September 17, 2025 • 16 mins
Step into the wild, weird, and sometimes downright baffling world of World Championship Wrestling. From wrestlers saddled with outlandish personas to gimmicks that defied logic (and good taste), this podcast dives deep into WCW’s most bizarre creative choices. We’ll count down the top 10 strangest gimmicks that made fans scratch their heads, laugh out loud, or wonder what the bookers were thinking. Whether you’re a die-hard wrestling historian or just love hearing about the wackier side of sports entertainment, this show shines a spotlight on the moments that prove WCW truly lived by the motto: “Where the Big Boys Play”… and sometimes play very weirdly.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a Prime Time with Sean Mooney production.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
WCW gave us the nWo, the Cruiserweights, croasting, so many
more things, but they also gave us very strange gimmicks.
On today's episode here on tank count Media, we are
talking about the top ten strangest fantasy.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
WCW gimmicks of all time.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
First on the list is one that listen, I understand
about merchandising and money and collaborations.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
The first one on the list, it's the Kiss Demon.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
WCW and Kiss made a deal and they actually had
a wrestler who.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Looked just like Gene Simmons, just.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
A taller version, a wrestling version of him, and uh yeah,
he was here nineteen ninety nine. It was so strange
because Kiss came on, did a concert, introduced the wrestler,
and then left him alone. He had a very bizarre
storyline with the Vampiro in a graveyard and you know,
(01:01):
we've seen an undertaker and strange type of matches before,
but this they are smashing each other over the head
with gravestones.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I'm not sure you're going to survive one of those.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But ten of those people were drowned in that match.
But the Kiss Demon is one of those. I get it,
But how long was that gonna work for? Like, imagine
like a nickelback wrestler. Here it comes this nickelback or
lip biscuit having somebody represent them in a red backwards hat.
That's what That's what I'm getting from the Kiss Demon.
(01:38):
Number nine here on our list is Glacier. Now Mortal Kombat.
I'm a kid of the nineties, I get it. Mortal
Kombat was gigantically huge. A video game that our parents
were buying us that had blood and killing fatality, so
many fun memories of watching people being uppercut, falling into
(01:59):
a pit, and a bunch of spikes getting you playing
the video game was exciting. W CW in nineteen ninety
six thoughto'd be a great idea to introduce a few
different characters that reminded us of Mortal Kombat. But one
of them didn't just remind us of Mortal Kombat.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Jesus Christ, Glacier was sub zero. All right, We're.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Gonna say it out loud, proud and loud for all
people to hear that Glacier was sub zero. And I
cannot believe that Mortal Kombat did not sue w CW
for clearly using sub Zero as a character and calling
him Glacier. Come on, come on, he had Mortis. You
(02:43):
had a few of the characters involved with this as well,
but Glacier is the one that jumps out in. For
weeks and months, they kept saying the blood runs cold,
and they show us these vignettes, and it took him
forever to make his WCW debut, And when he finally
did so, the nWo was already broad hot.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That's when we had We loved bad guys. We loved
the nWo. Of course, people love baby faces as well.
But Glacier.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
How did it not get sued by the people who
owned sub Zero?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Immortal Kombat? I don't know. I don't know. Next up
on our list is OZ. This is Kevin Nash.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
When Kevin Nash was not Diesel, He was not Kevin
Nash of The Outsiders, Man Event Mafia, none of that.
It was Kevin Nash trying to find his way from
Vinnie Vegas to now Oz.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
When Ted Turner bought MGM in nineteen eighty six, WCW
suddenly had a bunch of resources and access to the
movie library. Well, the result is Kevin Nash, debuting in
nineteen ninety one as Oz. Clearly the character based off
of The Wizard of Oz, with a green robe, smoke
field entrances.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
The character was.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
We didn't understand because in Wizard of Oz, Oz, the
wizard is nice, but you're trying to explain to me.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
That this character is Oz.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
So if the wizard is the Wizard of Oz, what
the hell is Kevin Ash supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
She's supposed to be the physical location, the physical land Oz.
It didn't make any sense. You should, though, watch.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
The debut of Kevin n Ash as Oz. Really you should,
because it is one of the most hilarious things in
the world. There's some classic WCW oh my God moments.
