10 Current WWE Stars Once Saddled With Terrible Gimmicks
These are 10 WWE stars who were given awful gimmicks
1. Cody Rhodes
Cody Rhodes returned to WWE at WrestleMania 38 as a fully-fledged main event-level star, having made the decision to leave the company almost six years earlier in order to rebuild his name outside of the WWE machine.
Prior to requesting his release, Cody’s time in WWE had been a story of highs and lows and gimmicks and pushes that didn’t quite pan out.
The nadir for the American Nightmare was Stardust, the face-painted supervillain that made Rhodes, in his own words, ‘feel dead inside’.
Despite hating every minute of portraying Stardust, Cody did give it the old college try and seemed committed to the role, at least initially.
After being in the costume for close to two years and doing much of nothing in that time, an increasingly withdrawn Rhodes decided that enough was enough and quit rather than wrestle one more match as The Prince of Dark Matter.
It is a credit to the Grandson of a Plumber that he was able to so effectively rehab his reputation after doing a silly gimmick that, for some, could have been a career-killer. As it is, Stardust was simply a brief chapter in Cody’s much-talked-about story.
