 What's good Josh boros back again with another video so I'm going to check out nine wrestling gimmicks that took years to get over we have seen a few times in wrestling where someone initially didn't get over when projected to and it took them some time for that character to you know get over with the you know with the fans whether it's a character change or a gimmick change but eventually at some point it sticks and then they become easily a fan favorite and that usually happens it's rare that someone immediately comes into the business and they're automatically over and it stays that way usually it takes some type of progression and sometimes it takes a few years for someone to get to that point where we're like okay this is the guy that we want to see at the top so we're going to check out some of these instances where it took a wrestler a few years to become that guy we know one that's probably going to instantly be on this video that's Roman Reigns it took them forever to get him get get him to where he is now and honestly it worked out for him in the end but we remember the years of the suffering attaches and the just just just horrible booking in the Superman style Roman Reigns overcomes everything booking that just ultimately did not work for his early years so there were some fans of it but a lot of us were not big fans of it until recently it took them time to get him correct for the fans like you know what he's the top guy he deserves to be there let's check this out should be a good one get ready to be inspired folks because this bunch of six years all managed to eventually establish themselves as some of the most dominant exciting and popular stars in the game so i am gareth here from what culture wrestling and here are nine wrestling gimmicks that took years to get over number nine boogs was occasionally turning heads in developmental and on youtube for years while it may have taken years to finally realize what they had with the meaty ball of guitar shredding charisma that is this moustache titan the folks taking in weekly episodes of nxt back in 2019 quickly knew there was something special about this lard boogs was also turning heads with his explosive personality on his youtube channel wow the hero workout is a work of hulking art and from there it didn't take long for the main roster crowd to fall in love with the charming powerhouse to number eight the guns are finally up after being in it the thing is i think they just it's he had to look and he definitely definitely had that coked up i'm ready to go brother vibe and i can see fans you know being interested in him i just think outside of the baron corbin feud which didn't really do too much and then obviously that injury him getting injured i believe at a WrestleMania that year it kind of slowed down his progress it's like he had the potential i don't know if wwe was going to really um my bad i don't think he feuded with baron corbin i'm thinking of mad cat moss my bad i'm thinking of mad cat moss i am totally thinking of somebody else i don't think he feuded with baron corbin my bad about that y'all but him having that injury at WrestleMania kind of halted his push and i think he was just kind of destined for mid-card purgatory because he was like that that funny act that fans could get and you know invested in just a little bit but they weren't going to take him too seriously i just didn't feel they would being all elite since 2020 despite clearly being two lards who boasted the same sort of giddy energy and personality as their old man austin and colton gunne never really found their own identities whilst working as part of the gun club and it was only after walking away from an alliance with the acclaimed on their pops a few years into their run on the aw roster when the brothers started to really grow and find themselves as a tag unit sure they definitely weren't ready to hold aw world tag team gold when they shockingly bested max caster and antony bowens for the belts in february of this year it took them a few years to step out of their degenerate father's shadow and cement themselves as one of the most entertaining teams on the aw roster but there are always outrageous collision antics were well worth the wait i'm kind of indifferent i i i'm just like they're okay i don't know if i would call them over that's an interesting one y'all let me know if y'all feel like they're as over as 18 i do feel like they've gotten better for sure but i don't know if i would just they're in a better situation than just being in their father's footsteps i i can't agree with that seven it took brawn stroman a while to shake off his wyatt family this is very true and didn't really do much to convince audiences that he was anything more than vince mcmahon's latest monster of the month during that first year alongside bray wyatt luke harper and eric rowan with brawn stroman then being unceremoniously split from his family during the 2016 draft and while many understandably assumed that this could be the beginning of the end for the big man stroman remarkably began making an impact in more ways than one his thrilling squashes were dynamic and quickly became weekly red show highlights as he tore through the likes of sammy zane and roman reigns before ultimately colliding with brock lesnar over the universal championship fans soon couldn't resist boarding the stroman express but i've got a question for you super over i think is the greatest squash of all time let me know in the comment section he definitely got himself over as the dominant big guy it was he was able to get himself over he wasn't really that crazy great in the ring but i think because everyone's hatred or a lot of people's hatred of roman reigns and him destroying roman reigns on numerous occasions he became over which was funny when you think about it six years of trying throughout the shield's run as the main roster's hounds of justice it was painfully clear exactly who wwe felt was their undisputed top guy of tomorrow however once the unit dramatically split in 2014 fans