Naw. The Boogeyman had a great look and you could tell Marty Wright was totally into it with everything he did. It was just wrong place, wrong time; weird dark gimmicks weren't gonna fly in an era of faceless Brock Lesner clones.
And John Tenta will always be Earthquake to me. Avalanche was OK since it's not much different from his WWF character, but The Shark and Golga? Horrible
Yeah, turning a charismatic fan favorite into a creepy stalker was one of WWF's all-time great sceewups. At least he seems to be doing good for a lot of people after his wrestling career.
I think that they did the whole concussion gimmick to punish him but it got over because that was a seriously entertaining gimmick until the mop. It is obvious this wasn't a punishment meant to teach him a lesson it was a punishment to destroy his career.
if anything, Phantasio was closer to Papa Shango. the closest comparisons to Taker, the black gear , hat and trench coat, and maybe the facepaint looked very, very lightly like the phantom mask, which hadn't been seen for a couple years.
Played straight as some kind of mystical monster or strictly as a joke the gimmick could have worked. The problem was they never quite seemed to make up their mind one way or the other. He often came across as too creepy to be funny but too silly to be scary.
Marty Wright is still working a few matches a year as the boogeyman to this day and i imagine Conventions too i wouldn't really say it ruined his career
Facts if a gimmick is memorable whether famous or infamous doesn't matter, that convention circuit is a savior for those flash in the pan "recognizable" figures in the industry.
Sorry man, really poor video in places 1) Del Rios was due to the Undertaker not the gimmick as you admitted so shouldn't be on the list 2) Boogeyman was literally the invention of Martin Wright himself, he was never expecting something "serious" given how old he was at the time. He literally thanks the WWE for letting him live out his dream and by the time his run ended, he wasn't interested in doing any more "full time" runs
Same. It was very striking and I'm not sure why it was seen as an unfortunate gimmick in this video; you could tell by everything Marty did (the face paint, the clock smashing and the weird disjointed walking) that he was totally into it.
To be fair, Saturn's whole Moppy gimmick got him more over than he ever was in the past (at least in WWE), and is pretty much the main thing that anyone really remembers him for.
@@blackice7408 Peacock? That's your problem, WWE has edited everything on Peacock, even the Attitude Era footage. I was watching wrestling when Boogeyman was around, he was over.
@TheeKingRayzor I know that. There were instances where I could tell some parts were added in or taken out throughout some episodes. I'll admit it's not the best thing to collect evidence with. But at my age when I didn't grow up seeing these vids live, it's all I got
Kimberly was also the leader of the Nitro Girls and a Playboy model who had taken part in many WCW storylines over the years. WWE just expected everyone to forget DDP was married to an incredibly beautiful woman and never even mentioned her.
@@chrischar9428 according to DDP's wikipedia page, he and Kimberly had an amicable separation in 2004 and legally divorced in 2005, so a couple of years after the Undertaker/stalker angle.
I think if Terry Taylor (racist clown) turned the tables and made the gimmick his own, it could have took off.. Terry was talented, he was a good promo, he could wrestle and had charisma.. I know he was disappointed in his gimmick but that's when I would have did all out insane stuff with that gimmick and got it over and Taylor had the talent to do so.. He just didn't try to..
I think Terry Taylor had essentially peaked when he became the Red Rooster. While he may have been able to have a Curt Henning-type of run, he wasn't going to be a main eventer in WWF or WCW at that time. The Red Rooster was a terrible gimmick, but I don't think it was the huge career destroyer it was made out to be.
@mwchesser I think if he put a little of himself in that gimmick I think he would have been a good upper mid carder.. I even agree the gimmick was goofy but even he knew the gimmick wasn't going to be a main event thinng, so why not have fun with it until his contract expired? He would have probably got it over big and sold a lot of merchandise behind it..
I've heard the gimmick was originally supposed to be about him acting cocky and bold, not acting like a literal chicken. Played that way it might have actually worked.
It's odd that it was The Undertaker that objected to Phantasmo, he was more like Doink than anything else. I guess if Taker and Doink had a child, it'd probably be something like Phantasmo. Maybe they could have done something with it. That first match was a bit too silly for him to ever be a main eventer though, at least back then. Now he'd probably be an AEW champion as he'd fit in perfectly there.
