10 Terrible WWE Reinventions

8. Ron Simmons > Farooq Asad

Emma Emmalina
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Back in 1991, Ric Flair was effectively given two options by WCW's president Jim Herd: become a Roman gladiator, or pack your bags, sunshine. Flair, who apparently hadn't seen Kirk Douglas' 1960 epic, flatly refused to be Spartacus. WCW's, um, maverick new brain trust promptly fired The Nature Boy, and we was free to turn up in WWF doing what he did best.

Four years later, former World Heavyweight Champion Ron Simmons' own WCW career had wound down, and after briefly popping his head in ECW's door, he too sought the fresh pastures of Titan Towers. He must have missed the returning Flair's memo: WWF wasn't quite all it was cracked up to be.

Simmons promptly found himself in The Nature Boy's shoes - or rather, caligae - shoved into an unused gladiatorial outfit presumably found at a Herd yardsale and handed the incongruous moniker 'Farooq Asad'. It lasted less than a year.

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