 What's good Josh bull rocks back again with another video? So let me check out 10 most shocking WWE wrestler Transformations and by a WrestleMania It's always cool to see how a wrestler first got into the business or how they started at the beginning of there Maybe their WWE run and then their transformation either the character their physical appearance to how they are Towards like maybe like or where they are now or maybe towards the end of their WWE run Prime example Drew McIntyre even though Benson and management was very high on him back in the day Things happen And you know they end up releasing him. He looked completely different back then from where he does now He put on a lot more muscle mass. He looks Completely different man. He definitely took time to hone his crap and and work on his physical appearance And you can see you can definitely see the transformation there So I'm sure they'll probably have him in this video only makes sense So we're gonna check out some of these crazy Transformations from wrestlers from when they started to where they are now or where they ended off So should be a good video. Let's get right into this one The change can bring something brand new to a popular persona or the change can completely flop and can lead to fans Demanded that wrestler returns to their former persona join us now as wrestling me looks at 10 of the biggest WWE character transformations and shocked fans Be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell for daily wrestling videos and follow us on Facebook for exclusive lives Also, check out our new channel WrestleMania shorts number 10 Bradshaw to JBL following WrestleMania 20 WWE is a matter of urgency needed to create new main event stars Top stars such as Brock Lesnar and Goldberg and departed the company This led to Vince McMahon selecting a PA member Bradshaw to ascend to the main event scene in WWE Bradshaw was a decent wrestler and was relatively popular with fans But for this tag team wrestler to become a main eventer. He was gonna need a drastic change Bradshaw would now become John Bradshaw layfield and he was a villainous hateful rich snob Skimmick was executed to near perfection Within weeks fans were completely on board with JBL being a top heel in the company and his feud with Eddie Guerrero was universally applauded by fans The character change was sudden, but it worked JBL would then be cemented as one of the top stars in the company and he'd be positioned as a main event talent for the next several years Which is crazy man his transformation as that that heel character. It worked it definitely worked people legitimately despised JBL and you know It was one of those things where you know, he's at the right place at the right time number nine may young classic Rear Ripley to judgment day rear Ripley Young classic rear Ripley seemed to be a generic baby face Yeah, she had blonde hair and seemed to have all the tropes of a traditional baby face WWE and Ripley they made a drastic decision to alter her persona She would become a much darker sinister character with a metal sounding theme song and her in-ring work would be altered to accommodate this new Character which is new to tremendous success both in NXT and on the main roster and since her transition into this edgier persona Fratso accepted Ripley is one of the top female talents in the entire company This evolution has continued into Ripley's time as part of the judgment day stable as a work in the popular stable is a stark contrast to the work Ripley initially Darkened sinister and you guys love it But once again, it's a good it's being at the right place at the right time Like she would have came in with the gimmick she had in the Mae Young classic She probably wouldn't have gotten over as well, but at the same time At the same time they were able to find something change her gimmick give her more of a dark edgier Gothic type vibe and then even when she can't went over to the main roster She was still of it. You know, she was a baby face but had that vibe But then when she joined judgment day, it was perfect and now she's like one of the top women in WWE It's it's it's crazy with a good transformation and character change can do to a person's character The monstrous Brody's clay to the Funko Soros This clay was set to return to TV in 2012 fans firmly expected clay to return to his monstrous ways Clay was a super heavyweight who had previously been a body card to Alberta Del Rio and WWE's promo packages were making it seem like clay was set for a huge push as a villainous character However, when clay returned to TV dancing to somebody called my mama Sporting a red tracksuit and claiming he was from Planet Funk fans were utterly speechless We were trolling the audience with this character change and they were adamant on getting it over clay would be presented insanely strong And he would even be given a prominent segment during WrestleMania 28 number seven Albert to 10 size in 2012 WWE decided to bring a new aka Albert aka a train back for another run Bloom had great success in Japan in years prior to his WWE return So they decided to capitalize on this by painting Japanese symbols on his face giving him a helmet and having a man named Sakamoto accompany him to the ring I remember this Chris in bloom as Lord tensi and his prior gimmicks in WWE would never be mentioned Just a few matches into his runners tensi the crowd would heckle him with chance of Albert Understand why tensi was a completely different character. This run was a colossal failure Yeah, fans knew it tensi was regulated to a comedic act before he eventually Tired to become a full-time trainer in NXT Number six Bailey the hugger to Bailey the role model when Bailey was an NXT She was so popular that fans as well as wrestling legends believe that she would be the female equivalent of John Cena Yeah, however when she got to the main roster her babyface persona wasn't connecting with the audience a heel That's because of her damn booking decisions I forgot what match it was what she didn't want to use a kendo stick even though it was like part of the match That she could use and she didn't want to use it that You can be a babyface