Greatest Wrestling Gimmicks

Motley Crue

I taught it might be nice to start a thread around some of the best (or so bad they're good) Gimmicks in the WWE. I'd love to see a collection of videos and maybe a brief summary of more memorable performers.

I'd like to start with two in particular

Repo Man
In late 1991, Darsow was repackaged as "Repo Man", a ubiquitous, sneaky heel character who delighted in repossessing items such as cars from people when they were late on (or unable to make) their payments. Repo Man wore a black Lone Ranger-like mask and an outfit with tire tracks on them, and had mannerisms similar to Frank Gorshin's portrayal of The Riddler. He always carried a tow rope that he would tie up opponents with after defeating them and then assault them after. Shortly after his debut, he helped Ted DiBiase defeat Virgil for the Million Dollar Championship, leading to a series of matches with Virgil.

Repo Man's most notable feud was with The British Bulldog in mid-1992, sparked by Repo Man hanging the Bulldog over the ring ropes with his tow rope on an episode of Wrestling Challenge. The two had a series of house show matches as well as a match on Prime Time Wrestling, all of which saw Bulldog come out victorious. Repo Man lost a match to former partner Crush at SummerSlam, though it was never acknowledged on television that Repo Man was actually Smash. Repo Man also had a short feud with Randy Savage in January 1993 when he stole Savage's hat on an episode of Monday Night Raw. The two had a match the following week, which Savage won. His final recorded match would be on the March 28, 1993, a loss to Typhoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbbcRUprOXA

Arachnaman
Arachnaman, who looked so much like Spider-Man that Marvel Comics sued WCW, and the gimmick was soon dropped. Only did a few matches in 1991. I remember this guy but I'm pretty sure few people do. Oh, and he did get a match against Steve Austin in WCW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwmFES4zMG4

MitchKoobski

It's hard to pick good ones...

The Boogeyman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zByTib5nfc

JP Liz V1

The Undertaker - probably the best ever gimmick in WWE

Ted Dibiase as the Million Dollar Man was another great gimmick

sliotor

I think mr.perfect was a pretty great gimmick. He had the talent to match the gimmick and the videos of him playing baseball, basketball, snooker, etc was pretty class.

Ruu_Old

Papa Shango, he made Ultimate Warrior puke green goo.

Motley Crue

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

The Undertaker - probably the best ever gimmick in WWE

True enough, although the WWE did overdo it a little with that whole Fake Undertaker nonsense...the jobber otherwise known as Brian Lee

Fake Undertaker
In 1994, he briefly joined the World Wrestling Federation to perform as an impostor version of The Undertaker (Mark Calaway). Ted DiBiase, who originally introduced The Undertaker into the WWF at Survivor Series 1990, claimed to have done it again following The Undertaker's disappearance after the 1994 Royal Rumble. The impostor, who competed for several weeks, was not guided by urns, but rather by "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase's money. Paul Bearer, the manager of The Undertaker, accused DiBiase of lying and claimed that he had "made contact" with the real Undertaker.

At SummerSlam '94, the two Undertakers competed in a match (distinguished by grey vs. purple accents on their ring gear), which was won by Paul Bearer's Undertaker. After the match, DiBiase fled from ringside while The Undertaker rolled the impostor into a casket that was taken away by Druids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elqMipWXjiE

Actually, while we're on the subject of fakes, who can forget fake Razor and fake Diesel

Fake Razor and Diesel
In 1996, Scott Hall, better known as "Razor Ramon", left the World Wrestling Federation to join World Championship Wrestling. The WWF retained the rights to the popular Razor Ramon gimmick (a Cuban character modeled after Tony Montana, the protagonist of the film Scarface), and after a while decided to have another wrestler portray Ramon. Bognar was introduced to the WWF by play-by-play announcer Jim Ross in late-1996 as "Razor Ramon".

He was joined by Glenn Jacobs, who was identified as "Diesel", a character previously portrayed by Kevin Nash (who had also left for WCW that year). The intended storyline (which involved Ross introducing the obvious fakes as a way to embarrass Vince McMahon for past firings) didn't connect with fans who simply saw Bognar and Jacobs poor substitutes for the original Razor Ramon and Diesel. The Jim Ross heel turn, which also didn't work, was simply dropped almost immediately and, despite receiving a tag title shot against then-champions Owen Hart and British Bulldog, Davey Smith at the December In Your House pay-per-view, the pair essentially ended at the Royal Rumble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB3cXGsRIog