10 WWE Superstars Who Gambled On A New Look
9. Tazz Joins Slipknot
Taz's original attire worked so well in ECW that it's impossible to look at the colour orange without thinking of the Human Suplex Machine.
His work was so good, and Paul Heyman did such an expert job of promoting it, that it looked like he had in fact been imported from a genuine combat sports discipline. Taz was a submission specialist, the proper pro wrestler in a company that gleefully bastardised what that meant, and therefore had to wear traditional wrestling attire.
In the WWF, Taz(z) looked more like an ECW wrestler than he ever did in ECW because he wore a boiler suit, and even if it wasn't, it looked like a typically puzzling Vince McMahon imposition. The gear change muddied the core appeal of his legitimate character, and fans were left with a brawler toiling in a bizarre, unflattering feud with Jerry Lawler in which he required Raven's help.
It only didn't work in WWE because they didn't seem to want it to work; the more-or-less faithful version of Tazz looked great, and convincing, choking out Kurt Angle on his debut.