8 Wrestlers Who Couldn't Wait To Ditch Their WWE Gimmicks After Leaving
4. Goldust
Dustin Rhodes has portrayed a variety of gimmicks during his storied career in professional wrestling, ranging from the mundane to the outright bizarre.
After all, Rhodes was first given the androgynous Goldust gimmick upon his return to the WWE in 1995 as a way for him to distance himself from his legendary father and carve his own legacy. Goldust would become something of an unlikely success during this time, with his over the top antics fitting right in during the onset of the Attitude Era.
Rhodes' struggles with drug and alcohol addiction led him to be released by the WWE in 1999. He would return to WCW six months later to debut a new character, Seven, though the quasi-child abductor gimmick inspired by film noir pictures was doomed from the start.
Rhodes would cut a shoot promo on his debut, bemoaning the gimmicks he had been saddled with throughout his time wrestling and claiming that the Goldust character had nearly ruined his career.