10 Insane Details Wrestlers Put Into Gimmicks (And WWE Didn’t Care)

10. Aleister Black

It was only when the (past and) future Tommy End was future endeavoured that the audience were fully clued up on the lengths Aleister Black had gone to to try and get his gimmick of...sitting in a cupboard more over than it actually was.

Seemingly stuck between a rock and a hard place, Black was neither a favourite of Vince McMahon, nor somebody The Chairman loathed enough to bury enough to accidentally push. You know the type; forcing CM Punk to drop a Pipe Bomb, the Becky Lynch "heel" turn, Daniel Bryan's obvious oppression. The sort of thing that makes a talent even more undeniable than they were before. Black had what he thought was the answer - colour.

To those that cared enough to believe in a functional lore within WWE, the former NXT Champion bathed the back of his dimly lit promos in the colour scheme of his future feuds. A novel bit of foreshadowing in a functioning organisation, but such a thing wasn't destined to draw the attention of his bosses even if Twitter or Reddit had spotted it. And they didn't.