10 STRANGEST WWE Gimmicks Of The 2000s

[@Eronidas]

I like to play a game with those list videos .... "who will it be" and I try to guess who will be the narrator .... and I 100% knew who will narrate this one.

[@dlcdnl]

I expected Jack

[@Donterlinde]

They’re all great but hearing adam hits different

[@dlcdnl]

@@Donterlinde true

[@TheDuckboys1]

@@dlcdnl me too with his new series on strange episodes and ppvs

[@dackinthebox9242]

@HEY!YO!IT'S!RAZORCLA(E)W I almost exclusively watch Simon Miller on the WC side lol

[@jayduffy5532]

I personally loved pirate Paul burchill I HATED incest Paul burchill they should have kept pirate Paul burchill

[@kyledamron]

The WWECW originals were truly a mixed bag weren't they? For every CM Punk you get a Kevin Thorne. I had such high hopes

[@TheNath87]

I quite liked Kevin Thorne.

[@MrGeekFreek]

Shawn Stasiak. He came from Planet Stasiak and in the middle of matches he would receive messages from his people which would distract him long enough for his opponent to pick up the win.

[@jimbo_1312]

Meat > Shawn stasiak

[@kabztunes]

sometimes i wonder if i dreamed stasiak up thanks for confirming it actually happened lol

[@OdinSmilesRavensLaugh72051]

Damn... those mushrooms he was on man, poor bastard believed he was from his own planet 🤦‍♂️

[@francolive5718]

Never got to be as big a star as his father was

[@logankerr8090]

kinda bummed that Paul Burchill didn't appear at last years Mania since it was pirate themed

[@dukes1993724]

They don’t want to remind the fans he was into his sister…

[@AnnaJaneMTG]

Hornswoggle raised the briefcase at KOTR 99

[@gustavoclarindo101]

Damn they really did Snitsky dirty his whole carreer

[@LOLMAN9538]

Yup

[@Stephen7764.]

It's really shame, on the first look one would think he's just another big mean-mugger (Braun Strowman before Braun Strowman) but the guy was really funny, he could really pull off that confused look...

[@Ryan01224]

And it wasn't his fault

[@nathanthewrestlingguy]

I heard a rumor that the snitsky foot gimmick will soon be jack the jobbers next gimmick 😂😂😂

[@PFHousee]

I live in a Snitsky gimmick 24/7 baby, girls... bring your feets

[@jokesover3433]

Exactly 👏👏🤣

[@Lennox1224]

Youre not alone bro

[@TheChrisHype]

Vince McMahon didn’t think a pirate gimmick could become a fan favorite…during a time where he could see that a pirate gimmick was becoming a fan favorite. He truly was always clueless, wasn’t he?

[@kyledamron]

Nord VPN does seem worth it to be able to use the network again

[@artvandelay8767]

I loved Paul Burchill's pirate gimmick. It was cool.

[@cjvaye99]

smackdown midcard in 2006 was the drizzling sh*ts and most of the new guys they got outside of MVP, Boogeyman were just generic boots and tights guys. even when they had personality like Kennedy or the look like Lashley they're still just generic looking wrestlers. how many guys like that were there in the ruthless aggression era. Gunner Scott, Heidenrich, Luther Reigns, Matt Morgan, Nathan Jones, Finlay, Dave Taylor. Pirate Burchill was different and unique and i remember really liking him. and he was definitely over so Vince was just wrong. that's how you know he doesn't care about smackdown he clearly only watched raw because if he was watching smackdown he'd have seen that Burchill was over.

[@KHFMcAwesome]

While I don’t think the Eugene gimmick has aged all that well I will say I did enjoy some of his stuff with William Regal. It was a rare sight to see Regal as an eventual Babyface and there was something humbling about watching him take care of and stand up for Eugene. I also think he gave some of his best promos at that time, though then again Regal gives amazing promos anyway 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@MrBrownsugar85]

lol it aged well, people are just soft nowadays

[@crooker23]

@@MrBrownsugar85 if everyone is soft now, and all those soft people don't like it anymore, then it aged badly didn't it? That is like the definition of something aging badly

[@MentalLiberation]

I love how Snitsky is just his own entry of practically every gimmick he's done. And yes, the same can be said about Heidenreich. Strange days...

