10 WWE Stars Who Left And Returned More Badass

8. Big Boss Man

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The sky blue Big Boss Man vintage was hardly a wallflower; more earnest, intense and gritty than his fellow roster members, he made credible the embryonic occupational gimmick with his passionate promos and an authentic in-ring game incongruous, but no less welcome, to the DayGlo landscape.

He returned, in 1998, in pitch-black riot gear in a pitch-black mood with an hilarious pitch-black comedy element to his despicable heel act. Boss Man was almost a parody of a badass, but an hysterically entertaining one. This version of the Boss Man interrupted the eulogy of the Big Show's father and cut a promo on the November 8, 1999 RAW. This drew an involuntarily laugh or ten as Boss Man showed zero respect to the bell salute. "How dare you start the grievin' process without me? I got feelin's too!" began the Boss Man, before reciting an, ahem, genius poem in which he declared that Show's father "lived a full life on his own terms, but soon he'll be buried, and eaten by worms".

This version of the Boss Man killed your pet dog and fed it to you. This version of the Boss Man smashed you across the skull with the plate on which said dead dog was served.

This version of The Big Boss Man was a total badass.

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