Kane debut in 1997 was legendary

The former "Nicky (from the Spirit Squad") returning in late-2008/early-2009 as Dolph Ziggler is one of, if not, THE smartest move of Nick Nemeth's career.

Drew McIntyre reinvented himself as a main eventer was great decision

Cody Rhodes leaving WWE in 2016 was the great turning point of his career

Honorable mentions: 1. Derrick Bateman to EC3 2. Tony Atlas to Saba Simba 3. Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat to just "The Dragon" 4. Jamal to Umaga 5. Fatu to Rikishi

If the Rock comes back for the next WM, he has to bring back Hollywood Rock. Let’s be real, that was his best entrance theme. A shame the 2K games never bring this version back.

Love how cody went from stardust to the American nightmare same as John cena

The gimmicks that never fail is the ones of Chris Jericho lol

Drew McIntyre from The Choosen one, to 3MB, to Main Eventing Wrestlemania Biggest change in WWE.

WWE dropped the ball with Raven, who was not only a great wrestler but also had mic skills and a good gimmick.

Undertaker American Badass character is still legendary & iconic

Albert eventually found his luck in WWE. He is now head trainer at Performance Center, in which he succeeded Bill DeMott, and has helped train numerous past and present WWE superstars.

I remember when Rayback was presented in a squash against two jobbers the crowds was chanting "Goldberg Goldberg Goldberg"

Bro this KZfaqr really one of a kind, like I’ve never seen anyone do so much research on every single video that they post

I liked ravens dark persona better..the smiley raven was weird to me..😅😅 Killing it lamia..👌💞💞

I wake up everyday and thank Kane for being Kane.

Tony Atlas returning as Saba Simba, Demolition Smash returned as The Repo Man, Strike Force Rick Martel returned as The Model, Tito Santana as the Matador, The Sultan as Rikishi etc etc

1:20 “This gimmick absolutely sucked” 😂😂😂 true

Jamal to Umaga was awesome. Unfortunately Seth Rollins never left and came back but dude had incredible gimmicks throughout his WWE career

Stone Cold (The Ringmaster), The Rock (Rocky Maivia), Triple H (Hunter Hearst Helmsley, the Greenwich Snob) and John Cena (The Prototype) underwent the most radical changes in WWE/F history imo.

I kinda feel bad for Matt Bloom. He was at his best as A-Train, he was a great mid card monster heel, and he could flutter in and out of main event story lines and not look out of place. Had a good run in Japan as well. The Tensai gimmick was awful, but they really did him dirty toward the end clowning him along with Brodus Clay. Sad end to his in ring career.

Mcyintyre came back as the guy Vince always wanted Roman to become. An Absolute badass who had an organic connection with the fans. Still think Mcyintyre should be pushed ahead of Roman.

Kevin Nash was one who had multiple character's throughout the years in both the WWF and WCW respectively

Hollywood Rock was always underrared

Never forget the Undertaker debuted in the WWF as Kayne the Undertaker.

I'm gonna old school y'all... the happy-go-lucky big man, Tugboat (Fred Ottman) turning heel and becoming Typhoon - joining with his real life friend, the late, great Earthquake (John Tenta) as The Natural Disasters. Greatest big man tag team of all time. We'll... just ignore the WCW glitter trooper character, though... that was... geez... what the hell, man.

Well Stone Cold really hit it big as Store Cold. The Ringmaster gimmick wasn't a intimidating wrestler even with Ted DiBiase being his manager. Ultimately I would say Taker and Stone Cold's changes were favorites of all time

Steve Lombardi becoming The Brooklyn Brawler managed by Bobby The Brain Heenan was a great transformation of character, considering he was a jobber who was elevated to mid-card status.

Undertaker being The American Badass is my favorite persona of his. Especially when you had music like “Sad But True” by Metallica or “Rollin” by Limp Bizkit playing in the entrance. Oh, and don’t get me started on the Kid Rock entrance because it sounded like a mockery of the classic Metallica song, and don’t get me started on sampling music.

the best version of Wyatt is the eater of worlds gimmick with the original Wyatt Family. The fiend is great as well but his first persona after Husky Harris will be the best forever in my opinion

So Raven was too goofy character before changing to hardcore & ruthless persona 😂

I love your videos❤❤❤❤

Surprised Stone Cold didn’t make this list. His change from “The Ringmaster” to “Stone Cold Steve Austin”, is probably the greatest character change of all time

I once said "Bye Festus' to Luke Gallows in a hotel in Singapore. That was back in 2019. He was with Anderson and AJ Styles.

