Next stop on the tour of shitty gimmicked baddies is The Repo Man. When I think back to Repo Man, I just think 'what the fuck?'
Basically the gimmick for this guy is he would carry a tow rope and pretend that he has been taking delight in repossessing cars that the owners couldn't pay for but was basically like the legendary riddler in the old 60's Batman, complete with crappy eye mask.
Not long after his eponymous debut, he started a feud with Virgil by causing him to lose the Million Dollar belt back to The Million Dollar Man; a feud with Virgil marks a significant arrival, a bit like saying "Welcome to the undercard, see you in obscurity in a couple of years".
He was also quite the jobber in the end.
His last feud of note was with the Macho Man Randy Savage when horror of horrors, he stole one of Randy's hats. The barrel was being firmly scraped with this one.
O.....k...
As you can see, his microphone wrestling isn't too bad, but it does make me cringe a little looking back.
Before he was the Repo Man, he was one half (or at times one third) of the gimp-tastic former tag team champions, Demolition - he was Smash.
Again, another generic character based heel, but with a mischievous nature - perhaps he could have been used as a face by causing grief to the other heels by nicking their stuff, just imagine him stealing Paul Bearer's urn and getting destroyed by the Undertaker...
Ratings: Microphone skills: 2.5/5, In ring: 2/5, Gimmick shiteness: 3/5.
Coming soon, Kamala.
