10 Wrestler Quirks You'll Never Be Able To Unsee

1. Pete Dunne's Pencil Sell

Butch Kofi Kingston
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The divisive but desperately familiar "Butch" transformation Pete Dunne was forced to undergo following his main roster call up has made a very serious-looking pro wrestler come across as a fairly silly WWE Superstar.

This is all relatively par for the course in the company, but acting like a dog on SmackDown will perhaps bring about the end of one of Dunne's stranger physical choices when he's getting the sh*t kicked out of him.

Similar to Luger's own unique way of pancaking himself on the canvas, Dunne adopts a rather strange horizontal pencil pose with legs together and laid straight out. Never once has this quirk ruined one of his exceptional encounters over the years, and the immersion isn't broken regardless of how he lays out as the heel approaches but it is the sort of thing to make a bit of a game out of in some of those 2017-2021 classics.

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