Back to school with the best teacher gimmicks in WWE history

#2 Michelle McCool

I got it bad, got it bad, got it bad. I'm hot for teacher.

One of Michelle McCool's earliest gimmicks in WWE was that of a teacher, which, similar to Matt Striker's situation, drew inspiration from real life experiences.

Before she was in the business, she was a seventh-grade science teacher in Palatka, Florida, having earned her Master's degree in Educational Leadership from Florida State University.

She was following in the footsteps of other family members who had been in the education field as her mother (Mary) was a teacher and her father (Terry) was a superintendent.

When bringing this to her character in WWE, she was the only one of the bunch on this list to be able to capitalize on the "hot for teacher" archetype by wearing sexy schoolgirl outfits and tapping into a whole different genre of entertainment.

This came complete with puns against her opponents, like how she would "take them to school" and she would even have a tag team that she would manage dubbed The Teacher's Pets, which consisted of K.C. James and Idol Stevens—more on that latter name in the next section.

McCool was later repackaged and brought back as the on-screen partner of Chuck Palumbo, where she would play more of an "All-American Diva", dropping the teacher gimmick and allowing her to be less constricted with her character, which would open her up to the Lay-Cool duo which would end her career.

Certainly, McCool as a sexy teacher was different from the rest of the characters and while it may not be as memorable of a run as Striker's or some of the others, one look at the picture above will surely bring back some fun memories to those who were watching at the time.