10 Occupational Wrestling Gimmicks You Won't Believe

10. Thurman 'Sparky' Plugg

Bob Holly never once had friends that called him "Sparky".

Bob Holly, if he even had mates that weren't only with him because they were sh*t scared, had friends that called him "Mr Holly", or at a push "Bob" if it was The Undertaker or somebody he was drilled into respecting. But absolutely nobody called him Sparky.

That was, nonetheless what WWE fans were told when Thurman Plugg sped onto WWE screens in late-1993 live from the local stock car track. He had competitive spirit going round and round the dirt path in his banged up motor, which presumably prepared him well for surviving WWE's relentless schedule in cheap rentals back as the business struggled to pull itself out of a decline.

He had the wheels, the gears and evidently the buddies, so why juggle all that with a strenuous wrestling career? The question was simply never asked. Other than affording commentators a few car puns, Plugg - later renamed Bob "Spark Plugg" Holly - won about as many matches as he did races, inadvertently reducing that "two-sports superstar" nickname by two in the process.