20 Original WWE Character Concepts You Won’t Believe

12. Repo Man

Goldust Concept
WWE

Repo Man was some bottled WWE silliness from the moment he scampered out to the ring in 1991, but former Demolition member Barry Darsow at least looked more the part in his Lone Ranger ensemble than he would have done portraying some sort of dystopian future Robin Hood.

Emerging from the soundstage of a Mad Max film, Repo's original aesthetic doesn't even look designed for Darsow. The face and body type resembles a mix of Ron Simmons or Marc Mero - could Faarooq or 'The Wildman' have been the original choice for the fiendish persona?

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