10 Incredible Transformations From Jobbers To WWE Champions
6. Diesel
Now isn't the time for debating exactly how poorly Diesel drew as WWE Champion in 1995, not least when your writer's author page will have various long-form defences of the decision to go with 'Big Daddy Cool' in the archives.
Much of the argument centres around subjectivity, but...just look at 1994 Kevin Nash. A Vince McMahon trying to flush artificial enhancement out of his company and still go with giant babyfaces would have been insane not to give him a go. Seven foot tall, handsome and charismatic, Nash felt like an 1990s upgrade to the earnest 1980s superhero, and had proven his in-ring worth enough in lost New Generation classics with Bret Hart and his friends in The Kliq.
He was also really, really smart, as proven in the moves he made to make it to WWE in the first place. Onto yet another loser in the hilarious but under-utilised Vinnie Vegas gimmick in WCW, Nash had already been a Master Blaster and the legendarily rotten Oz before telling management he was getting out of wrestling entirely just so he could escape to Stamford. That consecutive bosses in Atlanta saw an athletic seven-footer and made him look at the lights was perplexing, but karma caught up with Ted Turner's wallet when 'Big Sexy' returned a few years later.