10 Wrestlers Who Were REJECTED For Famous Wrestling Gimmicks
8. Terry Taylor
A quick google search of wrestlers talking Terry Taylor will find about an even split of those that are full of praise for the former Red Rooster and those clearly glad he was saddled with such a dead-end gimmick.
The latter group would probably argue that great talents get garbage over, but the man was asked to cluck and jut his head like a chicken whilst sporting a rooster's comb atop his dome - what chance did he really have?
Not much, and nowhere as much as Curt Hennig did after he was allegedly the one chosen out of the two to take on a Mr Perfect moniker that served him well for numerous WWE stints starting in 1988. The story goes that the two were paired together so company chiefs could assess who'd wear the persona more convincingly. When Hennig got the nod, Taylor went off in a different direction as Bobby Heenan's rookie. Or, "his little red rooster".
This became literal farmyard animal eventually, because Vince McMahon.