This is one of them. Next up on our list
is again cross branding. I understand it. It's RoboCop. RoboCop
(04:55):
showing up in WCW helping Sting defeat the bad guy.
Now I'm very surprised that they didn't get a RoboCop
to actually be in a match, says WCW. Remember we
just had Oz on our list, the physical location of
Oz as a person here in WCW, but RoboCop he
(05:18):
showed up in nineteen nineties Capitol Combat.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It's to promote RoboCop too. Now, understand one thing.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
The actor in the real RoboCop movies is not here
on WCW dressed as robo cop.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I just want to clarify that.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
But he rescued Sting from the Four Horsemen, and it's
still one of those holy shit moments when you see it,
because you thinking to yourself, what is happening? What did
RoboCop just save Sting? I think in today's world people
would absolutely love this shit. Oh my god, it's robo cop.
I guess the next step would be like Iron Man
(05:56):
showing up and actually being iron Man, not being Robert
Daniel as Tony Stark. That's what I can think of.
But this robot, he comes out.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Ramp all the all the fun WW moments.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
This is the company that beat the WWE for eighty
three weeks, if you haven't been reminded.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Next up on our list is seven.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
This is when Dustin Rhodes left w WE. Again, couldn't
be gold dust, so he turned into seven. Now the
very bizarre storyline, very bizarre supernatural figure here with very
eerie vignettes as children in their beds. Praying, and out
(06:42):
of nowhere, seven Dustin Rhoades appears in the window. It
really feels like he's going to abduct these children and
take them back to whatever worldies in and kill them.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
That is what the vibes are coming from.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And maybe that's not exactly what it was most maybe
that's not supposed to what it's supposed.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
To be at all.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And I'm reading too much into this, But for years
in years, if you read on any any article about
seven and it was from like Russell Crap because I
love Russell Crap dot com, this would be the word
of those Oh, I think he's trying to take these
children and do terrible things to them. And when he
(07:23):
makes his debut, he comes down on a giant zip line,
flying air quotes, flying into the ring.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
He gets in the ring, he takes off his coat.
He looks like go Mes, not go Metz. Adams was
his brother's name, Festa.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
He looks all white, all white, shaved head, all white,
big black cat, big black trench coat, just like Fester
the Christopher Lloyd won from the nineties. And then his
debut is him grabbing a microphone saying that this is bullshit.
He breaks character mid promo to complain about how ridiculous
this is, and he left the WWE because of shit
(08:01):
like this, and now it's happening him again. He eventually
become dustin Rhodes again, and then eventually he become goal
dust again, and then he become What's rain.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yes, he was rained in Tena for a while to
hit a pet rat. Seven.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Next up is someone you can't ever ever leave off
this list of bizarre gimmicks insw it's the shock Master.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Typhoon tug boat.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
You know you know him. Four more Tag Team champion
in the Hall of Fame. Now shock Master though, is
a storm trooper glittered helmet.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Again.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
This list is showing me a lot of things. One is,
how are people not being sued for using clearly? Hey like,
seven is probably Freddy Krueger in my eyes, that's how
I see him, robo cops obvious save for cross promotion,
oz physical location, glacier sub zero. How is he not
being sued? I'm still shocked, still shock mastered by that.
(09:13):
But when you see a man the size of the
shock Master and he falls through a door and his
helmet falls off, he falls to the wall and there's
a fake voice, and he's wearing a bedazzled Stormtrooper helmet,
tumbling off in the process of him tripping. The character
never recovered, his career suffered, and it still so still
(09:34):
to this day, one of the most strangest, bizarre What
the f are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Moment? I get it.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
You want to introduce him as a big, giant carrig Oh,
he's so monstrous. Put a goddamn mask on him, not
a Stormtrooper helmet clearly bedazzled.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Next up is Chucky. That's right, Chucky.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Chucky was here, and they were really wanting to have
Rick Steiner take on Chucky in a match because October twelfth,
nineteen ninety eight, it's an episode of Nitro Baby going
it's ww, what do we need? It's Rick starting to
being interrupted by Chucky to promote Bride of Chucky coming
to theaters near you. Now, it's hard to have dialogue
(10:21):
with a puppet. I imagine it's hard to have a
match with a puppet. The result was confusing, awkward, and
people pretend they forget about this. But every year the
WWE puts together a list of Halloween things and they're like,
look at a shit, Look how stupid WCWS.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
We got awesome damn d X second sucking Yeah, Chucky Yeah.
