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After switching to Raw in the 2005 WWE Draft, Chavo Guerrero denounced his Hispanic Heritage
to debut his new persona “Kerwin White,” a stereotypical, middle-class, white, conservative,
Anglo-American male. Dressed as a country club man with dyed blonde hair, Kerwin White
drove around in a golf caddy and preached the phrase: “if it’s not white, it’s
for not being white. However, with the unexpected and unfortunate death of Eddie Guerrero, Chavo
was forced to drop his Kerwin White gimmick and went back wrestling under his real name,
Chavo Guerrero.
After following a battle with drug addiction, Tony Atlas returned to the WWF for the third
time but not as the former bodybuilder Mr USA Tony Atlas, no… but as Saba Simba, an
African tribe warrior complete with a headdress, shield and spear. Although Atlas credits the
Saba Simba character for saving his life as he was homeless and living on a park bench
at the time, nothing could prepare him for what Vince McMahon had in mind for him. Vince
McMahon the same guy who said this… Even after Roddy Piper referred to Saba Simba as
Tony Atlas, Vince McMahon justified this by saying Atlas had “discovered his roots”
during a trip to Africa and was “proud of his heritage”. It’s no surprise that the
Saba Simba gimmick only lasted for just 6-months.
After an alleged coin flip that took place between Terry Taylor and Curt Hennig to see
who would get the “Mr Perfect” gimmick, Curt Hennig ended up winning which meant Terry
Taylor was left with a gimmick that essentially killed his WWE career and that was as The
Red Rooster. Complete with crimson garb and a fowl strut, The Red Rooster made Terry Taylor
look like one big joke and tarnished any potential he had as a top star. The gimmick was so ridiculous
that it even had Terry Taylor literally mimicking rooster noises during his promos…
When Erik and Ivar were called up to the main roster from NXT, they debuted under a new
name: “The Viking Experience”. As you can imagine, social media went crazy over
this change and reacted in a very negative way which was understandable considering they
went from the War Raiders in NXT to The Viking Experience on Raw. This forced the WWE to
change their in-ring name from The Viking Experience to The Viking Raiders with The
Viking Experience instead being the name of their finishing move. It’s certainly an
“experience” we’d like to forget about…
After being belittled for his height week in and week out by Shelton Benjamin, Chad
Gable persevered through it all to only be belittled by King Corbin just weeks later...
It was then King Corbin got the announcer to announce Chad Gable as Shorty Gable but
instead of choosing to dismiss this ridiculous name, Gable just accepted it. I mean if you
can’t beat them, join them, right? After giving an inspirational speech about his struggles
as a short person, it was then Chad Gable adopted his new name, Shorty Gable, even going
as far as to “shorten” his name even more to “Shorty G”. Shorty G debuted his new
look the following week on SmackDown, a look that resembled something a basketball player
would wear. Oh, the irony!
Because he's short...