[@MrFontaineX]

Then JBL threw a bin at him 😂😂😂 I love these scripts

[@cjvaye99]

JBL stealing Bulldogs gimmick. hes the one that throws bins at people.

[@eyzzquare7811]

I can imagine WWE booking Hornswoggle as the higher power lol. It's really possible considering their booking ways lol.

[@AsherX9]

I think its worth noting that Heidenrich went on to become a true official member of LOD as he and Animal maintained their partnership on the Indys for several years before Animal's passing.

[@tonyjackson4078]

I always called him Skull, not very creative but fits better with the LoD theme.

[@mrleo6004]

OHHHHHHHH what a rushhhhh

[@stewartmcrae8007]

Wasn't Skull one of the disciples of apocalypse

[@wolfhurricane897]

There was an explanation to The Boogeyman but it is when he started developing the character. The thing was Martin Wright the man who played The Boogeyman had gone insane and thought he was the creature.

[@PrizeJ]

It's like what Tom Campbell said before on Vince's thoughts on his mental process "You fans don't know what you want, I know what I want to see"

[@robotmafia000]

That thumbnail makes me so uncomfortable...

[@goat_filipino7020]

To be fair Hornswoggle’s Wee-L-C match with El Torito was pretty 🔥

[@sonicplys64]

I relate to Snitsky. Just the foot fetish thing, nothing else.

[@kildotgaming]

Nothing wrong with a sexy foot 👍

[@LOLMAN9538]

Not wrong

[@SajoMt]

ECW is where WWE would send their bad ideas to see if they could work

[@DriftKing18594]

Snitsky was ahead of his time

[@CamVanDamme]

Would have loved to have seen where they were going with Kerwin White gimmick. It was so bad but at least him and Shelton had good chemistry together.

[@rootyrootyson2175]

Everyone rags on the Kerwin White gimmick but Chavo made it legitimately hilarious. Entirely understandable why he wanted it shelved after Eddie's death but it was more over than people think.

[@staylifted2326]

Just started the vid, if Bubba rays obsession with powerbombing women through tables into a trance isn't on here...automatic failed list Edit: indeed failed. But in hindsight, I guess that Bubba thing wasn't necessarily a gimmick

[@pedromartins272]

I liked Heindereich. His bad poems gimmick was good enough to make him an entertaining lowcarder

[@dicklessvonloser4916]

He was insanely over when he started asking who wants to be his friend and letting a kid stand at ringside for his matches

[@JoseFlores-xh5cj]

So...... Shelton Benjamin been a Mama's boy not weird enough to get atleast a shout out?

[@darrenhigham753]

Say wat ya want bout heidenreich he had one of those a hidden gem themes

[@SirKnight1096]

Eugene was great. Sure they treated him like crap very often. But he was a resilient badass. How many people were rooting for Eugene. If they would have made it to where his character changed the hearts of the others then that would have been huge.

[@pauliewalnuts829]

I agree.

[@RingsideCinema]

Problem was the gimmick itself could only go so far... and would have worked so well to get him out of the Eugene character if he had still been around when Punk had the SES. Could have ran with a story that Punk found out from Bischoff how his family treated him and drugged him to act the way he did, allowing Punk to save him and let Nick Dinsmore show that he can actually wrestle.

[@Absinthexx7]

I’d rather hornswoggle as the higher power than vince to be fair

[@mrleo6004]

The best Gimmick for me it's Bully Maguire

[@petesmart1983]

The zombie was just another petty shot by vince at the scfi network, Eugene is one of the worst characters ever

[@logankerr8090]

Nick Dinsmore was a Phenomenal wrestler with a crap gimmick. one of many, but he'd doing alright now. think his waif was a super model so good for him!

[@martinrubio3084]

Snitsky was feuding with kane until he got pushed down the ladder

[@mr.garlicman3134]

I hated when WWE used Eugene the wrestler as a thing for entertainment. And made him act like he was Mentally Challenged. It was a bad and mean thing to do and made fun of people who actually have Mentally challenged friends and family. I myself would never do that make fun of someone who was Mentally challenged.

