10 Weirdest Wrestling Characters (That Actually Worked)
7. Curry Man
Sometimes referred to as The King of The Indies, Christopher Daniels is a fantastic wrestler who is well known to TNA and indie wrestling fans as The Fallen Angel and also as one half of the tag team Bad Influence (with Frankie Kazarian). However, whilst in Japan, Daniels started experimenting with another character, a bizarre, masked persona that he called Curry Man. Eventually, he brought the character over to the US on a Dragons Gate show and even portrayed Curry Man on TNA television, where he teamed with Shark Boy, another ludicrous gimmick. Billed from Tokyo, Japan, Curry Man is obsessed with dancing, eating spicy food and communicating only in locker room Japanese. Amazingly (and at least partly due to the open secret of his real identity), Curry Man always gets a strong audience reaction whenever he appears, especially from this writer, who consistently (and unashamedly) marks out for him, time and time again. In US indie promotion Chikara, Curry Man even teamed with Los Ice Creams, a bizarre frozen dessert-themed stable that at one time included current WWE superstar Cesaro. Konnichiwa!
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