 What's good y'all? It's your boy Ross back again with another video. So I'm gonna check out 10 WWE gimmicks that lasted seconds now Vince creative whoever is in the back is in charge at the time. They may come up with some Gimmick for a wrestler, you know, maybe a gimmick change or to repackage someone Sometimes it work most of the time it don't you guys remember when Chad Gable was shorty G at one point horrible Just horrible whoever came up with that in the back Why was that approved it was awful and it didn't last long So we're gonna check out some of the instances where someone creatively whether it's Vince or the plethora writers They had said you know what this would be a pretty cool gimmick for this person only for this said person to go out Look like a complete moron and they scrapped it, but a trial and error That's what you know, that's what wrestling is a trial and error man. And a lot of times it's numbered errors So we can get it right into this one WWE history they've been known to introduce fans to a brand new gimmick of bossana and then proceeded to pull that gimmick from TV without any logical cave-abe explanation the gimmick in question is usually poorly received by the audience So WWE believed that they have no other choice but to abandon their initial creative pitch and go back to the drawing board Join us now as wrestling me looks at 10 WWE gimmicks that lasted seconds Be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell for daily wrestling videos and follow us on Facebook for exclusive lists Also, check out our new channel WrestleMania shorts Number 10 Eugene villainous persona and the Eugene character was one of the more controversial Characters of the Ruthless aggression era and by 2006 his character had become incredibly stale to combat this stale Ness WWE took a daring approach with the Eugene's character and they decided to turn him heel Following a match on Raw which pitted Eugene and Jim Duggan against the spirit squad Duggan to the surprise of the audience His villainous persona would continue in the following weeks with him attacking Val Venus And he would even try to take out DX a crowd-reactive poorly to this heel turn as it made no sense What so ever and it wasn't before long that Eugene would revert to his infamous baby-faced persona WWE decided to ignore Eugene's heel run all together Which further damaged any sense of continuity and substance the Eugene character had number nine million naked Miniat I know a lot to you though just the Eugene character in itself was Was a wild one I got It was a wild one, bro. It definitely was Believe it at that most fans know Midian for his time in the Undertaker's Ministry of Darkness stable However, unfortunately for Midian when the stable disbanded in 99 He was without a meaningful place on the card So they were forced to come up with something brand new for the former European champion WWE would reintroduce Midian as naked Midian It would randomly show up during Raw and Smackdown wearing nothing but a fanny pack and a thong This gimmick was truly insane and there was no rhyme or reason as to why he was suddenly acting in this erratic manner This new character would receive a somewhat substantial push in October 2000 as he would challenge William Regal for the European title But he was unsuccessful. This ludicrous gimmick would eventually be dropped in the months following the No Mercy event Midian will be pulled from WWE television with no explanation Number eight Ted DBRC When the legacy faction was disbanded in 2010 Ted DBRC Jr. Struggled to find an investable character And this ultimately led to a demotion down the card Whereas fellow legacy member Cody Rhodes introduced the world to dashing Cody Rhodes DBRC's attempts at a new character all fell flat. The most notorious character of DBRC was known as the DBRC Posse The DBRC Posse gimmick would launch in 2011 and it featured DBRC as a babyface persona Who would host tailgate parties for fans before WWE events This gimmick could have worked but DBRC was evidently struggling in the charisma department and fans ultimately rejected DBRC as a babyface This failed gimmick. I didn't even know didn't even know that was a thing Honestly didn't know would lead to the former legacy member falling even further down the card Where he would eventually remain until his release in 2013 One of the problems with comedic gimmicks such as the Munkasaurus is that they have a short shelf life A gimmick of this nature was going to inevitably get stale This was most definitely the case with Clay's dancing dinosaur gimmick When Clay ditched the gimmick he would debut a brand new persona known as the main event player The issue here was that Clay had no personality with the character He was average in the ring and there was not a single fan that was wanting to see the play Such as the main event scene There's no wonder the gimmick completely flopped and Clay would find himself move back to NXT for further development 6. Rene Dupri most extreme athlete in ECW history One of the wrestlers WWE saw a ton of value in during the Ruthless Aggression era was Rene Dupri Dupri was young, he had a great physique and his in-ring work was decent In 2006, WWE attempted to make Dupri one of the top heels on the newly revamped ECW brand Dupri would label himself as the most extreme athlete in ECW history Dupri would pride himself on his appearance and the idea behind the character seemed to be that Dupri was everything that the traditional ECW roster wasn't Dupri was made for a raw Smackdown but WWE in all likelihood believed that placing Dupri in ECW would be a catalyst for major heel heat This gimmick change failed as the ECW audience just went interested