10 More Wrestling Gimmicks So Bad They Didn’t Even Make It To TV
4. A Gay Hairdresser
It's safe to say that WWE has not had the best track record when it comes to LGBTQ+ characters.
Hot Lesbian Action. Billy and Chuck. All the stuff with Goldust in his early days. Need we say more?
So thank the heavens they didn't go along with these plans for luchador Kalisto, which would have had him portray a gay hairdresser.
According to reports from the time, the former Lucha Dragon was set to be called up to the main roster without his mask and with a radically new personality.
Gone was the high-flying, tenacious underdog that was touted as a potential replacement for Rey Mysterio. Instead, according to a reliable source on Reddit, Kalisto would have given that all up, focusing less on head scissors and more on actual scissors.
It was even speculated that this was the reason why he and Sin Cara lost the NXT Tag Team Championships.
Thankfully, this never happened, and the Lucha Dragons were called up to the main roster as a team. Vince McMahon couldn't be trusted with a bag of flour in 2015, let alone to portray this character in a sensitive manner.