8 Wrestlers Who Gear Up For Big Matches

8. Vampiro

Vampiro has never been a stranger to fireballs and other theatrics. In WCW, his battles with Sting and The Kiss Demon often involved all sorts of over-the-top trappings.

But it wasn't until his return to the ring in Lucha Underground that he truly took his wrestling attire to another level. Challenged to a Cero Miedo match by the 'Breaker of Bones', Pentagon Jr., Vampiro decked himself out like a satanic pope, complete with mitre, chasuble, and a thurible on a chain. Not since Friar Ferguson had the squared circle seen such dread-inducing priestly garments. (Though for different reasons, of course.)

All this finery was stripped from him as he went to war with Pentagon, bloodying himself in the process (and later, revealing himself as Pentagon's mysterious master), but there's no denying that gearing up in this manner made the match feel far more epic than it might have otherwise.