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Wrestling is full of maniacs, I would say even as fans are a bit crazy too, maybe that's how it

works. You gotta be a loon to walk through the door. This seems to stretch to the persona some

individuals take on too, because even though on the surface they may not look too bad,

sheesh, when you pull back the curtain, it's potty, because I am sorry for what culture please

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gimmicks that are more disturbing than you think. Number 10 Billy Kidman was a drug addict.

Go back to WCW and Raven's flock, a group of misfits. Billy Kidman was the young great hope of

the pack, and yet his gimmick was definitely that he was a drug addict, yep. While he was never

said that directly, Kidman would stare off into the distance like he wasn't with any of us,

and Tony Shavane explained his behaviour by saying that Billy was unclean, and that maybe he

needed a shower. So this was just very wink wink nudge nudge up the whim wham, and it's not

like Raven shied away from this. He was very vocal about Kidman being a lost soul who needed

help, and by the time world championship resting realized they couldn't really do anything with that,

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