WORST wrestling gimmicks ever.

darkwarrior3007

darkwarrior3007

Patrick_S said:
Getting grown men (and women) to cheer for someone when they know it´s just theatre (they do know it´s just theatre right?). Yeah, i would say that is the most idiotic gimmick ever. If i go see Romeo & Juliet in a theatre i think i´m gonna start yelling "NO, ROMEO, DON´T DO IT, SHE´S NOT REALLY DEAD!!!!" on the top of my lungs. I bet people won´t think i´m an idiot at all after that. I can respect the athletic ability of the performers. It´s the crowd in the arena that make the whole thing completely ridiculous, they obviously don´t have a whole lot going on in the brain department.
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You do know what entertainment is right? Well wrestling entertains a vast majority of people around the world and yes they know it's staged. Wrestling is a throwback to the traveling carnival days. It's all an illusion. Just because you're not entertained by it and others are doesn't mean that they are stupid. That's like when people are talking about their favorite horror movie and saying why are people always talking about body count? Don't they realize that the people are actors and they are not dead?
 
hedonis

hedonis

Well, I loathe professional wrestling, and I think it's all the worst gimmick ever, but if I had to pick the best gimmick ever for them:

HOT FEMALE WRESTLERS.


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Boobinator

Boobinator

i just don't understand why anyone would pick professional wrestling over MMA which is the real thing and not just choreography
 
Hourglass

Hourglass

I watched wrestling during it's peak some years ago.

But when they started hailing a white rapper as "the greatest world champion of all time", and pushing male cheerleaders as "main event caliber talent"...yeah I found something better to watch. :2 cents:
 
ChefChiTown

ChefChiTown

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Patrick_S said:
Getting grown men (and women) to cheer for someone when they know it´s just theatre (they do know it´s just theatre right?). Yeah, i would say that is the most idiotic gimmick ever. If i go see Romeo & Juliet in a theatre i think i´m gonna start yelling "NO, ROMEO, DON´T DO IT, SHE´S NOT REALLY DEAD!!!!" on the top of my lungs. I bet people won´t think i´m an idiot at all after that. I can respect the athletic ability of the performers. It´s the crowd in the arena that make the whole thing completely ridiculous, they obviously don´t have a whole lot going on in the brain department.
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Movies are fake too, yet...you still watch them. :dunno:

Everybody who watches wrestling knows it's staged (with the exception of 7 year olds).

I've always found it funny that a lot of people try to make fun of adults who are wrestling fans. It's what I (we) grew up with, so why would I stop liking it just because I'm older? How dumb is that?

"You're older now so you're a loser if you still like the things that you used to like when you were younger." :rolleyes:

I still like the things I grew up with and I don't think there's anything loserish about that at all. I still like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Legos, video games, Ren & Stimpy, Fraggle Rock, Transformers, WRESTLING, etc. I'm not going to stop liking the things that I like just because there are people out there who aren't comfortable being themselves and do nothing but conform to how society wants them to.

"I don't like this."
"Why?"
"Because I'm not supposed to."

Those people are the real losers.
 
darkwarrior3007

darkwarrior3007

I always found it funny when people come into a wrestling thread and have to say "You know wrestling is fake right?" That phrase hasn't been relevant for a very long time. There is a very simple reason that people like wrestling that non-wrestling fans seem to over look. It's Entertainment!!!!!
 
zell

zell

The thing the I find funny is when people say it's fake period!
Sure the outcome is predetermined but the injuries that these guys suffer is 100% real and for anyone who doesn't think that it takes great skill to become a wrestler,then find the nearest wresting camp and go though it for a weekend then tell me what you think about it.

These guys and ladies are some of the best athletes around for the fact of how much punishment that they can take and to be able to do shows(notice that it's called shows and not matches or games) 300/365 days per year.Tell me what other sport has athletes that work that much.

They are actors,athletes,stuntmen and entertainers,what's so fake about that?
 
Dean Henneberg

Dean Henneberg

zell said:
The thing the I find funny is when people say it's fake period!
Sure the outcome is predetermined but the injuries that these guys suffer is 100% real and for anyone who doesn't think that it takes great skill to become a wrestler,then find the nearest wresting camp and go though it for a weekend then tell me what you think about it.

These guys and ladies are some of the best athletes around for the fact of how much punishment that they can take and to be able to do shows(notice that it's called shows and not matches or games) 300/365 days per year.Tell me what other sport has athletes that work that much.

They are actors,athletes,stuntmen and entertainers,what's so fake about that?
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If wrestling was 100% fake, some deceased wrestlers wouldn't be gone today, for example, Owen Hart. :(
 
Will E Worm

Will E Worm

Conspiracy...
Boobinator said:
i just don't understand why anyone would pick professional wrestling over MMA which is the real thing and not just choreography
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Wrestling isn't choreographed, it maybe predetermined who will win, but what they do in the ring is improvisation same thing in some shoots and shoot interviews.

They have to perform well and win over the crowd as either the "good" guy or "heel" or they are let go.

To "extemporize" or "ad lib" is basically the same as improvising. Colloquial terms such as "let's play it by ear," "take it as it comes," and "make it up as we go along" are all used to describe "improvisation." In professional wrestling, they call improvisation a "shoot" ie wrestlers are working in the ring for real or when some are given the mic on tv are making "shoot" comments. Some give "shoot" interviews.
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Becks...poamr

Becks...poamr

zell said:
and the worst gimmick ever was in WWF-Mae Young being pregnant with Mark Henry's baby.The writers knew that it was so bad that the only thing that they could do to get rid of the lame ass angle was have her give birth to a rubber hand!:wtf:
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And that, my friends, is when I stopped watching wrestling for good.
 
titsrock

titsrock

I pretty much agree with darkwarrior and Artimus as to which wrestling gimmicks were complete embarrassments.

I'll add to the list:
Ric Flair in the WWE
DX2006
The Spirit Squad
The Great Khali
Brutus the Barber Beefcake
Shelton Benjamin as a heel
The Patriot
The Green Hurricane
Goldberg in the WWE
Eugene (I fucking hated him but Nick Dinesmore was actually a decent wrestler. WWE USED to be "above" making fun of mentally disabled people for cheap laughs. Yes, it's a stretch to claim there were ever standards with Vince McMahon.)
Shark Boy
Actually, most of the entire X Division in TNA from (2004-2006)

Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe, Jeff Jarrett and LAX (with Konnan) are the only reasons to watch TNA today.
 
darkwarrior3007

darkwarrior3007

The Joker said:
For awhile there, I was watching TNA strictly because of Traci Brooks. :D
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Will E Worm said:
TNA has a lot of nice looking women, that can actually wrestle.

WWE wishes they had a women's division as good as TNA's. ;)
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Pretty much the only reason I watch TNA is because of the Knockout Division. Those women aren't afraid to take chair shot and get a little bloody and like Will said, they can actually wrestle. WWE has some women that can wrestle and I can't believe I'm going to say this but Kelly Kelly is getting there. However TNA has the better women's division by a mile because all of them can wrestle.
 
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