ROSS REACTS TO TOP 100 WORST WRESTLING GIMMICKS EVER

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[@KickinitwithRoss]

What is the worst wrestling gimmick yall have ever seen 🤔

[@flybirdsfly2091]

Nikki ash aka nikki cross

[@jordankirby3075]

I wasn’t even born but I heard of Sparky Plugg and it was stupid cause it was supposed to be a stock car racing gimmick but it didn’t work at all

[@jordankirby3075]

@@flybirdsfly2091Was that during the Alexa bliss and the Feind storyline or after

[@Mega_Collosas]

​@@flybirdsfly2091kids loved her and she was decent..you mean its worse than mantuar,red rooster, akeem African dream ,tensai ,bostion booger?

[@KingPoprich144]

Dean Ambrose heel gimmick

[@janeeyx5672]

Shockmaster is the funniest gimmick ever lol. Man literally was in blue jeans, a feather vest, cowboy boots, and a bedazzled Storm Trooper helmet LOL

[@Choob1]

would have been funny to see it played out if the dude didnt trip and 1 shot the whole gimmick

I can't lie, I'd like to have the original helmet in my collection.

[@TimedRevolver]

@@Choob1 According to the man in the mask, whoever made the wall fucked up and added a cross beam at shin height. So, when he's supposed to bust through, unable to really see shit through his mask, he trips over that cross beam and the rest is history.

[@HellBrYnger]

i always found the promo he did after falling on his face even funnier :D "you wanna piece of me? fight me!" xD

[@blackbonger2963]

When you hit randomize in character creation

[@TheRedOctoberProject]

Bro put the "Johnsons" the "Dicks" and the "Ding Dongs" all in order... I know he did that shit on purpose 😂

[@michaelmarriott1177]

lol i think he did like the Fake Diesel and Fake Razor Ramon in order

[@BrianSchaffer]

I want to know how they didn’t put Big Dick Johnson on here with all that..

[@LwandaMandla-eo3io]

Kid : "Mom? I wanna see Spider-Man." Mother: "We do have Spider-Man at home, see?" *arachna-man appears* Kid: "That's not Spider-Man!"😭

[@TheRealRa0ulDuke]

It’s crazy how they made fun of Molly Holly and Mickie James for being on the thick side. Now it’s all the rage 😂

[@triplestar100]

the same can be said of Mike Awesome as "The Fat Chick Thrilla"! with all this body-positivity business going on nowadays it could go over rather nicely, especially with true BBWs like Piper Niven, Wendy Choo, Jordynne Grace, Alley Katch, Willow Nightingale, etc.

[@TheRealRa0ulDuke]

@@triplestar100 Love me some Mike Awesome…. The Fat Chick Thrilla baby!

[@archibaldchuzzlewit1848]

Also not to mention that neither one of them was "heavy" at all.

[@Chuck_EL]

Molly Holly has a nice big ass too When they did that angle insulting her big butt I was like "How is that a diss to say she has a big butt when there's men into that ??"

[@smartboy201]

Fans see a mid-thick to thick girl, "Oh, she's here to beat some ass!" They see a thin girl, "Bro, she gon' snap like a twig."

[@Mobro_3904]

43:40 When he said “number 3 festus” it was over I knew Ross would die of laughter 😂😂😂😂

[@TheSoulGage]

It's crazy how Gallows went from that, to Straight Edge Society, to Aces & Eights in TNA, and making history with Bullet Club in the span of 4-5 years.

[@JillCheese]

My little brother and I wouldn't shutup singing, "Biscuits and Gravyyyyyyy" when Gallows was Festus lol

[@michaelmarriott1177]

i actually liked that gimmick. He was a pretty tough dude. He lasted longer than anyone in The Undertaker's Hells Gate.