I wonder if the Tensai gimmick would've worked better if they didnt hide his face in the run up and leaned more into his time spent in Japan "training" and taking a new name. Another poor Creative choice i guess.
Apart from the fact on commentary they never claimed he was from Japan, and was a former WWE superstar who had gone there to wrestle. They just didn't say he was Albert
Mike Shaw was great as Norman The Lunatic (it was actually a brilliant gimmick.) He stunk as Friar Ferguson and Bastion Booger (although the latter in his debut ended Jimmy Snuka's WWF career in 1994.)
Don't forget the Boogeyman (which was actually a decent gimmick) could have been a formidable heel and opponent of the Taker, but Vince decided to ruin him by making him a face. Gene Snitzky also comes to mind, for he was misused twice in WWE. Vince and Don Callis (aka Cyrus/The Jackyl) BOTH ruined Robert Maillet (aka Kurrgan - who was unstoppable as a heel.) Too bad Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase was NOT around during the WWF Attitude Era (he was working for rival WCW at the time.) (DiBiase) would have given Maillet/Kurrgan an even huger push for title shots (Callis/Jackyl was a terrible choice for a manager.) The time we finally got to see a Kurrgan vs. Taker match is when Maillet was a face with the Oddities and Taker was the top heel as the Minister of Darkness - and that match was a complete JOKE. Taker annihilated Kurrgan in less than a minute. Would have NEVER been that way if Taker was a face and Kurrgan a heel, especially if DiBiase was still in WWF during the Attitude Era (and he managed Maillet with his Million Dollar Corporation.)
No they didn't. He was used pretty well, he just wasn't around long enough to do anything substantial. He went off to take care of his sister's kids after she died.
I remember seeing Phantasio's WWE match as a kid and i absolutely loved it. I tuned in week after week hoping to see him again and it never happened. I only found out a few years ago that he never had another match in WWE. I think he could have been a solid mid carder
As far as character work goes, Boogeyman has all of the other gimmicks on this list beat even if he grossed child me out back during the Ruthless Aggression Era.
I watched Terry Taylor before The Red Rooster gimmick and I was an informed fan excited for his debut ...the big day came and he was Vince'd into a freaking Rooster ! It was just sad and got worse by the second!
What if the boss tells me to wear a glittery storm trooper helmet? Then, I fall through a wall, the helmet falls off, I try to hide my face with said helmet, ALL the while Sycho Sid is yelling at me? What then? 😂
I remember as a kid being confused seeing Prince Albert come back as supposedly a whole new person. I felt like it insulted my intelligence and I tuned out for awhile
They NEVER should’ve tried to repackage Albert. Johnny Ace was running around as the guy running raw at the time and Albert should’ve been brought in as his enforcer.
Vince has slapped great wrestlers with so many bad gimmicks that it is not even funny . Now we are finding out he is a trash human being in other ways .
I’m very sorry that people are hostile to the Gobbledy Gooker gimmick. It was intended to be ridiculous and ironic, and was executed very well. I actually thought it was fun. Another example of this, is how people boringly denigrate the Fake Razor and Diesel stunt, presumably missing the point that it was a sarcastic riff on the trademarked gimmick ecosystem of the business, playing on the perceived credulity of perceptive fans.
This was pretty good and the one theme that ran throughout the theme was WWF/WWE punishments. I can't wait for Vince McMahon to end up rotting in prison broke and broken.
What? The Boogieman was nothing but gimmick and it was a great one. Dude was a middle-aged roidhead that wasn't very good in the ring but his gimmick was awesome. They booked him horribly. First they pushed him too hard despite him not being good in the ring then they bailed on him despite his gimmick being so over with the crowd. If they had any sense they'd have accepted what he was for better and worse then ran with it, dude would have been a fun fan-fave staple of the midcard.
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I have to disagree with you about The Boogeyman gimmick! It was great, and over with the fans. It wasnt something that was thrown on him by the WWE to bury him, the whole thing was Marty Wright's idea and creation. He wanted to eat other creatures too like Roaches and Crickets, but WWE stopped him at worms since they didnt want to risk infesting arenas and worms were easier to control. The reason why he eventually fizzled out of WWE is because of his lack of skill in the ring. But Marty loves that gimmick and he still makes money traveling around making appearences with it to this day.