Taker should be universally recognized as the GOAT. Every single era he's been in he was relevant if not the top dog.

It's such a shame about Albert/ tensai. He was a supremely under-rated big man. He could have achieved more if given opportunity instead of gimmicks.

Cult leader Bray Wyatt was at peak

Solofa Fatu from Headshrinker to "Make a Difference" Fatu to Sultan to Rikishi. Then there's One Man Gang becoming Akeem the African Dream.

The thing about the Tensai change is that it absolutely could have worked.... if they kept the damn mask on him. The instant he took that mask off, that was it. The cat was out of the bag, and there was no chance of it working. A lesson they should have already known, since keeping the mask on is how they got Kane over and past the Isaac Yankem gimmick.

What about "Thunder Lips" becoming Hulk Hogan 🤣

I remember how we all used to hate the American Badass/Big Evil gimmick from 2000-2003. Now we're all super-nostalgic for it.

You know what i love the determinaation of wrestelamia

Would u be willing to make a part 2 because there are plenty more wrestlers u could do?

Love this video

When they introduced Tensai, I was like “he looks familiar.” Me watching classic royal rumbles: Jim Ross - “It’s Prince Albert” Jerry - “here comes A- train”

I started watching regularly from RR2000 and hated there was no Taker. So come JD and his entrance during the iron-man match... man that feeling I got!

Still think they should give Drew his old Broken Dreams entrance theme.

Shelton Benjamin should back to his Gokd standard gimmick & then re-join with Chad Gable to make Chad next Kurt. Well maybe involving Kurt as their manager should be great. Like pass his torch as next gen.

R-Truth was awesome when debuted if WWE had treated him seriously he could've been WWE's Biggest Black Star.

Undertaker is my absolute favorite wrestler and the main reason I started watching WWE (before they got the F out). I absolutely loved his American Badass persona and I think that stretch made for some really great entertainment!

Thank For The Video 🙊🤯🥰💕😍👍

Tensai/Albert was hilarious because Tensai never worked in WWE for on second. As soon as he came out every audience was chanting Albert, saw it on WWE so many times, lol.

Not gonna lie, I liked the festus character as a kid. And I was intrigued when he faced the Undertaker. A monster once the bell rang vs Taker..I thought the match was good for what it was

Luke gallows is all I've known him by. I remember festus I just never paid that much attention

I remember the day Taker returned as the AB 🥲 I was so hyped I saw him get in that ring and to this very day I remember thinking to myself “He got in there like… Ok who’s first?” And began to absolutely demolish every single star in the ring before debuting that damn Last Ride ✊🏾 the move that every star absolutely HATED taking!

Honourable mention Ringmaster to Stone Cold Rookie Randy Orton to Apex Predator Randy Orton Rookie Sasha to the Bo$$ Sasha Banks

I definitely didn’t know that ziggler was part of the spirit squad 😮

Half of these are character evolutions, HHH & Shawn Micheals should be on this list based on the selections

Cant believe Jamal/Umaga and Nicky/Dolph didnt make this list lol

Gimmicks are the best thing ever

I guess I'm the only one that liked lord tensai gimmick, it looked cool, somehow mysterious with that helmet.

Tensai gimmick was too worst for Matt Bloom

How about superstars that Left WWE then returned as Bigger Superstars A few mentions: EC3 Drew McIntyre Cody Rhodes AJ Styles Matt Hardy Raven Karrion Kross R-Truth Kurt Angle Bobby Lashley MVP

The Rock to Hollywood wasn’t a character change… 😂 he just went heel again. Rocky Maivia to The Rock was the change 😂

I'm the only one it seemed who thought Stardust was the best iteration of Cody we had seen up until that moment. All they had to do was let him win. Jobbing him to Titus (why tf is he still employed) O'neil every week just ruined it.

Honorable mention goes to the Usos

As much as the StarDust character was not good, the theme song was very good!