[@mr.garlicman3134]

Also when McMahon took on God and had a match against God I hated that. That i felt was blasphemous against God and everyone who was and is religious like I am a Christian. It was not nice and right for McMahon to do.

[@SellavinAtoms]

8:38 I do remember Paul burchill I remember his first introduction him scaring away the little people wrestlers the the I think Michael Cole called them the wrestling Juniors or something I wish they kept the pirate thing because that whole thing about incest on TV that was suck I swear Vince McMahon when it comes to crazy ideas I think 💬🤔 I do you just sits down on this desk and have everybody walk in and just randomly ideas right at his feet and see if this works he is a billionaire after on and he did make the business but still the pirate thing well it wasn't the worst idea and I didn't pay attention and I really missed it too.

[@eli9478]

Kerwin White was one of the best gimmicks Chavo Guerrero ever played lol

[@mikeybarboza3086]

As someone with a younger brother with a disability DS, the Eugene character is what made me stop watching wrestling. Some things you just don't do, and for me, that was one of them.

[@louisverdie4829]

Vito should been in that video

[@stanleysantos8422]

5:32 this is what I imagined Kane looked like before he took off his mask 😂

[@AstroDelToro]

"He grunted, he growled, he got twatted by the sandman" Thank you for giving us the best line ever heard in a KZbin video 😂

[@stewartmcrae8007]

Would have been amazing to see the Katie lea burchill storyline unfold it's a shame that someone convinced Vince to pull the plug on it

[@skinglyfe]

The 90s and 2000s were the best time to be a wrestling fan

[@Lennox1224]

80's and 90's

[@jaywakk349]

I’m just waiting for the stream

[@ConnorJG76]

My fav part is the sponsor taking 2 minutes

[@martinrubio3084]

That natzi idea was horrible digusting

[@danlewis5977]

If Hornswoggle was around at the time I don't think he'd have been the higher power. He'd have been the lower power, the higher powers son

[@coolchat18]

5:14 man, who gave him this gimmick, dan schneider?

[@_V3N0M0US_]

Not dan the foot man schneider.

[@XsadballX]

Lmao @ 6:24 a picture of Eugene with a "donkey punch Trish" sign in the background. Classy af.

[@martinrubio3084]

Kerwin white nothing to say about this one

[@devintingle5892]

Remember The Sandman beat up Big Dick Johnson too

[@shoWbitz]

VKM is a weird old-man.

[@Theruss4]

Eugene was an interesting character, you couldn’t help but root for him. Yes, he was treated badly, but that was the point that made fans side with him. A lot of people are jerks towards anyone with disabilities, and of course wrestlers would amplify the situation. I get it though, it’s current year and you have to virtue signal that it’s unacceptable to be mean towards minorities, even in a fictional wrestling program.

[@DeaDGoD_XIV]

I'm honestly surprised that they never ran an angle where a chair shot turned Eugene "normal" because that totally sounds like something McMahon would have done

[@downer9099]

Damn lucky snitz

[@louisverdie4829]

Why they do that for Snitsky ?

[@SirKnight1096]

Hornswoggle was great too and he appreciates it too. Ask him.

[@martinrubio3084]

I liked the pirate gimmick

[@martinrubio3084]

Kizarny didnt last weird

[@kieranfogarty778]

Hornswoggle "It was me Austin...it was me all along Austin"

[@scottmccurdy6493]

Kerwin White could have worked if they made him a Latino Carlton Banks, instead of implementing all the stupid ass racist stuff.

[@q.h.s5051]

Like Snitsky, I have a ff but the way his was showcased… just extremely strange

[@scottmccurdy6493]

But there was an expansion for the Boogeyman! He was an actor who was playing the role of a monster on a horror series, but then an accident occured and he was left believing he really was the monster. Why he was then allowed to become a wrestler is anyone's guess though.

[@aaronhurst4379]

Didn't Disney threaten to sue WWE for Paul Burchill's pirate gimmick?

[@carvermicheal3110]

Everybody always hates on the Eugene gimmick but I loved Eugene he was so awesome

[@robertclark2253]

Anyone remember Jean Pierre LaFitte another pirate gimmick back in 1995 ?

