10 Wrestlers Whose Weight Problems Became Gimmicks

7. Tommy Dreamer

There are plenty of stars on this list who are much heavier than Tommy Dreamer, but even when he was a young man in ECW, it was clear that he was never an egg-whites-and-chicken-breasts kind of guy. That only endeared him to ECW's crowd - Dreamer looked like them, dressed like them, and fought for reasons that they would fight. He would win matches, then proudly tell crowds that he was going to White Castle afterwards. Dreamer's eating habits were real, and became the stuff of legend. Co-workers reported seeing Dreamer down bowl after bowl of pasta, and according to the man himself, he once ate 42 White Castle cheeseburgers in 15 minutes. Once "The Innovator of Violence" made the jump to WWE, his unorthodox eating was incorporated into his gimmick. Via a series of vignettes, Dreamer was shown eating non-food items like hair and urinal cakes, and in a particularly disgusting Raw angle, the former ECW World Heavyweight Champion ate a glob of tobacco straight from The Undertaker's mouth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZz8VQVz8c There's a big difference between eating a bunch of burgers and chowing down on hair, and needless to say, the WWE interpretation of Tommy Dreamer's style wasn't very successful.