Dutch Mantell on WCW's Worst Gimmicks EVER!

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  • @roberteisenhauer7686
    @roberteisenhauer7686 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Big Josh's dancing bears pissed all over the walkway ramp at SuperBrawl lmao😂😂😂

  • @bkblair71
    @bkblair71 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Oz was created because TNT , TBS , or Turner classic Movies was celebrating the Wizard of Oz into the TCM library.... Something like that.

    • @handsolo1209
      @handsolo1209 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That is also why they wanted to change Flair to Spartacus. They saw a resemblance to Kirk Douglas.

    • @bkblair71
      @bkblair71 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @handsolo1209 You are correct sir.

    • @patrickboian8545
      @patrickboian8545 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No wonder Nash had to leave lmao

  • @mikejejenich-pb5zx
    @mikejejenich-pb5zx ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The ding 🛎️ dongs. And the 🦈 shark. Were horrendous 👋🤣

  • @JimCornetteIsMyDad
    @JimCornetteIsMyDad ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Bastion Booger was actually a pretty decent wrestler in Canada. His ring name was Makhan Singh.

    • @robbymarton74
      @robbymarton74 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The good old days. Stampede 🇨🇦

    • @rustywagner30
      @rustywagner30 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Vince always buried the independent talent he was one of many sad to say

    • @nunyabidness4220
      @nunyabidness4220 ปีที่แล้ว

      He also did a hillbilly gimmick in Memphis wrestling as Jed Grundy. He was really likeable, decent-but-not-remarkable brawler skills.

    • @rustywagner30
      @rustywagner30 ปีที่แล้ว

      @nunyabidness4220 and buried every WCW wrestler for many yrs which made me quit watching that try to stop every other company they can even a smaller one MLW they finished off ECW taking their TV deal when they switched to spike or TNN just sickening

    • @chrisdavid3510
      @chrisdavid3510 ปีที่แล้ว

      He had a not so great gimmick in smokey mountain.

  • @ComedianBobFarrell
    @ComedianBobFarrell ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Art Barr was the Juicer in Portland before WCW. The same gimmick as Beetlejuice

    • @scotthalvorson1161
      @scotthalvorson1161 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You can still find the video of piper dressing him up and basically making the gimmick up live on tv lol, he was actually over asf in portland too

    • @ComedianBobFarrell
      @ComedianBobFarrell ปีที่แล้ว

      @@scotthalvorson1161 TH-cam is where I saw it. I believe I found out about it in Pro Wrestling Illustrated

    • @MrJimbaker920
      @MrJimbaker920 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Art Barr was Beetlejuice in Portland.They changed it in WCW to avoid copyright lawsuits.Art had a tag team partner called the Juicer for a short time in Portland tho

  • @skandalmkdaniel3029
    @skandalmkdaniel3029 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I remember dutch commentating a candy man match...no lie!

  • @Hacksaw-Ben-Thuggin
    @Hacksaw-Ben-Thuggin ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Deuce and Domino. Cast of Grease wrestling in the 2000s.

    • @MrJimbaker920
      @MrJimbaker920 ปีที่แล้ว

      Deuce and Domino aka the Throwbacks weren't bad,but it was the type of gimmick that only worked for small crowds.They used the gimmick in IVW and it worked there,it it didn't translate to a bigger audience much like Adam Rose and No Way Jose

  • @jayharvey7043
    @jayharvey7043 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There was also a Candyman in Memphis, Reggie B. Fine.

  • @HonestUAWElectrician
    @HonestUAWElectrician ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Man I can deal with a lot of dumb gimmicks, but for me, Beaver Cleavage was the one that I just couldn't do it. Wrestling monks (another Mike Shaw gimmick Friar Ferguson), wrestling hockey players, knockoff superheroes, but an imitation of a 1950s tv character with uh how do I say this without upsetting YT....having "family relations" with his mom, was a major WTF moment.

