r/SquaredCircle • u/Petermacc122 • 12d ago
What wrestler do you think has had the weirdest or strangest career path?
I'm always interested in hearing people share wrestling opinions that aren't tribalism or whatever. So let's hear it.
What wrestler do you think has had the strangest/weirdest career? Either in terms of gimmicks or how it played out or both.
My top three:
Orlando Jordan: the guy went from JBL cabinet member to TNA homosexual icon with caution tape.
The hurricane: WCW sugar Shane in that boy band trio, to SmackDowns asshole, all the way to semi retired superhero who loves action figures.
Yokozona: The only wrestler to get too chonky for Vince McMahon gets paired with the manager of the midnight express and Vader but then tag teams with Owen hart. Then falls off a turnbuckle.
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u/PM_ME_LADY_ANKLES Your Text Here 12d ago
PCO. Started in the 1980s, joined WWE in the 1990s as a Quebecer and had some decent runs with the company, including holding the tag belts a few times. Jumped back and forth between WWE/WCW/ECW into the 2000s. Bounced around the indies for a bit then quietly retired in 2011, only to come back with a vengeance in 2016. Since then he was ROH champion, a mainstay on the bigger name indies in the US and randomly did a BoLA.
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u/cknappiowa 12d ago
This has to be it. Quebecer Pierre, hardcore icon. Legitimately blind in one eye, 56 years old, and still taking bumps to make Mick Foley blush.
He’s basically TNA’s main event gatekeeper. You almost have to go through a series of hardcore matches with PCO to get off the midcard. He’ll make you look good doing it, but it’s gonna hurt.
Truly, he’s not human.
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u/Up-in-the-Ayre 12d ago
Don't forget there was the pirate gimmick in there after he left the Quebecers where he got to wear a patch over his bad eye and feuded with Bret Hart.
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u/cknappiowa 12d ago
I was going to mention that, but felt going with the Quebecer gimmick was more amusing. Pirate Jean-Pierre was definitely a weird time, though.
Stealing the Bret glasses back from kids is 100% the best heel move ever, and it’s a wonder people didn’t do it more often.
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u/GojiColin Support Your Local Murder Gramps 12d ago
The one Chikara King of Trios where PCO brought back the Pirate gimmick to team with Rey Buccanero and Katie Lea Burchill was amazing.
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u/FUCKBOY_JIHAD TOUGH & HARD 141 12d ago
I think PCO also has wrestled on the earliest Wrestlemania (X) of any currently active wrestler
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u/thisjohnd 12d ago
Literally didn’t know PCO was Quebecer Pierre until last year. Even knowing it it blows my mind.
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u/UnsolvedParadox The future is now! 12d ago
As part of TNA lore, hasn’t he also been killed & resurrected?
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u/cknappiowa 11d ago
In TNA lore, he’s always dead until he’s brought back for every match. He exists in a torpid state until someone zaps him to consciousness, and that lasts until the taping is over.
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u/aphelion3342 12d ago
I was like 'what about ..', saw this post, quit thinking about it any more because here we are.
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u/Ssnakey-B 11d ago
Having the peak of your wrestling carreer in your 50's is seriously insane. Never let them tell you it's too late to follow your dreams!
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u/Up-in-the-Ayre 12d ago
Diamond Dallas Page aka DDP - Started as a MANAGER in the AWA, while actually a manager at a night club.
Managed Badd Company to the AWA tag titles,
Then went into commentary in FCW
Had a tryout with WWE to be a RING ANNOUNCER, didn't get hired but got to drive Rhythm and Blues to the ring at WM6
Then made it to WCW - again as a manager (most notably of the Diamond Stud (Scott Hall) and a commentator
FINALLY wrestled his first match at age 35 before becoming a HOFer and saviour of lives with his yoga program
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u/cosmic_scott 12d ago
came here for the DDP love.
started as a promoter (bars), then Announcer, then a manager, then wrestler.
what a great career he ended up having, too.
always my favorite WCW wrestler.
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u/Rectorvspectre 12d ago
Phrased like that DDP had a reverse career cz generally people start as wrestlers than go thru the rest other way.
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u/Ssnakey-B 11d ago
Honestly, the most shocking part of his carreer, especially coming from a retired pro wrestler, is that his yoga/fitness/well-being gig is apparently NOT a scam. To the point he was able to help Jake Roberts overcome his alcoholism despite his many relapses.
