Random analysis of pointlessness

Okay, if you have any of the following attributes, please skip this one; intelligence, class, good taste, aversion to things redneck, aversion to pointlessness. Otherwise, read on.
One of my deep dark secrets is my lifelong love affair with the stupidity that is professional wrestling. Sadly, when I was oh...I don't know...5? I figured out it was not true competition...not that it is fake, seeings as how they do jump around and sometimes hit each other pretty hard...but certainly I knew who would win or lose was predetermined. That has never bothered me because A) I find it entertaining and B) I know who is going to win or lose in movies, too, but seeing how they get there is what makes it good or bad. You pretty much know Reese Witherspoon will get the guy, Stallone will blow stuff up and kill the bad guys, and so forth. Okay, justification for my patheticness over. On to the real point.
Bob Holly.
Here is a guy who started out, and I am not making this up, as a race car driver. That was his gimmick. For those of you with functioning brain cells, wrestlers are assumed to succeed or fail based on their "gimmick". A gimmick is a combination of factors such as their "look", their style of speaking, the background that makes you (hopefully) care about the character, the names they give their moves, and even what moves they use.
Spark Plug Holly. Even now I am stunned he got over with that gimmick. He was part of the Midnight Express, a tag team that had a hot name and a good gimmick. They also had some nice interaction with other well-gimmicked tag teams, and that helped him out.
Well, lo and behold he did what many people do and left the tag division in search of singles glory. Sadly, having left the friendly confines of the tag division, he was exposed for what he was...a brawler style wrestler who was too small to brawl. Also, his mic work was...well...pedestrian. At best. So he floundered around the low and mid-card.
When people are in that position they either move on to other parts of their life or try to reinvent themself. Holly tried a few reinventions, but he remained what he was...not a technical wrestler, no personality, so basically his gimmick was having no gimmick. He was a heat sink...people did not boo him (which is good...it means they care), they did not cheer for him, they just...I don't know, slept?
Finally he hit on a hot gimmick change. He became a "Super Heavyweight", playing it off as if we could not tell he was at most 250 lbs. he would carry around a scale and if his opponent did not weigh in at over 500 pounds as he himself allegedly did, he would not wrestle them. Later, his supposed cousin "Crash Holly", who weighed at least 30 pounds LESS, joined him. They would be announced as a tag team weighing in at "well over 1000 pounds".
It was successful. So Holly did what any wise person would do. He jettisoned the gimmick and became "Hardcore Holly." Okay.
It did not work.
The best thing that happened to him was when Brock Lesnar blew a spot and broke his neck. It gave Holly enough heat (crowd reaction) that he actually got a title shot. It was sort of a foregone conclusion he would lose, but he at least got it. Shortly after his vengeance for the broken neck program he faded back to jobberville...the "veteran" they keep bringing out to lose to new guys to give the new guy credibility...which oddly, even though anyone with any knowledge at all knows Holly will lose, it still pushes the new guy...hmm...
Well, he is now making his latest gimmick change. Here is the sum and total of it;
He changed his nickname. From Hardcore Holly...to The Alabama Slamma...Hardcore Holly. That is it. He added "The Alabama Slamma".
Even scarier? Someone thoguht this was a good idea.
Now you have a ring announcer trying to make it sound intimidating when "The Alabama Slamma" comes to the ring. A grown man.
Even sadder? It is still a better gimmick than the Boogeyman. That one is going straight to Wrestlecrap.