YMMV / The One Man Gang

• Awesome Music: "Jive Soul Bro".
• Crosses the Line Twice: The WWF had a number of racist gimmicks in the past, but the One Man Gang finding out he had "African" heritage, changing his name to Akeem, speaking solely in jive, dancing to Slick's "Jive Soul Brother" theme, while dressed in misappropriated traditional attire, claiming to be from Africa (not any part of Africa—just "deepest, darkest" Africa) while declaring himself "The African Dream"—all the while as a very obvious white man with a black manager, was so damn RIDICULOUS one couldn't help but appreciate it in a Camp way even today. Even when Akeem is introduced, Vince McMahon, serving as a commentator during Akeem's debut (or re-debut) with Jesse Ventura, lampshades how surreal it is, and Howard Finkel refuses to buy it ("I recognize this man as the One Man Gang!"), as if an early warning to the audience not to take it seriously, meaning that it was always intended to be a Refuge in Audacity gimmick.
• Funny Moments: Crossed with Moment of Awesome, His strut off with "Sweet N Sour" Larry Sweeney at CHIKARA King of Trios 2008. If there was an entry for "marking out" in the dictionary, a picture of referee Bryce Remsburg's reaction to OMG putting on the Akeem hat and strutting here would be the picture next to it.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Calling the team of Bossman and Akeem "The Twin Towers."
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • His tag team partner, Ray Traylor, best known as the Big Bossman, was a prison guard who became a wrestler. Gray is a pro wrestler who became a Real Life prison guard.
  • The back of the shirt he wore for the Gimmick Battle Royal at WrestleMania X-7 read "JOIN THE CHAIN GANG," which, of course, would later become a Fan Community Nickname for John Cena.
  • The initials of One Man Gang spell out "OMG". Of course, he was active with the gimmick years before those initials were used as shorthand for "Oh My God."
• Narm: If ever you wanted proof of how wrestling is far from the last bastion of good taste, check out the Akeem promos, which were some of the most ridiculous promos of The '80s (and that's saying a lot). Slick talks up his client, Akeem takes over by talking jive (and generally trying to be a bigger, whiter Slick), and keeps shucking and jiving when the mic isn't on him.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: Zig-zagged. "Jive Soul Bro" contained both a riff that sounds like one that later turned up in, of all things, the New Kids on the Block's "Hangin' Tough," and something that bears a resemblance to David Bowie's "Fame."