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Rarity posted:Retribution will be causing chaos in the next round after winning with 85% of the vote If there's one thing we can't get enough of on PSP it's voting for things. This time we're going to vote in a knockout tournament to decide the Worst Gimmick of All Time! But the entrants won't be decided by me, oh no! They will be decided by you, lovely goons. In order to nominate a gimmick post a picture in this thread and write a paragraph about why this gimmick sucked so bad. For now this we're going to limit it to one nomination per person until things slow down and then maybe I'll open up repeats if needed to bump us up to a suitable number for a bracket. Anyway to get the ball rolling I am going to nominate:  The Gobbledy Gooker Why is this gimmick bad? I mean, just loving look at it. It's a guy in a turkey suit. It's not even any old guy in a turkey suit, it's one of the loving Guerreros who they put in a turkey suit to dance with Mean Gene and who then never showed up again. Just a complete waste of everyone's time and an idea so bad that even WWE makes fun of it any time they've mentioned him in the last 30 years. This is one turkey that won't bring anyone joy on Thanksgiving. All right, now it's your turn. Let the nomination period begin! Entrants: 1. 2. Adorable Adrian Adonis (WWE) - nominated by Davros1 3. Akeem (WWE) - nominated by Rarity 4. 5. 6. Bastion Booger (WWE) - nominated by Gonzo McFee 7. Beaver Cleavage (WWE) - nominated by Gonzo McFee 8. Billy and Chuck (WWE) - nominated by Hedgehog Pie 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Cancel Culture (Impact) - nominated by rare Magic card l00k 21. 22. 23. Conor the Rat (WWE) - nominated by Jerusalem 24. 25. 26. Dexter Lumis (WWE) - nominated by Edward Mass 27. 28. 29. Eugene (WWE) - nominated by bladeworksmaster 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. Goldust (WWE) - nominated by Pinstripe Hourglass 37. Harlem Heat Original Edition (WCW) - nominated by Vince MechMahon 38. Heel Michael Cole (WWE) - nominated by ChrisBTY 39. 40. Hornswoggle (WWE) - nominated by ChrisBTY 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. Legion of Doom 1999 (WWE) - nominated by rare Magic card l00k 47. Kamala (WWE) - nominated by Gonzo McFee 48. Kerwin White (WWE) - nominated by Vandar 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. Mantaur (WWE) - nominated by Kirios 55. Marianna Komlos (WWE) - nominated by Xerxes 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. Muhammad Hassan (WWE) - nominated by CarlCX 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. Oklahoma (WCW) - nominated by Selachian 69. 70. 71. Piggie James (WWE) - nominated by Benne 72. 73. 74. 75. Rapist Kurt Angle (WWE) - nominated by Gonzo McFee 76. 77. 78. Retribution (WWE) - nominated by NienNunb 79. 80. Rusev the Cuck (WWE) - nominated by Do not even ask 81. Saba Simba (WWE) - nominated by Critical 82. Santina Marella (WWE) - nominated by Nostradingus 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. The Anonymous Raw GM (WWE) - nominated by Rarity 96. 97. 98. 99. The Christopher Street Connection (ROH) - nominated by forkboy84 100. 101. The Ding Dongs (WCW) - nominated by Fentry 102. 103. 104. The Fat Chick Thrilla (WCW) - nominated by Liquid Communism 105. The Fiend (WWE) - nominated by BodyMassageMachine 106. 107. 108. The Gobbledy Gooker (WWE) - nominated by Rarity 109. 110. The KISS Demon (WCW) - nominated by Gumball Gumption 111. 112. 113. The Mexicools (WWE) - nominated by ARMBAR A COP 114. The Modern Day Maharajah (WWE) - nominated by Venomous 115. The New Day Original Edition (WWE) - nominated by iospace 116. 117. 118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. 124. Voodoo Kin Mafia (TNA) - nominated by ItohRespectArmy 125. 126. 127. 128. Rarity fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Dec 22, 2020 |
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The goddamn Mexicools. From Wiki: Wikipedia posted:The Mexicools are a professional wrestling stable and tag team, that were signed to World Wrestling Entertainment's SmackDown! brand. The team consisted of three well-known Mexican wrestlers of the late 1990s: Super Crazy, Psicosis and Juventud.[1] The stable became a tag team when their unofficial leader Juventud was released from WWE on January 6, 2006.[2] The team's gimmick was that of a group of Mexican wrestlers who were fed up with the stereotypical portrayals of Mexicans in the United States as laborers for the "gringos." They frequently parodied this view of Mexicans with their interviews and skits. Around the same time WWE champion JBL went hunting for illegal immigrants during his feud with Eddie Guerrero. Abhorrent racism has always been a staple of the WWE!
