Wrestling Gimmicks -

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

You ever looked a character or an episodes and thought this character could've been done better or you could come up with better gimmick? Or was there a gimmick you really loved? Here's the thread to talk about it: ideas, improvements, favorites, guilty pleasures, etc.

To get the ball rolling, I was inspired by this article on movie characters that would make good wrestling gimmicks. I think a diva based off Angel Baby from The Devil's Rejects would be neat. Throw in a little Jeanette from Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines and you'd have a sexy, very deranged, fun-loving, child-like character. (Though a little toned down in some parts for the PG rating.) She'd be a fitting member of Wyatt Family

 

[XYZpdq]

La Parka

Whether it's LA Park, La Parka AAA, La Parka Negra, whoever. Dancing Skeleton is great.

 

[Frank Rizzo]

La Parka

Whether it's LA Park, La Parka AAA, La Parka Negra, whoever. Dancing Skeleton is great.

Couldn't agree more. The "Chairman" is the fucking man!

 

[CatParty]

 

[Strewth]

I loved Sean O' Haire's 'Devil's Advocate' vignettes. It's a real shame the gimmick never went anywhere.

 

[Frank Rizzo]

Good call on the Waylon Mercy gimmick CatParty. I really feel like, had Dan Spivey not had a career ending injury, he could have become an upper tier heel.

 

[CatParty]

Good call on the Waylon Mercy gimmick CatParty. I really feel like, had Danny Spivey not had a career ending injury, he could have become an upper tier heel.

in his matches, you can see how much trouble he was having moving around with a bum back. the character is so ahead of it's time, but you can tell he didn't have much longer left

 

[Frank Rizzo]

in his matches, you can see how much trouble he was having moving around with a bum back. the character is so ahead of it's time, but you can tell he didn't have much longer left

It's true, it really is true. Really makes you wonder "What if"? What if his back wasn't as bad? I really would have loved to see how they progressed and moved the character along/

 

[CatParty]

It's true, it really is true. Really makes you wonder "What if"? What if his back wasn't as bad? I really would have loved to see how they progressed and moved the character along/

he was so good in his prime. he absolutely killed people when he was in japan
just imagine mercy moving around like this:

 

[Frank Rizzo]

he was so good in his prime. he absolutely killed people when he was in japan
just imagine mercy moving around like this:

Spivey moving around like that, plus the Waylon Mercy gimmick?

Forget about it, the man would have basically written himself a ticket into main event (or at the very least, upper midcard) status.

 

[CatParty]

Spivey moving around like that, plus the Waylon Mercy gimmick?

Forget about it, the man would have basically written himself a ticket into main event (or at the very least, upper midcard) status.

and that brings us bray wyatt lol

 

[Frank Rizzo]

and that brings us bray wyatt lol

I might be alone on this, but I'm actually enjoying his matches with Dean Ambrose.

 

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

I loved Sean O' Haire's 'Devil's Advocate' vignettes. It's a real shame the gimmick never went anywhere.

I would've loved to have seen him become a corrupting force (have him manipulate a face into a heel).

Here's a few I've enjoyed that weren't mentioned...

I know some people thought this one was racist, but I thought when Kai and Tai would talk and act like badly dubbed kung-fu villains was funny. (And I'm a quarter Japanese myself.)

 

[Strewth]

INDEED.

 

[Le Bateleur]

I might be alone on this, but I'm actually enjoying his matches with Dean Ambrose.

I've liked it, too. Less for some of the gimmicky matches, more because it's two young guys who can go in the ring and on the mic, getting main event exposure.

I think that the Bray Wyatt gimmick has so much potential. He just needs to actually have a real impact on someone he feuds with in order to be a credible threat, rather than the guy who threatens people on the big screen for a few weeks. It's looking like he might face Undertaker at Wrestlemania - if he retires Taker then that might be just what he needs.

It also wouldn't hurt if he brought out his dead-on English accent now and then

 

[BatNapalm]

Kung Fuk Naki (actual typo on the WWE website that instantly eclipsed this amazingly tone-deaf gimmick, which lasted all of a few weeks in 200

And my favorite wrestling gimmick of all time....The Yeti

Spoiler: Pronounced YET-TAY

And why is he a mummy and not a mythical snow-beast like his name would suggest? Because fuck you. That's why.

He broke out of a block of ice, did a run-in, dry-humped Hulk Hogan in the ring for an uncomfortable amount of time, and the character was never seen again.

 

[Strewth]

Watching Halloween Havoc.

Completely forgot about this lunacy.

 

[Cuck Norris]

Some of my favorite, albeit, awful gimmicks came during that weird time period when WCW was just starting to pull ahead in the Monday Night Wars. It's like they had a dartboard full of adjectives and pop culture references and threw darts to pick their gimmicks.

This video does a pretty good job of summing it up.

Spoiler: Wrasslin'

In this corner, Victorian Kenny Rogers! In the other corner, White Sub-Zero From Mortal Kombat!

EDIT: And it's a shame too, the guy who was Glacier kept getting shit gimmick after shit gimmick, but he had real potential. It's a shame Vince values beefcake looks over in-ring ability.

 

[CatParty]

 

[cypocraphy]

best gimmick