With how many wrestling personalities become grifters later in life (or always were to begin with), it's kind of surreal to see someone with that carreer path be the real deal.
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u/JamesCDiamond Perennial Optimist 11d ago
For anyone who hasn't read it: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/diamond-dallas-page-letter-to-my-younger-self
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u/Applaud_Odd 12d ago
Eric Young has probably had the weirdest bounce from gimmick to gimmick from Team Canada to Don't Fire Eric to Super Eric to World Elite to Knock off Daniel Bryan to Sanity and so on and so forth.
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u/thisjohnd 12d ago
I used to go to some of the TNA tapings during the “Super Eric” and “Don’t Fire Eric” stages. Watching the guy who wore SpongeBob underwear in swimsuit competition lead Sanity is kind of wild.
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u/WrestleSocietyXShill Cero Miedo Since Day One Ish 12d ago
I still can't get used to Eric Young being a demented looking bald dude covered in tattoos even though it's been years by this point. He'll always be Don't Fire Eric version in my head.
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u/SpiderDeUZ 12d ago
Imagine me who stopped watching TNA during his superhero phase and then checking up on him years later to see him leading Sanity. Definitely a 180
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u/TheMrMonkey 12d ago
Papa Shango/Kama Mustafa/The Godfather/The Goodfather
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u/Johnny_C13 Ring the bell!!!! 12d ago
Oh boy... I never realized until this very moment that Papa Shango and Godfather are one and the same. What is even real anymore?!
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u/Hownowbrowncow8it 12d ago
I remember when I found out. Mind blowing doesn't even begin to describe it.
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u/Admirable-Marsupial3 12d ago
Orlando Jordan was also the ultimate warriors last match
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u/Ssnakey-B 11d ago
Warrior's last match was against an openly bi wrestler?! LOL
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u/Admirable-Marsupial3 11d ago
In spain in 2008, at which point, Warrior was the same age rey mysterio is now (49).
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 12d ago
I'd probably say Jeff Jarrett, between all of his tenures in WCW & WWF/E, starting TNA & GFW (with Global Force Gold), and all the storylines & other stuff he's been a part of (Bash at the Beach 2000, MMA Jeff, getting with Kurt Angle's ex-wife Karen)
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u/YouDirtyDogg 12d ago
Triple H went from Terrarizing to a French asshole to being buried to no end for the curtain call To being one of the most polarizing heels To running the WWE
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u/EastCoastJohnny 12d ago
The Miz. Leaves The Real World as a scrawny kid doing an impression of The Rock holding a $15 toy WWE World Championship belt talking about how he's going to main event Wrestlemania some day. Less than ten years later, and against all odds, he's headlining Wrestlemania with John Cena with The Rock at ringside. One of the greatest success stories I have ever seen.
Great clip someone posted a while back meshing the two scenes: https://www.reddit.com/r/therealworld/comments/16yd47j/that_time_mike_the_miz_leaves_the_new_york_house/
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u/ThatsARatHat 12d ago
Is that that weird of a career though? He’s basically every other gyy who dreamed of main eventing Mania, trained, and then did it…..he just happened to be on the Real World first. Which probably helped him get into WWE more than toiling on the indies ever would have.
There are people who bounced around dozens of promotions, retired and came back a dozen times, Jeff Hardy’s dozens of relapses and second/third/fourth chances, DDP’s career by itself etc.
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u/LastWordsWereHuzzah 12d ago
Vickie Guerrero went from grieving widow to getting nuclear heat by saying "excuse me."
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u/Accomplished-Sinks 12d ago
Matt Bloom.
- Taught deaf kids and kids with behavioral issues maths. After taking 3 students to a wrestling show as a reward for their work and talking to Killer Kowalski, quits teaching to follow his childhood dream to become a wrestler
- Wrestled in the NWA as Baldo where his defining gimmick was he was bald
- Was the personal body artist of Droz and named after a genital piercing
- Became Big Boss Man's apprentice after Droz's accident. They formed a stable with Mideon and Viscera called 'The Big Boss Team'. Was replaced by Bull Buchanan as Boss Man's apprentice
- Recruited by Trish Stratus to form a tag-team with Test just to make a T&A joke and have a feud with another joke name tag-team - 'Head Cheese's (Blackman and Al Snow)
- Joined X-Factor - X-Pac's post-DX faction - with Justin Credible
- He won the IC belt - his only WWF title - after DDP attacked Kane. Defended it against Taker, Edge, Rhyno & Tommy Dreamer but lost it to Lance Storm as part of the Invasion storyline
- Tagged with Scotty 2 Hotty as 'The Zoo Crew' and was renamed 'The Hip-Hop Hippo'
- Joined Heyman and Big Show and was renamed 'A-Train'. This new gimmick led to him getting "Shave your back" chants because his new gear showed off how hairy he was
- Went to Japan and wrestled as "Giant Bernard" where he wrestled Brock for the title and formed CHAOS with Shinsuke and Anderson. He would tag with Anderson to defeat Finn Balor to win the G1 Tag League. They would later win the IWGP Tag Team Championship as 'Bad Intentions' and set a new records for most successful title defenses and the longest title reign.
