10 Strangest WCW Gimmicks

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

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4.8 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Step into the wild, weird, and sometimes downright baffling world of World Championship Wrestling. From wrestlers saddled with outlandish personas to gimmicks that defied logic (and good taste), this podcast dives deep into WCW’s most bizarre creative choices. We’ll count down the top 10 strangest gimmicks that made fans scratch their heads, laugh out loud, or wonder what the bookers were thinking. Whether you’re a die-hard wrestling historian or just love hearing about the wackier side of sports entertainment, this show shines a spotlight on the moments that prove WCW truly lived by the motto: “Where the Big Boys Play”… and sometimes play very weirdly.

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0:00.0	This is a prime time with Sean Mooney production.
0:04.2	WCW gave us the NWO, the cruiser waits, crow sting, so many more things.
0:10.2	But they also gave us very strange gimmicks on today's episode here on 10 count media.
0:15.5	We are talking about the top 10 strangest fantasy WCW gimmicks of all time.
0:22.8	First on the list is one that, listen, I understand about merchandising and money and
0:29.5	collaborations.
0:30.4	The first one on the list, it's the Kiss Demon.
0:34.1	In WCW and Kiss made a deal.
0:36.4	And they actually had a wrestler
0:37.7	who looked just like Gene Simmons
0:40.2	just a taller version, a wrestling version of him
0:43.2	and yeah, he was here
0:46.2	1999
0:47.5	it was so strange because
0:50.3	Kiss came on, did a concert,
0:52.8	introduced the wrestler, and then left him alone.
0:55.4	He had a very bizarre storyline with Vampira.
0:59.7	They fight in a graveyard.
1:01.4	And, you know, we've seen The Undertaker and strange type of matches before, but this,
1:06.0	they are smashing each other over the head with gravestones.
1:09.7	I'm not sure you're going to survive one of those, but ten of those?
1:15.4	People were drowned in that match, but the Kiss Demon is one of those.
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