10 Bizarre Times WWE Stars Experimented With Their Gimmick

10. Dolph Ziggler - Stops Showing Off

Nothing was that great in 2011 and don't let yourself think otherwise.

CM Punk's pipe bomb-to-Money In The Bank run was mind-blowing, transcendent and industry-altering in its own little way, but the show didn't draw a record-setting buyrate off the back of it or anything. And the entire story was as good as goosed eight days later never to return. Christian extracted something new out of Randy Orton (and that preposterous toe-touch leapfrog Orton hit should get its own entry in this list), and the Road To WrestleMania was oddly captivating, but the 'Show Of Shows' was the absolute pits and really dampened enthusiasm for the product.

And you can't say "dampened enthusiasm" without thinking of the above image of Dolph Ziggler.

'The Show Off' wrestled in the wrong era to be the level of megastar he probably deserved, but the bad advice he took/instincts he followed in clipping the long blonde hair was the last thing his undulating fortunes needed. He was copying the homework of plenty that came before him in a drab era for the organisation, but Ziggler got over in the first place because he was one of the few not to look and work like the blandest create-a-wrestler this side of the Fight Forever suite.