8 Wrestling Characters We Never Saw

Thousands, maybe even tens of thousands, of wrestling characters have come and gone since the sport began to take off during the twentieth century.

There are several ways of classifying them: the memorable and the forgettable, the clever and the stupid, the ones that made you cringe so hard you nearly quit watching wrestling altogether and the ones that, well, didn't - and, of course, the real and the imaginary.

Because, while most of the characters that have appeared in the squared circle have been perceptible to one or more of the senses, some have seemingly only existed in the fevered imaginations of one or sometimes two or three fellow members of the roster. They've been, for all intents and purposes, invisible.

With a lot of these examples, you wonder whether the promotion in question (normally, it has to be said, WWE) planned at some point to eventually bring them to life by lending their name to a developmental rookie, or perhaps even an already-established star of the squared circle.

In most cases, however, you're kind of relieved that they never did...

Part of one of the most infamous WWE storylines of all time, Katie Vick is familiar to wrestling fans around the world as the woman whose corpse was, or possibly wasn't, interfered with by Kane following a fatal car accident.

This is quite a remarkable feat when you consider the fact that she never actually appeared in front of the cameras. In fact, Vick was long dead by the time Triple H first made reference to her name during his feud with the Big Red Machine in late 2002.

Of course, a mannequin of her - which, in the absence of any conflicting evidence, we can only presume to be life-like - did make one particularly famous appearance in her stead, briefly sharing a coffin with The Game in a pre-recorded segment on Monday Night Raw.

It wasn't weird or anything, though. You see, the World Heavyweight Champ was merely trying to use the troubling rumour as a means of gaining a competitive advantage over his opponent. This kind of thing probably happens in boxing all the time.