5 of the best and worst music-related wrestling gimmicks

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#4 Worst: P.N. News - rapper - WCW

In the immortal words of Tony Stark, “now there’s this guy.”

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“Rapmaster” P.N. News was introduced to WCW fans in 1991 and, much like he did with his finisher - a top rope splash called “The Broken Record” - landed with a thud. He would come to the ring to some generic early 90s hip-hop, climb into the ring, and start to rap - with lyrics that were usually just a variation of “yo baby, yo baby, yo.” Seriously. Watch for yourself.

Sadly, on top of being a not-so-good rapper, News was also a not-so-good wrestler. Combine that with a predominately southern US crowd that hadn’t really embraced hip-hop (not trying to generalise anybody but, you know…), and PN News flopped worse than Young MC’s second album.

In other news, I am clearly a hip-hop historian.

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Kevin Christopher Sullivan has been writing online professionally since 1999, which makes him probably older than you. He's written for sites such as Uproxx and Austin.com. He's also performed stand-up comedy, attended Butt-Numb-A-Thon and E3, and owns some pretty cool t-shirts. He lives outside of Austin, TX with his wife, daughter and four annoying cats. And, yes, he knows who he has the same name as.

When he's not watching and writing about wrestling, he's probably playing video games, advocating for mental health issues, or yelling at something in his house for not "working the way it's supposed do, dang it!"

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