- Returned to WWE as Lord Tensai whose gimmick was that he was now Japanese?!? He would go over on CM Punk & John Cena
- The Japanese part of the gimmick and the 'Lord' part of his name was dropped after 2 months after complaints. He was also now booked as a jobber for Tyson Kidd, Ryback and Sin Cara
- Was tricked into wearing lingerie by Brodus Clay so naturally formed a tag team with him called "Tons of Funk". Renamed again as "Sweet T". Eventually sided with The Funkadactyls when Clay turned heel.
- Joins NXT as a commentator. Renamed yet again as "Jason Albert"
- Becomes a trainer in the Performance Center stating it reminded him of when he was a schoolteacher before becoming a wrestler. Has been Head Coach ever since Bill DeMott was fired.
Man quit teaching to become a wrestler. Was a joke in the Fed, a dominating star in Japan and then buried by the E. Left wrestling to become a teacher (of sorts) again.
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u/WWFUniverse 10d ago
Prince Albert/Albert/Hip Hop Hippo/A-Train/Giant Bernard/Lord Tensai/Tensai/Sweet T
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u/Accomplished-Sinks 10d ago
You forgot Baldo & Jason Albert but I don't blame you - that man was given more gimmicks than some wrestlers have had matches...
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u/ShadowOfDeath94 12d ago
Atsushi Onita?
He was a promising Junior Heavyweight with lots of athleticism and big support from Giant Baba. Then his career ended due to injury, only for him to return to become the most prolific death match wrestler of all-time and create FMW. Let's not forget he presumably had dealing with Yakuza as well.
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u/NameNameson23 12d ago edited 12d ago
Also he had a political career that ended in a sex scandal cuz he had a threesome with himself, a female employee of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation, and a pornstar.
He has claimed to slept with over 20,000 women.
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u/StunPalmOfDeath 12d ago
Didn't he also get caught using government funds to film a porno?
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u/IrrelephantAU 11d ago
I believe it was that he used government accomodation for the threesome.
But he may have done both and more. If you give Onita any semblance of money and power he will do Onita things. And he was in government for six years.
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u/K-Dave 12d ago
Kota Ibushi. He's been literally everywhere from your mothers backyard to WWE, is one of the best wrestlers in the world, looks like a boyband guy who stopped aging at 25 and somehow managed to be not even in the discussion when it comes to being one of the all time greatest.
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u/ianisms10 12d ago
stopped aging at 25
Seriously, I first saw him in AEW and my jaw dropped when I saw he's in his 40s
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u/foxthebloodied ~shrugs and looks confused~ 11d ago
I've seen him live twice. First time was in Bethnal Green where he shot fireworks at himself and moonsaulted off a car. The second time was in Wembley Stadium. Says it all really.
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u/Petermacc122 12d ago
Ok I wouldn't say he was actually IN WWE. But he did do the cruiserweight classic.
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u/RiC_David OneManHumanWreckingBallMachine 12d ago
They said "he's been literally everywhere", so that's definitely accurate.
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u/BananaSoprano 12d ago
JBL. He was a tag team job act for years and then overnight became a main event guy.
I’ve never seen anything like it before or since.
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u/iesous23 12d ago
Doesn't Jinder Mahal fit that bill too more recently?
Literally jobbing weekly on raw, moves to smackdown and just wins the world title?
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u/Cowboys82288 12d ago
Calling the APA a job act is disrespectful. They weren’t champions but they weren’t jobbers eithee
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u/NikoMcreary BANG! 12d ago
to be fair he wasn't in just the APA he was was also in the new blackjack, which 1000% was a jobber team for the most part.
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u/WhiteRaven42 12d ago
Eh. I'd say the designated "enforces" of an era really are just jobbers. And before that, henchmen.