    • @whitemamba0089
      @whitemamba0089 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol vince russo was saying it was a great idea that will nvr get finished cus tv pulled the plug on it and it's our loss bro

    • @archiemisc
      @archiemisc ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@whitemamba0089that article was hilarious 😂

  • @TheNickDinsmore
    @TheNickDinsmore ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Because 1 live bear just isn’t enough. WCW.

  • @PassivePortfolios
    @PassivePortfolios ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Speaking of hunchbacks, Iron Mike Sharpe was somewhat of a hunchback. The Red Rooster and Goldust were probably the worst gimmicks. Special mention to El Gigante's crazy outfit.

    • @scottcoval7547
      @scottcoval7547 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What?! Goldust was awesome

    • @TDBS83
      @TDBS83 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Goldust got over big time

    • @gravitywaves2796
      @gravitywaves2796 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You know everyone talks shit about the red rooster. The way it was done was no doubt shit, but I really think had he not gone quite so over the top with the clucking and walk, and just had the look and did decent promos about cock of the walk and getting to the henhouse and whatever else, I think he could have got it over. Not a good gimmick by any means, but there are way worse out there. The right guy and done the right way could have had a decent little run with the character, especially in those days when everyone had a dumb gimmick.

    • @PassivePortfolios
      @PassivePortfolios ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gravitywaves2796 Red Rooster would have been the perfect character for Vince McMahon. He already perfected the rooster power walk.

    • @buckster2575
      @buckster2575 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Goldust was over.

  • @DungTran-li2wn
    @DungTran-li2wn ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i actually liked big josh. the log roll!

  • @Sun_View
    @Sun_View ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The Candy Man gimmick had been done a couple of times before the WCW version in the Southern territories, I think Ray Candy/Kareem Muhammad was The Candy Man in Mid-South where he wore red white and blue and handed out candy to the crowd and Buzz Sawyer's brother Brett was The Bubblegum Kid in Florida doing the same thing.

  • @gregorykrug8034
    @gregorykrug8034 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    WCW always did poorly when they tried to out-Vince Vince. When the Ding-Dongs, Big Josh, and other cartoon characters showed up on WCW, it always pissed me off.

  • @robertsmith9278
    @robertsmith9278 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    the original yellow dog was barry windham

  • @cajunasian71
    @cajunasian71 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That Candyman gimmick ruined Brad Armstrong. Heck, I remember him and his dad, 'Bullet Bob' on old WTBS wrestling.

    • @williammitchell4417
      @williammitchell4417 ปีที่แล้ว

      And Corny still hired them in Smokey Mountain!!

    • @cajunasian71
      @cajunasian71 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@williammitchell4417 Sure. Because Jim recognized talent. Unfortunately, being saddled with so many gimmicks tarnished Brad from ever moving up from Lower Mid Card to a solid Mid Card or higher that he deserved.

    • @williammitchell4417
      @williammitchell4417 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cajunasian71 and don't forget his Baby brother the Road Dogg!!! Oh you didn't know?¿

  • @fastesteddiealive
    @fastesteddiealive ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I liked the desperados

  • @lylepeel7972
    @lylepeel7972 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mukan Singh (Mike Shaw) was really over as a heel in Calgary. So sad to see how he was used by WCW and WWF

  • @Georgia_Outlaw_Vinyl
    @Georgia_Outlaw_Vinyl ปีที่แล้ว

    You forgot the Halloween Havoc Phantom (Rick Rude).

  • @bubbahuskey113
    @bubbahuskey113 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wasn't Barry Windham the Yellow Dog in Florida years before Pillman in WCW?

  • @stevewarren4813
    @stevewarren4813 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Ding Dongs were from Belleville, Illinois.

  • @mylowround60
    @mylowround60 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Seems like I remember Nash shitting on Dusty for the Oz character in previous shoot interviews...

  • @Atomykpimp
    @Atomykpimp ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A. Bad gimmick like Big Josh eventually became a legendary gimmick like Doink the Clown. The “True” Doink and Matt Borne belongs in the HOF just in that alone.

