10 Awful WWE Gimmicks That Only Lasted One Night

3. Hade Vansen

Those of you who have no idea who ‘Hade Vansen’ is obviously weren’t big fans of the Frontier Wrestling Alliance in the early-to-mid 2000s. 

Vansen was plucked from WWE developmental towards the end of 2008 and pitched a storyline that seemed too good to be true. 

Ultimately, it was. According to Hade, then-WWE writer Freddie Prinze Jr. outlined how he would be the leader of an X-Men-style group of supervillains who would target The Undertaker. 

This, according to Vansen’s telling, would lead to a match between himself and The Deadman at WrestleMania 25. 

One promo for Vansen aired – on the December 12 episode of SmackDown – before Triple H openly questioned why some no-name British bloke from FCW was getting a major match with The Undertaker, noting how Hade reminded him of the guy who cut his grass.

Vince McMahon laughed at the joke, agreed that Hade Vansen as some sort of masterful cult leader figure was dumb and the storyline was instantly cancelled. 

Piling on the misery for poor Hade, he was wished the best of luck in his future endeavours just a few weeks later.