View RSS Feed  The O.V.  The Last of an Era  Rating: 3 votes,
3.67 average. With the Undertaker's recent return and the
subsequent confrontation with Triple H, it brought to the fore
an often overlooked fact. Triple H spoke of himself and the
Undertaker being the last of an era. While those words are true,
their meaning rings a little deeper for the Undertaker, for he
is the last of the gimmick wrestlers.  Back in the late 80's and
early 90's the wrestling industry was filled with a multitude of
colourful characters. Each of them had a unique and identifiable
gimmick. The Red Rooster, Doink the Clown, The Million Dollar
Man, The Natural Disasters, The Barbarian, The Warlord, The
Goon, The Headshrinkers, Duke 'The Dumpster' Droese, the list
goes on and on. They were almost comic-book in their
presentation and their various characters and idiosyncracies
were played upon and marketed.  In November 1990 at the Survivor
Series, a gimmick would debut that would endure in one form or
another for the next two decades