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 The Yeti For weeks during Monday Nitro's early run in 1995, a giant ice cube of sorts was on display near the entrance. The announcers would be baffled as to why this mysterious object appeared every week. As time was running out on an episode of Nitro prior to Halloween Havoc '95 (which may or may not have been the go-home show for the PPV - I honestly do not recall), this giant ice cube would finally explode to reveal a large, tall man wrapped in soiled bandages. Later during the days leading up to Halloween Havoc, we would learn that this mystery man was called The Yeti (or "THE YET-TAAAAAAAY" as Tony Schiavone would put it). Thankfully, this was a short-lived gimmick best remembered for dry humping Hulk Hogan in the middle of the ring along with The Giant. FUCKFACE MORON fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Oct 22, 2020 |
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 Abe "Knuckleball" Schwartz is just purebrain vince shite. there was a baseball strike so he had brooklyn brawler dress like a baseball in a baseball uniform and go around blaming the fans for him being on strike. Even as far as new generation WWF goes this gimmick is so lazy, uninteresting, unfunny, it dosen't get over and it dosen't get heat. It's just vince hating on the idea of collective bargaining again. Otherwise he was Brooklyn Brawler, he jobbed to people and sometimes won on house shows.
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So for about five months in 2015, John Cena was the US Champion, having defeated Rusev for the title. He had matches with phenomenal wrestlers like Sami Zayn, Neville, Kevin Owens (which turned into a 3 match series and Owens' official callup) and even a bit of a stinker with future TNT Champion Stardust. One would expect that his opponent would be a new person to elevate, such as Finn Balor or an undercard guy they kinda wanna pretend to push, like Cesaro or Tyler Breeze. No. It was Alberto Del Rio, manged by Zeb Colter, Mexamerica 
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 The Nightmare Collective The one gimmick AEW basically completely gave up on, never really went anywhere. Their highs were making everyone mad by interrupting a title match, and they were mercifully cut short by Awesome Kong leaving to film a (cancelled) season of GLOW. But hey, we got Luther.
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 "Fed Up" CM Punk "Fed Up" CM Punk was a very bad gimmick. When he was talking on the microphone he would always have a red flustered face and make a lot of mistakes while speaking. He would try to be a sarcastic and biting mixture of bad rear end and smarmy, which was as bad as the combination of cream cheese and sour cream, whipped cream, and Casu Marzu, the nastiest food in existence. His name stands for Casu Marzu Punk. He kept on trying to appeal to the fans by kissing a ton of arse and saying slogans directly from corporate in order to make more money for WWE, such as "Bring back the WWE ice cream bars." This was yet another extremely disgusting combination that didn't fit and made people uncomfortable. CM Punk became this gimmick in real life and stopped liking wrestling soon afterward. He hasn't watched any wrestling in five years. That's how bad the gimmick was.
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You could make a whole bracket out of just TNA gimmicks, but I'll start with The Johnsons This is Richard "Dick" Johnson and "Rod" Johnson. They are literal penises. That's it, that's the entire gimmick. They're dressed up like dicks and have dick puns for names. Are you laughing yet? Benne fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Oct 22, 2020 |
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 This is one I'm conflicted on. I love the talent involved and even some of the matches, but the idea behind Los Matadores And El Torito was simply moribund. The Colons have been good tag wrestlers throughout their career, but they've had a lot of boring runs because they're in a company that will never care about tag team wrestling for more than a week. If this was just another bad Colons run, albeit with a slightly more racially insulting gimmick that takes a lazy Hispanic-bullfighter connection and goes no farther, that wouldn't be special, but they're not the ones worst served here.  At this point in his career, Mascarita Dorada had been wrestling for more than a decade. He had won titles and competed in apuestas. He was really loving good at wrestling. The guy was at the very least a valuable free agent in 2013. They made him into a bull. Not only that, they did nothing with him after about 2013, leaving him under contract until 2016. I get that the fact that they did actually do some entertaining stuff, particularly the classic WeeLC, may make them a less obvious choice than, say, Seven, but the talent involved and the fact they didn't do anything with Dorada for three years after the peak of the gimmick puts it up there for me
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ItohRespectArmy posted:
Interesting Fact (or not, depending on your POV), he was originally called "MVP".
