10 Weirdest Unlockable Characters In Wrestling Video Games

In the company's dedication to pulling back the curtain and give wrestling fans access to just about every grimy little detail that went into producing the weekly broadcast - from multiple worked shoots to private ratings information to the real life contract disputes between former WWE wrestlers and Vince McMahon - WCW may have ruined a little bit of the magic.

There's a point where learning about the behind-the-scenes stuff stops being thrilling and starts becoming really tedious. We want wrestling and entertainment, not bureaucracy and spreadsheets.

WWE, however, didn't want their fans to have unlimited access to these things. They weren't a wide open book, they told you which passages to read.

When WCW released their Thunder video game and made every member of the crew a playable character, it fit with their MO. But then WWF No Mercy was released a year or so later, and it seemed like Vince was starting to follow WCW's trend for once, by making "the voices" of WWE playable characters for the first time.

While it made sense to include former wrestler Jerry Lawler as a hidden character, did they really think their fanbase was just dying to control Jim Ross, Michael Cole, and Howard Finkel??