101 Shocking Wrestling Plans You Won't Believe Almost Happened
79. Goldust Becomes A Streaker
This isn't even the most shocking Goldust admission that'll be included!
However, by 1999, Dustin Rhodes had practically exhausted anything possible/imaginable with the gimmick. He'd been a sexual innuendo-fuelled movie obsessive, morphed into the even more outrageous 'Artist Formerly Known As' persona, and had even spent some time as plain old Dustin too.
Fresh out of ideas, the then-WWF's power players decided that Goldust should just shed elaborate outfits entirely and become a streaker. In short, he'd become 'Naked Goldust'. Those with a love of obscure 'Attitude Era' characters and gimmicks will know fine well what's coming here.
'Naked Goldust' wasn't to be, and Rhodes left for another stint in WCW. There, he'd run vignettes as Seven before rubbishing the whole thing (after laughably floating to the ring on Nitro) and criticising those who'd tried to turn him into a bad joke for years. A bad joke nobody was entertained by, for the record.
Meanwhile, those back on the federation side thought they were onto something with the streaker plot, so they handed it to ex-pig farmer turned satanist Mideon. He ran around wearing only a leather bum bag/fanny pack on shows for a spell in 2000, but it was short-lived and didn't add much to the product overall.
Naked Mideon did, at least, receive a European Title shot vs. William Regal at No Mercy that year. It's likely that such a spot would've been Goldust's fate had he stuck around the WWF any longer. Nah, becoming Vince Russo's latest attempt at breaking the fourth wall for literally no good reason was better...