[@catrakes5276]

As a fan since 81. I rolled my eyes every time they debuted any of these ridiculous gimmicks, its on thing to look at it in retrospect but to those of us that lived it and had to wstch this crap they tried to make us like night after night was harsh. . Thats part of why wrestling popularity almost died in early to mid 90s

[@kadharefinley224]

Bro the gimmicks back in the New Generation Era and in WCW were so WTF and cringe lmao 😂😂😂

[@kazallroberts]

Yeah, it was some of the most cheesiest gimmick in wrestling especially in the WWF in 1995.

[@ACanOfBakedBeans]

True, but we did get some good ones like Razor Ramon

[@Samurai_Stoner]

The heel doink promos had a lot of heath ledger joker vibes before it was a thing

Poor Brad Armstrong. One of the best hands in the ring, never heard anyone in the business or a single fan say a bad thing about him, but got saddled with multiple bad gimmicks. Candy Man, Arachnaman, and Badstreet.

[@michaelmarriott1177]

and of course Buzzkill as they mentioned as well being a rip off of his brother's gimmick.

[@shindigga420]

Exactly what I was thinking. BA was so underrated.

[@Bayley4ever]

Tommy Rich lost a loser leave town match to Ted DiBiase and came back with a character, Mr, R, They unmasked him one week as Brad Armstrong. I didn't remember the Bad Street one, till I was watching old WCW ppv's on Peacock. And yeah Arachnaman was fine, at least I think he won a few matches.

[@ggguNeck]

36:22 I knew you would crack up there, I died of laughter immediately after seeing that

[@callumsmith8263]

Just gonna nitpick a few of these: Leviathan was OVW, FCW wasn’t a thing at that time. He said The Stormtrooper debuted in 1988 (which is true) but he said it was in SMW, (which wasn’t a thing until 1991) so it’ll have just been an Indy show in Tennessee. Thanks to Tony Schiavone The Yeti will always be The YeTay to me

[@DrMurdercock]

omg it WAS Tony who tried to dress that name uup wasnt it? hahaha I forgot it was him trying to get something cool from "The Yeti" He tried ahaha

[@The_Demolition_Icon]

You need to look at Doinks promos in the evil run. He was incredibly creepy.

[@JillCheese]

Yea, he was... disturbed

[@twiztidmilenko1173]

Yea that ecw stuff was so dark

[@Chuck_EL]

Heel Doink was great

[@Artegeddin]

Whenever I do a GM mode in 2K, I draft Doink and he’s my US/IC champ, so much meat on that heel doink bone, his gimmick works with everyone no matter who he’s with because he’s crazy. People get too stuck on the he’s a clown and not holy shit this dude is insane.

[@ACanOfBakedBeans]

He was initally supposed to be a darker version of Krusty the Clown from The Simpsons

[@DrDestructo]

Arachni-Man: "Let's hope nobody at Marvel has a TV."

[@mister54336.]

And legitimately pissed off

[@johnyang1731]

He was the Candyman before. (The Wonka one, not the horror movie one.)

[@vexpir]

I'm really loving these longer videos! I know they arent the best algorithm-wise but i always preferred longer videos as opposed to sub 10 minute ones

[@elaysaliva6836]

Same here, I love it when he drops 30+minutes videos.

[@jordankirby3075]

What if Ross and Dub did 30+ videos or at least 40+ videos that would be dope

[@zeospark9715]

What's crazy about the Moppy gimmick was that it was supposed to be punishment for Saturn legitimately hurting another wrestler during a match and it got him over so hard lol

[@FaysalIsGoated]

If Spider-Man was a wrestler and wore gold and purple instead of Red and Blue😂 12:17 I had the same exact face bruh WTF😳

[@ACanOfBakedBeans]

They weren't even trying to hide their blatant plagiarism. Poor Brad Armstrong had some shit gimmicks.

[@LennyShawn-by3gz]

Dustin Rhodes was struggling with drug addiction during his time as black reign

[@zeemanwholaughs7583]

It would’ve been funny as hell if arachnaman fought macho man😂😂

[@michaelmarriott1177]

oh yeah lol the Human Spider

[@orenges7034]

I forgot the quote “I got you for THREE MINUTES”

[@thedarkemperor9292]

​@@orenges7034"YOU AIN'T GOIN' NOWHERE! I GOT YOU FOR THREE MINUTES!"

