Gimmicks With The Most Potential But Abandoned

[The OP]

buckyayo said:

basicboogeynomix said:

Marching with that big chocolate, he was a big poet.

WWE REALLY missed the boat on an off beat Snitsky/Heidenreich Tag Team.

They missed the boat on a heel Snitsky/Heidenriech tag team. It still astounds me that there was never a Brothers of Destruction vs Heidenriech & Snitsky match, I thought for months that it was a lock for Mania.

I know! You guys are right, and it's obvious they were building toward that and then changed their minds for some reason.

[bigblu89]

buckyayo said:

Mordecai, Sean O'Haire, Muhammed Hassan and Khosrow Daivari, Paul Birchill... the list will never end.

It'll never end if you keep naming guys that were already named.

Seems as if this "neverending" list is.

Hassan
Davari
O'Haire
Moredcai
Davari
O'Haire
Hassan
Evil Doink
O'Haire
Mordecai
Waylon Mercy
Hassan

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sexualwalking said:

I actually liked "Yakuza" Jimmy Yang.

It would've been awesome if he was repackaged as a Chow Yun Fat-style martial arts guy, with leather trench coat, shades, etc.

[GaTechGrad]

Just Joe (don't kill the messenger)

[JordynKaiyseee]

They could've really gone somewhere with Danny Basham's Damaja gimmick, but It just became another HeAT thing..

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

If Nathan Jones hadn't be so bad in the ring and they had stuck with the characters in his vignettes, it would have been MONEY.

[I Graduated Warrior University]

nevermore08 said:

Paul Burchill gets my vote. The C-4 alone should be enough alone to get him over

This is my vote. Burchill having Regal doing the talking for him should have gotten over like a mofo and resulted in at least a US title reign, but creative's lousy writing f***ed that up. (Regal: "Paul Burchill is a hooligan". Yeah way to go "creative", comparing a super-talented guy with one of the best finishers in the biz to a drunken thug who gets into fights over football AKA soccer)

[I Graduated Warrior University]

sexualwalking said:

I actually liked "Yakuza" Jimmy Yang.

I also think they should have stayed with Umaga as a face. Too many heel monsters around.

I would've marked like a mofo if Estrada took Umaga bowling.

[Joekishi]

screw hassan and o'haire was overrated

Chief Morley was a great character. I still don't get why he reverted back to val venis.

I also really hoped for a Snitsky/Heidenreich tag team. it's not even like people were against the idea. most people were for it.

[Vanilla Gorilla]

I agree with many of these, especially the Yakuza stable.

[normcoleman]

Teddy Long....held back minority manager

[skiller]

One I'd almost completely forgotten, but I loved Sylvan's model gimmick. Then they dropped it for the Ambassador of Quebec gimmick which felt more like a rehash of La Resistance.

[Mr. Mediocre]

jkorkie said:

I agree with many of these, especially the Yakuza stable.

The Yakuza stable was abandoned with very good reason, and I don't blame any of the wrestlers involved for begging for trying to get out of it. Given the Yakuza's influence in Japan (which includes some involvement in the puro scene), every single member of the stable felt that they would have been killed if they ever went back to Japan.

[Moonwalkin' Capt. Crow]

Hassan would have to be the first name that comes to my mind, however I would also have to say that they missed the boat on Cryme Tyme. They were built up to later be viable contenders for the tag straps, then regulated to a bunch of corny, but most of the time funny skits.

[salz4life]

gitcommand said:

Just Joe (don't kill the messenger)

I remember this name, but for some reason, don't remember the gimmick. Can you (or someone) remind me?