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Paul Diamond was used to wrestling under a mask because in the 2nd version of The Orient Express he wrestled as Kato with partner Tanaka , Kato replaced Sato . The 2nd version of The Orient Express had a great match with The Rockers at Royal Rumble 1991 and another good one at UK Rampage 1991 . Tanaka and Diamond were no strangers either having previously teamed as Bad Company in AWA against as you might've guessed The (Midnight) Rockers .
They should of had him make a quick appearance at the royal rumble entry number 3 as sheamus and gunther look at each other and gunther tossing him out
I love Paul Diamond, can't believe you failed to mention his soccer career, his Kato/Haito gimmick, and the fact he took on Shawn Michaels in a title match
Regarding Golga, it wasn't just Vince who didn't think John Tenta would work as Earthquake after all the weight he lost. John Tenta himself didn't feel he would be believable in the Earthquake gimmick.
Al Snow was also Shinobi another ninja type under Camp Cornette then there's the one time gimmick s of Super Ninja who went against Ultimate Warrior on Saturday Night Main Event , Super Liger who was Chris Jericho and Japanese promoters couldn't believe were the same man and who could forget Gobbledygooker ?
I guess Terry Gordy in a executioner hood wasn't memorable enough to make the cut here. Maybe next time, Terry... Also, what about that mask the Undertaker wore in '96 to hide his broken nose? I kind of made him look like an Under-Dorker to me...
The Executioner gimmick is a tried and tested gimmick in singles and tag teams worldwide throughout the years while most failed there was a masked tag team known as The Executioners in the WWWF(an old name before they became WWF or WWE) and they were tag team champions . Unfortunately as you said Gordy was one of the unsuccessful ones mind you he had one pay per view match against Undertaker and that was it .
Someone could make the mask power gimmick work, it would have to be a Lucha. When he doesn’t wear a mask, he’s useless and gets beat easily, but when he wears the mask, he’s unstoppable. They would have to be stellar in ring, someone like Bandido.
In all these years, and having watched at the time, I never realized that Golga was good ole Earthquake. That Max Moon mask, from the front, looks like someone wearing a pair of underwear on their face. It's the huge cutouts around the eyes. They look like leg holes. Haha! What a terrible getup all around though. The Repo Man mask, while incredibly goofy, wasn't meant to be a Lone Ranger mask. It was one of the old timey thief/bandit mask from the old costumes.
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That's not Konnan in the thumbnail. That's Thomas Borić (Paul Diamond) in that mask. Konnan's Max Moon mask was a prototype and looked quite different from the final design. Konnan probably could have used a different gimmick, though any good wrestler could make any gimmick work. That Max Moon character was literally out of this world, though it wasn't any worse than some of the other gimmicks floating around that time. The costume was luchadoresque, he could have made it work had he wanted to.
How could you leave out Cody Rhodes and that stupid protective mask he wore for awhile, during his first run in WWE? Kevin Nash's Oz mask from WCW was another one.
If you're old enough or watched a lot of WWF/WWE videos you might remember Virgil had a similar mask to Cody Rhodes in 1992 so did The Undertaker in 1995 .
@@robertclark2253 I'm 58 years old. So yeah, I got that far back. I had forgotten about Virgil's mask. Didn't Taker wear his mask after Mabel hurt him with a leg drop?
That guy who attacked random heel wrestlers during the early 90's . Yes I know it turned out to be Brutus Beefcake but nothing came of it even though his most famous/infamous attack was on Earthquake .
Kato . Sato was an original member of Orient Express , mind you Tanaka and Diamond , without a mask , were no strangers they were a tag team in AWA known as Bad Company and one of their feuds was against The (Midnight) Rockers ..
@@robertclark2253 I realized that once I wrote it. I was too darn lazy to go back and look for the comment. Lmao. Thanks for clearing that up for the other readers. Much appreciated 👍
Although only a one time gimmick The Red , Black and Blue Knights who teamed with Shawn Michaels at Survivor Series 1993 against Bret , Owen , Keith and Bruce Hart .
I'm pretty sure the thumbnail Max Moon is Paul Diamond: the second Max Moon. Watch the first episode of Raw. In a match with Shawn Michaels Diamond/Max Moon's pyro shooting wristband missfires on his ring entrance.
Paul Diamond deserved better . He and Tanaka as Badd Company were awesome . One of THE most underrated tag teams of all time . I wish they wouldve lasted longer and went on to more fame in a bigger company with that gimmick . Orient Express yeah I know . But it wasnt the same .
