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Favorite Gimmicks?

Snabbit888Posted on 02/14/05 at 05:52:23

After looking at some of WalkingCondominium's pictures, I was curious as to what are some of you TNM'ers favorite gimmicks you've ever attached to wrestlers who don't normally have those gimmicks, or that you've ever seen in someone else's circuit.

In mine - an old GLW tag team that was Little Guido and Tom Brandi as a tag team, Guido the Clown, Mario the Clown, collectively the Italian Clown Mafia.

In someone else's - probably Haiku-Reading Jeff Hardy in 91's DWF.  How desperately I want to steal it.
americamamushiPosted on 02/14/05 at 07:40:13

OoOoOoOo, good topic idea Ry-Ry.

Let's see.  More may come to me, but one that pops into my mind right off the bat is Teddy Long, Attorney at Law.  It was great.  In the storyline John Tenta had hired his services because I large masked wrestler attacked Paul Orndorff.  Orndorff managed to get the culprit's wrestling boot and was convinced that Tenta was behind it.  Not wanting this to tarnish his image he hired the services of Teddy Long, Attorney at Law.  So Long would walk around all the time saying "If the boot don't fit, you must aquit!" ;D  The thought of that always made me laugh.
91Posted on 02/14/05 at 19:11:45

For my own stuff, "Haiku Reading" Jeff Hardy is always a favourite. Ironically, Matt Hardy was a firm favourite too during his run as leader of Team Matt.

Asides that, a mate of mine came up with the hilarious Bret Hart and Steve Austin team entitled "The Bitter Legends". They essentially bitched and moaned and whined and complained and protested at EVERYTHING, leading to a few classic skits. I'd also be remiss in not mentioning Erics "Racist" Johnny Ace and Snabbys "Extremely Disturbing" Goldust.
americamamushiPosted on 02/14/05 at 20:29:15

lol, I forgot about Racist Ace.  That was pure gold.
Murphy42782Posted on 02/14/05 at 20:51:11

my own personal favorite from my multiple circuits had to be when Hulk Hogan reverted back to his HULKAMANIA days and was being ganged up on by the incarnation of the Four Horsemen, Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Lance Storm and Chris Candido. Hogan fought Flair and Anderson in the main event of one of my PPVs and I used "random" to select from the current roster hoping to generate a turn by one of the other Horsemen or heels, but it instead gave me Jeff Hardy, essentially turning Matt Hardy bitter and heelish. But Jeff Hardy kissed major ass and even dressed in yellow and red every show. He told Hogan he had a friend that was as big a fan as he was and I used "M"ystery wrestler option and it gave Hardy, a hyper and over joyed version of Julio Dinero. Dinero and Hardy dressed like Hogan and began preaching the "Take Your Vitamins and Say Your Prayers" mantra of Hogan's glory days and back Hogan up for nearly a year in his bitter battles with the Horsemen, Chris Jericho, and Matt Hardy.

AS for someone else's, I like Racist Johnny Ace and the whole Overpower clan. I also liked the Black Tiger angle as its playing out. Rob Van Dam and his smoking buddies Edge and Christian from 91's circuit was also good.
A_Man_Called_MikeyPosted on 02/14/05 at 22:04:04

Evil Koko B. Ware, which comes after Koko with a dead parrot.
YunPosted on 02/17/05 at 04:30:33

A couple of my favorites from my feds:

-Mankind being led to the ring in a 6x6x6 cage with two animal handlers and Bobby Heenan. Heenan represented an unnamed corporation which was holding Foley as property until he was liberated by Spanky.

-A related gimmick was The Rock as a bounty hunter hired by Heenan's boss to beat up Spanky and his partner, Red, and recapture Mankind.

-The SAT as PWM's actual Spanish Announce Team, making their in-ring debut after being taunted one too many times by Shawn Michaels and Michael Shane.

-One of my earlier ones had Sting as Mick Foley's "Guardian Angel" during a feud over Foley's identity between the team of Terry Funk and Mikey Whipwreck (who had brought him in as Cactus Jack) and Raven's Flock (who had turned him into Mankind.) That storyline ended with Degeneration X dropping a large piece of metal on Foley's head which wound up turning him into Dude Love (thus frustrating everybody involved in the angle.) Throughout the whole thing, though, Sting was watching every move Foley made from afar.

-The Ultimate Warrior taking a bunch of heels under his wing in an attempt to "reform" them.

-But the overall winner has to be El Dragon Rojo. If you know any Spanish you should be able to guess who he really is, but basically I wanted to form a stable based around the dragon concept, led by Ultimo Dragon, managed by Rick Steamboat, featuring Super Dragon, Bryan Danielson, Darkness Dragon, etc... however I wanted to bring the dragon count to seven, since I usually think of that as a sort of "mystical" number, but couldn't come up with anyone except Dragon Kid (who I don't care for.) Enter The Amazing Red, who I already had on the roster but with nothing to do. El Dragon Rojo was born.