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7. Xanta Claus
There's no explanation for Xanta Claus other than someone in WWE's creative getting drunk at Thanksgiving and blurting "but what if there was an EVIL Santa Claus? Who was the reverse Santa Claus and lived at the South Pole and stole presents from children?"
That's literally Xanta Claus's gimmick. The evil Santa Claus appeared during WWE's extremely family-friendly post Hogan era. Basically, during the mid 1990s Ted Turner lured away a lot of the talent that wrestling fans grew up watching. This meant that the children who had cheered Hogan, Macho Man, and Hacksaw Jim Duggan were now in the coveted 18-36 year old male demographic.
Advertisers left in droves, including Randy Savage's lucrative Slim Jim tie-ins. The WWE audience was much younger than the WCW audience, and Vince McMahon always tried to pander to his audience. Unfortunately, this is where gimmicks like Xanta Claus and Max Moon come in.
Xanta Claus, aka Boo Boo Bradley from Smokey Mountain Wrestling, would go on to great success in Paul Heyman's ECW promotion under the non-family friendly name of Balls Mahoney. I guess ANYTHING sounds better than Xanta Claus! It was a gimmick that was HO-HO-Horrible!