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In 2020, a young man begins his journey to the pinnacle of professional wrestling. All to become the best of the best.  He steps forth, stoic in the midst of chaos.  His name, is Master Wato. He finally joins the fight in New Japan Pro Wrestling, debuting as a goofy kung fu master and is immediately beaten up by a man with a lead pipe who did not even beat out Jado or Gedo for a NJC spot. Every single match he has, he is introduced as "Way To The GrandMaster Master Wato" even when actual champions don't get special introductions.He wears blue pants with a pink belt. The one promotional video they did for him, the soundtrack was weird 90s fighting game SFX. KWAH WHOO WAH WOO KYUH They expect us to believe that this man is the master of pro wrestling who will become the greatest wrestler in all of history. Also, he does the discount convenience store version of Hiromu's pose. Aesculus fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Oct 22, 2020 |
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To go for something slightly more off the beaten track The Christopher Street Connection  (Apologies for the lovely screengrab but there are no good pictures of them on Google.) The Christopher Street Connection, Buff-E & Mace, were a regular team in the North East US indie scene around the turn of the millennium. If you saw Jersey All Pro or ICW you probably saw them. Two pretty unremarkable wrestlers whose gimmick was a pretty exaggerated take on gay stereotypes. It's probably not the most offensive take on homosexuality in wrestling because wrestling is bad, but the way they were used kind of was. Specifically the way they were used in ROH. ROH starts in 2002, the show opens with this interminably long promo in a coach full of funs by Da Hit Squad talking about how this is real wrestling not dumb sports entertainment poo poo. And then the first segment of the very first ROH show, YMCA by The Village People comes on & out comes Buff-E, Mace & Allison Danger. Instantly the commentators are talking about how this isn't on the running order & ROH isn't about "people wearing boas or weird hats, it's about honour & discipline" & Steve Corino talks about "alternative lifestyles". The crowd start chanting a homophobic slur, Buff-E on the mic says to a heckler, "Young man, I might be gay but at least I'm not queer" which I don't even understand, then there's a line about it not being Ring of Honor but the Ring of Homosexuals & then they kiss. While the commentators act like they are witnessing someone being tortured to death, it's really loving bad. And then Da Hit Squad rush the ring and there's an impromptu match where The CSC are squashed, big suplexes & poo poo. "German suplexed on his big gay head" is a line uttered by a commentator. And then they put Allison Danger through a table on top rope powerbomb to huge face pops because hey, it's 2002 & you think wrestling fans are terrible today? Well they are but they were even worse then. They actually ended up turning face eventually & it was a lot less awful, with fans volunteering on the barrier for kisses & stuff, but "heel because you're gay" combined with the entire presentation of it was just vile, and it did go on for a while, forget how long. As an added bonus, trying to find a decent picture I came across their old Angelfire website because who doesn't love looking at Year 2000 web design: http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling/CSC/
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The Ding Dongs Take a team, make them bell themed for some reason. Have the one not in the ring constantly ringing a bell. Have their costumes be covered in small bells that jingle when they do moves. Have those small bells rapidly fall off and become shrapnel covering the ring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHcMK3a4Vj8&t=58s
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You know how sometimes you have a guy and his gimmick is an rear end in a top hat who shits on everything and he never shuts up until somebody shuts him up? Yeah? Now imagine that gimmick again. Now imagine the guy doing it is the announcer so he's doing it entire shows on end, never shuts up and never gets shut down. Then imagine it goes on for over a drat year. That's Heel Micheal Cole
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I know someone mentioned Beaver Cleavage in this thread already, but I hold that that crappy sleaze was considerably better than what followed. Beaver Cleavage came out to the ring, decided that his gimmick was poo poo, and he's just Chaz now. The lady playing his mother is actually just his girlfriend. They are adults in a consenting romantic relationship. Hooray! So Chaz is just some guy having wrestling matches. Then he and his girlfriend break up and she's sad. These things happen. So the week after that she shows up looking like this.  Chaz spent a few weeks getting attacked by other wrestlers for abusing his ex-girlfriend, until his good friend Glen, the former Thrasher, came out with a piece of video, showing Marianna applying her bruise with makeup. Because women lying about being abused is such a common and terrible problem, you see. She was then arrested and The Headbangers were reformed. So, I guess the gimmick I'm submitting here is Marianna Komlos, Lady Pretending To Be Abused. gently caress this.