  • @bengarcia333
    @bengarcia333 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1. El Gigante
    2. Boat Captain Mike Rotundo
    3.Yoshi Kwan ( The Fake Asian)
    4. The Shark
    5. Dave " Evad" Sullivan
    6. The Colossal Kongs
    7. The Booty man
    8. The Zodiac
    9. The Butcher
    8. Screaming norman Smiley
    9. LT Loco ( Chavo Guererro)
    10 General E rection ( Hugh Moris Bill Demott)
    11. The Artist Formerly known as Prince Iauekea
    12. V.K. Wallstreet
    13. Hole in One Darsow
    14. Curly Bill
    15. Braun the Leprechaun
    16. Oklahoma
    17. Lochness
    18. The YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETAY
    19. The Shock Master
    20. Janitor Hacksaw Jim Duggan
    21. Canadian Sympathizer Jim Duggan
    22. The WestHollywood Blonds ( lenny Lane and Lodi)
    23. Kwee Wee
    24. buzzkill ( Brad Armstrong)
    25. The No Limits Soldiers
    26. Coach Buzz Stern

    • @nickmrt2670
      @nickmrt2670 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Interesting… no Mummy?

    • @machohogan
      @machohogan ปีที่แล้ว

      Yoshi Kwan was great, a fantastic wrestler. Great squash matches in 93. Was sad when he lasted a few month. Chris Champion in the new breed was good as well. People say “ahead of their time” way too often but the New Breed would have fitted in perfectly against the hardy.

    • @jd9119
      @jd9119 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't forget The Dungeon of Doom

    • @Atomykpimp
      @Atomykpimp ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Seems like Michael Wallstreet morphed into IRS in WWE.

    • @smarkslowplay3512
      @smarkslowplay3512 ปีที่แล้ว

      No limit soldiers were an actual rap crew from new orleans. Made more money than any wrestler during that time

  • @williammitchell4417
    @williammitchell4417 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hopefully Dutch was in Puerto Rico when the ding dongs were in WCW.

  • @ernestcruz6316
    @ernestcruz6316 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm not sure if the Dynamic Dudes were a knockoff of Herbie Abrams' UWF team Wet 'n Wild (Steve Ray & Sunny Beach), or were Wet 'n Wild a knockoff of the Dudes? I guess it doesn't matter, because both gimmicks blew ass.

    • @ShadowAngel18606
      @ShadowAngel18606 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dynamic Dudes started at WCW in 1989. Wet n' Wild was created in 1991.
      I doubt it was a knock off really. The Surfer/Skater/Beach Dude gimmick simply was extremely popular at the time (think Ray Apollo, Sandman before he became extreme, Sting, way too many)

    • @ernestcruz6316
      @ernestcruz6316 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ShadowAngel18606 I didn't know which of those two gimmicks came first, but thanks for telling me. I knew about Sandman's use of the beach bum gimmick. Probably what the name Sandman referred to anyway.

    • @MrJimbaker920
      @MrJimbaker920 ปีที่แล้ว

      Neiter.The Dynamic Dudes were supposed to be more like skateboarders (even tho neither knew how to ride one)and the others were stereotypical surfer types

  • @wa2k99
    @wa2k99 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yep those master blasters

  • @SychoSam
    @SychoSam ปีที่แล้ว

    It was always fun to watch TL Hopper 😂 🪠🚽

  • @jpknievel420
    @jpknievel420 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think Mike Shaw was also Tank, under a mask, in The Truth Commission.

    • @Eddie-lm3jf
      @Eddie-lm3jf 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That was Michael Halac.

    • @jpknievel420
      @jpknievel420 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Eddie-lm3jf Was that P.N. News' cousin, who was also Mantaur?

    • @Eddie-lm3jf
      @Eddie-lm3jf 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jpknievel420 Yes, same person.

