#5 Mantaur
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Mantaur was a half-man, half-bull gimmick that was doomed to hilarity before it was even sanctioned to appear on WWE programming. He didn’t have much direction other than squashing jobbers for a bit and was hardly involved in any feud that could have been taken seriously either.
His bull head outfit looked like it was straight out of an amateur circus act and the ‘Moo’-ing after every move he would perform certainly didn’t accentuate his sinister aura – assuming that was what the WWE was going for in the first place.
He was a bang average ring worker and the fact that he didn’t really have much to say on the microphone only further diminished his standing. To be quite honest, Mantaur was hurtling towards failure from the moment he set foot in the WWE.
While the man behind the gimmick, Mike Halac, would have a couple of more (equally terrible) stints in the WWE in 1996 and 1997, the Mantaur character was packed up in less than a year. The only title he ever won was the USWA World Heavyweight Championship in 1997.
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