Up next the Dungeon of Doom.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Kevin Sullivan needed villains for Hulk Cogan because Hulk Cogan
signed with WCW in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So what do we do?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
We got a form of faction and the Dungeon of Doom,
a stable of over the top spooky gimmicks that have
a layer, and the task Master is told by his
master what to do to take down whole comnia.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Taskmaster, he's got a Z on his head. The people
who eventually joined the Dudgeon in Doom.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
You have Kevin Sullivan task Master because he's you know,
you have the Master. He's doing the tasks of the Master.
You get the name right, you understand. Kamala earthquake turning
into the Shark, Bruce Barber, Beefcake becoming the Zodiac who
would only say.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yes no, yes, no, yes no. Daniel Brian didn't invent that,
Just let you know, just letting you know. Damn. Weveen
had z Gangsta who would be zeus zeus.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
A lot of people were in this. We had Leprechauns,
the Yetay.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Bizarre stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But next up is the Yetay because speaking of the
dungeon a doom when you have a man dressed as a.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Mummy from Egypt coming down to the ring to.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Help the giant, who is the big show defeat h
Cogan and the Halloween Havoc nineteen ninety five, What do
you want to be called? Well?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I should be called the mummy, of course, No, you idiot.
They call the yet Hey, the Yete, that's his name.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
It's a man clearly dressed as an Egyptian mummy, but
they call him the Yetay. It is a double bear
hug as they hump hul Kogan from front and back,
enjoyable front and back and then again. This is one
of those moments we're like, ah, what is happening here?
I get two bear hugs with the idea, oh, okay,
we'll do two bear hugs. But does anyone actually think
(12:50):
about it before they put it all together? Does anyone
actually go, hmmm, is this gonna look physically dominating? Maybe
we should took a double clothesline or double souplex something double.
We'll choke him in the corner with both our hands,
four hands choking someone.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
No, let's hump him.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
No, no, no bad WCW.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Bad and the last on our list. I had to
put him.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I know I kind of allude to him is the
zodiac produced a barber beefcake, of course, following WCW's lore
of hey, did you work in the WWF when you
should work for WCW.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Come on down, not Choe man, I rs.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Virgil, million dollar man, everybody again, earthquake as the shark,
but we had beefcake in there, and he eventually showed
up as the butcher attacking Hult Cogain, turning evil. Turns
out the ww didn't like produced the barber beefcake using
(13:50):
the butcher. It was too close to the barber, which
I disagree with because he wasn't walking around with scissors,
he wasn't walking around cutting in strutton, none of that.
He was a bad guy wearing black tights attacking Hulk
Cogin's ankle.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
And it was a mystery who attacked Hulk Cogin.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't think the butcher is the same thing as
the barber, or I think of butcher, you know meats,
I think of the barber.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I think of hair.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
But the WWE said, nope, you can't do that, so
they changed his character into the Zodiac. He has weird,
bizarre face paint on his little white and black and
his catchphrase, the chorus is yelling yes no, yes, no Now.
Years would go on in ninety five and eventually to
(14:39):
the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
They actually suggest that.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Now known as the Booty Man, he can't be the Butcher,
he can't be the barber, but he'll be the Booty Man.
It turns out that he was not really the Zodiac
the whole time. He was pretending to be the Zodiac
to get information on the Dungeon of Doom to secretly
tell Hulk Cokein and.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
What they were up to. Well, you didn't do very well.
You didn't do.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Very well because Hogan was oh, I was going to
ask cap on the Dungeon of Doom and then always
beat them up later on Zodiac.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Your information was useless. But that's what they tried to say, Yeah,
it's the Zodiac.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Was done as a character like, oh he's undercover.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
He was undercover.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Now he's the Booty Man, and he steals Kimberly from DDP.
Yes there you go, folks. Ten bizarre WCW gimmicks that
still had me going, who what, why woul we do that?
I get the Kiss Demon. I understand the Kiss Demon.
