101 Shocking Wrestling Plans You Won't Believe Almost Happened

78. Albert ‘The Animal’ Steele

When he wasn't munching on turnbuckle fluff or protecting the good name of Miss. Elizabeth from evil-doers (and then-heel 'Macho Man' Randy Savage) George 'The Animal' Steele was introducing a young Matt Bloom to Tom Prichard and getting the ball rolling on the future A-Train's career.

Rumour has it that George would've cancelled the meeting had he known how WWE would book Bloom as Lord Tensai then 'Sweet T' well over a decade later. What in the heck was all that about?! To be fair, Matt had been a walking penis piercing earlier on his career. It's true: He was known as Prince Albert, which is a cutesy name for something that definitely wouldn't feel cutesy to have done.

Albert debuted in 1999 as an accomplice to Droz, then formed a tag-team with Test that solely existed so the WWF could reference Trish Stratus' body (T&A). Before tagging with Droz, Prince had another gimmick whipped up for him - he nearly became Albert 'The Animal' Steele as a modern reboot of George's babyface character from the 1980s.

Who knows if this would've been successful or not, but the fed's creative minds were willing to try pretty much anything in '99. They called this big man after a penile piercing, for goodness sake! Also, Albert had the same back fuzz that Steele famously sported, so it wouldn't have been a stretch for fans to believe that the pair were related.

It's a good job they weren't. One can't envision WWF cards from 1999-2001 or so without those, "SHAVE YOUR BACK" chants. Only kidding.