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1999 R.S.P-W Awards | Worst Wrestling Gimmick |
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Worst Wrestling Gimmick Award Description: To be given to the wrestler who had the worst character gimmick in the past year. Previous Winners: 1991: Mike Rotundo as Irwin R. Shyster 1992: Papa Shango's voodoo 1993: Doink the Clown 1994: Doink the Clown 1995: Dungeon of Doom 1996: The Leprechaun 1997: Glacier / Blood Runs Cold 1998: Warrior appears in "strange mist" / forms One Warrior Nation **1999**: Beaver Cleavage (Chaz) 336 first place votes 319 second place votes 310 third place votes 36 20 16 272 Chaz Warrington as Beaver Cleavage and "Chaz" 28 25 23 261 No Limit Soldiers 27 19 9 210 Big Show's dad's cancer 20 25 14 203 Hulk Hogan's Red & Yellow returns 19 27 11 198 Brian Adams as KISS Demon 13 18 20 159 Sid Vicious as the Millennium Man 18 12 13 152 Mystery of the Hummer Driver 13 12 15 131 Ministry of Darkness / Corporate Ministry 15 8 5 109 Fabulous Moolah & Mae Young 7 12 19 109 Sexual Chocolate Mark Henry as a sex addict 8 10 15 100 Konnan's rap career 9 7 2 70 Barry Darsow as a golfer 8 4 9 70 Berlyn 8 2 9 64 Maestro 3 9 10 62 Coach Buzz Stern & Luther Biggs 5 5 8 56 Mideon 6 6 3 54 Godfather as a pimp 2 10 7 54 Rey Mysterio Jr. as Mini-Konnan 6 2 8 52 Lex Luger as Total Package 4 5 5 45 Steven Regal as a "Real Man's Man" 4 5 4 43 Evil Sting 4 2 7 40 Stephanie McMahon's amnesia 2 4 8 38 Jeff Jarrett as a misogynist 3 3 5 34 Billy Gunn as Mr. Ass 4 1 5 33 Prince Albert 4 2 2 30 Brad Armstrong as "BA" 0 5 5 25 Viscera 2 2 4 24 Vincent as Curly Bill 2 3 2 23 David Flair 3 1 2 22 Vince McMahon as the higher power 3 2 0 21 Ric Flair goes nuts 3 2 0 21 Powers that Be 4 0 0 20 Blue Blazer 2 2 2 20 Val Venis 1 4 1 19 Wife Beater 0 3 5 19 Big Bossman 2 2 1 18 Oklahoma(NO) 3 0 1 17 Sable 2 1 2 17 Undertaker 1 2 2 15 Filthy Animals 1 2 1 13 PMS 2 0 1 12 Los Spice Boys 1 2 0 11 Meat (Sean Stasiak) 0 1 4 11 MVP 2 0 0 10 Triple H & Stephanie wed(NO) 2 0 0 10 Justin Credible 2 0 0 10 Creative Control(NO) 1 1 1 10 Hacksaw Jim Duggan 1 1 1 10 Buff Bagwell 0 2 2 10 Steve Blackman as a silent assassin 1 1 0 8 Al Snow & Head 0 2 1 8 Baldies 1 0 1 7 West Texas Rednecks 1 0 1 7 Norman Smiley 1 0 1 7 Goldberg 0 2 0 6 Disco Inferno 0 0 3 6 Test & Stephanie's Marriage 0 0 3 6 Kurt Angle 1 0 0 5 Warrior 1 0 0 5 Tiger Ali Singh 1 0 0 5 Shane McMahon as Corporate Ministry leader 1 0 0 5 Seven(NO) 1 0 0 5 Rock` 1 0 0 5 Patty Stone Grinder 1 0 0 5 New Age Outlaws 1 0 0 5 Kane` 1 0 0 5 Judge Jeff Jones 1 0 0 5 Head Bangers 1 0 0 5 Gambler 1 0 0 5 El Dandy 1 0 0 5 Dustin Rhodes(NO) 1 0 0 5 Curtis Hughes as Jericho's bodyguard 1 0 0 5 Chyna as the "First Ever Woman To _______" 1 0 0 5 Chavo Guerrara as a salesman(NO) 1 0 0 5 Cat 1 0 0 5 Buzzkill(NO) 1 0 0 5 Buh Buh Ray Dudley 1 0 0 5 Acolytes 0 1 1 5 Van Hammer as a 70's dude 0 1 1 5 Rock & Sock Connection 0 1 1 5 Miss Kitty 0 1 0 3 Union 0 1 0 3 Too Cool 0 1 0 3 Test as Steph's fiancee 0 1 0 3 Super Nova 0 1 0 3 Super Heel Devil Masami 0 1 0 3 Road Dogg 0 1 0 3 Randy Savage 0 1 0 3 Mike Awesome 0 1 0 3 Mean Street Posse 0 1 0 3 Kane & X-Pac 0 1 0 3 Juventud Guerrera's immigration 0 1 0 3 Hardcore Holly 0 1 0 3 Hardcore Brian Knobs 0 1 0 3 Eric Bischoff becomes good & fair 0 1 0 3 Disciples of Apocalypse 0 1 0 3 Diamond Dallas Page 0 1 0 3 D-Generation X 0 1 0 3 Big Show as a killer 0 0 1 2 Who pulled the briefcase? 0 0 1 2 West Hollywood Blonds 0 0 1 2 Wall 0 0 1 2 Tony Marinara 0 0 1 2 Steven Regal & Dave Taylor 0 0 1 2 Rob Van Dam 0 0 1 2 Rick Steiner 0 0 1 2 Rap vs. Country Music 0 0 1 2 Nitro Girls 0 0 1 2 Mr. Socko 0 0 1 2 Fatu as a sumo wrestler 0 0 1 2 Danny Doring CHRIS BIRD: The Ministry of Dorkness was an all-time low for the Undertaker, and I count the Underfaker and the purple plastic facemask in that count. PMS were given wrestlers to "feud" with when they were solely meant to be eye candy. I still don't understand the No Limit Soldiers. EDC: Beaver Clevage was a horrid gimmick, Vince was smart to kill it. I don't care how big their tits were, PMS was a lame