10 Wrestlers Who Piggybacked Their Way To Success

10. Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake

'Bruti', as he was affectionately known to Gorilla Monsoon, was pro wrestling's preeminent winnet - a performer who followed Hulk Hogan around like an actual suitcase.

That accurately describes his later years, but Beefcake was massively over throughout the Federation's Golden Era, during which time he connected with crowds on his own goofy, hammy - yet endearing - terms. The wild-eyed Beefcake created unforgettable memories of classic bad guy comeuppance by lopping the hair off his fallen opponents with an oversized pair of scissors - a prop with massive appeal to the younger audience - but he was a gimmick performer who suffered badly without the gimmick.

As the years dragged on, what was once earnest resonated as cornball, and Brutus, legally prohibited from bringing the Barber gimmick to WCW, instead opted to bring all of the other f*cking gimmicks to WCW.

All of which failed miserably. The former Beefcake played deeply unconvincing straight-laced heel characters, a totally bizarre, monosyllabic contrarian, and a man obsessed with his own ass cheeks as the Booty Man - a gimmick, somehow, that WWE deemed worthy of plagiarising.