5 of the best and worst music-related wrestling gimmicks

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

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

“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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