Golga's mask is great, turned up in WWF attitude, even in the ecw game. Chainsaw charlie?terry funk's use of the stocking made sense, he was a bandit. Golga just needed a different move set. Shock-master, yes, that was dumb, Super shockmaster had a better mask. Avatar, again, mask is cool, it, ended up in wwf attitude. Al should have worn it to the ring, not put it on in the ring, that was dumb.
The thing is, we know what Reggie, Akid & even Rey look like, .Hurricane hated the mask they gave him, & told Vince personally to Takers amusement. Vince asked Helms what did he want then & they came up with something else.I,d kinda take a bad mask over smudgy facepaint anyday.
I always find it cute when people forget or just don't know that Barry Darsow was also Krusher Kruschev in the NWA (mostly in JCP). Arguably as big or bigger a run than when he was in Demolition in WWF.
Yes! He was part of a Soviet stable with Ivan Koloff and Nikita Koloff, and his character Krusher Kruschev was supposed to be an American of Russian decent who sided with the Koloffs. The babyfaces in JCP called referred to him as a traitor.
How did none of the retribution members make this list. They actually could have been one entry themselves. They had to decide those masks during the Christmas party or something.
Im not a fan of carmella but i thought she actually had a nose injury. Thats why she was wearing it. Its a cool mask to me but maybe better given to someone else the thumbnail mask at least maybe Nikki Cross or Piper Niven
That has nothing to do with the video and no, kaiser shouldn't. He should stay with GUNTHER for awhile, he adds too much to GUNTHER character and presentation.
Although related to Rikikshi , Rosie was part of the tag team 3 Minute Warning with Jamal who went on to become Umaga . Rikikshi was Fatu part of the tag team The Headshrinkers who were Tag Team champions for a while in 1994 after beating The Quebecers after losing the tag belts and teaming with Sionne as The New Headshrinkers Fatu went solo for a while before becoming The Sultan managed by Iron Sheik and Bob Backlund alll this before becoming Rikikshi . Yes I remember Chris Jericho as Super Liger and made a comment involving Super Liger .
My mistake I thought you were talking about Rosie and Rikikshi as the same person . After I read your comment again I realized you were talking about them separately .
@@robertclark2253 with regards to Super Liger, Jericho was given the gimmick to feud with Jyushin Liger in Japan but commented the mask was so hard to see in that he found it hard to wrestle, and when a legend like Jericho struggles to put on a good match with another legend like Liger, you know it has to be a bad mask
Carmella's mask wasn't bad she made it work for here they just took her off tv they really been holding her back she gets over with anything she does or creative makes her do she gets it over. You need to remake this video sir.
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Will you be making any more documentary style videos??
"WHAT A RUSH" The Road Warriors Story
"Do The Mario" or "Often imitated never duplicated" The Lou Albano story
"Big Cat" The Ernie Ladd Story
"Russian Bear" The Ivan Koloff Story
00:36 Chainsaw Charlie
2:16 Golga
3:31 Carmella
4:51 Scryps
06:18 The Shockmaster
07:56 Avatar
9:24 Aldo Montaya
10:57 Max Moon
13:02 Mantuar
14:36 Kwang
16:22 The Repo Man
Much appreciated. Timestamps really are very nice to have for quick reference.
Thank you.
Paul Diamond was used to wrestling under a mask because in the 2nd version of The Orient Express he wrestled as Kato with partner Tanaka , Kato replaced Sato . The 2nd version of The Orient Express had a great match with The Rockers at Royal Rumble 1991 and another good one at UK Rampage 1991 . Tanaka and Diamond were no strangers either having previously teamed as Bad Company in AWA against as you might've guessed The (Midnight) Rockers .
I hate the Scrypts character that Reggie did. The mask was so awful too.
It looked like it didn't even fit 😂
The character wasn’t the worst and he got rid of the mask not too long after
They should of had him make a quick appearance at the royal rumble entry number 3 as sheamus and gunther look at each other and gunther tossing him out
FACTS.
Looked like your mother made it.
A list that includes Repo Man? Simon Miller is all warm and fuzzy in his tum-tum over this.
Carmella worst mask ever
Yep
but it was supposed to be bad? it was part of her character to be oblivious and self-absorbed at that time
She’s terrible all together
FACTS.
I thought it was cool she rocked it for me
Well about Kwang, Vega used the gimmick in Mlw and even entered twice in the third battle riott match as both Kwang and Savio Vega
I love Paul Diamond, can't believe you failed to mention his soccer career, his Kato/Haito gimmick, and the fact he took on Shawn Michaels in a title match
This was hilarious! I hope Simon Miller got his Repo Man fix in!😂😂😂😂😂😂
Carmella should have went with a street fighter Vega style mask if she was just gonna take his gimmick anyway
ngl Chainsaw Charlie was lowkey unsettling with that stocking
the sultan says hello.
