10 Failed WWE Wrestlers Who Became Cult Classics
1. PCO
In an effort to prove his inhuman endurance over WrestleMania weekend, Pierre Carl Ouellet's violent alter ego PCO took a powerbomb from the ring directly to the arena floor. Only when the Madison Square Garden crowd had fully absorbed the shock did he sit straight up, screaming with pleasure at the pain he'd just experienced.
This is his life now.
PCO's latter-career reinvention as this masochistic psychopath was for this very moment. He couldn't have predicted the specifics, but his intent to take a bow on the grandest possible stage available to him went better than he ever could have imagined - he'd landed back-first but he'd fallen on his feet in the world's most famous arena.
25 years earlier, he was a Quebecer wrestling Men On A Mission in the very same building at one of the most celebrated WrestleManias of all time. He wasn't, however, a talking point or a ticket-seller. Just as he wasn't as a super-worker that just happened to be a pirate a year later. It two over two decades for the industry to catch up with his potential offering.