quickly grew tired of the big dog character and simply would not accept the new chosen one as their top baby face in the years that followed didn't work but his decision to step away from the ring in 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic finally set the stage for the character tweak that would finally turn him into the undisputed biggest star in the industry wwe had wanted him to be all along gone with the cheesy one-liners cringy hand gestures and lazy shield-esque presentation the tribal chief that appeared at summer song 2020 quickly established himself as a badass hill force you couldn't help but get behind during the thunderdome era and after years of wanting nothing to do with them fans now could not wait to acknowledge reigns when they finally returned in 2021 number five and the crazy thing is bruh the crazy thing is it took it took damn near a pandemic for that to happen bro it took a pandemic for vince to finally say aye because roman didn't want to come back the same way and they had to thunderdome so they can kind of experiment more that's really what it was because if not we i think we would have got the same room when we've been getting it took him having to step away for his health and the whole thunderdome situation not having a live crowd because that's when wwe started to experiment more than they have in a long time because they didn't have a live crowd so they can experiment and do more and vince was like all right cool cool let's see what happens and because he gave the green light i don't know if he was reluctant to it but because he gave the green light for it he now has the biggest star that he ever wanted in this company simple as that it's crazy it's drifts on nxt for years before being called up alias samson first popped up on nxt programming alongside a certain house of black figure buddy matthews and after spending the next year or so getting some reps in on the black and gold show alias finally appeared to have found his stage when he first strolled onto the red brand in april 2017 this unassuming debut very quickly turned into an unexpected movement in the months that followed with the bearded acoustic stars weekly concerts regularly producing deafening reactions as he tore down the various hometown teams of those still happily walking with alias one of the rare nxt call-ups that led to a far more successful run than the one he drifted through in full sale and then got released yep they weren't really doing much with alias either so that can tell you something throllins did not become a popular visionary overnight 2020 was a rather dull year for wwe's resident architect after winning the royal rumble and eventually lifting the universal championship as one of the hottest babyfaces in the company the year prior seth rollins returned to the dark side as he morphed into raw's droning monday night messiah with that obsession with the greater good from his stunning or white clothing at wrestlemania 36 to his rey mysterio inspired phantom gear at the following summer slam rollins would eventually take these ridiculous and flamboyant outfits and use them as the foundation for a character that would eventually take him right back to the top in the year it's crazy the the the more wow the costumes got it it transformed and it's become this thing on top of his entrance music having the world it's it's morphed into its own zesty vibe yeah it's it's crazy it i want to say when he when it first started happening i don't think it was as over i think people felt you know some people felt like he was kind of overdoing it or whatnot the some people compared him to like uh want to be joker or a great value joker but over time it's kind of gotten over since the pandemic it's it's it's the thing that most people want to do chant and sing along with his flamboyant outfits on or whatnot when they come to the shows up to his wrestlemania 37 battle with cesaro this visionary not only began ordering folks to embrace the vision he also continued experimenting with his increasingly insane look the very suits and other barmy jacket slasher tires combined with a slightly more unhinged joker going through a midlife crisis personality what did you say wait wait wait increasingly insane look the fiery suits and other barmy jacket slasher tires combined with a slightly more unhinged joker going through a midlife crisis there we go i said it all eventually led to rollins them becoming an undeniable fan favorites once again it's impossible to get through a single episode of raw without the sound of his song being roared back at him by thousands of believers number three orange cassidy has been squeezing for years orange cassidy has managed to go from relative unknown to one of the most popular and impressive performers on aid oh he's definitely a popular in aid for sure he's turning up for his first day of work as part of tony cahn's new company and deciding to randomly stick his hands in his pockets though cassidy had been getting in his opponent's heads via his half-assed antics since 2010 before signing with aw with chuck taylor noting to espn how he remembers seeing crowds turn on the lazy worker and being confused by his bold gimmick during the time before becoming all elite after years of figuring out what parts of the gimmick works and which needed to be adjusted to elicit the biggest responses though eventually grew into one of the most popular talents on the independence there's some people that disagree y'all know who i'm talking about y'all know who i'm talking about there's one individual that they call him pockets if you know you know he can't stand him and i can get why he feels that way coming from a different era of wrestling if you were to see that back in a day it would probably infuriate people because he kind of takes he he's he's like a joke he's like he's like so he's too cool to wrestle you even though he can wrestle you but he's too cool to do it like it's it's a it's a joke within itself so some people would take that very disrespectfully and like i said my