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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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Ok we have 32 entries but there's been so much awful poo poo that's not been put forward yet that I want to push to 64. I'll give it a bit more time for people to put in a nomination and then I'll open things up for repeats.
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Nostradingus posted:Santina Marella Don't forget that Santina came back to take a spot from a woman in the 2020 Royal Rumble!
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I'd say Cult Leader Sister Abigail Bray and Yowie Wowie Fiend Bray are separate gimmicks so you'll need to pick just one to submit
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ChrisBTY posted:Does Retribution just get plugged in as a collective contribution? Retribution are not yet in the competition
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bladeworksmaster posted:May I go ahead and nominate Fiend Bray as my own nomination? Eh I think Eugene needs to be in there so screw it we'll be opening up repeats for sure at some point so I'll just add it now
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CombineThresher posted:Is this tournament for WWE/WCW stuff only, or is stuff from ECW and SMW eligible too? Anything from anywhere, ROH, the indies and New Japan have all been featured already
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We're up to 45 entries now so I'm gonna open it up for people to make a second nomination until we get to 60 then I'll be adding four secret wild card spots for gimmicks so goddam famous that they can't not be included. Anyway in the meantime my second nomination is... Akeem the African Dream ...He's white Rarity fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Oct 22, 2020 |
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Oct 22, 2020 23:47
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By my count there's room for 2 more
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Oct 23, 2020 02:30
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Ok people are still going so I guess we're shooting for 128. Considering that's a lot I'm gonna let people nominate as many times they like. However I must insist that you follow the rules: 1. Include a picture and an explanation with your submission (not everyone may know what you're talking about) 2. This is a gimmick tournament, not a wrestler tournament. Wrestlers with multiple bad gimmicks would need multiple entries.
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Ok I have gone back and added everything I could see mentioned on this page. Now that everything's open please do follow the rules for nominations, it makes my life much easier!
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I mentioned them in the thread title so I'm going to have to include The Spirit Squad A bunch of fresh callups from OVW were given a gimmick of male cheerleaders and spent the whole summer of 2006 being dunked on by Hunter and Shawn including one time when they were literally dunked on with poo poo. None of them stood out in any way, the whole thing was a blatant attempt to laugh at dudes liking girly stuff because nudge nudge wink wink gay gay gay and their run ended when DX shoved four of them in a box which they literally shipped back to OVW. Just a complete and also offensive waste of time.
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 Jamison Let's team the simple-minded Bushwhackers up with a manager who is mentally disabled and then laugh at him as he picks his nose while calling him "a waste of human tissue". Just spiteful.  Okato It might not seem like a big deal that TNA took a young Japanese talent and got him to dress like someone from the Green Hornet except that young Japanese talent was none other than Kazuchika fricking Okada  The Empire Will Ospreay is obviously very talented at what he does so you can see why New Japan would want still want to feature him in a major role despite the very well documented shittness outside the ring. What they didn't need to do was turn him into one of the most awful obnoxious heel characters around while pairing him up with his equally lovely girlfriend Bea Priestley and then creating a new faction  The Constable "Welcome to Applebee's, could I take your order please?"
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Oh gently caress speaking of Hornswoggle that reminds me The Anonymous Raw GM After previous GM Bret Hart quit due to being repeatedly attacked by the Nexus his replacement would only take the role under one condition, his identity would remain secret and he would only communicate via emails to Michael Cole who was at the height of his heel run. The shows would run as scheduled until suddenly an annoying as gently caress ding ding sound would chime and Cole would spend five minutes milking it as he read out the email. Many big names were teased as the secret GM including Steve Austin and the Rock but it wasn't any of them. Nor was it Michael Cole himself, which would have made the most logical sense. No instead the McMahons ended up replacing the anonymous GM (I think with AJ Lee?) and the gimmick was dropped until months later it would return to be revealed that GM had been Hornswoggle the whole time. A terrible idea that pissed everyone off and resulted in nobody getting over.
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I'm genuinely surprised that Swoggle hasn't had the 24/7 belt yet
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Vince MechMahon posted:Bullet Club Civil War is an angle not a gimmick and also a really good one that was super over and is one of the direct factors that led to AEW? I'm gonna include it as the BC Elite sub-faction cause they definitely had a lot of critics for their presence in New Japan. It's not the first entry people have submitted that I'd disagree with and if people don't think it's a terrible gimmick then they won't vote for it. Anyway a couple more things I had in mind to mention:  Lo Down You might think that Chaz had had things bad enough after his short failed runs as a literal mother-fucker and then fake wifebeater but the gods of WWE weren't done with him just yet. After reforming the Headbangers with Thrasher the team went nowhere and the latter was sent back to developmental. With nothing to do Chaz was paired up with another wrestling without anything going on, D'Lo Brown. With D'Lo in his corner the team had some actual potential and the friendship between a black man and a white man could have been responsibily addressed an important social issue. Oh wait, what's that? They just had the two men pretend to be Indian and gave them Tiger Ali Singh as a manager? Of course they did. With a lovely stereotypical foreign heel gimmick Lo Down went nowhere and there most defining moment turned out to be losing their one spot in the 2001 Royal Rumble to make space for Drew Carey.  nWo 2000 A once mighty force that was now reduced to just a fraction of its former strength and coasting on its previous reputation while existing purely to push Jeff Jarrett as a main event? nWo 2000 was the perfect representation of WCW's final year. 13 spots left!