[@pedromoreira6218]

It took me way longer than i care to admit that Triple Hs Terra Ryzing was a play at the word Terrorizing

[@peytonlong5573]

Early 90’s had some of the funniest bad gimmicks to ever exist

[@ShaunInce123]

New Generation Era was the era of occupation gimmicks. That's why there were so many of them. There were a lot of WCW gimmicks in this video I was not familiar with

[@datkiddtho]

this reminds me of how grateful i am that HHH is over creative now 💀

[@Chuck_EL]

The Paul pirate gimmick was legit over and Vince buried him for the incest gimmick I loved it and how he swung around and had a sword like a pirate and spoke pirate speak

[@KingACE05]

SvR 2007

[@TheSoulGage]

Arachna-Man? More like Spider-Man's red headed step child.

[@RuanAntunes7]

If Spider Man is Harry Potter then Arachna Man is Ron Weasly 😂

[@TehJew22]

Yellow-headed Step child. 😂

[@MATTREBARCHEK28]

DAMN SOME OF THE GIMMICKS THEY COME UP WITH ARE FUNNY AS HELL

[@jjlouie6418]

😂😅🤣 ikr? It may not be the cup of tea but I still think there funny other unique in ther own way even tho they may not be the best

[@Rocket1377]

Sorry, Wrestlelamia, but Repo Man was a great gimmick, clearly inspired by the villains from the 1960s Batman show like the Riddler. You weren't supposed to take him seriously, he was a comedic heel. He had an awesome theme song, too. Back when wrestling was fun and able to laugh at itself.

[@hunterdelano]

Give repo Man some respect

[@Yurgin764]

Ok Simon Millers alt account;) he is a big fan

[@Ccubed92]

You just being biased because your a fanboy of the character but to a casual or anybody it looks silly and terrible lol

[@jordandeadley360]

@@Ccubed92L take, Repo Man was a fun character for the time.

[@kidvillain188]

Simon Miller gave this comment a golden up

[@MyNameIsUnavailable]

4 Phallus Acts In A Row: The Johnsons, The Dicks, The DingDongs, and Ed Ferrara

[@tarzlegacy9446]

The Run in MAN lolol 😂😂😂😂 just run in random matches and leave..😂😂😂OMG

[@ShiningJudgment666]

So that's where The Bloodline got that gimmick from 😂😂😂🤣

[@ruhshhaud]

Slam Masta J theme had me crunking 😂

[@Junksnore]

17:12 Ross tapped into The Undertaker for a sec.

[@alexandru5369]

Funny thing is the "Run-In man" would probably work as a character nowadays heck surprised R-Truth never had that as a character he'd make it work

[@dontbeaglizzygobblerplz5961]

They had my man Rob Simmons out there looking a mixture of mega man & MF doom

[@mister54336.]

that's where he punt Kicked Ahmed Johnson

[@Jay-mt6nu]

33:00 konan definitely benifited from leaving wwe....damn his tna time was awesome

[@Bayley4ever]

So many people were better off without WWE. Terry Taylor was never huge, but he didn't deserve The Rooster.

[@seanloberg5864]

Stunned by the lack of Eugene on this list lmao

[@RicoTheL3g3nd]

Fun fact, Al Snow still wrestles as "The New Rockers" with OVW wrestler Kal Herro!

[@shansalesman10]

Looking at 58 The Shark reminding me of TNA Wrestler Shark Boy, who actually got over with the crowd.

[@stingersplash]

Yeah they completely ignored anything not WWF/WCW

[@larrygonzales5245]

Shark Boy actually won a lawsuit with Pixar or Disney over the use of his name. Let's just say he settled for an amount where he never has to wrestle again.

[@ericbryant386]

Im shocked William regal as his real man gimmick was bad

[@jaida8945]

As a newbie to the wrestling thing but hearing about things here and there from what I can see I think wrestlelamia would be recording the video for years if they had to cover everything Surprised that Eugene wasn't in the video list as it was just awful

[@ACanOfBakedBeans]

To be honest, the gimmick itself could have worked if they made him more of a badass rather than playing it up as a comedy act.

