10 Wrestlers You Never Thought Would Get Over On TV
5. Bradshaw
Bradshaw in his '90s cowboy gimmick felt costumed and gimmicked to f*ck, and his matches were tedious.
He looked like the type of unit that would terrify and thrill Japanese audiences, but he sure as sh*t didn't work like one. There were was no powder keg quality to his power. It was dull and leaden, and stiff, yes, but not good stiff. Not the sort of stiff that elicits a giddy, repulsed "JESUS F*CKING CHRIST!"
Then he went goth as an Acolyte, seemingly doomed, like so many others in a curious '90s trend, to a life of sh*tty gimmick regeneration.
He became a star as a hard-drinking, decent patter merchant in the APA, not that you really wanted to watch them on pay-per-view - but on TV, the act was a great and entertaining narrative driver across the full breadth of the card, and Bradshaw had the comedic chops not to exhaust his heavy presence.
A massive bruiser with a great finish - the opposite of your mutant c*ck - the JBL character, the heavily ironic 'Wrestling God', made perfect use of his in-ring limitations at the main event level.