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Bad Gimmicks gone good

crazyarbyPosted on 06/16/09 at 06:40:40

Every one talks about Gimmicks gone bad but what about Gimmicks that were never meant to be good and turned out great.  Real world:  I loved Huricane Helms and Mikey Whipwreck
One of my fantasy wrestlers is named Steve the Butcher.  A jobber with a lame Butcher gimmick but he started to win and it came out he was from East Lansing and now he was the Mad Meat Cutter from Michigan and now he has the Meat Cutter Special as a finisher and his story writes itself.  
Does anyone have a success story that you thought was lame at first but turned out kick ass.

arby
PulsarPosted on 06/16/09 at 16:01:44

Hornswaggle....just anything about him is awesome
ZedjaPosted on 06/16/09 at 21:48:53

Zedja in TNMWA.

He was wearing a white tiger mask, but his gimmick turned out to be that he crushed his one-on-one opponents with ease while he couldn't win to save his life in battle royals.
Drunken FoolPosted on 06/16/09 at 23:36:22

This is not so much a bad gimmick as it is a generic gimmick:, but I created a fantasy wrestler called Giant Powerhouse who was over 7'0", 7'2" to be precise, but was a muscular build and weighs around 330+ pounds. He uses a Gorilla Press Cutter as his finisher. He was just meant to be a generic powerhouse that would only defeat jobbers, openers, and some low level midcarders, but then he beat one of my upper midcarders, so I put him in a re-match with that upper midcarder, and he beat him again, then he beat another upper midcarder, and then he actually upset the number one contender for my world title. Not only that, he also beat my champion in a non title match, so I decided to put him in the main event ladder match at the PPV for the title in a three way with my top contender (Gabe Lincoln, yep that's his name), and my then champion, Boris Ninkolenko. He lost the match, but performed well, so I had no other choice but to start to book him more seriously. He ended up turning heel, and becomming more of a hired goon, but he did go on to win the tag team titles seven times, and six of those seven times they were with different partners.

I did have a female gimmick that was supposed to be bad (mainly because of the controversial nature of it): Sister Ambrosia, a Roman Catholic Nun who moonlighted as a wrestler, and lived a double life as a porn star.
WakePosted on 07/24/09 at 23:42:12

I might have more to say once I give this more thought, but the first one that came to mind was a fantasy wrestler i created called Panama Jack.

A Jimmy Buffet fan from the Florida Keys (yes complete with gaudy flower-print shirt and wide-brimmed hat for the sun) he started as just another job squad member.

Really a lifeless wrestler with hardely much of a moveset, it was just more fun to have him as one of the commentators.

I like to think I've gotten better at creating fantasy wrestlers since then... but who knows.
PlutarPosted on 07/25/09 at 00:02:01

what kind of tips would you give to someone like myself who has never created a fantasy wrestler