I understand RoboCop, I understand Chucky. I understand the cross
(15:44):
promotion some of these man. How did sub Zero Mortal
Kombat not sue Glacier? I love Glacier, but how well?
Thanks for watching, thanks for listening. I'm and Steve have
a wonderful day. We'll see you next time.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
My bay
This is a Prime Time with Sean Mooney production.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
WCW gave us the nWo, the Cruiserweights, croasting, so many
more things, but they also gave us very strange gimmicks.
On today's episode here on tank count Media, we are
talking about the top ten strangest fantasy.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
WCW gimmicks of all time.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
First on the list is one that listen, I understand
about merchandising and money and collaborations.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
The first one on the list, it's the Kiss Demon.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
WCW and Kiss made a deal and they actually had
a wrestler who.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Looked just like Gene Simmons, just.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
A taller version, a wrestling version of him, and uh yeah,
he was here nineteen ninety nine. It was so strange
because Kiss came on, did a concert, introduced the wrestler,
and then left him alone. He had a very bizarre
storyline with the Vampiro in a graveyard and you know,
(01:01):
we've seen an undertaker and strange type of matches before,
but this they are smashing each other over the head
with gravestones.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I'm not sure you're going to survive one of those.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But ten of those people were drowned in that match.
But the Kiss Demon is one of those. I get it,
But how long was that gonna work for? Like, imagine
like a nickelback wrestler. Here it comes this nickelback or
lip biscuit having somebody represent them in a red backwards hat.
That's what That's what I'm getting from the Kiss Demon.
(01:38):
Number nine here on our list is Glacier. Now Mortal Kombat.
I'm a kid of the nineties, I get it. Mortal
Kombat was gigantically huge. A video game that our parents
were buying us that had blood and killing fatality, so
many fun memories of watching people being uppercut, falling into
(01:59):
a pit, and a bunch of spikes getting you playing
the video game was exciting. W CW in nineteen ninety
six thoughto'd be a great idea to introduce a few
different characters that reminded us of Mortal Kombat. But one
of them didn't just remind us of Mortal Kombat.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Jesus Christ, Glacier was sub zero. All right, We're.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Gonna say it out loud, proud and loud for all
people to hear that Glacier was sub zero. And I
cannot believe that Mortal Kombat did not sue w CW
for clearly using sub Zero as a character and calling
him Glacier. Come on, come on, he had Mortis. You
(02:43):
had a few of the characters involved with this as well,
but Glacier is the one that jumps out in. For
weeks and months, they kept saying the blood runs cold,
and they show us these vignettes, and it took him
forever to make his WCW debut, And when he finally
did so, the nWo was already broad hot.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That's when we had We loved bad guys. We loved
the nWo. Of course, people love baby faces as well.
But Glacier.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
How did it not get sued by the people who
owned sub Zero?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Immortal Kombat? I don't know. I don't know. Next up
on our list is OZ. This is Kevin Nash.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
When Kevin Nash was not Diesel, He was not Kevin
Nash of The Outsiders, Man Event Mafia, none of that.
It was Kevin Nash trying to find his way from
Vinnie Vegas to now Oz.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
When Ted Turner bought MGM in nineteen eighty six, WCW
suddenly had a bunch of resources and access to the
movie library. Well, the result is Kevin Nash, debuting in
nineteen ninety one as Oz. Clearly the character based off
of The Wizard of Oz, with a green robe, smoke
field entrances.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
The character was.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
We didn't understand because in Wizard of Oz, Oz, the
wizard is nice, but you're trying to explain to me.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
That this character is Oz.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
So if the wizard is the Wizard of Oz, what
the hell is Kevin Ash supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
She's supposed to be the physical location, the physical land Oz.
It didn't make any sense. You should, though, watch.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
The debut of Kevin n Ash as Oz. Really you should,
because it is one of the most hilarious things in
the world. There's some classic WCW oh my God moments.
This is one of them. Next up on our list
is again cross branding. I understand it. It's RoboCop. RoboCop
(04:55):
showing up in WCW helping Sting defeat the bad guy.
