10 WEIRD Changes Wrestlers Made You Definitely Don't Remember
4. Blueboat
Tugboat was a slightly flawed character from the off, but it’s important to dispel a commonly-held myth about the future Shockmaster’s first taste of the big time - he wasn’t literally a boat.
Or not most of the time anyway.
Debuting as “Tugboat Thomas” before he was - like so many in the future - shortened to the simplistic singular name, Tugger was fundamentally just a nice young fella that wanted to help Hulk Hogan out using his monster size and had a perfectly healthy interest in nautical stuff. Other than during a promo that found him sporting blue instead of red and speaking as if he was raised by inanimate and docked ships rather than actual human beings.
None of this was really to last, with even the good element of the gimmick limited by its low ceiling. A heel turn a year into the run reimagined his entire WWE run alongside Earthquake, but he had his future partner's colours long before the Natural Disasters landed on red too.