Very early in his career, the Welsh wrestler sported a blonde mullet, a tan and a relatively muscular physique. “Exotic” Adrian Street knew this all too well. If the costume doesn’t fit the gimmick and the gimmick doesn’t work with that wrestler’s body, the wrestler can expect to have a short career. ![]() But wrestlers have to do both - looking like works of art and wearing works of art - to earn their living. “One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art,” Oscar Wilde once wrote. And, of course, the Ultimate Warrior, his body still rippling with muscle but perhaps less so than his late-1980s heyday, covered those muscles in a singlet that was itself… covered with muscles. ![]() Bastion Booger, among the last of 300-pound grappler Mike Shaw’s many gimmicks, squeezed into a bizarre skin-tight one-piece that hugged his ass and nutsack and left nothing to the imagination. Mike Halac, aka Mantaur, sporting a 50-pound bull head that caused him to topple over in the ring. ![]() Giant González, billed at 8 feet tall, coming to the ring to wrestle the Undertaker wearing a skinsuit with painted-on fur. If you watched wrestling during its early 1990s nadir, back when the WWE was mired in a steroid scandal and Atlanta-based rival WCW was still a distinctly redneck institution along the lines of NASCAR, you probably remember the crazy costumes.
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