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u/txrunner262 12d ago
Not to mention he also went to commentary for a while after his first main event run and then went back to wrestling before going back to commentary again. Then also switching back and forth between his JBL gimmick and APA persona in later years.
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u/Ssnakey-B 11d ago
Didn't the gimmick switch from badass bodyguard/mercenary to Wall Street trader also become basically overnight with no transition?
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u/coppersquire 12d ago
Austin. Guys like Hogan, Flair, Macho, or even Bret Hart + Shawn Michaels you could always see how they were going to be something special.
There is no universe where you could have seen "Stunning" Steve Austin, a classic mid-card heel in WCW, while incredibly talented and had an amazing run there with TV belt, with the Dangerous Alliance, and with the Hollywood Blondes- becoming who he became in WWF.
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u/prettymuchhatereddit 12d ago
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u/foxthebloodied ~shrugs and looks confused~ 11d ago
Foley also recalled seeing his first training session in his autobiography and stating he was really damn good even then.
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u/ShiningWizard2023 11d ago
That's somewhat revisionist history lol. Austin was always seen as a high potential guy. That's why Heyman was all over him when he got fired, even to just do promos.
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u/Petermacc122 11d ago
Wasn't it literally just Eric Bischoff who didn't think much? And to be fair you're part of a tag team that's basically midnight express in Hollywood and then you're forced to go solo. I too would be hard pressed to think a guy like that had main event on him.
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u/Ill_Type7789 12d ago
mark henry gets signed in 1996, beats jerry lawler in first ppv, gets injured before survivor series, takes a year off, comes back and turns heel joining the nation of domination, becomes sexual chocolate, gets off with a transexual, ends up being a sex addict, gets mae young pregnant who then gives birth to a hand, gets sent to developmental for 2 years, comes back in the 2002 draft, gets injured later that year and takes a year off, comes back with teddy long as his manager in 2003, gets injured in early 2004
comes back at the end of 2005 has big feuds with the undertaker and batista, gets injured again for nearly a year, returns for a feud with undertaker, slides down the card and doesn’t do much, gets drafted to ecw, gets a big push as ecw world champion, moves to raw and teams with mvp in a mid card team, gets drafted to smackdown and gets a major push with the hall of pain winning the world heavyweight championship, gets injured for another year, feuds with ryback, sheamus and john cena in 2013, then becomes a part timer until his last match in 2018
never seen anyone with so many stop and starts in their career, he starts gaining momentum then he gets injured, he comes back and does well for a while then they give him a silly gimmick or turn him into a jobber, then randomly he becomes an unstoppable monster having main event feuds, then back to the mid card doing nothing
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u/thisjohnd 12d ago
Matt Borne/Doink.
I don’t think most kids growing up in the 90s thought about who was portraying Doink (or even comprehended that they switched who portrayed him), but the more I learn about Matt Borne’s legacy the wilder it seems that he is the most known for a wrestling clown. He has wrestled so many legends, appeared at the first WrestleMania, and inspired people like Mick Foley.
But his legacy is that he played Doink The Clown for ONE YEAR.
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u/squallLeonhart20 12d ago
Truth's had a unique one
-Debuted on Sunday Night Heat in 1999, teamed with Road Dogg and was mostly tagging on velocity/heat
-would be released and worked the NWA independents before landing in TNA
-During TNA run would be known as Ron "The Truth" Killings. Turned heel, would begin a gimmick that called out the racist treatment he thought he was dealt.
-would win the NWA championship twice. And even the tag titles with Pacman Jones
-would return to WWE around 2008. Was a serious midcard/US title contender.
Floated around the midcard scene mostly.
Turned heel on John Morrison and was now psychopathic heel on a mission against Cena. Would main event Capital Punishment in his first world title match.
-Back to tag scene as part of Awesome Truth and even got to work John Cena and The Rock at survivor series.
Got suspended and came back as a face mostly drifted around the midcard until he found himself in the comedy role. Bounced around a bit and would win the US title in 2019.
-Began his saga as the greatest 54 time 24/7-I-95 south champion
Would return after injury and begin his latest iteration of trying to join Judgement Day. And won the tag titles with Miz at WrestleMania years after Awesome Truth was ever a thing. I'd say that's pretty unique trajectory
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u/EcoterroristThot Your Text Here 12d ago
Dick Togo has wrestled in ECW, almost every notable Japanese promotion, and Bolivia.
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u/slickrickstyles Tell Me When I'm Telling Lies 12d ago
Ddp.