gimmick. So was Steven Regal's a real Man's Man gimmick. Say what you will about Vince, at least he has the balls to kill gimmicks quick. RFLAGG13: Gee, I wonder why all of these are WCW gimmicks? Now then--it seems to me that if you're going to hype an angle to the moon like was done with the hummer driver, it might be a good idea to figure out WHO IT WAS. Even if they had picked someone stupid and completely illogical, it would have been better than the end result. Hulk Hogan going back to the red and yellow--do I care? Does anybody care? Obviously someone thought this was a good idea, but they were sadly mistaken. And Coach Buzz Stern--congratulations, WCW, you've come up with a worse gimmick for him than Glacier. I knew you could do it. K. CANZANELLA: Los Spice Boys are an example of how *not* to do a gay gimmick. They are all talented workers, but it is near impossible to watch a match of theirs with them in such tiny pants. Koneheadcito is left open to too many Mini-Me jokes. Steve Blackman was a real stroke of the genious of McMahon. Take a guy with nearly no charisma, and have him put an exclamation point on that in front of WWF fans who have no tolerance for anything not as charismatic as the Rock or Austin. MR. JF: Fuck you too, Mr. Ferrera. SVEN MASCARENHAS: And now we're on to our "Let's trash WCW's idiotic plotlines" segment. First up, we have the No Limit Soldiers, gangsta rapper faces in the deep south. Was I the only one who knew this wouldn't work? Compared to that idiocy, the Beav and Rey Rey make sense. AARON: Funny how the feces always rises to the top when you have the superior product. The Ministry of Darkness, The Real Man's Man and Beaver Cleavage are all bi-products of the WWF, despite having the better overall fed. DON BECKER: Beaver Cleavage was just piss-poor from the beginning. Wife Beater is just tasteless, and MVP didn't work five years ago for Steve Lombardi; why would it work now for Dale Torborg? SHAWN MULLIN: There's nothing worse than Mark Henry as a sex addict. Mark Henry's gimmick has led to more useless crap this year than pretty much anything I've ever seen. The bondage crap, the transvestite, the therapy sessions, sleeping with his sister.. good lord. The only wrestling developments any of it led to were D-Lo being robbed of a chance to shine as IC champ, and some crap with Viscera. At least Buzz and the KISS Demon got no real play. MAX CHITTISTER: So many bad gimmicks, so few votes... JBELL55146: If your not down with the worst angle prolly ever, I got 2 woooorrrds for ya! ' HOOTY HOO!!!!!!!!' :) CAN00K: You suck, Hulk Hogan. PAUL SHOCK: Who was the Hummer driver? Savage? Sid? Hogan? Sting? Goldberg? Scott Hall? Vince McMahon? Bill Clinton? Monty Python? You? Me? CRZ? Ricky Martin? The Pope? Stephanie getting amnesia is SO eighties. Brad Armstrong, a honky from Georgia, sure fit in well with those No Limit Soldiers, eh? BLOB: The cancer angle was just plain terrible. There was no need for such an idiotic angle to get Big Show over. There could have been at least a 1000 gimmicks better than this one. The Hummer Driver angle went so much longer than it was supposed to that it started to bug me. Rey Jr. as Mini Konnan was one of the worst career moves Rey could've taken. ALDO: When I see the Red and Yellow of Hogan's outfit on my screen, it makes me want to vomit. Coming in a close second is Konnan's "rap career." Granted, it wouldn't have been as bad if Skee-vone and company not played the long-form videos on every televised broadcast, but Konnan sucks as a musician. The reason why I have Brian Adams' KISS gimmick on the list is not only the sheer stupidity of it, but the fact that KISS sold out to a major corporation and also the fact that the Demon never got off the ground. GEORGE CARTER: Beaver Clevage. Nuff said. If that KISS Demon/Vampoiro/Son of Satan/Holy Water crap happened, then that would have won. JOHN C.:The doctor says it will be three years before I see normally again after that "Mae Young incident" when she was half naked on Raw. The horror!! RICHARD BEAUBIEN: Hulkmania is dead and buried, and they brought it back...