If Fred Ottman hadn’t fallen through the wall I don’t think Shockmaster would be seen as one of the worst gimmicks ever, he’ll always be Tugboat and more so Typhoon to me anyway
Wasn't the true ruination of Saturns career when he got shot resulting in him getting hooked on painkillers and unfortunately spiralling downhill following? 🤔
Mike Awesome could have made his That 70s guy gimmick work if wcw would have let him continue to be a major force in the ring but outside have him be a doofus like Ashton Kutcher on That 70s show
I'm kind of surprised to learn that Moppy killed Saturn's career because as a kid I loved it and many others did too. I would go as far as to say that it is one of the most famous props in WWE history. Do we have any further information on this? I'm not doubting so much as wondering whether we have an example of the correlation causation fallacy.
I agree the boogieman was nasty,but he definitely a memorable heel 😂. Also got his wish kinda in leprechaun sort of way lol. That whole rooster one and some of the others besides Saturn. Really show how much management likes to throw their weight around. Give a little more credence,to me anyway about the whole vince allegations. I'm sure there was more than him in on it.
100% disagree on the Boogeyman. The Boogeyman was a hilarious gimmick and he is still getting called for occasion appearances, to this day. No one else on this list can say that and just because YOU personally didn't like the Boogeyman doesn't mean most other people didn't. Even though this is otherwise a great list, you get a Thumbs Down and I am not subscribing because of that entry.
How was Marty Wrights career ruined, he has WrestleMania victories under his belt even? 😂 The Boogeyman merch sold, and probably still sells, pretty good too so I'm not seeing where his career was ruined.
As a fan some were comedic relief and to degree i understand certain acts as punishment but as a person I couldn't be in that business my pride wouldn't let me go be humiliated day in day out I get it some were form of punishment but other I believe it was deliberate character assassination maybe because they were big with another competitive organizations so if we humiliate them here or make them a jobber it just show they weren't all that big after all I would hate that I don't get a push because the jealousy of another big time wrestler or boss himself.
To be honest, in the recent climate of body positivity... And let's be real.. More guys are into big girls now... The Mike Awesome would take off now.. 😂😂
Naw. The Boogeyman had a great look and you could tell Marty Wright was totally into it with everything he did. It was just wrong place, wrong time; weird dark gimmicks weren't gonna fly in an era of faceless Brock Lesner clones.
We may laugh at the Shockmaster but in my heart, Fred Ottman will always be Tugboat/Typhoon.
Same here. Say what you want about tugboat but the natural disasters were awesome.
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Tugboat makes me think of the Rock mocking Diesel: "Honk honk!" 😂
And John Tenta will always be Earthquake to me. Avalanche was OK since it's not much different from his WWF character, but The Shark and Golga? Horrible
DDP is the most agregious loss of talent on this list
WWE buried that man.. Sad..
Yeah, turning a charismatic fan favorite into a creepy stalker was one of WWF's all-time great sceewups. At least he seems to be doing good for a lot of people after his wrestling career.
A little correction there buddy. Eddie and Chavo were Uncle and Nephew NOT Cousins.
Yes, Chavo's dad Chavo Sr. was Eddie's older brother.
I think that they did the whole concussion gimmick to punish him but it got over because that was a seriously entertaining gimmick until the mop. It is obvious this wasn't a punishment meant to teach him a lesson it was a punishment to destroy his career.
if anything, Phantasio was closer to Papa Shango. the closest comparisons to Taker, the black gear , hat and trench coat, and maybe the facepaint looked very, very lightly like the phantom mask, which hadn't been seen for a couple years.
more closer to doink than undertaker imo with the tricks and stuff
Wait you didn't like the boogie man?! I always loved him because it was creepy even to this day. I thought it was a cool ass gimmick.
Played straight as some kind of mystical monster or strictly as a joke the gimmick could have worked. The problem was they never quite seemed to make up their mind one way or the other. He often came across as too creepy to be funny but too silly to be scary.
What r you talking about the Boogeyman was freaking awesome
Bruce Pritchard said Fantasio’s downfall was that he set the Gorilla position on fire by accident messing around with some flash paper.
