10 Wrestlers Who Were Way Ahead Of Their Time

5. Goldust

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Mind games have often played a large role in professional wrestling, but Goldust took this to a whole new plane when he arrived in the World Wrestling Federation in 1995. The Bizarre One was truly unlike anything else on the professional wrestling scene at the time, a uniquely eccentric force in a most-macho world.

Goldust wasn't afraid to find new ways to get under the skin of both his opponents and the audience, excelling at making skin crawl and bums squirm. This speaks more of the general fear the majority have of the sexually ambiguous, and whilst Goldust wasn't the first to exploit this he was the first to turn it up to 1000.

Goldust's mind games were as physical as they were mental. You could argue that the biggest game was played on Dustin Runnels himself, a man seemingly trapped by the gimmick forever destined to drown in latex and face paint.

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