[@timhoule8697]

Pirates, boogeymen, carnies l leprechauns and vampire cult leaders oh my! That basically sums up 2004 WWE . By the way Kevin thorn's girlfriend Ariel was pretty hot for a vampire goth chick! Just my opinion!

[@prize5ighter]

"Hide the sausage with sister Katie Lea" 😂😂😂😂😂 It sounds sick and good at the same time. Katie was a talented individual in her own right. At a time, when WWE was depleted of its own resources, they had to rely on women like Beth (Phoenix), Michelle (McCool), and heck even women like Kelly Kelly (no doubt a hottie but not a champion to Torrie Wilson's level), Eve Torres and even Layla. Layla happened to prove her worth but it was kinda too late as she got injured probably around 2012 and eventually retired. Katie could've been what Natalya has been, a gatekeeper for over a decade. Katie deserved at least one run with any of the women's titles be it the then Women's Champion, Divas Champion or even either of SD or Raw women's champ. Ps- it could have only be me that finds Katie to a worthy title holder.

[@Esoterik14]

Actual video starts here @2:52

[@Handsome_Black]

Yeaahhhhh WWE Network will detect you're using a VPN and not let you sign up if you're in the states lol

[@ZDiddy7777]

Seriously, a 2 minute commercial? Fuck NordVPN

[@Jamelk1]

Wow so surprised Festus didn’t make the list like very very surprised

[@martinrubio3084]

Mordecai was suppose to feud with the undertaker but he got released sent back to ovw

[@Sunprism]

More then a decade later....I still can't believe they did Eugene

[@Ryan01224]

Hornswoggle as the higher power you mean the lower power, get it cause he's little 😔

[@LittleHenry90]

Please Show some love for All the kevin's in the World 😁❤

[@jeremywilliams5141]

What about Vito? He had a cross dressing gimmick.

[@jonfairriephotography3799]

So good to see you boys have sponsored videos! Making that big money!

[@thesoup7526]

Kerwin White takes his coffee by the pool…

[@martinrubio3084]

The boogeyman ate worms good tv though

[@MrBrownsugar85]

lol early to mid 2000’s wwe>now

[@BipolarPlatypus]

Kizarny!!!!!! Still love him!

[@citizenstrife]

If it ain't white, it ain't right. And that phrase will be burned in my brain forever. Thanks WWE!

[@eli9478]

The Good father was great too👍

[@AK47Gang100]

“The Kizarny gizimick wizas shizite” classic

[@Lennox1224]

It wasnt tho, and he was a good wrestler, Vince just sucks.

[@fratersam2148]

Video starts at 2:53

[@tequilapapii5936]

Nobody: Adam: *As Kazarny talked, well ‘carny’ & the joke wore thinner than Rikishi’s thong* 🤣 👏🏽

[@nicktaylor2657]

Boogyman is my favorite crap gimmick of all time I love the worms and the clock Great stuff 😉

[@krectus]

meh, if that's the worst of a decade...not bad. In almost every year in the 90s there was 20 worse than these.

[@Mambaman7771]

This is gonna be a little lengthy, but I wanted to say that you guys hit the nail on the head with what made the Eugene character uncomfortable, it wasn't the character himself necessarily, but the constant humiliation and beatings/treatment he received. When a person with mental disabilities is portrayed like that, as a joke and a victim, it just makes for unnerving viewing and it's aboslutely not necessary to portray them being put through trauma like that. Just wasn't needed.

[@martinrubio3084]

Rip eddie guerrero

[@jsmith3946]

The wrestler who played Eugene still wrestle as him and says he is well respected in the handicapped community

[@Nbflowers1989]

Strange indeed!

[@VorpalBender]

I will hear no shit talking about Kizarny on my watch.

[@BooboosANDBloodshed_95]

The Boogeyman scared 50 shades of shit out of me as a kid

[@jeromelancashire3278]

I am so glad we're going back to this style of booking.

[@jackbottomley455]

Boogeyman

[@Schmidtactular]

One of the worst matches I ever watched was Heidenrich challenging Orlando Jordan for the US title at I thiiiiiiink Judgement day.

[@McMahonHater]

Guys... the 2000s aren't over yet and won't be for approx 978 years 9 monts 12 Day 8 Hours 40 min (as of my posting this in Toronto Ontario Canada)