![]() She would style her hair pointing straight up to add to her crazed look but she was also a fantastic worker and that made her matches all that more engaging. A big, scary-looking monster who would use her size and strength against her smaller opponents. Alundra Blayze, Aja Kong, and the brilliant Bull Nakano were cornerstones of the division that unfortunately never really took off.Įlsewhere in the wrestling world- especially in Japan, the mid-90s was the equivalent of the attitude era for women’s wrestling and Kong and Nakano were headlining stadium shows like the gigantic Big Egg Wrestling Universe show in 1994. Bull NakanoĪlong with the gimmicks, I also think back to the New Generation’s women’s division and how good it could have been if it was given more of a spotlight. Now that AEW has already picked up the Isaac Yankeem DDS gimmick and given it to Dr Britt Baker, let me tell you 5 more New Generation gimmicks that I think could fit in well in this Reality Era. So why did all the different gimmicks not work? Was it the right gimmick but on a wrestler who couldn’t pull it off? Was it a bad gimmick to begin with regardless of the calibre of worker? Or did the gimmick just not fit the super careful, post-steroid scandal laden super-PG era the WWF was trying to portray? And we also had the mythical and supernatural gimmicks like Mantaur, Giant Gonzalez, Papa Shango and The Berzerker.īut alas, neither Max Moon, Aldo Montoya or any of the other crazy gimmicks caught on and for the remaining years of the New Generation, the WWF relayed on the in-ring work of Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, British Bulldog, Owen Hart and later Steve Austin, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Goldust and Mankind to pull them through their low point. We had the cartoon-like stereotypes of cowboys, Native American Indians, aristocrats, sumo wrestlers, pirates, clowns and wild savages from both Samoa and Africa. Even dual-sports superstars from baseball, motor racing and ice hockey found time to enter the WWF for a match or two. We had a roster full of wrestlers doubling up as everyday 9-to-5 workers such as bin men, dentists, taxmen, plumbers, farmers, mechanics and teachers. Vince and his team doubled down and went to work on finding the next wacky gimmick that could fit the right wrestler at the right time and could very well be the next Undertaker-esque superstar. So if an early 1990s slow-walking zombie-like phenom who builds caskets for a living and resides in a funeral home can catch the imagination of the WWF fans, then why not try every possible gimmick under the sun to see if they could catch that same lightning in a bottle a second time. Just a few years prior we saw the debut of arguably the best gimmick in pro wrestling history: the Undertaker. The WWF certainly tried their luck and threw every possible idea at the wall during the mid-90s to see if something would stick. When anyone ever mentions the WWF’s New Generation it is more than likely that the next topic is the wide variety of weird and wonderful gimmicks that were around at the time. You can just imagine Vince McMahon looking at her and thinking, “She’s a REAL dentist?! If only you were around in 1993…”. As many of the better gimmicks in wrestling history have been, she uses her real-life persona as a fully qualified dentist- and turns it up to 10. ![]() Unfortunate injuries aside, her heel turn has provided some well-needed colour and interest to a division that could do with many more like her. Dr Britt Baker has taken the AEW women’s division by storm in recent months.
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