man's calls him pockets so if you know you know and though everyone from Tony Khan to Chris Jericho to a great many all elite fans once again didn't fully understand what made this slacker who can outwork just about anyone on the planet when he tries so special initially Cassidy inevitably turned all his doubters into believers in the wonderful all elite years that followed number two mark henry's hall of pain wasn't built in a day it's a good thing this is true signed a 10-year contract with wwe back in 1996 because it pretty much took him the length of that entire first deal to find a main event level character that works and it wasn't until his violent return from a torn quadriceps in 2005 when the pieces finally started to fall into place for the intimidating powerhouse and we've seen a video where basically it was what what um kind of spurred this this hall of pain gimmick was a situation where vince and them played a joke on him it was supposed to be like a dark match after i think it was a smackdown taping i believe could be wrong supposed to be a dark match and he was about to go out there or whatever but every day he went out there or whatnot but you know what i'm saying nobody came out to fight him or anything like that so he goes to the back and everybody's gone like no one's in gorilla everybody's gone and he felt disrespected and he was pissed and he was throwing shit and that's vince was like this is what i want from you even though that's kind of a fucked up way to get that motivation that's what he wanted from mark henry to be that guy and i believe that's the birth or how the hall of pain that gimmick that intensity destructive force of mark henry that's how it became a thing because of them pretty much playing uh playing the prank on him after taking out batista on smackdown this new heel force went on to collide with the likes of world heavyweight champion curt angle and the undertaker before unfortunately going down injured again in 2006 and while the next few years would see the savage big man whooping ass a little further down the card henry was eventually given the chance to fully grow into the dominant top heel shone glimpses of being during that impactful 2005 six ronda in 2011 the big show came the great carly shamus and randy orton were all brutally inducted into a hall of pain he first started building six years earlier the destroyer also went on to finally lift world heavyweight championship gold us his helpless adversaries crumbled before him and those watching on were regularly left picking their jaws up off the floor number one la night has been young since his triple h workout dvd days and this is crazy bro cuz la night but the fact that he was doing so many different you saw him in so many different forms of media it's fucking crazy while everybody is now very much talking about smackdown's one and only mega star it took a solid decade of trial and error to create the version of la night seem blowing the roof of a marina's around the globe today as night himself noted in a recent appearance on the after the bell podcast he's been playing a pretty similar character for around 13 years at this point and a lot of the things he'd play with and attempt to add to his gimmick were taken from his personality in real life on top of the everybody part of his shtick coming from his time working in a restaurant years ago his iconic yeah has also been a part of his personality since his first run in wwe all the way back in 2013 14 with night appearing in a triple h workout dvd and the time before eventually showing up as elie drake in impact wrestling and the nwa someone recently spotted him while his unmistakable yeah cries as he finished off a few crunches and that's so great man and i'm so happy that he's getting the the bigger love you know from a bigger audience like people you know i'm sure for years have shown their appreciation for la night i've seen the clips of him you know and just another companies and promotions you know having that same intensity but now he's on a bigger stage in front of a a bigger fan base and for him to finally get that recognition is fantastic remember this guy came from nxt and was instantly being booked into oblivion as a manager for the i think the maximum male models he was a manager he was a manager for the male models he wasn't even a wrestler they weren't even putting them in a wrestling form that's what ventek came up for him he was done he was done bro he was do a dead on arrival they weren't going to do nothing with him he would at some point he definitely they would have kept that gimmick going events would have had his way he definitely would have been featured in never and the fact that triple H was able to come in stop that and been able to kind of get him in the right trajectory it's fantastic so i'm looking forward to seeing what they do with him he is the hottest most over individual damn they're in the company bro he's easily the top babyface in the company before he was a heel he was still even when he was getting that love and notoriety he was still marketed you know still considered a heel but it didn't matter people loved him too much he was an overwhelming babyface and now he's one of the top every faces in the company so it's a it's a testament to hard work dedication and never giving up on yourself and you never know what can happen he never gave up on himself and now look at him the one of the biggest stars in the company comment down below let me know some other wrestling gimmicks or wrestlers that it took them a time to finally get over with the fans if it wasn't listed on this list i know there's a few that they weren't instantly just gyms you know when it happened or the gimmicks weren't just gyms when it initially was brought to the surface it took some time for people to get used to and then it got over but let me know down below but i appreciate all of the support you guys on the channel relatively 150k and i'm still here on this video to the rest of the world appreciate you with me see you in the next one peace