Sidney Bakabella's gimmick is that he is stuck in the past. He constantly references wrestlers/managers/promoters of the past, but, not as if he had had issues with them in the past, but as if he was having issues with them now. At the earliest, he is stuck in the 1980s but he has referenced people as far back as Toots Mondt (a wrestler and promoter who worked from 1912 to 1942 and created the modern wrestling format).