10 WWE Stars Who Were Unrecognizable From Their Early Days

7. Demolition Crush - Kona Crush - Nation Crush - DOA Crush - Kronik Crush

Crush started out in WWE as the third member of the Demolition tag team. The idea was that any two members of the group could wrestle in a match. They brought him into the mix because Ax was an older wrestler that couldn't work as much. He was a part of the group for about a year before it ended in 1991. When Crush returned to WWE in 1992 he was a babyface called "Kona Crush" that was an easygoing Hawaiian. His colors changed from the black of Demolition to purple and yellow. It was a huge contrast from what we saw of him earlier in his career. The Kona Crush character didn't work that well, so he went heel and had a notable feud with Randy Savage culminating in a match at WrestleMania 10. This time he was in purple ring attire with some face paint to make him look like some Japanese fighting warrior. He was arrested for having steroids and a gun charge, so he was out for a while. When he returned in 1996 the gimmick changed again as WWE mentioned that he was a criminal and was part of the Nation of Domination. This was around the time when he started using the Heart Punch as a finishing move, which was exactly what it sounds like: a punch to the heart. It did not come across like a great finisher. When he was kicked out of the Nation of Domination, he formed his own group called the Disciples of Apocalypse during WWE's fascination with stables in 1997. They were bikers that rode to the ring on their motorcycles. They were mostly a babyface foursome that were cheered just because it's cool to be a biker, or so WWE wanted us to think. With his WWE career going nowhere, he ended up in WCW as part of the Kronik tag team with WWE's former Adam Bomb. The name Kronik was a reference to "chronic" aka marijuana. They were booked as a powerful tag team. They were brought into WWE in the summer of 2001 as part of the WCW Invasion storyline, had a very forgettable run and he never made it back to the company.