[@jaida8945]

@@ACanOfBakedBeans If you mean regal I can't really think of a way to make it look tough By the looks of it from the clips and videos that I've seen I genuinely thought they were heading towards a village people kind of character as the real mans man even sounds a bit camp I'm Looking at it from today's point of view and I think it would still be laughed out of the building even if they tried to make it more bad arse Probably a lose/lose either way

[@TehJew22]

Maybe because Regal was a Real Man's Man as a tough guy IRL. But they found 100 gimmicks worse than that.

[@jaida8945]

@@TehJew22 In your opinion what's the best gimmick I unfortunately discovered wrestling about a year and a half ago and thought the bray Wyatt (rip bray) fiend character was interesting The idea of a character who knows your deepest darkest secrets and insecurities was interesting

[@reggiecousar7871]

The match Festus had with The Undertaker was Lit

[@babarazamsucks]

Wow. Mantaur made it to 1 and the person who worked this character passed this year along with others coincidentally. I mean there was also El Torito.

[@michaelmarriott1177]

well El Torito was over. Mantaur was not.

[@rubrumsouls]

el torito was bad but he made it work

[@usamazahid3882]

#RIPMantaur

[@UltimateGamerCC]

i knew that 77 was gonna blow your mind, i was shocked by that one too. Vince was showing signs of seniliety a lot sooner than any of us thought.

[@thecodester6669]

Technially it wasnt as said by lamia, an independent promotion. But still. You cant be doin that

[@UltimateGamerCC]

well yeah, it's kind of a no brainer that you cant do that or at least that's what we thought.@@thecodester6669

[@ShaunInce123]

That was at an independent show. Not WWE. At least get the facts right.

[@tieneeddoawestruck2036]

Crazy thing is, John Tenta was a legit bad-ass. There are a bunch of stories out there that he was not one to mess with

[@Molson-xg9hs]

You could hear the record needle drop at #77! It’s crazy some of these ever happened

[@stsolomon618]

Look out here comes Aracnaman!!

[@Dwainecurtis2001]

Spiderman: Hey you stole me look

[@shreeves2005]

I remember the fake diesel and Razor Ramon. if i can remember, I remember Kevin Nash saying how they thought that they secretly resigned with WWE and was going to leave WCW and Nash was like what are you talking about? and McMahon was advertising the return of Diesel and Razor, so when they "Returned" to WWE on an episode of RAW i believe Nash said how he laughed at this because of McMahon didn't wanna let go of these characters or something like that.. (correct if wrong) but either way that was a wild time lol

[@kelvin19888]

Honorable Mention The Toxic Turtles

[@TehJew22]

That reaction to the Triple K and Stormtrooper gimmicks was so funny that I thought Ross's eyes 👀 would pop out.

[@Venemofthe888]

I dont care what anyone says Oz was absolutely hilarious and was absolutely amazing :D

[@HellBrYnger]

Hugh G. Rection got me good LMFAO XD

[@fordid42]

Hard to believe that was a real gimmick, but yep it certainly was. I remember that whole faction, Misfits in Action, had Booker T and Chavo Guerrero, too. And a valet named Major Gunns (big-boobed model, of course).

[@kaseyharrison2056]

How did this video miss a blatantly obvious catch. Seven should have been in the number 7 spot LOL

[@xxxkobsanity]

those was some wild ass Gimmicks, also shout out to Ross. this was one video i ask him to react too a couple weeks ago. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@ericbryant386]

Yea dustin had some weird gimmicks

[@alphathahitman3073]

Nah I fucc with the running man that’s hilarious lol

[@starshipfame1]

Lucky you… you didn’t have to witness some of these in real time 😂

[@DSPIRACY]

i literally have never heard of the KKK and nazi gimmicks till today holy shit 💀

[@Dwainecurtis2001]

The only time I heard of a nazi gimmick was when Jon Heidenrich was supposed to debut as an unfrozen nazi put thankfully that was dropped.