*shudder* The Quaker taker comes in second, as a way to bury a super over character. The WWF was lucky that the Undertaker could survive these insanely bad gimmicks some what intact, or else they'd be in a huge pickle right now. JAN-MORTIZ KAEDING: I felt insulted by Stephanie's amnesia, plain and simple. And I really missed the MVP as much as the Goobledegooker or Teckno Team 2000. When you talk about "unstoppable", Alex Wright just doesn't come to mind, so Berlyn takes 3rd best (see my comment there) and 3rd worst gimmick. JOE GENTILE: If WCW couldn't get raqtings with legitimate rock groups, why the hell would they think they could with Konnan rapping? MYKLL42:Golf and wrestling do not mix, so Barry Darsow gets my vote. Oddly enough, he also gets my vote for Best Angle a bit further down. SEAN FLYNN: Ric Flair got me into and kept me into wrestling for over a decade. To see what happened to him this year was an atrocity, and I hope Eric Bischoff burns in hell for it. MARK SMITH: This was pretty hard to vote for, as there were a lot of gimmicks that really, really blew this year. I'm not sure if the Big Show's dad having cancer is technically a gimmick, but it got my vote. KEVIN WONG: There's a graveyard of gimmicks that were doomed to fail from the start. No Limit Soldiers, Beaver Cleavage, and the KISS Demon are just some of them. I'd put in the Hummer Driver and the Higher Power, but those were more of an angle B. SZPAKOWICZ: Beaver... Cleavage? Can someone please shoot whoever came up with that? Please? No one cared about Hogan last time he was in the red-and-yellow, and, guess what, they still don't. Plus the whole gimmick is outdated and just plain nauseating and all... Oh, and what's that? Mark Henry is a sex addict? Whatever. THERION: Again, really hard to pick just three out of this list. EDDIE KIM: The Blue Blazer gimmick was the worst one because it was responsible for the death of a great man and wrestler. BERT SNOOVEN: I'm glad WWF sank the Beaver Cleavage ship fast. I was worried that, in this era of sports entertainment, he'd become bigger than Austin. Second worst gimmick: Berlyn. The German "machine" has a bodyguard carrying his matches. He was so much better as just plain ol' Alex Wright. COLIN MACKINNON: The angle was never really answered, it just dragged on, it was stupid, etc. That's one of the few reasons why I'm happy Russo and Ferrera are in WCW now - We'll hopefully never hear of that angle again. JEREMY SORIA: Jarrett, if you don't have the body like Warrior or the ability like Benoit, or even the charisma like Stone Cold, then you shouldn't be even at or near the top card. Shawn Stasiak as Meat was a very interesting gimmick, and a nicely stiff one as well when PMS was still together.... but it flew like a lead balloon. I don't know if I can do that, dump on the entire (Corporate) Ministry gimmick, but hey, for them to pass these guys off as Goth, it ended up being really, really stupid. JUSTIN JONES: Sadly, "Master P's Rap Career" was not eligible for "Worst Gimmick", so I was forced to vote for Konnan, by Crom. MICHAEL STAKELY: Worst gimmick 25A. - This one wins handily by being offensive to any viewers who know somebody who has suffered from cancer, several wrestlers who just lost a dear friend, and also by managing to spit on the memory of anyone who ever received a ten bell salute in their honor. 25B. Too bad the millenium doesn't start until 2001. HEATM: I'm positive Curly Bill was intended as some sort of racist joke about African American rednecks, but I'm still having nightmares trying to understand the rationale behind such a bad gimmick. OTTO "HACK-MAN" HEUER: Worst Wrestling Gimmick. The first two were easy (Rey Mysterio Jr. as Mini Konnan and Konnan's rap career) . I just picked one of about 14 I didn't like for #3 (Billy Gunn as Mr. Ass) MDB: Big Giant's dad's cancer angle was tasteless, explotive, lame, and hasn't given us one good match. Everything bad said about the nWo angle goes double for the Corporate Ministry. Remember when Rey Misterio was cool? |
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