WWE: 5 negative stereotypes in WWE

The world of professional wrestling is pretty cut and dry; you have plot holes, story lines, angles and most importantly, performers settling their scores inside the squared circle. The ‘entertainment’ part of it includes everything else, about how these storylines are carried out best to captivate the imagination of the causal wrestling fan, and how best to integrate drama into the story.

In WWE, for good or bad, the ‘entertainment’ aspect is always given the preference. WWE considers itself to be a soap opera with physicality. When you think about it, it is possibly the greatest idea anyone can ever come up with. Professional wrestling is a cross between day time soap operas and contact sports.

Imagine boxing or mixed martial arts, but with back ground stories and personal touches. In recent times, WWE has portrayed some characters which were racial stereotypes. Starting with the character of Mohammad Hassan to Iron Sheikh or Sergeant Slaughter, WWE has always managed to irk the fans and get a reaction out of them. But there were times when they crossed the line, and in this article, I take a look at five such instances/characters that probably weren’t the best of ideas.

5. Mexicools

How many of the fans remember Super Crazy and Psicosis being a part of Mexicools in the WWE? The answer might not be flattering for the group, but WWE basically took a bunch of Mexicans and put them together. What was so wrong about it? Well, they used to come on lawn mowers to the ring, and basically ripped on the other Mexicans in the United States for “cleaning toilets”.

They were later dissolved and were individually used as jobbers before being released from the company, but Vince demonstrated what he thought about the Mexican fraternity with this gimmick.