And not telling them he was gonna do that to boot for the fire marshal was pissed
It wasn't flash paper it was liquid fire and he dropped it
Marty Wright is still working a few matches a year as the boogeyman to this day and i imagine Conventions too i wouldn't really say it ruined his career
Facts if a gimmick is memorable whether famous or infamous doesn't matter, that convention circuit is a savior for those flash in the pan "recognizable" figures in the industry.
DDP should have been the one to break Goldberg's Streak
Hell no
@@JustinSharpe-h9h Why not?
Watching Goldberg go down to a Diamond Cutter would have been pretty cool.
The 'Boogeyman' gimmick was brilliant
I didn't find The Boogeyman too bad either
Yeah I thought Boogeyman was pretty good. They took a guy who really had no business being there and made the most of it.
@@JWS1985 age does not mean much in scripted combat unless you are decrepit. the guy was in great shape he could have been more.
You forgot to mention Sara pinned DDP 😁
Ya, it was a horribly booked feud. DDP wasn't allowed to get any heat on taker to the point that even taker's girl got to pin DDP
That Shockmaster first promo was so bad it was good. At least that is fondly remembered as a classic.
You tripping. The boogeyman is almost a legend.
"ALMOST" a legend? Hell, he's under a, WWE Legends contract.
I don't think Phantasio was a bad gimmick, it never got a chance to develop. I could see all kinds of ways magic could be used during matches.
Agreed!
He was also awesome as Spellbinder in USWA.
@@joeypadilla86he was hella over down here in USWA, too
I loved watching him as a kid!
He should have been a heel with Doink.
Sorry man, really poor video in places
1) Del Rios was due to the Undertaker not the gimmick as you admitted so shouldn't be on the list
2) Boogeyman was literally the invention of Martin Wright himself, he was never expecting something "serious" given how old he was at the time. He literally thanks the WWE for letting him live out his dream and by the time his run ended, he wasn't interested in doing any more "full time" runs
I liked the boogeyman character
So did my late father. He thought the Boogeyman was hilarious... especially when he bit that growth off of Jillian's cheek.
Same. It was very striking and I'm not sure why it was seen as an unfortunate gimmick in this video; you could tell by everything Marty did (the face paint, the clock smashing and the weird disjointed walking) that he was totally into it.
Nothing quite hit as hard as Steve Blackman "the worlds most dangerous man" with a wedge of cheese on his head
To be fair, Saturn's whole Moppy gimmick got him more over than he ever was in the past (at least in WWE), and is pretty much the main thing that anyone really remembers him for.
The Boogeyman was actually over with the crowd back in the day.
Uhh no it wasnt. I was watching the shows of the time on peacock n mostly the crown was silent with michael cole n jbl overhyping him up
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Peacock?
That's your problem, WWE has edited everything on Peacock, even the Attitude Era footage.
I was watching wrestling when Boogeyman was around, he was over.
@TheeKingRayzor I know that. There were instances where I could tell some parts were added in or taken out throughout some episodes. I'll admit it's not the best thing to collect evidence with. But at my age when I didn't grow up seeing these vids live, it's all I got
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Do you live in the US?
@@TheeKingRayzor yes
I burst out laughing when I saw the thumbnail with Saturn holding moppy 🤣
DDP being the one stalking the Undertaker's wife Sara made zero sense. DDP was married to Kimberly, the former Diamond Doll.
Kimberly was hot. Sara looked like a meth head.
Kimberly was also the leader of the Nitro Girls and a Playboy model who had taken part in many WCW storylines over the years. WWE just expected everyone to forget DDP was married to an incredibly beautiful woman and never even mentioned her.
Weren't they divorced by then
@@chrischar9428 according to DDP's wikipedia page, he and Kimberly had an amicable separation in 2004 and legally divorced in 2005, so a couple of years after the Undertaker/stalker angle.
How you not like the Boogyman? He was awesome to watch. Especially his feuds with JBL and Booker T.
I didn't find the Boogeyman too bad as well to be honest
All it takes is one bad day.
Even at regular jobs that's all it takes..
Silly gimmicks or not at least they were tv getting paid not working a 9-5. Also Boogeyman was awesome.
Boogeyman was great.
The boogeyman still shows up in my local indy pretty often. The dude is still making money off that gimmick
Honestly, given VKM’s extremely juvenile sense of humor, Taylor was given the Red Rooster gimmick just to make Vince laugh due to penis related humor.
