10 Awful WWE Gimmicks That Only Lasted One Night

7. Friar Ferguson

After spells in Stampede Wrestling as Makhan Singh and in WCW as Norman the Lunatic, Mike Shaw likely assumed he’d finally gotten his big break when he signed with WWE in early 1993. 

Unfortunately for the super heavyweight – who was noted for a great series of matches he’d had with a young Owen Hart – the best WWE could come up with was a character called The Mad Monk. 

Fearing a backlash from religious groups, WWE creative tweaked the character to a babyface called Friar Ferguson. 

The good monk made his one and only appearance on the April 12, 1993, episode of Raw, where he won an unremarkable squash match. 

The match might have been routine, but everybody watching could tell the gimmick was positively DOA. Including, it seems, WWE creative, since the character was shelved immediately after. 

Friar Ferguson’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it tenure might have also had something to do with The Catholic Church of New York complaining about what they considered a sacrilegious depiction. 

Whatever the real reason, the bottom line was Ferguson was fried and it was time for Shaw to move on to bigger and better things. And was there anything bigger or better than Bastion Booger?