WWE tapped into its video library again on Sunday for some of the most embarrassing footage it could find, and put it on YouTube in the latest edition of "Are You Serious?"
Sports World Report is here to break down the video for you (clip below), and offer a bit more explanation and insight on what the Road Dogg and Josh Matthews were talking about.
The episode started with an induction into the "Hall of Fail," and after a potshot at "Sycho Sid" Eudy - he was accused of no-showing his induction, a reference to his history on skipping out on wrestling commitments to play professional softball - the "honor" was awarded to Scott Steiner, with a series of "highlights" from his main event run in WCW screened for viewers.
Steiner is a rarity, in that his peak as a star came far after his peak as an in-ring talent. The Scott Steiner of the early '90s was a freakish talent who was being groomed for a singles run while he and brother Rick were the top attraction in World Championship Wrestling's tag team division. However, by the time he finally broke out as a singles star in the late 90s, injuries and his massive physique (alleged and widely believed to be the product of steroid use) had slowed him down to the point where his main-event run produced the "Worst Worked Match" of 2003, according to The Wrestling Observer. His induction, however, consisted largely of his interviews, along with a clip of him destroying a plastic duck with a metal pipe. The duck was a prop carried by the Disco Inferno in a reference to the 1970s novelty record "Disco Duck."
The next "highlight" featured saw Shawn Michaels and Triple H in "Little People's Court," as part of the brief feud between D-Generation X and Hornswoggle. The Road Dogg has caught a bit of flack on Twitter for referring to Michaels and Triple H as the "new DX," since the D-Generation X gimmick originated with them in 1997 (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn joined in the spring of 1998), but he has a point. The HHH-HBK union of that late 2000s was much more commercial in nature than the original 1997 edition, and while the 1998 edition (Triple H, X-Pac, and the New Age Outlaws) moved more than its share of merchandise, there was little, if any, overt hucksterism like what Michaels and Triple H displayed when they reunited in 2006.
On the heels of the DX segment that featured Triple H, his fuzzy miniature, Puppet H, turned up to engage Road Dogg and Mathews in a game of "WCW Bad Gimmick Roulette. The wheel, which also featured Glacier, Mortis, the Shark, Disco Inferno, Se7en, Prince Iaukea and Arachniman, landed on Alex Wright. "Das Wunderkind" had a lengthy tenure with WCW, starting in 1994 and running until the promotion folded in 2001. Wright was shown dancing with the WCW "Nitro Girls," and while his dance-crazy gimmick may not have been the most intimidating persona ever crafted for a wrestler, he did have some good matches, and he actually endured a much worse gimmick when WCW recruited him to be the anti-American "Berlyn" in 1999.
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