Gotta disagree on Kwang. I thought that mask was dope. And his entrance gear looked cool too.
And how dare you soil the name of the Repo Man.
Regarding Golga, it wasn't just Vince who didn't think John Tenta would work as Earthquake after all the weight he lost. John Tenta himself didn't feel he would be believable in the Earthquake gimmick.
Al Snow was also Shinobi another ninja type under Camp Cornette then there's the one time gimmick s of Super Ninja who went against Ultimate Warrior on Saturday Night Main Event , Super Liger who was Chris Jericho and Japanese promoters couldn't believe were the same man and who could forget Gobbledygooker ?
Let us not forget that a bad masked gimmick can actually destroy careers too.
@8:48 What is going on ring side? The guy unscrewing a pole with some sort of camera on top?
I liked Carmella’s mask… well, not the mask, but the story that surrounded why she wore it.
I guess Terry Gordy in a executioner hood wasn't memorable enough to make the cut here. Maybe next time, Terry...
Also, what about that mask the Undertaker wore in '96 to hide his broken nose? I kind of made him look like an Under-Dorker to me...
The Executioner gimmick is a tried and tested gimmick in singles and tag teams worldwide throughout the years while most failed there was a masked tag team known as The Executioners in the WWWF(an old name before they became WWF or WWE) and they were tag team champions . Unfortunately as you said Gordy was one of the unsuccessful ones mind you he had one pay per view match against Undertaker and that was it .
Someone could make the mask power gimmick work, it would have to be a Lucha.
When he doesn’t wear a mask, he’s useless and gets beat easily, but when he wears the mask, he’s unstoppable.
They would have to be stellar in ring, someone like Bandido.
they would have to do a good lucha.... thing
In all these years, and having watched at the time, I never realized that Golga was good ole Earthquake.
That Max Moon mask, from the front, looks like someone wearing a pair of underwear on their face. It's the huge cutouts around the eyes. They look like leg holes. Haha! What a terrible getup all around though.
The Repo Man mask, while incredibly goofy, wasn't meant to be a Lone Ranger mask. It was one of the old timey thief/bandit mask from the old costumes.
Today's wwe gear is all shiny pleather and plastic, majority of them look really corny compared to other companies
Konnan deserved way better than that
konan= KONNAN with 2 n's
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I will correct it thou for you
Have a nice day
That's not Konnan in the thumbnail.
That's Thomas Borić (Paul Diamond) in that mask.
Konnan's Max Moon mask was a prototype and looked quite different from the final design.
Konnan probably could have used a different gimmick, though any good wrestler could make any gimmick work.
That Max Moon character was literally out of this world, though it wasn't any worse than some of the other gimmicks floating around that time.
The costume was luchadoresque, he could have made it work had he wanted to.
@@igorivanov299 your right about that!
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How could you leave out Cody Rhodes and that stupid protective mask he wore for awhile, during his first run in WWE? Kevin Nash's Oz mask from WCW was another one.
If you're old enough or watched a lot of WWF/WWE videos you might remember Virgil had a similar mask to Cody Rhodes in 1992 so did The Undertaker in 1995 .
@@robertclark2253 I'm 58 years old. So yeah, I got that far back. I had forgotten about Virgil's mask. Didn't Taker wear his mask after Mabel hurt him with a leg drop?
@@nates6595 Undertaker wore the mask after he was jumped by Yokozuna and Mabel and wore it right up to Royal Rumble 1996 .
It's funny he mentions shredder and masks, but fails to mention kevin nash player super shredder in TMNT2.
I heard a rumour that Carmella's mask came about because Vince thought her face was ugly.
That guy who attacked random heel wrestlers during the early 90's . Yes I know it turned out to be Brutus Beefcake but nothing came of it even though his most famous/infamous attack was on Earthquake .
Great List! I'm glad "Oz" wasn't mentioned. Poor Kev. Conrad got the cape.
Carmella's gimmick with the mask is kind of interesting - reminds me of Vega from Street Fighter. Could've been something cool with a better mask
It wasn’t just Vince,it was Russo and Dunn that really thought NOBODY would recognize some of these people.
The Repo Man was awesome!
SCRYPTS feels like a gimmick that even Chikara would call stupid
FACTS😂.
Paul Diamond had 2 masks. He was also Sato of Orient Express
Kato . Sato was an original member of Orient Express , mind you Tanaka and Diamond , without a mask , were no strangers they were a tag team in AWA known as Bad Company and one of their feuds was against The (Midnight) Rockers ..