  • @lordhirudo5311
    @lordhirudo5311 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Man, somewhere along the line I started blaming Vince Russo for some of the crap Jim Hurd did…

    • @MrJimbaker920
      @MrJimbaker920 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You might as well 😂 if anything Russo was the king of bad gimmicks.Who do you think came up with the name for Total Non stop Action ,(TNA)?

  • @JoseFlores-xc7wu
    @JoseFlores-xc7wu ปีที่แล้ว

    Iron Mike Sharp could have been one of the hunchbacks

  • @LosVillanov
    @LosVillanov 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Greg Evans and richard sartain the ding dongs where also the rocking rebels

  • @RyWilsonGaming
    @RyWilsonGaming ปีที่แล้ว +2

    wtf..how do you equate giving kids at ringside candy with a pedo. that is the craziest fucking shit i've heard in a long time. holy shit.

    • @mangrove
      @mangrove ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The whole "strangers with candy" thing has beena trope for a while. Also, there was an infamous "Candyman" serial killer from 1970s Houston who might have been worse than John Wayne Gacy.

    • @RyWilsonGaming
      @RyWilsonGaming ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mangrove ahh okay. i will look that up. thank you :D

  • @clayton5584
    @clayton5584 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I would watch what i say about billy jack

    • @JRWeezy84
      @JRWeezy84 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Whats he gonna do? Break out of prison? 😂😂😂

  • @mox19380
    @mox19380 ปีที่แล้ว

    i feel like dutch didn't want to touch the stick of billy jack haynes dynamite.
    i think norman the lunatic could've worked if they kept him a a serious deranged heel. but they basically made him a comedic act.

    • @JRWeezy84
      @JRWeezy84 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Billys locked up now 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉

  • @JohnnyLaps
    @JohnnyLaps ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Juicer... worst ever

  • @skandalmkdaniel3029
    @skandalmkdaniel3029 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wasnt hercules also blackblood??

    • @roberteisenhauer7686
      @roberteisenhauer7686 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not sure about Black Blood, but Herc was Super Invader & managed by Harley Race

    • @dickborg452
      @dickborg452 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I know at one time it was billy jack Haynes

    • @MrJimbaker920
      @MrJimbaker920 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No Hercules was the Super Invader.He wore a mask that resembled red colored panty hose.I remember the dirtsheets at the time knock named him super sock man

  • @koba687
    @koba687 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have a weird gimmick idea this dude that I have in mind believes that he is a reincarnation of the pharaoh ahkenaten thanks to a revelation brought to him by aten

  • @johnlynn9388
    @johnlynn9388 ปีที่แล้ว

    The fat chick thriller and the yeti have to be up there for bad WCW gimmicks even though they were much later on than many of the ones on the list.

  • @bkblair71
    @bkblair71 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    WCW trying to be like WWF with these goofy gimmicks that would never go anywhere and couldn't take seriously.

  • @jasonuerkvitz7611
    @jasonuerkvitz7611 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dutch you could have been raped oh for the love of God lmfao that was fn hilarious 16:19

    • @jasonuerkvitz7611
      @jasonuerkvitz7611 ปีที่แล้ว

      You probably weren't his type lmfao these guys

  • @roymauler
    @roymauler ปีที่แล้ว

    I think the wrestling business is long dead. Now it is sport entertainment.

  • @kevinbbadd
    @kevinbbadd ปีที่แล้ว +4

    They should have put Dutch in a flying monkey gimmick and he could have escorted Oz to the ring. Should have gone all in.

    • @SychoSam
      @SychoSam ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Nah Dutch is the living version of Yosemite Sam

    • @ronaldfielder9584
      @ronaldfielder9584 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dutch was hairy enough to be a monkey 😆

  • @zacheryainsworth3825
    @zacheryainsworth3825 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bastion Booger did commentary with Vince a couple times. He was funny

  • @ralphharkey3842
    @ralphharkey3842 ปีที่แล้ว

    K & H Wrestling Wear. They are still in business.

  • @jasmith85
    @jasmith85 ปีที่แล้ว

    You can't kill it? Tony Khan said hold my beer.