[@thecodester6669]

Thank you independent shows for seeing this now

[@Drew_D]

Nice to see how much enjoyment you got out of these gimmicks. To be honest, I actually liked a few of them.

[@BossDon456]

Run-In Man could have been something great

[@williamcarson7719]

I feel like the KKK member and The stormtrooper needed to be way higher lol.

[@deputydog3137]

I see this list and it makes me believe that not everyone needs a gimmick just give them a character with personality and book them well

[@JayStephens8]

The 🐐 Sexton Hardcastle

[@DarkNorthEmperor]

Watching this from beginning to end, will give you a good idea on Vince's psyche and how most successful gimmicks we've seen, were doomed to fail were it not for the wrestlers who pulled them off and the convenient stronger booking for them.

[@JonathanRamsey87]

There’s so many of these I didn’t know existed and now I’m like wtf

[@zacharylewis2802]

If I remember correctly, the Piggy James stuff was so hated by the rest of the company that Vince was forced to end it early. It ended in a squash title victory for James (which apparently wasn’t even the original plan, as the point of the storyline was to shame Mickie to lose weight. It was never about Laycool, it was just Vince trying to body-shame an employee on national television), and Vince was forced by Stephanie and Linda into privately apologizing after a sponsor complained.

[@tarzlegacy9446]

General Hugh G Rection 😂😂😂😂

[@ChrisMS0815]

Heel Doink was not a bad gimmick imo

[@michaelmarriott1177]

not the Heel Persona Doink just the kid friendly Doink and the other miniture clowns.

[@DJICEMAN_73]

IM SORRY i think the "Run In Man" needs to be revised by......... R TRUTH!! can you just imagine Truth running into random matches, hitting people who would no-sell the hit, Truth looking at them, saying "My Bad" and running back out the ring??? ONLY R TRUTH COULD MAKE THIS GIMMICK GOLD!! im tellin ya

[@SpeedyDePalma]

They could do a whole list off terrible gimmicks from Memphis and Smokey Mountain alone.

[@SonOvLaw]

Repo Man... imagine being one half of the most badass tag teams in the history of the WWF, and the next thing for you is basically a jack legged ass Hamburglar.

[@robertclark2253]

Just as bad were Blacktop Bully and "Mr Hole In One" Stewart Payne this gimmick was based on golfer Payne Stewart , after the death of Payne Stewart WCW dropped the Stewart Payne part of the name .

[@TrueKing365]

12:10 We went from hilariously bad to atrociously bad back to back.

[@hoodrichhunt1423]

You gotta react to one wit dub y’all be funny fr a try not to laugh 😂

[@Xaliby]

These names are literally like Lego Names for Characters 😂😂😭😭

[@michaelbreen7865]

Moppy was Saturn's punishment for roughing up jobber Mike Bell during an enhancement match on Metal and Jakked.

[@ShaunInce123]

Yup. Surprisingly, it actually got him over

[@DrMurdercock]

When I was a kid, Issac Yankem was real man. And he was scary as hell. AS an adult, I won't how much cocaine went into that idea

[@reactioncompilationallstars]

Just saw Raw from Monday. Congratulations to you and dub for making the show

[@dejoirnadavis3249]

I've re-watched this video like 6ix times😂😂😂😂 your reaction are hilarious especially arachnaman 💀🤣🤣😂🤣

[@iandude1]

If you didn't know Ross, Y2J's real life father Ted Irvine was a former pro hockey player in the NHL, so had they given him the Goon gimmick, there would have at least been some reasoning behind it. But they probably would have billed him as being from Toronto.

[@larrygonzales5245]

Well believe it or not Florida Championship Wrestling during the 1980s actually had a wrestler called the Spider-Man. He wore almost the same outfit as the comic book guy.

[@975bobby]

Yesss!! My man ARACHNAMAN😂.