@@robertclark2253 I realized that once I wrote it. I was too darn lazy to go back and look for the comment. Lmao. Thanks for clearing that up for the other readers. Much appreciated 👍
@@LongIslandNowNo problem and thanks for both your reply and your honesty .
I think of Carmella with this topic..😂😂.. love ur channel Andy.. Terry funks mask was always funny to me..pantyhose..Terry was a badass..
Although only a one time gimmick The Red , Black and Blue Knights who teamed with Shawn Michaels at Survivor Series 1993 against Bret , Owen , Keith and Bruce Hart .
You can't put Mantuar on here so close to him dying that's just wrong.
Black Scorpion , The Johnsons , The Ding Dongs , Arachnaman , Yellow Dog , the original Los Conquistadores , this list could be near endless .
I'm pretty sure the thumbnail Max Moon is Paul Diamond: the second Max Moon. Watch the first episode of Raw. In a match with Shawn Michaels Diamond/Max Moon's pyro shooting wristband missfires on his ring entrance.
I actually liked the avatar mask i mean it's a lot better than aldo Montoya and scrypts
Where did the idea of Ottman wrestling in the Stormtrooper helmet come from? Nobody before or since has wrestled in a helmet but he was going to?
The avatar character is actually a good idea
I think Simon Miller would like to have a word with you about Repo Man
Everyone shits on the Oddities, but they were one of the most over midcard acts of the Attitude Era
Paul Diamond deserved better . He and Tanaka as Badd Company were awesome . One of THE most underrated tag teams of all time . I wish they wouldve lasted longer and went on to more fame in a bigger company with that gimmick . Orient Express yeah I know . But it wasnt the same .
The title of the worst has to, has to go to schrypts!!
God that was more awful than shockmaster...
The shock master should have been a playable character in either WCW of now WWE games complete with botched entrance 😆
@@Dr_1212he'd be the biggest star in shithole aew
Golga's mask is great, turned up in WWF attitude, even in the ecw game. Chainsaw charlie?terry funk's use of the stocking made sense, he was a bandit. Golga just needed a different move set. Shock-master, yes, that was dumb, Super shockmaster had a better mask. Avatar, again, mask is cool, it, ended up in wwf attitude. Al should have worn it to the ring, not put it on in the ring, that was dumb.
wait, hold up. CHAINSAW CHARLIE WAS TERRY FUNK?!?!
And moreover, was Terry Funk's IDEA.
@@AndreNDP Yeah and apparently he borrowed the pantyhose from Chyna .
Max Moon wouldn't be out of place in a 1960's Showa Era Godzilla film. Toho was all about aliens in that time frame.
I had no idea Max Moon was Konan
Reggie is from St. Louis, not Memphis
Carmela was supposed to look like Hot Squidward. She is a heel!
Hahaha hot squidward
How can you mention masks and shredder and not mention that kevin nash played super shredder in TMNT2.
The thing is, we know what Reggie, Akid & even Rey look like, .Hurricane hated the mask they gave him, & told Vince personally to Takers amusement. Vince asked Helms what did he want then & they came up with something else.I,d kinda take a bad mask over smudgy facepaint anyday.
For Vince McMahon, new characters represent new trademark opportunities as Bruce Prichard noted.
Kwangs mask was awesome.
And saying Al Snows mask is bad is like saying Hayabusas is bad considering it's the same mask
I always felt like avatar was supposed to be there Hayabusa but it never took off
Rey mysterio jrs mask is sick.. but he lost his character when he put it back on in 2002
I Heard teh Carmella mask storyline was originally planned for Eva Marie
OMG I remember "Alpo" Montoya!! Lmao
Do your homework. Vince McMahon didn't come up with "Chainsaw Charlie"
Barry Darsow’s best character was Crusher Crushev
I always find it cute when people forget or just don't know that Barry Darsow was also Krusher Kruschev in the NWA (mostly in JCP). Arguably as big or bigger a run than when he was in Demolition in WWF.
Yes! He was part of a Soviet stable with Ivan Koloff and Nikita Koloff, and his character Krusher Kruschev was supposed to be an American of Russian decent who sided with the Koloffs. The babyfaces in JCP called referred to him as a traitor.
How did none of the retribution members make this list. They actually could have been one entry themselves. They had to decide those masks during the Christmas party or something.
The Funker with hose on his head was definitely the oddest mask, I think. There are some completely ugly masks in this video.
