10 Wrestlers Who Insulted Their Opponents With Their Attires
8. Cactus Jack
Going from hardcore icon to antithesis of extreme, Cactus Jack's ECW heel turn was so inspired that many consider his promos from the period better than even his most legendary verbal assaults as a WWE megastar several years later.
Finding a niche in an organisation built on wrestlers that defined counter-culture, Mick Foley's heel schtick wasn't centred around making the natives hate his style but instead based on making them hate that he'd stopped doing it. Infamously inspired by a "Cane Dewey" sign in the ECW Arena (Foley's son Dewey was just three years old at the time), the batsh*t madman instead became a headlock merchant, much to the fury of the locals. Ramping up the act at the expense of 'Innovator Of Violence' Tommy Dreamer, he urged the former clean-cut kid to make a break for his "beloved" former employers (and most-despised entity in all of ECW) World Championship Wrestling.
Sporting string of f*cking hilarious shirts to wrestle in, Cactus baited fans and Dreamer alike with his sartorial selections. A shirt sporting the derided Dungeon Of Doom was a treat, a "WW F'N F" parody of an iconic ECW design was seen as sacrilege, whilst one with Eric Bischoff's face on the front had the hilarious "Forgive Me, Uncle Eric" beg on the back.
Livid, the fans ordinarily immune to being worked the old fashioned way were being manipulated magnificently by the future Mankind.