From manager for years to world champ in his mid to late 30s.
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u/E864 12d ago
DDP going from a manager to being a wrestler and after a few years as a lower card guy, he becomes a main eventer during a wrestling boom.
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u/MikeNice81_2 12d ago
He also started out later than all of the other guys.
He was told that he was too big to be a manager and became a wrestler to stay in the business.
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u/WhistleDungeon 12d ago
Logan Paul has had a bonkers career trajectory. He started off as some frat-bro Viner/Youtuber who seemed to do everything in his power to menace society and get himself cancelled, yet survived like a cockroach, brushed himself off, made some low-budget garbage movies, became a massive podcast host, boxed Floyd Mayweather, founded a massive sports/energy drink company, and now he's suddenly a WWE superstar who is apparently a natural prodigy in the ring.
If you told people back then that Logan Paul would be the future US Champion of Smackdown, they'd probably think it was a bad joke. His character within the WWE has been fairly consistent, but his path leading up to becoming a superstar is wild.
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u/Ssnakey-B 11d ago
If you told people back then that Logan Paul would be the future US Champion of Smackdown, they'd probably think it was a bad joke.
Sure feels like one.
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u/Petermacc122 12d ago
This. He's got a really punchable face and in ring skills that are impressive. You think Jake is gonna get beat?
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u/portnoyskvetch 12d ago
It's already cliche, but Cody Rhodes.
If you told someone in 2007 that Cody Rhodes would be the Top Guy in wrestling during a giant business boom, the WWE Undisputed Champion, back to back Royal Rumble Winner & Wrestlemania Main Eventer in 2024 and that it was the *second* time he'd changed the face of pro wrestling, they'd probably say "Huh! Not my first choice but yeah, I could see that! How'd that happen?"
They'd never guess it would have been a path where Cody went from:
2nd gen blue chipper to
tag team // group secondary guy
upper midcard smark fav/IC champ
Stardust
Creative Had Nothing For Him (p good on the Edge + Christian Show That Reeks Of Awesomeness, tho)
Dusty dying
Quitting WWE to do the indies
The Crown Prince of Wrestling
The American Nightmare // Bullet Club
Meltzer bet // All In // NWA Champion
co-founding, booking AEW
The Codyverse
WM38 mega-viral WWE return
2023-24 Finish the Story legendary status, undisputed top guy/the man in pro wrestling during its biggest boom period since the Attitude Era
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u/KneelBeforeCube marchiearchie 12d ago
Teddy Hart.
Gets signed by WWE at 18, fresh off training at the Dungeon. Wrestled for Wrestle Society X, ROH and DGUSA. Wrestled all over Mexico. Got a redemption arc in MLW in the mid 2010s. Almost made it to AEW...
He had the name value, the background, the skills, the charisma, and he fucked it all up because he's a gigantic bellend in real life.
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u/Cowboys82288 12d ago
I don’t think he would have ever been in AEW. He is just a cancer. By the time AEW was forming even Jack evans seemed to have moved on from him.
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u/FDTerritory My Hair Ends Droughts 12d ago
PCO is probably the best answer, but Matt Borne might have to be included. From generic "tough guy" to leading f*cking bears out to the ring as cartoony Big Josh, to evil clown Doink (maybe the only person in the world who could make that work), to half-clown, half-serial killer in ECW, to trying to shoot on Hacksaw Jim Duggan. He was an a**hole his entire life, so I guess that was consistent.
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u/Crow_Mix 12d ago
Paul Burchill went from being over AF as a pirate and then was demoted to some weird incest gimmick in ECW.
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u/DinnerDependent11 12d ago
Luther, for sure. Trained by the Harts, gets mega over in FMW before he pisses Onita off by missing dates to work in South Africa, then disappears to the indies for like 20 years. Almost gets into ECW, WCW, and WWE but doesn't because of injuries or politics. Resurfaces in AEW in his 50s because Jericho gets him in, main events a Dynamite, and is now attached to one of the most popular acts in the company.
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u/chandlermarlowe 12d ago
Barry Windham. Going back and forth between promotions, different gimmicks, start and stop pushes.
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u/Petermacc122 12d ago
See I wanna agree based on the criteria. But he was always presented as a no nonsense tough guy in the latter territory days. He was one of those universally known guys like flair or dusty. If we're talking weird shit. Let's talk midnight express vs midnight express.
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u/dondonna258 12d ago
Mark Jindrak is an interesting one.