Now I'm very surprised that they didn't get a RoboCop
to actually be in a match, says WCW. Remember we
just had Oz on our list, the physical location of
Oz as a person here in WCW, but RoboCop he
(05:18):
showed up in nineteen nineties Capitol Combat.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It's to promote RoboCop too. Now, understand one thing.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
The actor in the real RoboCop movies is not here
on WCW dressed as robo cop.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I just want to clarify that.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
But he rescued Sting from the Four Horsemen, and it's
still one of those holy shit moments when you see it,
because you thinking to yourself, what is happening? What did
RoboCop just save Sting? I think in today's world people
would absolutely love this shit. Oh my god, it's robo cop.
I guess the next step would be like Iron Man
(05:56):
showing up and actually being iron Man, not being Robert
Daniel as Tony Stark. That's what I can think of.
But this robot, he comes out.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Ramp all the all the fun WW moments.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
This is the company that beat the WWE for eighty
three weeks, if you haven't been reminded.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Next up on our list is seven.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
This is when Dustin Rhodes left w WE. Again, couldn't
be gold dust, so he turned into seven. Now the
very bizarre storyline, very bizarre supernatural figure here with very
eerie vignettes as children in their beds. Praying, and out
(06:42):
of nowhere, seven Dustin Rhoades appears in the window. It
really feels like he's going to abduct these children and
take them back to whatever worldies in and kill them.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
That is what the vibes are coming from.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And maybe that's not exactly what it was most maybe
that's not supposed to what it's supposed.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
To be at all.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And I'm reading too much into this, But for years
in years, if you read on any any article about
seven and it was from like Russell Crap because I
love Russell Crap dot com, this would be the word
of those Oh, I think he's trying to take these
children and do terrible things to them. And when he
(07:23):
makes his debut, he comes down on a giant zip line,
flying air quotes, flying into the ring.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
He gets in the ring, he takes off his coat.
He looks like go Mes, not go Metz. Adams was
his brother's name, Festa.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
He looks all white, all white, shaved head, all white,
big black cat, big black trench coat, just like Fester
the Christopher Lloyd won from the nineties. And then his
debut is him grabbing a microphone saying that this is bullshit.
He breaks character mid promo to complain about how ridiculous
this is, and he left the WWE because of shit
(08:01):
like this, and now it's happening him again. He eventually
become dustin Rhodes again, and then eventually he become goal
dust again, and then he become What's rain.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yes, he was rained in Tena for a while to
hit a pet rat. Seven.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Next up is someone you can't ever ever leave off
this list of bizarre gimmicks insw it's the shock Master.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Typhoon tug boat.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
You know you know him. Four more Tag Team champion
in the Hall of Fame. Now shock Master though, is
a storm trooper glittered helmet.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Again.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
This list is showing me a lot of things. One is,
how are people not being sued for using clearly? Hey like,
seven is probably Freddy Krueger in my eyes, that's how
I see him, robo cops obvious save for cross promotion,
oz physical location, glacier sub zero. How is he not
being sued? I'm still shocked, still shock mastered by that.
(09:13):
But when you see a man the size of the
shock Master and he falls through a door and his
helmet falls off, he falls to the wall and there's
a fake voice, and he's wearing a bedazzled Stormtrooper helmet,
tumbling off in the process of him tripping. The character
never recovered, his career suffered, and it still so still
(09:34):
to this day, one of the most strangest, bizarre What
the f are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Moment? I get it.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
You want to introduce him as a big, giant carrig Oh,
he's so monstrous. Put a goddamn mask on him, not
a Stormtrooper helmet clearly bedazzled.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Next up is Chucky. That's right, Chucky.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Chucky was here, and they were really wanting to have
Rick Steiner take on Chucky in a match because October twelfth,
nineteen ninety eight, it's an episode of Nitro Baby going
it's ww, what do we need? It's Rick starting to
being interrupted by Chucky to promote Bride of Chucky coming
to theaters near you. Now, it's hard to have dialogue
(10:21):
with a puppet. I imagine it's hard to have a
match with a puppet. The result was confusing, awkward, and
people pretend they forget about this. But every year the
WWE puts together a list of Halloween things and they're like,
look at a shit, Look how stupid WCWS.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
We got awesome damn d X second sucking Yeah, Chucky Yeah.
