10 WWE Stars Who Left And Returned More Badass
4. Umaga
Something of a badass as one half of 3-Minute Warning, Umaga as Jamal excelled in cameos in which he wickedly destroyed those deemed "boring" by boss Eric Bischoff.
Disgusted at the ghastly sight of strategic wrestling holds applied by Shawn Stasiak, Jamal and partner Rosey stormed the ring under Uncle Eric's orders on their July 22, 2002 RAW debut. Most infamously, 3-Minute Warning destroyed a pair of Lesbians - capital L, that is literally how they were introduced to the world - in a disturbing beat-down that begin when Jamal delivered a Superkick right to the breasts.
That wasn't badass, but schadenfreude shock value.
Jamal returned as Umaga in 2006, following a head-turning AJPW stint, in what appeared at first as a completely retrograde "savage" character straight out of the 1990s. The man behind the paint however was so primal in his raw talent that he occupies a rare stratosphere of performers capable of making credible something absurd on the face of it. The man with the cartoonish gimmick carried John Cena, cartoonish repertoire and all, to one of the most visceral, gruesome and believable fights in company history at Royal Rumble 2007.
Cena had to ostensibly kill Umaga via suffocation just to survive, minutes after the monster innovated the awesome spot in which he somehow propelled his gargantuan frame, at warp speed across three announce tables.