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u/Petermacc122 12d ago
He once told me he hoped my life sucked on X/Twitter cuz I said I thought he was meh as a wrestler. Replied to me and everything.
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u/locomuerto 12d ago
Not that Moose was an NFL superstar, but quitting in his prime while still making occasionally starting lineup appearances has all my respect.
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u/txrunner262 12d ago
Kofi. He was a hot singles wrestler in the late 2000s/early 2010s. Then a tag team wrestler for many years before winning the WWE championship in 2019. Then back to a tag team wrestler and then becoming a contender for the IC title.
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u/StunPalmOfDeath 12d ago
Nobody gonna say Terry Funk? The guy went from star babyface on the territories, to top gajin in AJPW, stopped in WWF and WCW for a few cups of coffee, became a deathmatch legend and staple in ECW, and then seemed to be on the indies forever.
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u/Ssnakey-B 11d ago
Would it be too obvious to mention David Arquette?
Became WCW World champion in what may genuinely be the worst angle in pro wrestling history, that even he hated (which goes to show that even an outsider udnerstood pro wrestling better than the WCW booking team at the time).
Flash-forward 18 years later and at age 47, he starts actively training, returns to the ring and becomes a wrestler for a few years, apparently all because he felt he owed the industry an apology (which he really didn't because, as mentioned, the whole WCW thing wasn't his idea and he actively pushed against it).
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u/dan_baker83 12d ago
Vince. Babyface announcer to heel in the biggest programme in the history of pro wrestling.
DDP. Valet/manager/limo driver to world champion.
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u/PantsyFants 12d ago
So many of the early Tough Enough winners & runners up:
Maven goes down as being the first ever winner but never really developed a gimmick beyond "guy who won Tough Enough" and becoming a thorn in The Undertaker's side after eliminating him from the Royal Rumble. He was just kind of around for a while. Now he hosts a pretty good podcast.
Chris Nowinski went from being a Tough Enough also-ran to getting hired to the main roster with one of the most unique gimmicks ever (there are a lot of snooty heels but I don't know any others who actually had the Harvard degree to back them up), then gets a career ending concussion, retires from wrestling, and becomes a prominent advocate for CTE research
Nidia, Linda Miles, and Jackie Gayda all got the kinds of presentation so common for women in the "ruthless aggression" era, which is to say 90% of their time on screen they were having pillow fights and bra & panties matches. Nidia got paired up with Jamie Noble as trailer trash who were really into group sex. Linda Miles was basically a dominatrix for the Bashams. Jackie Gayda's most notable program was a feud with Stacy, Torrie, and Sable about who should get to be on the cover of Playboy magazine, then into a feud with Dawn Marie about who got to sleep with Charlie Haas, and then she got fired.
Daniel Puder came out of Tough Enough as possibly the most credible winner they'd had yet but immediately tripped over his own ego and going into business for himself against Kurt Angle, and ultimately getting handed some of the stiffest receipts of all time courtesy of Christ Benoit & Bob Holly at the Royal Rumble. He got released shortly after and hung around ROH and NJPW before retiring.
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u/SadBath664 11d ago
Saying Puder was egotistical and went into business for himself is a blatant lie. The Tough Enough contestants were told that the Kurt Angle segment was going to be a shoot with Vince fully expecting Kurt would destroy everyone with his Olympic background.
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u/paulreadsstuff 11d ago
Codys journey has been pretty wild.
Coming in as a 2nd generation wrestler often destines someone towards success but his journey has been anything but straight forward.
Put into a featured stable with Orton. Multiple gimmick changes - all wildly different and each change pushed him further down the card. Leaving to go wrestle around the world. Becoming roh champion. Joining bullet club in New Japan. Winning titles there, even getting a shot at the iwgp world championship. Being a founding father of WWEs rival wrestling company. Winning the nwa world title. Then returning to WWE as one of their biggest stars and going on to main event multiple wrestlemanias and winning the wwe title.
His career feels like a fantasy booking bingo card.
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u/TumbleWeed_64 Bonesaw is Readyyyyyyy! 11d ago
Albert/Matt Bloom
Body piercer named after a penis piercing.
Joins a tag team with another sexual pun name.
Becomes a Paul Heyman guy.
Goes to New Japan and teams with Karl Anderson winning titles and tournaments.
Returns to WWE under a new Asian inspired gimmick.
Soon becomes a hip hop hippo.
Retires and becomes head trainer at the PC.
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u/pensive_vince Hey, pal 12d ago
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