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Readers and Staff Agree. 2008's Worst Gimmick is...

By World Wrestling Insanity's Readers & Staff
Dec 25, 2008 - 8:45 AM


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I'm going to be honest.  TNA barely scratched the surface in terms of votes this year for our 2008 awards.  Sadly, there's one category they ran away with.  It had our most diverse list of votes ever, but this is one award most companies might want to shy away from.  He is Super.  He is Crazy.  He is...not Super Crazy.  At least that guy had a cool ride-along lawn mower...

2008's Worst Gimmick is...

Super Eric Young

 

Readers
2nd Place:  Curry Man
3rd Place:   Stone Cold Shark Boy
Honorable Mention:   Kizarny, Kane, Dolph Ziggler, Sheik Bashir, Braden Walker, Colin Delaney, Mike Adamle, Kiss Kam Khali, Suicide, Abyss, Charlie Haas, Kung Funaki

Staff
2nd Place: Curry Man
3rd Place:  Kizarny


Reader Comments:

" It's bad enough that Eric Young is supposed to be retarded, but then, you make him a retarded SUPERHERO named, get this... "Super Eric".  The retarded wrestler turned retarded superhero is so retarded that he doesn't even think to hide his identity by making up a better super name than "Super Eric".  And then, even though everyone knows that Eric Young is Super Eric, he denies it, even though only Eric Young would be retarded enough to think they weren't the same person.  And the reason Eric even came up with this retarded superlame idea is because Eric thought Rellik and Black Reign were monsters, and Kaz told him they were only pretending, so Eric could pretend to be a superhero so he could be brave enough to fight the monsters.  So you're telling me Eric Young is a 3 year-old?  Jesus Christ!  This guy isn't retarded.  Calling Eric Young a retard is an insult to retarded people.  Eric Young is just plain f***ing dumb, and so is his stupid-ass lamer alther ego. "
- TheMaverickMJ

 

" Because putting him under a hood is the way to get him over… yeah… An honourable mention to “Cute” Kip James; symptomatic of why TNA is failing. "
- Mark

 

" I refuse to jump on the hip and trendy bandwagon of “TNA Wins for Worst Everything,” but this abomination is inexcusable. If it’s true that all this trouble was taken for an inside joke about an old character name of Abyss, a joke no one got or cared about, then curse those who came up with it! May their families burn for eight generations! Seriously, if you’re going to blame TNA for all things bad, blame them for this ."
- Drowgoddess

 


Staff Comments:

" Eric Young sucks normally. I don't think he's all that special in the ring.  He's a perfectly decent worker, but nothing that makes him standout for me, other than his big spot of hitting 2 guys with a Death Valley Driver at the same time.  And his charcater just blows and the joke has LONG LONG LONG LONG since stopped being in any way funny, which wasn't much anyway.  Super Eric and how that gimmick came about just makes him worse.  And then, somehow, it got even dumber when they hooked him up with the intermible Curry Man and the Stone Cold rip-off Shark Boy, as the "Prince Justice Brotherhood", which, like moot things in Russo's TNA, is so named as an in-joke about one of Abyss's former ring names."
- Aaron Wood

 

"F*ck Eric Young."
- ZAH

 

"I'm all for comedy gimmicks. When used at the bottom of the card and sparingly, it helps break up the monotony of a two-hour wrestling show (see Funaki, Kung or Yang, Jimmy Wang). But when they're in a prominent role week after week and even end up main eventing a PPV? So not cool. Also... Eric's gimmick of being a poor man's Eugene doesn't scream "money" to me in the best of times, neither does the poor man's Hurricane bit. And now they want us to take him seriously? How can we? TNA has spent the better part of four years telling us he was a buffoon! I'm with ZAH: F*ck Eric Young!"
- Canadian Bulldog


"Why does ZAH keep ordering me to have sex with Eric Young?  No way.  Mae Young....now she's a different story.  Get a few Vodka shots in me and...ah.  Who am I kiddin'?  I'm all over that!"
- Crazy Uncle Ralph

 



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