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Reverend D-Von The champion for all that is holy in the den of sin that was 2002 Smackdown. A stereotypical southern baptist preacher, D-Von split from his perverted white brothers on Raw and led a new congregation of one; a freshly debuted Deacon Batista. Reverend D-Von is today best known for two major contributions: Constantly begging you for money in WWF Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth, and for having a debate with Ron Faarooq Simmons about the morality of masturbation. Oh my brother, testify.
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Oct 22, 2020 00:59
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 Eugene is an easy as hell nomination for being an insanely low brow insult to people with mental disabilities, not to mention the multitude of uncomfortable angles where people beat him just because of it.
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Oct 22, 2020 00:59
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How can we not have one of Mike Awesome's worst gimmicks: The Fat Chick Thrilla, which transitioned into: That 70's Guy and went on to feud with Insane Clown Posse and make absolutely none of them look good.
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Hey who doesn't love Inokism? Mixing MMA with Pro Wrestling worked out so well! So lets nominate the IWGP champion that best represents Inokism Tadao Yasuda Edit: Whoops posted wrong image Pretend Giant Gonazlez is Yasuda!
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Oct 22, 2020 01:32
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I would like to nominate Goldust, in particular but not limited to his original incarnation. The WWE has done a lot of whitewashing of the Goldust character’s origins, but when he debuted, Goldust was a homosexual, possibly-transgender rapist heel played by a conservative straight man. His first two major feuds, with Razor Ramone and Ahmed Johnson, started when he sexually harassed and sexually assaulted them, respectively. When the Goldust character finally turned face, he did so by saying he was straight and denying he’d ever been gay. At his most inoffensive, Goldust has been a buffoonish caricature of LGBT people. At his worst, he has been a reflection of the kind of prejudices and misconceptions that have been used to justify the discrimination, assault and even murder of queer people for centuries.
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 Seven was the character Dustin Rhodes was given (chose?) when he ended up in WCW after his first tenure as Golddust. Seven's debut vignette portrayed him as a creepy ghoul staring in a child's window late at night. Upon his debut, Dustin picked up the mic and immediately broke kayfabe to poo poo talk the character. Just a classic WCW gently caress up.
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Queer Salutations posted:Upon his debut, Dustin picked up the mic and immediately broke kayfabe to poo poo talk the character. Just a classic WCW gently caress up.
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I nominate the Red Rooster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nogudt0dNLc Terry Taylor was big in the NWA, and when he went to the WWF Vince McMahon gave him the gimmick of a chicken. Not dressed like a chicken like the Gobbeldy Gooker, but acting like a chicken and with an attire that said “chicken”. Taylor never recovered from this gimmick, even in WCW. The only other time I can think of that McMahon killed a wrestler’s career with a stupid gimmick was with Chris Harris, and that was a promo more than a gimmick. Edward Mass fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Oct 22, 2020 |
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GI Bro You can throw in the whole MIA but that was mostly a bunch of lower card guys trying to make a lovely gimmick work, but Booker T rehashing his first gimmick from the Gulf War era after a long string as tag champ and nice solo run as TV champ was just sad.
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Better Than You posted:I believe that was part of the act; one of Russo's dumb "worked shoots" God, I hate Vince Russo.
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Aesculus posted:In 2020, a young man begins his journey to the pinnacle of professional wrestling. This is a tournament for bad gimmicks
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Saucer Crab posted:GI Bro I liked major guns but I was also 15.
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Kerwin White So we're going to take Chavo Guerrero Jr., right? A member of the legendary Guerrero wrestling family, yeah? So we're going to take him and have him denounce his Mexican heritage. We're going to turn him into a stereotypical suburban white guy that rides around in a golf cart and insults other minorities and attacks them with gold clubs. Surely no one is going to have an issue with this, right? 
