8 Wrestlers Who Gear Up For Big Matches
3. The Great Muta
Keiji Mutoh utilized several wrestling personas during his storied career, including painting his face for his most famous alter ego, The Great Muta.
He has even been known to up the ante in a big match situation by leaving the ring as Keiji Mutoh and returning in facepaint as The Great Muta in order to show both the audience and his opponents that, as Jim Ross would say, business has just picked up.
It's the character equivalent of Hulking Up, and it guarantees that the crowd will pop anytime the facepaint, the mist, and the aggressive persona appears.
Although folks like Mick Foley would mostly play this sort of character-switching for laughs -- although his Cactus Jack moments in WWE were more brutal than funny -- The Great Muta made it feel truly momentous every time.