7 Crazy WWE Attitude Gimmicks That Almost Happened

3. DTK Enterprises

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When they weren't dressing as nuns in nightclubs or wearing ridiculous, fluffy prosthetic breasts, The Headbangers were actually pretty hip for mid-to-late-90s WWF. They repped counter-culture acts like Marilyn Manson and Coal Chamber, and they managed to forge out a niche for themselves in a packed tag division by being different.

In another episode of Bruce Prichard's podcast, the WWE creative mind revealed that the popular team were almost split so Thrasher could become an updated version of Doink The Clown. Prichard would be added as his manager, and the group would be known as 'DTK Enterprises'; note the 'K'. He'd be Doink The Klown.

It was the 90s, after all, and people were obsessed with replacing 'C' with 'K' and 'S' with 'Z'.

Maybe it's a wonder that DTK Enterprises didn't become DTK Enterprisez then. It wouldn't become anything at all anyway, because the WWF changed plans at the last minute and decided that bringing back Matt Borne's old gimmick wouldn't work in 1998. This could not have been worse than babyface Doink in 1994-95.

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