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Tying into an existing nomination, but I'll say the current one of The Nightmare Sisters Brandi Rhodes was the leader of the ill defined cult the nightmare family who wanted people's hair. Then suddenly she wasn't, and instead just Cody's loving wife and the rest of that family went away (Kong, Luther, Mel) . Allie was a female wrestler. Then with no explanation she was called the Bunny and managed the Butcher and the Blade. Then with no explanation she wanted to gently caress QT Marshall, seemingly to mess with Brandi long term. Together they teamed despite not liking each other, actively not working together in matches. Suddenly Eddie Kingston told the Blade to get his wife, and now Allie seems to be back with the Butcher and the Blade for some reason. Just consistently not explained why any of this poo poo was happening, yet getting way more TV time than most of the other nominated gimmicks.
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Wazzu posted:Tying into an existing nomination, but I'll say the current one of The Nightmare Sisters This is a bridge too far
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Wazzu posted:Tying into an existing nomination, but I'll say the current one of The Nightmare Sisters This isn't even a gimmick, it's an angle, and it's one we know got killed because one of the people involved got fuckin covid and was gone for a month. This shouldn't count on any level.
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I suppose that's fair enough. I don't know, Jillian Hall mole on her face?
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Oklahoma Okay, "good ol' J.R." has a multitude of sins to answer for. But this parody was unfunny and meanspirited even by wrestling standards, unless you think a guy slurring J.R.'s catchphrases while pretending half his face is paralyzed is hilarious. And of course it led to a non-wrestler writer beating actual female wrestlers, usually via bottle of barbecue sauce to the head. He even ended up being WCW cruiserweight champion for two days (winning the belt from Madusa), but was forced to vacate the belt because he was over the cruiserweight limit. It was won a month later by The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Iaukea (another possible entry for this list).
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Wazzu posted:I suppose that's fair enough. how was this somehow described as a mole and not a hideous alien organism
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Seams posted:how was this somehow described as a mole and not a hideous alien organism It started as a normal, if large, fake mole. It then grew and grew to this.
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Shoichi Funaki is a very good wrestler. He worked shoot, catch and lucha libre styles with equal success. He won championships in multiple countries. He wrestled in the WWE for more than a decade. In that decade, he had exactly three notable gimmicks:  1) Japanese gang thug involved in the infamous "choppy choppy your pee pee" angle  2) Japanese wrestler whose voice is overdubbed by comically mismatched English dialogue  3) Japanese wrestler who's a Japanese karate fighter named Kung Fu Naki from Japan Kung Fu Naki happened in goddamn 2008. Kung Fu Naki was still wrestling in 2010. That is way too late for a gimmick that stereotyped. I initially wrote this post to just be about Kung Fu Naki, and I'm still nominating Kung Fu Naki, but in hindsight, his entire WWE run is hilariously racist. edit: preemptively noting that even though the gimmick is racist trash the Kung Fu Naki theme is still kind of amazing
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The Truth Commission A confused paramilitary group led by a South African man simply named The Commandant with a name that's a play on The Truth & Reconciliation Commission from post-Apartheid South Africa. The Commandant cut a promo about how he hates America and it's liberal non-racism and then the Truth Commission didn't really do anything before The Commandant was gone and replaced with The Jackyl.  Why? Who cares. The Jackyl is like a cult leader or something. He doesn't really give a poo poo about the other two guys in The Truth Commission, he only really cares about Kurrgan The Interrogator, a very tall man who is one of the worst professional wrestlers anyone has seen with their eyes. Eventually The Jackyl has Kurrgan The Interrogator beat up the other two guys and that's the end of the Truth Commission I guess, and then Kurrgan and The Jackyl formed The Oddities with Golga, who was John Tenta under a mask playing a mentally handicapped man who loves Cartman from South Park and Giant Silva, who is also Very Tall.
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The only thing I remember about Truth Commission (other than Kurrgan being the drizzling shits) was that weird gimmick where Callis would stand on an elevated platform above the ring and cut rambling promos while his people squashed opponents. It lasted, maybe, a month tops? Then they moved Callis to commentary to do the same promos and the whole gimmick just kinda fizzled out with no payoff or explanation as to their motivations.
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