The Many Faces Of Goldust Ranked From Worst To Best

8. Seven

Upon reading the title of this article many may have assumed that Dustin's brief and much-maligned WCW character Seven would sit (un)pretty at the bottom of the list. Seven was introduced to the WCW audience through a number of vignettes, only for the man himself to give yet another worked shoot upon debuting the gimmick and reverting back to his gimmick-free self. It was a shambles to say the least.

As insane as it may sound to the ever-cynical, the Seven gimmick actually had a whole lot of potential. The vignettes saw the mysterious face-painted character standing outside the bedroom window of a young child and the gimmick was intended to be based on 'The Strangers' from 1998 film Dark City.

The only problem with all of this is that someone higher up in Turner Standards and Practices got worried that the character could be misinterpreted as a child abductor. A child abductor is something that no human should ever be and subsequently the character was dropped in favour of the worked shoot and Dustin becoming 'The American Nightmare'.

Seven has thus gone down in pro wrestling infamy as another example of WCW falling off the wagon completely, but the ethereal potential of the gimmick genuinely had legs. It was as if Sting, The Undertaker, and Uncle Fester had come together to create a professional wrestler, which in truth sounds a whole lot better than the look the character eventually had, which wasn't unlike someone attending a fancy dress party as Ultima Lucha Vampiro.