10 Wrestlers That Can't Exist In Real Life
5. Abyss
Man-behind-the-mask Chris Parks found the perfect way for Abyss to exist amongst regular humans when he portrayed Joseph Parks - the mild-mannered cousin of 'The Monster'.
It clung together enough to make sense in TNA storylines, but the same couldn't be said for Abyss' skin. Routinely ripped open by increasingly daft stipulations, the flesh torn up by barbed wire, thumbtacks and broken glass over the years left the current WWE agent in need of one horrifying spot per-big match to stay over. As the novelty of that wore off, so too did his star aura as the company tried and ultimately failed to expand beyond itself in the mid-2000s.
"Clean cut" might have been used to describe an element of Abyss, but not quite in the context required. The gimmick or Parks outside of it could never be the homegrown ambassador TNA (and allegedly Hulk Hogan, who loved the gimmick) needed. Not least with its psycopathic origins feeling confined to pro wrestling's past.