWF/WWE fans will never care about; Kwang was a stereotypical, mysterious ninja who "hailed from Japan". A mask hid Vega's Puerto Rican descent, but nobody was fooled. Nobody was particularly interested in anything Kwang was doing either.

At first, it was tempting to put Brian Lee's stint as 'The Underfaker' in this spot, but that was a one off pay-per-view quest for the company. Kwang, meanwhile, was supposed to be a full-time concern who'd bother the upper-midcard decks and maybe even blossom into something even bigger than that.

Spoiler alert: It was never going to happen. The 1994 Royal Rumble set a stark tone for what was to come for Kwang when he entered as #4, lasted less than 6 minutes, didn't eliminate anybody and was thrown out by match MVP Diesel like some scrub extra who'd wandered in for a payday.

Bret Hart was tasked with getting more out of Kwang during a match on Raw afterwards, but the heel's drastic slide down the card following that bout should tell you everything you need to know about how well it went. Kwang was kwap, so to speak.

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