Mantaur would of been fine today with the Vikings 😂
I never hated Mantaur he just shouldn't have mooed I get he passed a month ago but R.I.P. Mike
Poor paul diamond...goes from being one half of badd company, to kato in the orient express and then max moon.😂
Honorable Mentions:
*Rikishi as The Sultan
*Primo and Epico as Los Matadores
*Glacier
Jim Neidhart as Who
The Ding Dongs , Black Scorpion , The Johnsons , Arachnaman , Yellow Dog the original Los Conquistadores the list could be near endless .
Im not a fan of carmella but i thought she actually had a nose injury. Thats why she was wearing it. Its a cool mask to me but maybe better given to someone else the thumbnail mask at least maybe Nikki Cross or Piper Niven
Unpopular opinion
I think Ludwig Kaiser should be the one dethroning Gunther for the ic title at wm
That has nothing to do with the video and no, kaiser shouldn't. He should stay with GUNTHER for awhile, he adds too much to GUNTHER character and presentation.
Vince’s durag should count as a mask 😂
I disagree infinitely. Carmella's mask was great because it was SUPPOSED to be bad. This is like saying Right to Censor's theme song was bad.
Like he was Seth Rollins on crack 😂😂😂😂
Carmella's mask looks like a rip-off version of El Santo.
WWE did the same thing with Bray that they did with Funk. You want to get Fiend over STOP CALLING HIM THE FIEND BRAY WYATT.
Special mention for Rikishi and his sultan gimmick.
Black Scorpion , The Johnsons , The Ding Dongs , Arachnaman , Yellow Dog , Who ? . the original Los Conquistadores the list could be near endless .
What about The Gobbledy Gooker? That mask kinda sucked.
I mentioned him in an earlier comment but I'm glad someone else remembers him .
It's insane that Chainsaw Charlie was on this list at all, let alone at number 1, and the Gobbledy Gooker is nowhere to be found.
Dennis Rader and Gary Ridgway had the best masks, they are called masks of sanity
What about when Rikishi was the Sultan?
Earthquake shouldn't have came back as a masked unknown
8:07 it was also a ripoff of Japanese wrestling legend Hayabusa's FMW attire.
I kinda liked Chainsaw Charlie
You're not the only one!
Carmella looked like she bit the eyes and mouth out of a piece of deli ham then put glitter on it
Chris Jericho as Super Liger Rosie as the Superhero in traiining Rikishi as the Sultan
Although related to Rikikshi , Rosie was part of the tag team 3 Minute Warning with Jamal who went on to become Umaga . Rikikshi was Fatu part of the tag team The Headshrinkers who were Tag Team champions for a while in 1994 after beating The Quebecers after losing the tag belts and teaming with Sionne as The New Headshrinkers Fatu went solo for a while before becoming The Sultan managed by Iron Sheik and Bob Backlund alll this before becoming Rikikshi . Yes I remember Chris Jericho as Super Liger and made a comment involving Super Liger .
My mistake I thought you were talking about Rosie and Rikikshi as the same person . After I read your comment again I realized you were talking about them separately .
@@robertclark2253 with regards to Super Liger, Jericho was given the gimmick to feud with Jyushin Liger in Japan but commented the mask was so hard to see in that he found it hard to wrestle, and when a legend like Jericho struggles to put on a good match with another legend like Liger, you know it has to be a bad mask
@@geoffchurchill5492 FACTS.
@@geoffchurchill5492 I read that in some wrestling magazine can't remember which one though .
Now need to do wrestling coolest mask.
Unpopular opinion but i prefer Kane's fleshy monster mask over his early ones
The executioner??????
How is he not her but carmella is?????
Why is my man konnan on the thumbnail?
I forgot about rat faced knackers mask
The gimmick sucked, but I kinda liked the Kwang mask.
Carmella's mask wasn't bad she made it work for here they just took her off tv they really been holding her back she gets over with anything she does or creative makes her do she gets it over. You need to remake this video sir.
Kwang was awesome!
Axiums mask was awesome he look like a luchadore power ranger haha
You Got The Best Videos 📸 Ever Wrestle With Andy Keep Up The Good Work
You forgot Willow
Sin Cara Mask is the Most extreme.
The Sultan should have been included
Reggie is from my hometown
If you make a post you have to have a start a middle and an end.
Why do you keep saying if we're going to start with crap?
Does anyone remember Who?
Who is Who?
@@AnneBUZZTKO Who's not?
Who is a certain goatee wearing, tag team champion, from Canada? that Who? :P
@@wtbeecherActually Reno Nevada his more famous partners were from Calgary Alberta , Canada .
Carmella's most beautiful woman in the world thing to me made zero sense... not when you have Liv Morgan and Alexa Bliss on the roster
Kwang was just a Muta rip off