Top 100 Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever

Why do 10 when we can do 100 Worst Wrestling GImmicks from WWE, WCW, TNA, ECW etc

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1. Top 100 Worst Wrestling Gimmicks Ever
2. top 100 Worst WWE Wrestling Gimmicks
3. Top 100 Awful Wrestling Gimmicks Ever
4. 100 Seriously Bad Wrestling Gimmicks
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[urzmontst.george]

"We're out of ideas."
"Lets try something racist."

[NolanGreyson]

The Fake Undertaker in my childhood was great point of discussion. We went hours and hours of arguments and discussion in our school over who is real and who is fake, which one is living and which one is deadman. One of coolest storyline.

[night]

Phantasio is actually a really cool idea for a wrestling gimmick. A magician who uses tricks to win matches.

[Thundarr]

A note about the Saba Simba gimmick. While some people saw the gimmick as being racist or beneath Tony Atlas, when the then WWF contacted Atlas and offered him the gimmick, he was broke, unemployed, and homeless, sleeping on park benches at night (when he could get away with it). So as bad as that gimmick might be, it literally saved Tony Atlas's life.

[ImThePrs]

For me when it comes to terrible gimmicks, WCW had the quantity while WWF/WWE had the quality

[NaNaNaBatKyle]

WWE absolutely WASTED DDP, and you will never convince me otherwise.

[Sideshownicful]

According to Vince doing commentary during one of his matches, Mantaur was actually half-man half-Minotaur....

[benziescha]

Black Reign and Vinnie Vegas were pretty good, I remember them being well received. And maybe a guilty pleasure, but I personally enjoyed Taker v Taker at Summerslam 94 🤷‍♂️

[nessdragon]

One important detail to note about the Knuckleball gimmick is that Major League Baseball was on a notorious players' strike at the time, and the gimmick was WWE's attempt to cash in on those headlines. So it's not as random as it seems at first glance, but in context it's clear that the gimmick was pandering and pathetic, which arguably makes it even worse.

[PedroBenolielBonito]

The Renegade was literally created because WCW had teased the actual Ultimate Warrior coming on board, but negotiations had fallen through, so they'd gone with the 'we have Ultimate Warrior at home'/Wish version.

[JDjade]

So Nailz, the SA'd ex-convict gimmick who never took his prison outfit off, and the Berserker, a Viking who only ever learned to speak one syllable from birth, were somehow not bad enough to be on this list??

[lindsayhockingberry]

So many of these are not gimmicks, they're just very short storylines (Piggy James, Big Show as a baby, Shelton Benjamin's Momma, etc...)

[Bigdaddyhammer]

Have to make a correction for you. Friar Ferguson and Bastion Booger were portrayed by Mike SHAW not Mike Bell.

[zlinedavid]

6:05 Correction: Leviathan was OVW, not FCW. And differing opinion, it wasn’t that bad. I was at an OVW show with Leviathan/Batista on the card, and it was easy to see that this guy was going to be a star. The gimmick was a little hokey, but he still wrestled like a badass.

[andyq]

1. ECW Zombie was not supposed to be a serious character.
2. Holy crap, I didn't know about the Nazi and Klan gimmicks. How the hell aren't they 1 and 2?

[hansgraichen]

I loved Tugboat, Red Rooster and Akeem back in the day.

[theupliftchannel]

I liked Duke The Dumpster when I was younger. I thought he was fun

[XtTapelatakettle]

It's funny that the Bastion Booger's finishing move was to teabag his opponent.

[FreedomDiaries]

The fact they were able to bridge the Festus character And give a smart in universe explanation makes it one of the best. Also made for a great story.

[DarkScorpionPete]

Batista as “Leviathan” was pretty successful in OVW, actually. His gimmick does not belong on this list.