I think if Terry Taylor (racist clown) turned the tables and made the gimmick his own, it could have took off.. Terry was talented, he was a good promo, he could wrestle and had charisma.. I know he was disappointed in his gimmick but that's when I would have did all out insane stuff with that gimmick and got it over and Taylor had the talent to do so.. He just didn't try to..
I think Terry Taylor had essentially peaked when he became the Red Rooster. While he may have been able to have a Curt Henning-type of run, he wasn't going to be a main eventer in WWF or WCW at that time. The Red Rooster was a terrible gimmick, but I don't think it was the huge career destroyer it was made out to be.
@mwchesser I think if he put a little of himself in that gimmick I think he would have been a good upper mid carder.. I even agree the gimmick was goofy but even he knew the gimmick wasn't going to be a main event thinng, so why not have fun with it until his contract expired? He would have probably got it over big and sold a lot of merchandise behind it..
I've heard the gimmick was originally supposed to be about him acting cocky and bold, not acting like a literal chicken. Played that way it might have actually worked.
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It's odd that it was The Undertaker that objected to Phantasmo, he was more like Doink than anything else. I guess if Taker and Doink had a child, it'd probably be something like Phantasmo. Maybe they could have done something with it. That first match was a bit too silly for him to ever be a main eventer though, at least back then. Now he'd probably be an AEW champion as he'd fit in perfectly there.
I'll never forgive the DDP one.
He was my hero as a kid, and WWE threw him in the dumpster with that dumb BS.
"forever remembered for", id forgotten it was tugboat
I forgot it was him... People can forget things until someone bring it up..😂😂😂
I wonder if the Tensai gimmick would've worked better if they didnt hide his face in the run up and leaned more into his time spent in Japan "training" and taking a new name. Another poor Creative choice i guess.
Apart from the fact on commentary they never claimed he was from Japan, and was a former WWE superstar who had gone there to wrestle. They just didn't say he was Albert
Dude the Boogeyman was an incredibly entertaining character. Not the best in the ring but I'd compare him to the Ultimate Warrior in many ways.
Mike Shaw was great as Norman The Lunatic (it was actually a brilliant gimmick.) He stunk as Friar Ferguson and Bastion Booger (although the latter in his debut ended Jimmy Snuka's WWF career in 1994.)
Friar only failed because some representatives of the Catholic Church whined and whinged about the gimmick
@@theyamo7219 Don't paint ALL Catholics with a broad brush. We're NOT all bad people.
@@davej.meister5421 I'm not talking about the people who follow the church, I'm talking about all the paedos they cover uo for, I'm Catholic myself
Oh yeah the seat belt
On the head and brass key = $
Don't forget the Boogeyman (which was actually a decent gimmick) could have been a formidable heel and opponent of the Taker, but Vince decided to ruin him by making him a face. Gene Snitzky also comes to mind, for he was misused twice in WWE. Vince and Don Callis (aka Cyrus/The Jackyl) BOTH ruined Robert Maillet (aka Kurrgan - who was unstoppable as a heel.) Too bad Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase was NOT around during the WWF Attitude Era (he was working for rival WCW at the time.) (DiBiase) would have given Maillet/Kurrgan an even huger push for title shots (Callis/Jackyl was a terrible choice for a manager.) The time we finally got to see a Kurrgan vs. Taker match is when Maillet was a face with the Oddities and Taker was the top heel as the Minister of Darkness - and that match was a complete JOKE. Taker annihilated Kurrgan in less than a minute. Would have NEVER been that way if Taker was a face and Kurrgan a heel, especially if DiBiase was still in WWF during the Attitude Era (and he managed Maillet with his Million Dollar Corporation.)
Gimmicks in wrestling can be a bit of hit or miss
Vince screws people over. Imagine what Eugene or Santino Marella think. They could’ve been great.
Phantasio looks like Danhausen if he took a residency in Las Vegas.
Monte Brown was a dominant force in TNA, then he defects over to WWE, and Vince ruins him completely.
True, but they kind of buried him at the end of his TNA run as well.
No they didn't. He was used pretty well, he just wasn't around long enough to do anything substantial. He went off to take care of his sister's kids after she died.
@@skyatollah2skyharder276 What do you mean Vince/WWE didn't ruin Monte B? I still don't think he was used right by them.
