14. Having One Of The Most Ridiculous Gimmicks Ever
Stop and think about it for a second. If someone debuted now in NXT with the gimmick of a zombified mortician, you'd write it off straight away. The Undertaker character is utterly ridiculous. Can you imagine Mark Calaway's reaction when Vince McMahon first pitched it to him in 1990? He could never have predicted that it would have any success, let alone the two decade ultra success it ended up being. Having to put on white makeup, dye his hair black, wrestle in halloween-esque attitre... at first Calaway must have seen it as a problem to overcome. But being the class act that he is, he did overcome it. He took the ball and ran with it. What should have been shelf life gimmick, ended up being one of the greatest gimmicks of all time.