5 stereotypical WWE gimmicks in the last decade

Rusev and LanaWWE has been a part of popuar culture since a long, long time. So much so that during its initial days most gimmick used to resort to populist ideas and stereotyped portrayals. It represented the culture of those times. So stemmed the idea of a ‘Real American hero’ and the ‘foreign villain’.There have been a lot of stereotypical gimmicks. This list looks at some of the present ones. And even with so many campaigns and ‘good intentions’ WWE just can’t escape arguments about the repreentation of various cultures on their show. The issue of race still plays a major role. Here are the 5 stereotypical gimmicks WWE has come up with 

#5 Rusev

The best foreign heels in a long time

Rusev deserves credit for being one of the few heels in a long time to draw heat. He’s one of the few rookies from NXT to have beeen consistently good at being a heel and one of teh few to actually sell a foreign villain gimmick in this day and age.

But the success hasn’t escaped all the stereotypes. He’s an admirer of Vladamir Putin, he thinks all Americans are trash, he’s brutal so much so that they’ve even played they angle of Rusev being an abusive boyfriend. 

Lana and Rusev were introduced as villains at a time when the international relations between both the nations in conversation were nowhere near friendly. One of Lana’s promos even caught controversy after Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 incident when she said ,”You blame Russia for the recent current events”