Hello Dub and welcome to the EWN family I my opinion gimmicks are a thing of the past. When I think of the most colourful gimmicks i.e: Doink, Razor Ramon, Goldust, my mind casts back to the early 90's wrestling to the attitude era. From what I have seen from most wrestling promotions, realistic characters are now favoured over these over the top, colourful characters. I wish it wasn't the case, I do not believe in having a product so realistic. we all know that wrestling is fake so why not add a bit of fun to it? Good blog anyway, look forward to reading more

Well Cody Rhodes Disfigured Gimmick made him stand out more and R Truth Insanity/Conspiracy gimmick also. But even with a gimmick this wouldn't help some of these superstars as they won't get a chance to ever display them

WWE major problem is that they are trying to recycle old gimmicks in a new package.

preciate the comments

I must say its true, great blog by the way.

Gimmicks are a thing of the past, I've been a fan of wrestling for the past 21 years. The first thing I ever saw in wrestling was Survivor Series 1990. I've seen gimmicks come and go, we had Tugboat who then turned to Typhoon. Earthquake who in the attitude era became Golga, Dustin Rhodes who went through a few gimmicks, and Goldust ended up being his best one. Val Venis who went by his real name, and I thought was going to have a pretty good run as Sean Morley, but then they messed up by having him become Val Venis again. I remember Mabel before he became Viscera...or Big Daddy V

I mean there has been many gimmicks in our day and in the 21 years I've been a fan. I think the direction that they're going in right now is pretty cool, I mean you got the cheesy fan favorite who's a quote un quote all american..John Cena....The Hulk Hogan if the 2000s.

It also looks like we're beginning to see the beginning of a new attitude era here in the 2010's. Capitalizing on CM Punk being the new Austin for this age.

I think gimmicks are just a thing that was cool, and was in back when we were young kids watching wrestling. Some of us have been fans for decades, and see the change this industry has taken, and you know what I think it's a lot cooler to be able to relate to more of these wrestlers.

Perfect example The Undertaker

His gimmick worked back in the 90s that whole decade was awesome when he was the Deadman from Death Valley.

I always liked his whole darkness appeal, however he's at the age now where the whole Deadman gimmick is just not working out for him anymore..he can't even rock the make up he use to. He's rockin a tan now, and doesn't move around like the guy we remember in the 90s. They should have kept that whole American Bad Ass gimmick, because at least that way he could tone it down, and have more raw promos, like the ones he had with Triple H before his match at Wrestlemania.

Those gimmick changes worked for those guys, because they carried their own charisma, and were able to pull it off. We have a lot of wrestlers who are still too green to be able to pull it off. Cody's works right now for him, because he puts on a great promo. Ted DiBease can't pull off his gimmick right now, because he has no mic skills.

Same thing going on with JoMo he's a great performer, but can't cut a good promo, and thats where it all comes down to.

Who can cut a good promo, that's where they will notice when its time for a change. Until then they'll remain where they are, simple as that.


By the way sorry if I rambled on and went off subject.