10 Wrestlers Who Saved Their Careers By Turning Down Gimmicks

10. Mark Henry - Silverback

There's no questioning that Mark Henry always had the potential to go on to be a genuine main event level threat for WWE from the second he stepped through the company's doors in 1996. However, it was only when the star began adding names to his "Hall of Pain" that people started to really see what 'The World's Strongest Man' could bring to the table.

A few years before then, though, Henry was in conversations with WWE creative about becoming known as The Silverback. Yet, the star was having none of it, simply telling the company, "You will not refer to this black man as a 'Silverback' - I am not a primate".

Sure enough, Vince McMahon swiftly granted Henry his wish, and the idea was never brought up to him again.

Henry clearly wasn't on board with the racially insensitive idea from the get-go and had WWE refused to give up on it, there's a chance that the star may have decided to up sticks and go elsewhere. Thankfully, they realised the error of their ways and instead pushed Henry as the person responsible for inducting stars into 'The Hall of Pain'.