8 Wrestling Gimmicks That Were Much Darker Outside WWE

8. Haku

Haku was one frightening customer during his time in WWE, a man who, despite wearing no shoes, could easily kick your face in, if not clean bite it off. But, radge though he undoubtedly was, his character never extended to the occult. He was quite content to scare people away with the power of his walnut-hard fists, without any need for the power of the pentagram.

As Colonel Robert Parker's hired muscle in WCW, things broadly remained the same, though he was re-christened Meng and now wore pinstripe suits and cool shades.

That all changed when Meng fell in with the Satanic Kevin Sullivan's Dungeon of Doom lot. The Pacific Islander was no longer just the world's toughest bouncer, but a bona fide killer who'd apparently dispatched enemies on behalf of the Emperor of Japan with his Tongan Death Grip. Perhaps the newly evil Meng's darkest moment came when he was involved in that triple-cage Doomsday Match at Uncensored '96 - a crime against humanity if ever there was one.