10 Gimmicks Other Wrestlers HATED

Sometimes, even the WWE locker room wants certain wrestlers to totally FAIL.

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[RobHaselrig]

I remember Sgt. Slaughter being pissy about Lacey Evans turning her actual career as a Marine into a character.

[packofjokers]

Goldberg hating Gillberg is hillarious.

[numshinfan]

"The goldust character was so different"

Me: *laughs in Gorgeous George*

[keabetsoemonnapula]

Man, Brodus Clay probably should've taken Taker's advice. But also can't go over direct instructions from your boss

[jayczzzya]

5:00 Triple H probably Kig of the Ring royalty gimmick because he probably thought if he won they'd force him to do that Jean Paul Lesveque gimmick again

[PresidentClambake]

To be completely fair to Undertaker: Brodus Clay failed because he was terrible. Rikishi, Too Cool, and Fandango have all had successful dancing gimmicks. Tyrus could never do the Rikishi flip bump.

[Brutalizur]

I the wayeeee you enunciateeee half your wordssssuh. Makes the videuhhhh engaging and and not at all a to watch.

[stingrey]

it wasnt stevie and godfather didnt get along. godfather was miserable about the gimmick change and took it out on stevie. stevie was just an actor playing a role and not the real leader of the group. he has apologized for his behavior since then.

[HolyHead]

Hold up, Bret Hart doesn't like Goldberg? Wow Bret never talks about that does he?

[claymathewselevator]

Fake Razor Ramon helped train Jinder Mahal

[supercrownjosie]

I think it's easy to look at Scott Hall and say he was being homophobic toward Goldust, but like. that's the point of the gimmick. it's a terrible gimmick, invented to stir homophobia in crowds. watch those early Goldust programs. that's the point. Scott not wanting to do them is, to me, a queer person, completely fucking understandable. I wouldn't want anything to do with it, either.

[Briansgate]

Simon, I agree with you about Miz. Lowkey, he has had one of the best careers ever. Hard to believe he's been in the wwe for 20 freaking years.

[MrJamess]

Maybe Mark(The Undertaker) should have used his backstage pull with Vince to help get that Gimick killed.

[evilwolfuk]

Am I the only one who loved the Funk O' Saurus and his theme tune - Somebody Call My Momma?

[Mau-mq]

Equating not liking the Goldust gimmick to homophobia is just lazy and stupid.

[dizzle]

Stevie Richards recently explained the heat between himself & The Godfather. Godfather was losing a ton of $$$ because of The Goodfather thing...and he held it against Stevie. Even though Stevie had zero control in the situation and was only doing his job/what he was told to do.

[gfear]

Goldberg got a kick out of Gillberg. He didn't hate the gimmick. He even said as much on the Stone Cold podcast.

[jamesreece]

Punk may not have realized that Cena wasn't the WWE poster boy because he was the best wrestler, he was merely the best "sports entertainer".

[masterrserch]

Not defending Goldberg kicking Bret, , but many people gloss over, or just forget, that Bret SMASHED the back of his head doing his dangerous Figure 4 On the Steel Post spot, AND he wrestled, traveled in planes (big head injury no-no), and kind of ignored some early warning signs.

Now I know Bret is from a different era--- u suck it up, and if u can GO, YOU GO...also, I wanna repeat that I'm not taking ANYTHING away from the actual kick from Goldberg, as things were all residual from that...

But pushing through a head injury, even back then when we were just scratching the surface on the seriousness of getting concussed, is bizarre.... especially when I believe WCW was still giving out guaranteed contracts & gave one to Bret, , but correct me if I'm wrong.
Maybe part of Bret being old school is having the mentality that if you rest, you don't get paid, &/or the more u miss time, the more you LOSE IT whenever you come back (the old "someone will take ur spot" thing)...

We'll never know...

Ultimately, totally non-injury related, but WCW immediately, consistently, & overwhelmingly dropping the ball on booking the then arguably best worker, AND hottest talent coming off the gigantic happening of the Montreal Screwjob, is the Craziest thing of all.
Goes to show you both how far Bischoff's head was up Hogan's arss, and how much "power" he and Nash had... it's like missing an uncontested layup

[CappyCorning]

Not quite the same thing but I do find the Kizarney picture at the end quite interesting. When the vignettes were being shown for him, I was totally lost. Not just because of the odd speech pattern but because I didn't get why a carnival worker would want to cross over into pro wrestling to begin with. It wasn't until he debuted on screen and J.R. talking about how pro wrestling was born at the carnival that I was willing to give the gimmick a chance. But sadly, by the time Kizarney got on screen, management had already given up on him and were just playing out the string.