    • @MrJimbaker920
      @MrJimbaker920 ปีที่แล้ว

      What bad gimmicks did Tony Khan create?

  • @ShadowAngel18606
    @ShadowAngel18606 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What is most interesting is how the WWF seemingly copied a few of these ideas later on.
    Wrestlers shooting fake guns at the crowd? Smoking Gunns
    Executioner? That role was played by Terry Gordy in 1996
    Norman the Lunatic? Basically Eugene
    Don't know what was so worst about Big Josh, it's your typical lower card gimmick. At least he wasn't a plumber or dentist. The bears were only used once (Superbrawl 1991) and it isn't much different than the Bulldogs and their dog, Jake and the Snake, Koko and the Parrot or any other animal gimmick. At least bears have a relatively deep connection to wrestling, so it wasn't even all that random.
    As for Candyman: It was a different time and if handing out candy to children instantly makes you a pedophile or "groomer" (stupid word) than...everybody on Halloween is a pedophile or "groomer"? It was a dumb gimmick, but then again, Brad Armstrong was such a bland, boring, vanilla guy, he desperately needed a gimmick and they tried absolutely everything. He might have been good in the ring (which doesn't matter in pro wrestling), but he simply had nothing else to offer

  • @jayharvey7043
    @jayharvey7043 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why is handing out candy to kids considered grooming, if candy is grooming, what's giving away shades.

  • @davidepling724
    @davidepling724 ปีที่แล้ว

    Scott Hall as Diamond Stud was a terrible gimmick

  • @scottcoval7547
    @scottcoval7547 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I gotta say Orange Cassidy and Wendy Choo are the worst gimmicks in modern wrestling.

    • @Hacksaw-Ben-Thuggin
      @Hacksaw-Ben-Thuggin ปีที่แล้ว

      I still don't know what Orange Cassidy gimmick is. A guy who rather be anywhere else? The narcoleptic wrestler is at least something.

    • @MrJimbaker920
      @MrJimbaker920 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wendy Choo?dumb gimmick.Orange Cassidy is good and is a very good worker

  • @robfinlay8058
    @robfinlay8058 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Ding Dongs were the worst WCW gimmick. Oz is 2nd.

    • @ShadowAngel18606
      @ShadowAngel18606 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nah. The Ding Dongs were nevver pushed and simply were jobbers. Oz was enforced onto them by the Turner execs and also vanished quick.
      Compare that to Mike Awesome becoming "The Fat Chick Thrilla", the Kiss Demon showing up and getting pushed toward the Main Event or Booty Man (or any other Ed Leslie gimmick) or the pathetic Warrior rip-off Renegade.
      Or other incredibly dumb short lived gimmicks like Lasertron (based on the dumb Laser Tag game) or The Maestro.
      WCW had a ton of incredibly stupid gimmicks.

  • @jeffblacky
    @jeffblacky ปีที่แล้ว

    Too many to list

  • @Halbared
    @Halbared ปีที่แล้ว

    I think wrestling wil survive, but it won’t come back stronger. Not for a few generations, after the coming
    Inferno.

  • @markcafebrown2883
    @markcafebrown2883 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’d add the Young bucks to this list lol

    • @MrJimbaker920
      @MrJimbaker920 ปีที่แล้ว

      What's bad about their gimmick?

  • @nexusassoon8367
    @nexusassoon8367 ปีที่แล้ว

    Don't forget Art Barr is dead

  • @jeffblacky
    @jeffblacky ปีที่แล้ว

    Ding Dongs
    HoF 2024

  • @smyersfishingadventures
    @smyersfishingadventures ปีที่แล้ว

    Dutch may be right, but to me current wrestling is dead. I have tried watching it a few times, and simply cannot watch it.

  • @anthonydixon5637
    @anthonydixon5637 ปีที่แล้ว

    Didn't Billy Jack Haynes knock out Iron Mike Sharpe 1 time Dutch..