My street fight match with McSweeny got me thinking about gimmick matches. I think about what I would do if I make it on TV, which I will not. I think that I would annoy people by trying to bring back old wrestling gimmicks that no one wants anymore.
Whenever you watch a wrestling show from the 70's there's always a dude with a bullwhip for no reason. The only whip I've seen in modern times was a lady who was doing a dominatrix/cat thing. That's Catwoman? I want to bring back purposeless non-sexual bullwhips.
Do people really whip bulls or is that just a name? If you whip a bull, won't it gore you?
Also there'd be a dude with a chain around his neck. Or a rope with a cowbell. But my favorite is the bone. Dudes would just come to the ring with a big femur like that was normal. "Oh, this is just the bone I carry around, don't worry about it, I super won't hit anyonr with it." Maybe it's a therapy bone.
I would challenge people to weird old matches. One goal I have is to be in a flag match and get booed as the USA representative. Another one I like is a coal miner's glove on a pole match. To really get all the coal miners interested in the event. Evening gown matches, I'd love to do that. I saw a match once with a sock full of coins. I'd love to upset people with all that old crap.
There's one thing I know for sure about gimmick matches, if it takes more than a sentence, maybe two sentences at most to explain the concept, it sucks. Hell in a Cell? Fine. Elimination Chamber? Garbage. Ladder match? Great. Wargames? Awful. Coffin match? Love it. Anything with someone being put in a shark cage or handcuffed to something? Don't waste my time.
If there is a second thing I know about gimmick matches it's that you should make sure the gimmick works. I watched a compilation of old matches from NWA and WCW where whatever stupid thing they were trying to do failed. There would be a box or something that would fall apart. Or there would be a switch that kept falling down. Dumb stuff like that. Get your shit together wrestling companies that have been gone for 30 years.
TNA really hits both sides. There's not a lot left to come up with in the world of gimmick matches. But they hit a home run with the Ultimate X match. On the other hand, they also came up with the King of the Mountain match which is unwatchable. What the fuck is even happening in that match?
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