Bizarre wrestling characters you liked

[Leon TrotSky]

Wait I don't even remember this lol probably bc I didn't know who he was until after I no longer had a VCR to watch the tape

Yeah he was the guy who managed Mortis and Wrath during that run, it's where he developed his basically-Satan character

 

[Leon TrotSky]

if you think about when his heyday was and when Mero did that gimmick it'd be like someone doing Vanilla Ice today

Can't wait for the 2045 Women's World Champion doing a Chappell Roan gimmick

 

[JakeYourBooty]

Hey not quite as long but that did work for Cena 20 years out of Ice's relevancy lol

Ehh Cena was just a white guy wrapping he wasn’t cosplaying him. This was like a full on tribute to a guy from the mid 50s

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

I'm still of the opinion that Marc Mero in 1996 was a top 5 worker in the WWF. The Wildman was a great gimmick and he had so much potential to be a main event talent pre-leg injury.

 

[JakeYourBooty]

Can't wait for the 2045 Women's World Champion doing a Chappell Roan gimmick

That’d be Hot to Go

 

[Chris]

Ehh Cena was just a white guy wrapping he wasn’t cosplaying him. This was like a full on tribute to a guy from the mid 50s

No it started bc he was literally Vanilla Ice for a Halloween episode so they gave him the gimmick after lol he says he was on the verge of getting fired before the Halloween costume

 

[JakeYourBooty]

No it started bc he was literally Vanilla Ice for a Halloween episode so they gave him the gimmick after lol he says he was on the verge of getting fired before the Halloween costume

Oh didn’t know that
He still went to jorts and jerseys quick

 

[Chris]

Oh didn’t know that
He still went to jorts and jerseys quick

Yeah if I had to guess that was his way of making sure he wasn't just vanilla ice lol bc that's probably what Vince wanted at first

 

[JakeYourBooty]

Better example though is Velveteen Dream was just doing Prince

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

I really vibed with Mordecai as a kid tbh

 

[Leon TrotSky]

I really vibed with Mordecai as a kid tbh

Have you heard the Making Kayfabe podcast's take on Mordecai? It's really good

Sadly missed, that podcast

 

[Chris]

Yeah I was like 8 when Mordecai debuted, I thought he was cool as fuck then, disappeared before I lost hype lol

Rewatching now man he sucked tho

 

[Mitch Buchannon]

Not really bizarre but when I was like 11 I LOVED Tajri as Regal's assistant as well as his on-screen relationship with Torrie Wilson (before they turned him into a misogynist).

 

[Leon TrotSky]

You've got me shilling for this now-defunct podcast again but they've done a whole ton of characters I'd expect to see in this thread

• Mordecai
• Pirate Paul Burchill
• Eugene
• Retribution
• Sean O'Haire, Devil's Advocate
• Right to Censor
• Kurrgan
• Mike and Maria Kanellis
• Xanta Klaus
• ECW Zombie
• Katie goddamn Vick

Making Kayfabe. It's still in YT

 

[Dubb]

Mortis is the biggest missed opportunity in wrestling history.

Coulda been as big as Kane, while being twice as good of a worker and at least half as transphobic. And that's not even counting the hype when final form purple mortis would be unveiled later

As a kid I marked for both morris and glacier. Nwo coming along really killed that story unfortunately