Festus was my favorite gimmick from Luke Gallows.

The American badass Is best one of undertaker

Back in like ‘99 or 2000 I ran into Price Albert and a lady wrestler at a mall in New Hampshire. I was blown away by the complete randomness of the whole situation. He was giant. I almost walked right into him cause I couldn’t see a guy there I just saw a dark spot and my mind couldn’t work out what was happening. When I finally looked up I saw a giant face and head I was like eyeball to eyeball with his belly.

Here's a funny one. Not entirely WWF, but WWF-ECW. Aldo Montoya, The Portuguese Man-O-War. I can't stop laughing when thinking back how "The King" Jerry Lawler, stuck his foot, down Aldo Montoyoa's mouth on "Superstars". And then watching him in ECW as Justin Credible; I could never get the image of Jerry Lawler's foot in Aldo's mouth.

Everyone SWEARS Stardust hated from the start, everyone loved it at first but didn't think it would last that long

1:18 most savage thing the narrator ever said lol

I miss prime R-truth

I don’t remember anyone liking the American badass stage of the undertaker

Weirdly enough Mattel is supposed to be releasing Stardust figures in the newest Elite set which I found very strange seeing as how Cody said he wanted no mention of Stardust

At least Tensai shaved

I’ll never understand why Lord Tensai was repacked as Tensai without the armor and made to dance with Brodus Clay.

They should have kept Albert as Albert. Raven was the best. Glad they kept Gallows. Cody’s new personality seems to be the best. Kane lives forever. Drew’s latest run with Sheamus is the best right now. I feel like the Rock honestly never lost his touch all these years. Roman’s heel run had to be one of the best. Bray’s one of the most creative stars out there and am happy the WWE was willing to let him shine. The Undertaker is arguably the most successful stars in all of WWE

JBL should have featured on the list.

Here are some famous ones: Ricky Steamboat-The Dragon Tony Atlas-Saba Simba Jacques Rogeau-The Mounties One Man Gang-Akeem Rick Martel-The Model Tito Santana-El Matador Iron Sheik-Col Mustafa Wild Bill Irwin-The Goon Too Cold Scorpio-Flash Funk Dory Funk-Hoss Funk Jesse Barr-Jimmy Jack Funk

I actually like the Lord tensai gimmick I just wish it was given to someone else

I'd say Roman Reigns's Tribal Chief was running it's course when he became Undisputed WWE Universal Champion.

It’s kinda funny some of the kindest easiest to get along with guys like Roman and The Miz have an easier time playing heels.

Raven needs to be first on the list 😂 going from Johnny Polo to Raven.

R Truth is a damn national treasure

I didn't know that about Raven.

@Wrestlelamia any wrestlers ever convert to a new persona, only to have it backfire to the point they had to switch back?

I miss the sweet T & Brodus Clay tag Team

No, the reason the heel Roman Reins worked is because they realized he didn't have what it took on his own and paired him with one of the greatest talkers in the business. When that started to fizzle out they added the Uso's and Roman took a step back and became the chief. When that started to get old they added Solo. That wasnt enough so they started the sammy zayne angle and hit gold but through all of this Roman Reins has done next to nothing. Which works because it hides his mediocre in ring work and his subpar mic skills. Yeah hes the central figure of the story line but he himself is almost nonexistent in the actual story. Look back through his career, he has only ever been popular when he's been paired with people better than him.

The undertaker the greatest Charachrer,gimmick,icon,superstars by so many faces❤

Rikishi and Godfather had a bunch of characters too

Karrion Kross had the same mask as Tensai. Vince been trying to get that thing to work for years. Rikishi's former character had a similar mask. Think it was rikisi?

Are we forgetting Kama-Papa Shango- the Godfather?

Luke gallows was insane

I hated that they ruined the Kane character it didn’t keep him fresh he was an ominous dark character and the mystery kept it great. Having him loose matches so quickly into his career ruined it. Also Raven could have been a bigger star it’s such a shame

All of these changes were great.

I FEEL BAD FOR R TRUTH VINCE MADE HIM A JOKE THE 24/7 TITLE POSSED ME OFF

Tensai 😭 I only know gallow since SES (never know his other gimmick) 😂

Ok, how many times can you guys keep making this video?