The only thing I remember about Typhoon is him killing Jake the Snakes , snake 🐍
Earthquake did that
@@daleholbert8032oh right I keep getting them confused
Got Fred Ottman and John Tennta confused with each other though they were a tag team
@@stephanienoblet8503 it's all good
We can tell you don’t know what your talking about 😂
At least today typhoon/tugboat can make a couple bucks with the shockmaster Story to entertain people on fanmeetings!!!
I remember seeing Phantasio's WWE match as a kid and i absolutely loved it. I tuned in week after week hoping to see him again and it never happened. I only found out a few years ago that he never had another match in WWE.
I think he could have been a solid mid carder
As far as character work goes, Boogeyman has all of the other gimmicks on this list beat even if he grossed child me out back during the Ruthless Aggression Era.
Mike Awesome was definitely robbed
I watched Terry Taylor before The Red Rooster gimmick and I was an informed fan excited for his debut ...the big day came and he was Vince'd into a freaking Rooster ! It was just sad and got worse by the second!
Also for mike awesome, stick with him has a badass keep it that way and the money printed
Yeah look at all the money he drew in ECW...
"young Cody saw Shockmaster's debut with Friends at home and when he triped and lost his helmet..... Cody said " I think that was Uncle Fred"🤣🤣🤣🤣
I heard DDP have finished his career as a wrestler due to injury from match with Hardcore Holly.
Amazing video
Mike Bell should've stopped working when Perry started shooting...
Never was a DDP fan. Dude was a great wrestler I just never found him that interesting idk
Same
What if the boss tells me to wear a glittery storm trooper helmet? Then, I fall through a wall, the helmet falls off, I try to hide my face with said helmet, ALL the while Sycho Sid is yelling at me? What then? 😂
I remember as a kid being confused seeing Prince Albert come back as supposedly a whole new person. I felt like it insulted my intelligence and I tuned out for awhile
Saturn's moppy gimmick was classic.
I unironically and unapologetically loved the Moppy gimmick. Induct Moppy into the HOF immediately
The boogeyman was awesome. He was a hidden gem during the downfall of wwe.
My Oline coach in HS played at Pitt with Prince Albert
That mike bloom gimmick is very similar to the one they used for dr death.
Seems wwe likes reuses old gimmicks. Usually the ones that never work.
They NEVER should’ve tried to repackage Albert. Johnny Ace was running around as the guy running raw at the time and Albert should’ve been brought in as his enforcer.
Excellent top 10 of amazing wrestler red rooster 🐓 bastion booger doink and dink the clown 🤡 mantaur .man mountain rock 🎸
Honestly the Boogeyman could've work if they looked at more supernatural stuff
Vince has slapped great wrestlers with so many bad gimmicks that it is not even funny . Now we are finding out he is a trash human being in other ways .
I’m very sorry that people are hostile to the Gobbledy Gooker gimmick. It was intended to be ridiculous and ironic, and was executed very well. I actually thought it was fun. Another example of this, is how people boringly denigrate the Fake Razor and Diesel stunt, presumably missing the point that it was a sarcastic riff on the trademarked gimmick ecosystem of the business, playing on the perceived credulity of perceptive fans.
Ironic?
DDP IS A HALL OF FAMER and boogieman was very good! too bad
Didn't the guy who was the Boogeyman create the gimmick himself? Who are you to take a crap on it?
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I thought Phantasio was kind of lame but he was great in USWA and they really should have pushed him in the WWF. The guy was huge and moved quickly.
This was pretty good and the one theme that ran throughout the theme was WWF/WWE punishments. I can't wait for Vince McMahon to end up rotting in prison broke and broken.
I think Boogeyman was successful, it worked.
Perry and that mop are no doubt wrestlings greatest love story!
What? The Boogieman was nothing but gimmick and it was a great one. Dude was a middle-aged roidhead that wasn't very good in the ring but his gimmick was awesome. They booked him horribly. First they pushed him too hard despite him not being good in the ring then they bailed on him despite his gimmick being so over with the crowd. If they had any sense they'd have accepted what he was for better and worse then ran with it, dude would have been a fun fan-fave staple of the midcard.
