10 Wrestlers Who Were REJECTED For Famous Wrestling Gimmicks
5. Bret Hart
Wrestling cowboys had been around even longer than Bret Hart's legendary Father Stu when the future 'Hitman' stepped out on a WWE stage for the first time as a Texas gunslinger, but 'The Excellence Of Execution' himself was already wise to the gimmick's shelf life and certain failure.
He had respect for both the persona and the lifestyle, and knew deep down that he wasn't the right man for the role. An excellent all-rounder and consistently improving technical genius, 'The Hitman' was many, many things even in his earliest days but a rooting-tooting Ten-Gallon-wearing Texan just wasn't one of them.
Low on obvious charisma at the time, there was a nobility to the failure - set dressing was a substitute for it as he found his feet. But having already sensed rejection from the stands, he binned it himself and embraced something he was far more suited to; being the single best to ever lace a pair of boots. And they didn't need spurs on to make a connection.