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Oct 24, 2020 21:09
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I just thought of this one and I couldn't bear to see it be left out Mae Young, Horny Grandma Make no mistake, Mae Young was a big deal in women's wrestling back in her day. Unfortunately the Attitude Era was not her day. At this point she was well into her 70s and was never going to be in matches but WWF continued to feature her week after as a gran who liked to gently caress. Highlights of this run include getting powerbombed through a table by Bubba Ray Dudley, getting her boobs out at Royal Rumble 2000 and a relationship with Mark Henry that resulted in the birth of a hand. She was responsible for so many famous flopped segments that she has to be included.
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I'll allow it. Last spot's open, make it a good one!
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Oct 24, 2020 22:53
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And that's our 128 locked in. I'm gonna go make up a bracket and I'll be back soon with the first vote! Also an honourable mention to Giant Gonzales who I just thought of but I didn't want to use up any of those last spots
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Ok so here's how this is going to work. I've split our 128 entries up into eight seeded brackets of 16. Voting will last for 12 hours for each matchup and votes will be submitted through Strawpoll. It's bedtime for me now so you'll have to wait for tomorrow for me to show you all of the first bracket but we'll get started with things now. Oh and please no one get hung up on the seeding especially if something you submitted got seeded lower than you think it deserves. It was all done fairly arbitrarily based purely on my personal opinion Round 1, Bracket 1  Braden Walker (11) vs.  Gas Mask Dean Ambrose (6) It's a man who's career died at WWE against a man who's career was reborn when he left WWE! Voting is here, deadline is midday UK time.
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Eat My Fuc posted:Are we voting who to eliminate or who to move on in the bracket Vote for the worse gimmick
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The thing I will say about Ambrose as Bane is that you can see that the intentions were there. Dean's heel turn was meant to be a big deal, the problem was it was just a completely tone deaf read of what would click with the audience. Unlike some entries on this list which were intentional malicious attempts to undermine the wrestler carrying the gimmick.
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Jerusalem posted:I legit missed that the actual voting had started, so I've edited in Rarity's first match-up to the OP for anybody else who might have missed it. Thanks J-Ru, you're a diamond 
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Congrats to Gas Mask Dean Ambrose for winning the first matchup with 73.13% to advance to the second round in our first bracket! Next up we have:  Naked Mideon (5) vs.  Rellik (12) A conflict between a man with no clothes and a man named Rellik, which is Killer spelled backwards. Vote here, I've realised setting deadlines up at midnight my time is a dumb idea so this one will be slightly shorter at 11pm GMT.
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Naked Mideon streaks to an easy victory with 79% of the vote. Moving on...  The Shockmaster (1) vs.  CM Punk (16) It's the man who dropped a pipebomb against the man who dropped on his face! Vote here!
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Better Than You posted:Pretty sure CM Punk was nominated as a joke I always take my friend Cavauro in good faith
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Gumball Gumption posted:And I think it's important to note that if he hadn't tripped you would of seen more of the Shockmaster and it's not like any of that was going to be good. The Shockmaster's nWo run would have been legendary
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JOHNNY HUNGIE 
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You will not be shocked to learn that the Shockmaster won the vote with 87%. We're still looking for our first upset! Will it be here?  Bone Soldier (13) vs.  Beaver Cleavage (4) It's the man made of bones against the man made of one bone! Vote here!
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The thought I had about Bone Soldier while I was seeding this is that this is about bad gimmicks and Taiji Ishimori has proven that the Bone Soldier gimmick is fine. Dude was just a bad wrestler, the gimmick wasn't the issue here.
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Ok we're not on them yet but I'm watching Clash of the Champions 7 right now and I just saw the debut of the Ding Dongs and holy poo poo this is dumbTestekill posted:And then it led into the domestic abuse angle We'll get to that later!
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Was Glenn "Thrasher" Ruth injured or had he been fired that Mosh/Chaz was getting a singles run? They split them up in Jan 99 so Chaz could have a singles run
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Bone Soldier continues his fine tradition of jobbing out as Beaver Cleavage takes the win with 89%. Next up it's the other lovely gimmick Chaz had in 1999!  Marianna Komlos (3) vs.  The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Iaukea (14) It's the man who dressed purple against the woman who bruised purple! Vote here!
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Gonzo McFee posted:Did the various "miscarriages" that happened in wrestling get nominated at all? PMS got nominated so that probably covers it rare Magic card l00k posted:I take pride in forgetting everything that ever involved Snitsky. We also forgot his foot fetish gimmick
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