10 Wrestlers With GIGANTIC Balls
1. Cody
Cody bet on himself as Stardust.
He had the self-belief to leave WWE and make something more of himself when nobody else did. Never lionised among hardcore fans as the all-important super-worker, his stint in the paint bred scorn and apathy more than it did a sense that he was being wasted.
It's important to note that, as a Rhodes, he didn't mortgage his very future by leaving, but WrestleCrap Gooker to Liberator of Pro Wrestling's Spirit is an arc that rivals Ryback, Juventud Guerrera, and your hope that the Fiend might one day be salvaged in its delusions of grandeur. He had the savvy to market himself as a humble pupil of a new wrestling discipline before siphoning that cachet into joining the Bullet Club.
This is where his dormant genius revealed itself; he was piss funny as the shrugging, who-me Machiavelli who threatened to change the stable's sacred, money-sh*tting logo - and did, into what was basically his own face. He recognised the appetite for an alternative to WWE and had the cojones to book All In - and also the carny temerity to make ROH pay for much of it, maintaining his status as a boy-popper while reinventing himself as a trad babyface who brought emotion back to the main event.
This is a man with a fear of heights who will moonsault off a cage and invite ridicule for inking his neck like a Prison Break extra.