10 Wrestlers With The Most Gimmicks

6. Dustin Runnels (11)

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He's already been mentioned once in this countdown, sharing in the glory of that double-blade job back-of-a-truck match with the Blacktop Bully, but the son of a son of a plumber actually outpaces Darsow when it comes to wrestling gimmicks.

He's wrestled under his own name, and as Dustin Rhodes, and as Dusty Rhodes, Jr. Must feel pretty cold in that shadow, there, pal. As 'The Natural' Dustin Rhodes, 'The American Nightmare' Dustin Rhodes (a nickname put to much better use by his brother Cody these days), and 'The Lone Star' Dustin Rhodes, he also also fell short.

Oddly enough, it wouldn't be until he doused himself with gold paint and began sexually confusing the WWF audience as Goldust that Dustin Runnels would find a place for himself in the wrestling business. A brief run as The Artist Formerly Known As Goldust followed, and then some time on the indies as Gold Dustin, before turning up in WCW and TNA. Each company offered him an embarrassingly bad gimmick, and both crashed and burned.

In WCW, he was Seven, a floating white-faced ghoul that was immediately nixed after vignettes depicted him outside a child's window and TBS freaked out about the gimmick, fearing that people would think he was a child abductor. But TNA was hardly any better, as they gave him a split personality which manifested itself as Black Reign, a sad goth version of Goldust.

No wonder he went back to WWE.

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