10 Wrestlers Who Became Everything They HATED

6. Terry Taylor Becomes A Walking Cartoon

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Terry Taylor skirts between being kind and cringing at his old Red Rooster gimmick whenever he's asked. It seems to depend which day of the week it is, and how charitable Terry is feeling when looking back on the golden age of WWF sports entertainment revolution in the late-1980s and early-90s.

One thing's true: Rooster was so far out of Taylor's comfort zone it wasn't even funny. He'd been a boots n' tights slick wrestler in the mould of Ric Flair before Vince McMahon picked him up and slapped the pre-existing Rooster gimmick on Terry. The babyface version he played after splitting from Bobby Heenan, in particular, was appalling and went against everything Taylor stood for inside a wrestling ring.

So get on with it, right? That's one way to look at things, but Taylor toiled. He never looked comfy with the dyed red spikes or when crowing during his promos. It was too outlandish, and that's saying something for the WWF during that era. Almost tragically, Terry still wore the Flair-style robes he'd adorned in the NWA and Mid-South.

Y'know, when he was a celebrated technician, not wrestling's answer to Foghorn Leghorn.

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