Who would have truly thought that the fiery brother of a walking, talking dead man would

go on to become one of the most recognizable big men of all time, or a wannabe superhero

would end up going one-on-one with the great one.

Not many, yet that still couldn't stop this collection of talented folks from finding

a way to turn some of the deftest characters imaginable into absolute money.

Garith here from what culture wrestling and here are 10 absurd wrestling gimmicks that

should have bombed, but didn't.

Number 10 Cain the Big Red Machine

In the time before he was pissing off much of the wrestling landscape with his political

views, the now mayor of Knox County was more commonly known as the figure behind the

mask of the big red machine.

After trying and failing to really make much of a private dentist gimmick, or the part

of Diesel 2.0, Glenn Jacobs was reintroduced to the WWF audience as the personification

of fire, and brother of the undertaker Cain.

That's right, the mountain of a human opted to lean into the fact that his own flesh and

blood attempted to murder him in a house fire by donning a black and red bodysuit and

summoning flames from the ringposts.

Despite this scanning as a little silly at a glance though, the intimidating brother

of the dead man genuinely struck fear into the hearts of many youngsters watching gone

at the time of his 1997 debut at Bad Blood in your house, and it genuinely felt as though

the phenom had finally met his physical match.

Over exposure ultimately resulted in that once menacing aura being diluted with each passing

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