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I have to disagree with you about The Boogeyman gimmick! It was great, and over with the fans. It wasnt something that was thrown on him by the WWE to bury him, the whole thing was Marty Wright's idea and creation. He wanted to eat other creatures too like Roaches and Crickets, but WWE stopped him at worms since they didnt want to risk infesting arenas and worms were easier to control. The reason why he eventually fizzled out of WWE is because of his lack of skill in the ring.
But Marty loves that gimmick and he still makes money traveling around making appearences with it to this day.
When The Spellbinder got zero crowd reaction in Memphis I knew he had no future in the WWF.
If you can't get over in Memphis, you sure as hell ain't getting over in New York City..
That's not quite true, he was kind of over as a heel, but he had ZERO reaction as a face.
If Fred Ottman hadn’t fallen through the wall I don’t think Shockmaster would be seen as one of the worst gimmicks ever, he’ll always be Tugboat and more so Typhoon to me anyway
Suxx anyway. Everyone would know him...mmmm warm wwf retread
Wasn't the true ruination of Saturns career when he got shot resulting in him getting hooked on painkillers and unfortunately spiralling downhill following? 🤔
What happend with shockmaster is that he Fallen over a 2 by 4, he then turned into a construction worker and then Super shockmaster
Wrestlers who took on horrible gimmicks couldn’t stand up for themselves
Mike Awesome could have made his That 70s guy gimmick work if wcw would have let him continue to be a major force in the ring but outside have him be a doofus like Ashton Kutcher on That 70s show
I'm kind of surprised to learn that Moppy killed Saturn's career because as a kid I loved it and many others did too. I would go as far as to say that it is one of the most famous props in WWE history. Do we have any further information on this? I'm not doubting so much as wondering whether we have an example of the correlation causation fallacy.
Saturn wasn't taken as seriously after that gimmick.
i loved the comedy also. anyone can see he was very talented in the ring. sucks really.
I liked Tensai... I wasn't a fan of Albert or the A train ...
Otman falling down wasn’t even his fault. Someone included a cross beam to the “wall” that wasn’t there before. He didn’t see it and tripped.
David Crockett
Looking forward to seeing this
9:07 Eddie and Chavo weren't cousins. Eddie was Chavo's uncle.
I would have to disagree with the Boogeyman on this one dude literally had or has a Legends contract because of that gimmick
They got those stupid gimmicks from vince for punishment,
I agree the boogieman was nasty,but he definitely a memorable heel 😂. Also got his wish kinda in leprechaun sort of way lol. That whole rooster one and some of the others besides Saturn. Really show how much management likes to throw their weight around. Give a little more credence,to me anyway about the whole vince allegations. I'm sure there was more than him in on it.
I don't even like DDP and I would even admit that was not right what WWE did to him. That pop he got was amazing when he took that mask off though
@Stunned By Wrestling Can you do a life and career of Melina Perez.
7:56 Did that really ruin his career when he had so many miles.
100% disagree on the Boogeyman. The Boogeyman was a hilarious gimmick and he is still getting called for occasion appearances, to this day. No one else on this list can say that and just because YOU personally didn't like the Boogeyman doesn't mean most other people didn't. Even though this is otherwise a great list, you get a Thumbs Down and I am not subscribing because of that entry.
Boogeyman was a good gimmick but not a wrestler to brag about
DDP in WWE got no respect like Rodney Dangerfield
How was Marty Wrights career ruined, he has WrestleMania victories under his belt even? 😂 The Boogeyman merch sold, and probably still sells, pretty good too so I'm not seeing where his career was ruined.
The rooster could’ve worked if it was…who am I kidding, it’s automatic career suicide.
If he had a red mask, it would work.
The Boogeyman was not lame. He was actually pretty good
Eddie is Chavo's uncle, not his cousin.
Boogeyman is in my top 5 gimmicks tbh
Who are you for your opinion to be valid? Boogieman was 🔥🔥🔥
DDP deserved much better
As a fan some were comedic relief and to degree i understand certain acts as punishment but as a person I couldn't be in that business my pride wouldn't let me go be humiliated day in day out I get it some were form of punishment but other I believe it was deliberate character assassination maybe because they were big with another competitive organizations so if we humiliate them here or make them a jobber it just show they weren't all that big after all I would hate that I don't get a push because the jealousy of another big time wrestler or boss himself.
To be honest, in the recent climate of body positivity... And let's be real.. More guys are into big girls now... The Mike Awesome would take off now.. 😂😂