One of my least favorite wrestlers in existence is Sheamus. His matches are never entertaining and his segments are brutal. He is essentially the most vanilla baby-face in pro-wrestling and has no distinguishable traits other than being a red-headed Irish guy who says “fella” a lot.
I feel like a wrestler who is consistently on TV and in title pictures should have a purpose or reason to be wrestling. This idea that wrestlers should be smiling all of the time is idiotic, too. Sheamus bores me to tears and, besides John Cena, might have the most stale gimmick existence in wrestling. He really doesn’t even have a gimmick unless you consider someone’s nationality a gimmick. Or maybe having red hair is a gimmick? If so, I know someone who had this gimmick first:
In Japan, he is known as “Donald McDonald”
Stories suggest he’s a prick backstage, too. Hunico/Sin Cara whipped his ass once, which is comedic. Sheamus should have took him down and had no problem with him but instead, he got his butt kicked from what the story says.
Yoshi Tatsu also kicked the crap out of Sheamus once, probably just because.
The most interesting thing Sheamus has ever done is appear on The Walking Dead.
FELLA!!!
If it were up to me, I would take Sheamus and give him purpose. If he wants to be a good-guy, then make his purpose to be the most accomplished Irish “athlete” ever in the WWE. His wins, championships and accomplishments would all have more meaning if he openly defined his motivation this way. Or you can make him a heel and make his mission to show why Ireland produces better fighters than anyone on the planet.
The closest thing he has to a gimmick now is that he likes fighting. That was Finlay’s gimmick and frankly, it isn’t much of a gimmick because if you are a wrestler/fighter for a living, you defacto love to fight anyway. Indistinguishable.
Rumors suggest that he is some type of friend with Triple H, maybe even a workout buddy. That makes sense, considering how many flops have received opportunities thanks to their friendship with Paul LeVECK. Scott Hall, a habitual jerk (extra emphasis on the word “habitual”) and total substance abuser got put in the Hall of Fame this year. Randy Savage? Still not in it. Wonder if that has to do with Savage nailing Stephanie McMahon when she was 14? And don’t forget about Bautista, one of the lamest players ever on the scene. He came back this year and got an instant push to the main event of Wrestlemania 30 – one he begrudgingly had to share with Daniel Bryan. Batista completely sucks.
So does Sheamus.