10 Current WWE Stars Once Saddled With Terrible Gimmicks
These are 10 WWE stars who were given awful gimmicks
4. LA Knight
One of the great successes of Paul Levesque’s time as the head of WWE creative has been the meteoric (and organic) rise of LA Knight.
The man formerly known as Eli Drake’s popularity is down to his natural charisma and ability to connect with the audience, something that really didn’t come across too well when he was called up from NXT to the main roster.
Debuting on the SmackDown brand as ‘Max Dupri’, Knight was presented as a talent agent for The Maximum Male Models – Mace, Mansoor and Maxxine.
Unsurprisingly, having everything that had worked for him previously stripped away from him didn’t exactly fill the man with confidence. In fact, he initially thought the character pitch was a rib and clashed with Vince McMahon on Max Dupri’s presentation.
McMahon subsequently removed LA from the equation and, according to Mansoor, Knight was almost fired due to his portrayal.
The fact is it was never a good fit and was never going to work. Surprise, surprise, when the situation changed and Levesque was put in charge of creative, LA Knight started to shoot up the card and hasn’t looked back since.