in Dupri And it wasn't before long that WWE began to re-evaluate Dupri's position on the ECW roster Dupri reformed La resistance with Sylvain Grenier in 2007 but this reunion was short-lived as Dupri was suspended for a wellness policy violation Just a few months after this policy violation, Dupri would request his WWE release and this put it into the WWE career for the former tag team champion Yeah, he probably would have worked better on a Monday Night Raw or Smackdown Granted, WWE's version of ECW was never really gonna capture what ECW used to be It was really just Vince McMahon's idea of what he could do with the brand Just making a third brand for television, that was really it I do vaguely remember this too In 2020, Amos would debut as a member of Akira Tazar's Ninja faction Amos was obviously the tallest member of the faction and he was referred to as the Giant Ninja This gimmick would go virtually nowhere and it wasn't before long that Amos was being presented as a doorman and bouncer for Shane McMahon's Raw Underground It was clear at this point in time that WWE were trying out different gimmicks with Amos and he would quickly transition into a tag team partnership with AJ Styles which gave Amos his most successful character run to date Brian Kendrick, the mascot Brian Kendrick has had a number of gimmicks throughout his wrestling career But his very first gimmick in WWE was perhaps his most unusual Kendrick's first gimmick in WWE would see him become a mascot on Velocity Kendrick would then represent the local sports team of whichever town WWE were in and he would change his name each and every week It wouldn't be long before That's funny bro anytime you win, I'm just gonna be your team's mascot and we're gonna go and get the win guys WWE scrapped this concept for a gimmick and they would rethink what character Kendrick was going to have when he eventually debuted on SmackDown I definitely like when he was on the part of the tag team for SmackDown I definitely do When he was part of that tag team for SmackDown, that shit was cold Following WrestleMania 16, WWE decided to give Big Show a brand new gimmick Big Show had just made an event in WrestleMania but instead of continuing this strong presentation of the former WWE champion They decided to turn Big Show into a full-blown comedic character Big Show would begin to dress up as a random wrestler from the past and present The names Big Show impersonated included the likes of Rikishi, The Berserker, Val Venus and would even dress as Hulk Hogan to become The Showster The gimmick did showcase Big Show's charisma but gimmicks of this nature get stale very quickly And this was the case here WWE did give Big Show a pay-per-view match with this persona in which he defeated Kurt Angle at the backlash pay-per-view But when watching this match, it's clear that Big Show just needed to go back to being a menacing threat And that's why the gimmick was quickly dropped Yeah, it worked for a little bit but eventually it's like it's not something that has some long-term value to it Number 2 Jeff Hardy Conflicted Jeff Hardy At the start of 2003, WWE took a huge risk by turning Jeff Hardy heel Hardy would begin to attack fellow babyfaces such as Rob Van Dam and Shawn Michaels And the fans outright rejected Hardy as a heel Whilst moral conflict in the character is good, it has to be executed well It has to be delivered with the right storyline This heel run was never going to work And WWE quickly realized the error of their ways and reverted Hardy back to being a beloved babyface DNA would attempt to portray Hardy as a heel seven years later in 2010 But whilst this had more success, the fans just wanted to cheer Jeff It's likely that he'll remain as a popular babyface until the day he finally retires Yeah, it's hard to- you can do it with Matt more so But Jeff, nah, he's one of those guys He's just- he's so beloved by so many people It's hard to boo the guy It is So, at least WWE was able to capture it quickly It's like, yeah, this is not gonna work And number one, Albert, hip-hop, hippo And Matt Bloom has been given endless gimmicks during his era stints in WWE Some of these gimmicks are notorious for all the wrong reasons And one of these was when Bloom went from being a member of the X-Factor as Albert To a dancing hippo known as the hip-hop hippo But with this gimmick we're joined forces with the incredibly popular Scotty2Hody And Vince McMahon was trying to replicate the success of Too Cool But it wasn't the same Albert looked insanely awkward dancing around the ring And it was clear to fans that this was a poor imitation of Too Cool When they realised that turning Albert into a dancing hippo wasn't working They decided to disband the tank team of himself and Scotty And once again rebranded the former Intercontinental Champion WWE's next idea was to rebrand Albert as an A-Train And this involved somewhat of a push with feuds with the likes of Edge and the other taker But it wasn't before long that this gimmick also became notably stale And then I think he got rebranded again as Tensai or something like that People just didn't care Whatever gimmick he ended up being And maybe had a little bit of buzz, a little bit of interest But then after that he didn't care People just didn't care They repackaged him so many times People just like, yeah, get him on my screen So, comment down below Let me know some other horrible gimmicks that WWE has come up with for their wrestlers Let me know down below But I appreciate all the love and support Guys, Shawn on channel Road to 150K And I'm still getting the speed of you to the wrestling champion of the world Appreciate y'all kicking the mean See you on the next one