From brightly decorated slapstick duos to hitmen being dumped on a saddle, the wrestling world

would have no doubt looked a whole lot different, had these stars not decided to give a hard

note to some truly awful ideas.

I'm Gareth from What Culture Wrestling and here are 10 wrestlers who save their careers

by turning down gimmicks.

10.

Mark Henry Silverback There's no questioning that Mark Henry always

had the potential to go on to be a genuine main event-level threat for WWE.

From the second he stepped through the company's doors in 1996.

However, it was only when the star began adding names to his hall of pain that people started

to really see what the world's strongest man could bring to the table.

A few years before then, though, Henry was in conversations with WWE Creative about

becoming known as the Silverback.

Yeah, the star was having none of it.

Simply telling the company, you will not refer to this black man as a silverback.

I am not a primate.

Sure enough, Vince McMahon swiftly granted Henry his wish and the idea was never brought

up to him again.

Henry clearly wasn't on board with the racially insensitive idea from the get-go, and had

WWE refused to give up on it.

There's a chance that the star may have decided to upsticks and go elsewhere.

Thankfully, they realise the error of their ways and instead pushed Henry as the person

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