[@tractormike685]

Even though I watched the original video, this one was much more entertaining!!! 🤣 😂

[@WahooSerious]

This is hilarious, I’m in 95 on a watch through and I’ve seen most of those crappy gimmicks make their debut 😂

[@blmareterrorists]

Hey bret, im arachnaman! Bret: SHUT UP

[@iandude1]

Akeem was supposedly a veiled shot at Dusty Rhodes in WCW. Similar to how Ted Dibiase's servant was named Virgil, which was Dusty's real first name, "Akeem the African Dream" and "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to put 2+2 together.

[@chrischar9428]

Pretty blatant

[@noahkramerY269]

Put evey gimmick from that video in a royal rumble to see who would win lol🤣🤣

[@lewisgrant7622]

So. The executioner was technically a character that existed waaay before the buried alive match. But they brought him back.

[@robertclark2253]

There have been Executioners in almost every wrestling promotion worldwide in both singles and tag team action . In the 1970's Killer Kowalski and Big John Studd wrestled under masks as The Executioners they were even WWWF Tag Team champions . After they added a third member the title was vacated . The third member was revealed as Nikolai Volkoff who won the titles with Iron Sheik after beating Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda (IRS) at Wrestlemania 1 .

[@TheCultofFoodXMusic]

"And your New Undisputed wwe heavyweight 24/7 eleven north America's Worcestershire sauce champion of the world ARACHNAMAN"

[@robertclark2253]

The problem with The Executioner gimmick is it has been overused in just about every wrestling promotion worldwide in both singles and tag team action . Perhaps the best Executioners were in the WWWF/WWF/WWE who were Tag Team champions back in the 1970's under the Executioner masks , at that time , were Killer Kowalski and Big John Studd . A third Executioner was added during a title defense which was deemed illegal and the titles were vacated . For reference the third Executioner was Nikolai Volkoff who would hold the WWF Tag Team titles , legitimately , with Iron Sheik after beating Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda (IRS) at Wrestlemania 1 .

[@cfairfax85]

You know you're getting old when you remember EVERY SINGLE ONE of these gimmicks lol. Good times though.

[@MyNameIsUnavailable]

The Run In Man was *ACTUALLY* The Mariner

[@smartboy201]

"General _Huge E._ Rection? There's no way." _Goes back_ "Number 59, General Hugh G. Rection." "General _Huge G._ Rection." It's _HUGH!_ My goodness, Ross!

[@dblackATGB]

21:00 The funny thing about General Hugh G Rection, was I was a big fan of the Misfits in Action stable in WCW. But when I originally saw the stable they had already shortened his name to just General Rection so I knew nothing about the full name.

[@DanteTCW]

The story goes that Van Hammer didn't like his MIA gimmick name being Private Stash, he wanted a higher rank so he was given Major Stash instead...the very definition of missing the real issue :)

[@dondeniro2118]

18:03 just a lil trivia 🥰👋🏾 that’s Cody & Dustin Rhodes’ uncle

[@ktruth83]

Big Josh would become the original Doink.

[@izumolee6714]

Don't dig on Repoman, that is Simon Miller's greatest dreams that he makes a return lol.

[@ACanOfBakedBeans]

TL Hopper was played by "Dirty White Boy" Tony Anthony, who was a mainstay in the Southern wrestling scene. He was pretty much Stone Cold before the Stone Cold gimmick existed.

[@Yugioh420]

The decon batista was the collection plate handler for reverand Devon dudley

[@ContemporaryCompendium]

I shit you not, at 13:05 I got an ad for KFC 🤣🤣🤣

[@ricey23]

how Eugene wasn't on this list I'll never know.

[@rockassassin64]

Wrestler being a shark can only go so far * Sad shark boy noises"

[@markthesapphicdumpsterfire1745]

13:27 Roses are red, a cactus is prickly, holy shit that escalated quickly.

[@nascar138]

I guess Tekken improved on the Battle Kat character with King.

[@shanehughes4902]

The original Doink was awesome and Iconic. The evil heel Doink Matt Bourne played was magnificent. It was so over especially with kids truly terrified of clowns as Stephen Kings Original “It” was a huge movie back then as well.