10 Horrible Gimmicks That Wrestlers Pitched THEMSELVES
7. Bobby Lashley: “I’ll Just Be Fat”
Body shaming is no joke, and definitely isn't something to be encouraged.
That isn't really what Bobby Lashley was hoping to achieve with this pitch, but you just know it would've backfired on WWE big time. What is "it"? A few years back, the mega-ripped, mega-muscled Lashley wanted to gain loads of weight for real due to "severe depression", then shed it right on time to win some belts again.
MVP would have been enlisted as a master motivator for big Bob. Together, they'd train like never before (or like Lashley is used to, let's be honest) and beat the bulk to turn him back into a lean, mean, WrestleMania-headlining machine. Incredibly, then-overseer Vince McMahon wasn't into it and that was that.
Granted, Lashley was presumably trying to be inspiring with this muscled > overweight > muscled again plan, but there's zero chance WWE's creative nucleus would've handled it sensitively enough to matter. Bobby was never destined to be wrestling's very own Christian Bale.