10 PG-Era WWE Stars You Won’t Recognise Now

10. Mason Ryan

Mason Ryan was a musclebound beast that seemed set to become WWE's 'next Batista'. The big Welshman even looked like Dave, and it's easy to imagine Vince McMahon licking his chops when he clapped eyes on him. Things didn't exactly work out for Ryan though.

So, now he works as a circus act.

Leave your jokes at the door about WWE being one big circus anyway, because Mason is serious about his new career. Currently, he's the head archer in Cirque du Soleil's stage show Kà. Check him out on the right there - he's all done up like Kratos from God Of War.

Few, if any, WWE fans would be able to pick Ryan out of the crowd mid-Cirque du Soleil show and name him. The make-up is distracting, of course, but he barely even looks like the chiselled monster of old.