Up next the Dungeon of Doom.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Kevin Sullivan needed villains for Hulk Cogan because Hulk Cogan
signed with WCW in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So what do we do?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
We got a form of faction and the Dungeon of Doom,
a stable of over the top spooky gimmicks that have
a layer, and the task Master is told by his
master what to do to take down whole comnia.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Taskmaster, he's got a Z on his head. The people
who eventually joined the Dudgeon in Doom.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
You have Kevin Sullivan task Master because he's you know,
you have the Master. He's doing the tasks of the Master.
You get the name right, you understand. Kamala earthquake turning
into the Shark, Bruce Barber, Beefcake becoming the Zodiac who
would only say.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yes no, yes, no, yes no. Daniel Brian didn't invent that,
Just let you know, just letting you know. Damn. Weveen
had z Gangsta who would be zeus zeus.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
A lot of people were in this. We had Leprechauns,
the Yetay.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Bizarre stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But next up is the Yetay because speaking of the
dungeon a doom when you have a man dressed as a.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Mummy from Egypt coming down to the ring to.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Help the giant, who is the big show defeat h
Cogan and the Halloween Havoc nineteen ninety five, What do
you want to be called? Well?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I should be called the mummy, of course, No, you idiot.
They call the yet Hey, the Yete, that's his name.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
It's a man clearly dressed as an Egyptian mummy, but
they call him the Yetay. It is a double bear
hug as they hump hul Kogan from front and back,
enjoyable front and back and then again. This is one
of those moments we're like, ah, what is happening here?
I get two bear hugs with the idea, oh, okay,
we'll do two bear hugs. But does anyone actually think
(12:50):
about it before they put it all together? Does anyone
actually go, hmmm, is this gonna look physically dominating? Maybe
we should took a double clothesline or double souplex something double.
We'll choke him in the corner with both our hands,
four hands choking someone.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
No, let's hump him.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
No, no, no bad WCW.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Bad and the last on our list. I had to
put him.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I know I kind of allude to him is the
zodiac produced a barber beefcake, of course, following WCW's lore
of hey, did you work in the WWF when you
should work for WCW.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Come on down, not Choe man, I rs.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Virgil, million dollar man, everybody again, earthquake as the shark,
but we had beefcake in there, and he eventually showed
up as the butcher attacking Hult Cogain, turning evil. Turns
out the ww didn't like produced the barber beefcake using
(13:50):
the butcher. It was too close to the barber, which
I disagree with because he wasn't walking around with scissors,
he wasn't walking around cutting in strutton, none of that.
He was a bad guy wearing black tights attacking Hulk
Cogin's ankle.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
And it was a mystery who attacked Hulk Cogin.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't think the butcher is the same thing as
the barber, or I think of butcher, you know meats,
I think of the barber.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I think of hair.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
But the WWE said, nope, you can't do that, so
they changed his character into the Zodiac. He has weird,
bizarre face paint on his little white and black and
his catchphrase, the chorus is yelling yes no, yes, no Now.
Years would go on in ninety five and eventually to
(14:39):
the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
They actually suggest that.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Now known as the Booty Man, he can't be the Butcher,
he can't be the barber, but he'll be the Booty Man.
It turns out that he was not really the Zodiac
the whole time. He was pretending to be the Zodiac
to get information on the Dungeon of Doom to secretly
tell Hulk Cokein and.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
What they were up to. Well, you didn't do very well.
You didn't do.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Very well because Hogan was oh, I was going to
ask cap on the Dungeon of Doom and then always
beat them up later on Zodiac.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Your information was useless. But that's what they tried to say, Yeah,
it's the Zodiac.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Was done as a character like, oh he's undercover.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
He was undercover.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Now he's the Booty Man, and he steals Kimberly from DDP.
Yes there you go, folks. Ten bizarre WCW gimmicks that
still had me going, who what, why woul we do that?
I get the Kiss Demon. I understand the Kiss Demon.
I understand RoboCop, I understand Chucky. I understand the cross
(15:44):
promotion some of these man. How did sub Zero Mortal
Kombat not sue Glacier? I love Glacier, but how well?
Thanks for watching, thanks for listening. I'm and Steve have
a wonderful day. We'll see you next time.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
My bay
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