10 Gimmick Ideas WWE Were Right To Turn Down

4. 'Gay Hairdresser' (Kalisto)

As aforementioned in the Batista entry, WWE don't have a stellar track record when it comes to handling potentially-offensive ideas sensitively. That's why it's for the best that they didn't pull the on screen trigger on turning Kalisto into a quote, unquote "gay hairdresser" back in 2015.

The idea called for Kalisto the shed his lucha mask, tell then-partner Sin Cara to beat it, grab some scissors, adopt an overtly effeminate look and become The Miz's stylist. This sounds familiar - it reeks of Rico (Reek-o?) back with Billy Gunn and Chuck Palumbo in 2002, and it may even have been worse.

Portraying Kalisto as a painful stereotype would surely have netted WWE some backlash online, irked corporate investors and it could have been viewed as obnoxiously distasteful. In the end, someone made the call to scrap Kalisto's literal turn and keep him as a masked member of The Lucha Dragons team.

Phew.