WWF, late 80's

"We were in the upper deck by the wrestler's entrance. It was 2002, when Taylor had been put in charge of booking the WWE's house shows. This one drunk bald guy spotted him conducting business near the curtain, and the heckling was on...

"ROOOOSTER!!!!!

BAD GIMMICK TERRY TAYLOR!!!!!!

HEEEY ROOSTER!!!!"

After about five minutes of this, Taylor sprung from the back - his face redder than his Rooster mohawk ever was - and threw his arms in the air and sceamed to the upper deck at the top of hius lungs, "WHAT??????!!!!!!!"

After a few more Rooster comments, Taylor, who after all these years should have the ultimate comeback to any Rooster insult thrust his way, came back at his bald heckler with, "Hey, at least I've got hair." Taylor then instructed the police to stand guard by our section for the remainder of the night, keeping the heckler quiet and thus making our section feel supervised and ruining the rest of the evening in the process. What a cock" - Blade Braxton

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Most of the time, we have a lot of fun here at the Crap. But in the case of this induction, I just can't yuck it up. Sure, most of the gimmicks we post are bad...but in Terry Taylor's case, WrestleCrap was the very definition of a "career killer."

The time was the mid 80's, a period when Taylor was really making a name for himself in the old NWA. Combining scientific skills with good looks, Taylor was a lock to be a superstar. A series of matches with Nikita Koloff added to his already impressive reume, and main events were seemingly on the horizon.

Then he went to the WWF, and Vince McMahon hatched one of his worst gimmicks ever: The Red Rooster.

The idea was to get over the fact that Bobby Heenan could manage anyone - ANYONE - to WWF gold. Heenan claimed he could take any young kid, and make him a champion, and to prove it, he plucked Taylor from the NWA. Heenan claimed he was just a "Little Red Rooster", and that his name didn't even matter.

Heenan constantly abused Taylor during matches, yelling at him, "Finish him off if you don't mind!" and talking about he was "not that smart, not that fast, and not that strong." This led to sympathy for Rooster, who broke away from Heenan to form his own image. Heenan told him that he wasn't The Red Rooster anymore, that he was Terry Taylor.

And Taylor DISAGREED, saying he WAS The Red Rooster. He even went so far as to spray red paint in his hair and started strutting around LIKE A CHICKEN. Hell, he even signed his name in the following manner:

Seriously, let's take a closer look at that, shall we?

As you can imagine, no one took him seriously. Not just during his WWF stay - I'm talking EVER AGAIN. Wherever he competed, whatever persona he used, the chants remained the same: "ROOSTER! ROOSTER!" Just imagine that, over and over and OVER AND OVER for the next FIFTEEN FREAKIN' YEARS.

So remember kids - WrestleCrap isn't always fun and games.

In the wrong hands, it can be career ending.