8 Geniuses Who Were Secretly Behind Famous Wrestling Ideas

Bray Wyatt's 2012 transformation from Husky Harris - the nondescript persona under which he debuted on the main roster, as a Nexus crony, two years earlier - to the unhinged, Hawaiian shirt-wearing cult leader (who would later master teleportation) was a stark one.

You would expect that a character so singularly idiosyncratic would have been conceived in the mind of the person portraying it, and it was - sort of. Windham Rotunda - the man behind Husky and Bray - knew, broadly, in which direction he wanted his persona to go, but it was the late, great Dusty Rhodes who helped him fill in the blanks.

The American Dream even encouraged Wyatt to practice playing his new alter-ego whilst he was being screened for jury duty. Suffice to say, he didn't make the cut.