10 Rumoured Wrestling Gimmicks That Thankfully Never Happened

1. Heidenreich The Cryogenically-Frozen Nazi

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What is there to say about Heidenreich that hasn't been said already? The big man from Los Angeles is widely regarded as one of the worst performers to ever step foot inside a World Wrestling Entertainment ring, yet despite this he was introduced with much fan-fare in 2004 under the tutelage of Paul Heyman. His first feud was as high-profile as they come, as he took on The Undertaker of all people.

Heidenreich was portrayed as a poetry-writing psychopath, which sounds positively stellar when compared to one idea that was floated around for him. It was an idea so preposterous that Vince McMahon, he who tried to have an incest angle with his own daughter, shot it down immediately.

Heidenreich was to portray a frozen Nazi soldier, who for some reason had been relieved from his icy slumber by none other than Jewish Paul Heyman. Heidenreich would have gone the whole nine yards, with Nazi salute and goose-step and everything.

Unsurprisingly, the idea was met by shock and silence, with Vince McMahon leaving the room without saying a word. Maybe the sexual harassment poet wasn't such a bad idea after all.

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