10 Weird Gimmicks You Forgot WWE Wrestlers Had

3. Impersonator – Charlie Haas

Oh man, the World Greatest Tag Team was awesome. Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas, the original American Alpha, under the tutelage of Kurt Angle, mixing it up in some of the best tag bouts of the early ruthless aggression era 2000s.

The two men went their separate ways with Shelton Benjamin trying a bunch of different gimmicks like the gold standard, or having a mother. Charlie Haas had a tougher time of things.

Without a gimmick, he found himself off TV for months at a time and then they gave him a gimmick and oh no. A full six years before Damien Sandow started playing weekly dress-up, before Curtis Axel started AxelMania, there was Charlie Haas who appeared on Raw from mid to late 2008, dressing up as various other WWE superstars because WWE’s sense of humor has gangrene.

He was Charlito, Charln Cena, Charles Haas Layfield (come on guys, JCL is right there), Jim Haas, The Great Charli, ok that’s actually uncanny, Haas Hogan, Stone cold Steve Haastin, the Glamahaas Beth Pheonix, Bret Haas, MVC, and Santa Claas.

Like, genuinely though, it’s very dumb, and didn’t get him over, but bless Charlie Haas. He really went for it, but never got his Mizdow moment.

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2. BusinessMan With A Big Watch – Roman Reigns

Before the tribal chief became quite possibly the best gimmick of the year, it was impossible to imagine Roman Reigns outside of his shield fatigues.

However, for one month back in NXT in 2012, one month before he debuted at Survivor Series in that turtleneck, Roman Reigns was a completely different character.

He was a high-rise, big-city businessman with a management team, and a big watch and he would sign writing checks in the air. Like, that was one of his signature things.

When someone would interview him he would point to his big watch, say that they were operating on Reigns time, before delaying the interview by taking, and I’m not making this up, a reigns check.

Seriously look at him in his businessman suit. Look at the size of those fucking trousers, that’s a man who knows his way about some stonks.

That’s in October and by the year was out the man with the big watch would be the big dog, but you know what, going back and watching those look at my big business dick promos, there’s a significant amount of tribal chief charisma in there. Goddamn WWE miscast him for YEARS, huh?

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1. Hulk Hogan’s War Bonnet

Look at Hulk Hogan’s stupid hat. How am I just now finding out about Hulk Hogan’s stupid hat. Good LORD.

Sorry in 1988, the story goes that the Hulkster was losing his hair and getting pretty sensitive about it, so he wanted to start wearing a hat. That’s a very silly explanation but you know, Hulk Hogan.

So WWE ever ready to merchandise another bit of Hulk Hogan absolute bollocks, slapped together this, the patented Hulk Hogan War Bonnet, a gladiators helmet with the SmackDown fist’s little brother glued to the top. Dignity.

Can’t buy it, except now you can. Imagine wearing this to school, the bullies would be fucking OBLIGATED to destroy you. The Hulkster even wore it to the ring at a madison square garden house to hand bad news brown his first loss.

The ref went down, both men fought over who would get to wears the world’s stupidest hat outside of Jamiroquai’s closet, before Hogan put it on, headbutt bad news brown with the helmet fist, like a total heel and pinned him.

Believe it or not, the War Bonnet did not catch on. But I want one more than I’ve wanted anything in my life.

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