10 Wrestlers That Became Complete Party Animals

4. Brie Bella

Rob Van Dam
WWE

Brie Bella wasn't ever cast as any kind of drunkard during her time as a Divas Division stalwart and later alongside Nikki as part of a rejuvenated Women's league, but her experiences on Total Divas resulted in a particular nickname for her wildest side sticking, as well as the creation of some infamously awful entrance music and an update gimmick.

The show featured scenes in which she'd gan radge on the sauce, perhaps for the good of the scripted reality rather than her own wellbeing. It became known as "Brie Mode", with the phrase acting as something of a catch-all term for her on her worst behaviour.

In between the ropes, this manifested as her firing up to make the big babyface comeback, itself undone by a criminal entrance theme that will surely survive based on the scale of how hideously it was received even then. Bella never quite scaled the in-ring heights of her sister, but the gimmick did get over in spite of the obvious hurdles. It hopefully soothed those hangovers...

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