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During the Golden Age of pro wrestling in the 1980s–1990s, a rise of cartoonish, outlandish gimmicks became popular with the increase of the World Wrestling Federation's popularity. The WWF contributed to the explosion of gimmicks by becoming the most colorful and well-known wrestling brand because of its child-oriented characters, soap opera ...
The gimmick was created as an Evil twin of professional wrestler Octagón and is always a rudo, or heel character (a character portraying the "bad guy" in wrestling.) The gimmick was created by AAA owner Antonio Peña in 1995, giving AAA the rights to the name "Pentagón", which meant that when wrestlers who played Pentagón left AAA they had ...
This category lists professional wrestlers who were not individual people, but a gimmick and fictional characters played by many people in professional wrestling; and categories of individual wrestlers with a false national or ethnic origin.
Many types of wrestling matches, sometimes called "concept" or "gimmick matches" in the jargon of the business, are performed in professional wrestling. Some gimmick matches are more common than others and are often used to advance or conclude a storyline .
Kayfabe characters Sgt Slaughter and The Grand Wizard in a wrestling ring. In professional wrestling, kayfabe (/ ˈ k eɪ f eɪ b /) is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true", specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not staged.
Doink the Clown is a professional wrestling gimmick originally and most popularly portrayed by Matt Borne, who debuted the Doink persona in the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) in 1992. [3] Doink is a clown wearing traditional clown makeup (or a mask decorated to resemble such) and brightly colored clothes.
After leaving the company shortly after, Eudy returned in 1995 and introduced his iconic "Sycho Sid" gimmick a year later. He would win the WWE Championship for the first time at Survivor Series ...
On the August 3, 2020, episode of Raw, lights in the WWE Performance Center began flickering on and off and a masked group of vigilante-hood esque gimmick set fire to a generator. [1] Four days later, on the August 7 (taped on August 4) episode of SmackDown, members of the group attacked the announcers and the audience.