and get angry and fight back I'll turn seemed out of the question, but in 2019 at WWE left fans shocked when they did the Unthinkable which was great on an episode of raw Bailey would side with Sasha Banks officially turning heel The lovable hugger persona and she became the role model She would cut her hair ditch the fun music and she would even destroy the Bailey buddies Yes, he leaves work as a heel was Unbelievable whilst the initial shock of the character shift was undeniable The heel turn and subsequent persona overhaul with Sasha was even better decision number eight Kane the demon to Kane the corporate WWE have implemented some man had one of the coolest entrances like cool theme songs to What he became Controversial changes to Kane's persona and character over the years, but in 2013 They arguably went too far to the former demonic character would turn into a corporate stooge for Triple H and Stephanie McMahon They're shocked fans because even when Kane was a likable babyface the law surrounding his backstory was still intact Yeah, however, they seemingly annihilated Kane's entire gimmick and persona overnight Kane was in essence now just a normal guy who just wanted a corporate job Made a little to no sense fans were totally dumbfounded that came was on board with changing his character in such a damaging manner Number four Pete Dunn to butch Pete Dunn attained a reputation for being one of the best in ring workers in the world And when it was reported that he was being called up to the main roster fans were excited Unfortunately when it surfaced at WWE were changing his persona as well as his name fans were in total disbelief Yeah, I was now known as butch and his character could be best described as a rabid pit bull Yep, well, so character change was indeed shocking fans were also quick to ask why why was this done? And what was it supposed to achieve? What was wrong with allowing the former NXT UK champion to simply be the bruiser weight still don't know three dr Thuganomics John Cena to the face of WWE Here's the thing this needed to happen because the Thuganomics gimmick could only go so far It was part of that time period to The face of John, you know the face that runs the place John Cena, you know, you know hustle lords He respect, you know never give up John, you know, so it had to change because once again John Cena doing the dr. Thuganomics was not gonna work in like The later 2010s like you you had to kind of you had to progress He couldn't stay in that gimmick, so I understand why this happens is dr Thuganomics just worked in that time period in that era I wouldn't be too controversial to say that John Cena's dr Thuganomics character was a version of Cena that made him immensely popular the character was fun Unique and was perfect for the ruthless aggression era audience However, when Cena became the face of the company following WrestleMania 21 Fans were stunned to see that Cena's character would be altered forever Yeah, dr. Thuganomics character was basically dropped and Cena stopped performing raps Yeah They clearly believed that the face of the company coming to the ring doing raps every week was in the way to go And this led to a strong portion of the fan base turning on Cena This was a shocking character shift as fans didn't think it was possible as it was in theory Cena's rap work that made fans want to see Cena in the number one position in the company And now that element of Cena's presentation was suddenly being stripped away According to Cena himself on the official ruthless aggression documentary It was this initial idea to change his character and to abandon the rap persona I had a personality that was attached to the people who are watching but then slowly the people who are watching changed And they began to be more kids and more families to come to these events. I saw what happened I didn't need a sheet of analytics. I can see it. So I said, this is it. We're changing up right now I remember going into Vince's office and said I have to stop rapping Number two the dead man. That's why he was able to see it and once again Some people may not like it but at the end of the day, it would have got stale You see every wrestler has to at some point change Something about them their persona or something to maintain their freshness because if you go in as the same character for so long Eventually people will get tired. We saw it with fucking Hulk Hogan turning himself into, you know, Hollywood Hogan You know, you know the NWO version of Hogan like you needed that You know the good eat your vitamins and say your prayers. It got stale So when he added that edge to him, he wasn't the same no more People initially were shocked, but it worked in the end So an undertaker to the American badass undertaker, which was Which was great. The undertaker was of the belief that his supernatural persona had grown stale Therefore it was decided in one of the biggest characteristics ever that the undertaker will return in 2000 with a completely different persona Which was great. The supernatural elements of Tegers persona will be replaced and instead it would appear much more human Taker would become the American badass and fans at first were astonished that WWB changed the undertaker's persona in such a daring manner It caught on the initial shock had passed over fans fans truly connected with the character as the undertaker was able to express a Side of him that had never been seen before And number one the big dog Roman Reigns That's a real Reigns his babyface persona was truly hated by WWB's fan base or sore flat It was clear that Reigns was portraying a character rather than a true extension of himself Yep, thankfully in the summer of 2020 everything changed and truly one of the most Unexpected moments in company history. It was so great and at the Summer Slam event Fans believed that WWB would never sign off on it was truly magic Reigns his babyface character would be ripped apart in favor of a menacing yet convincing heel Reigns would also be paired with Paul Heyman in a claimed pairing and the subsequent bloodline storyline revolving around Reigns The Usos and eventually Sami Zayn were some of the finest storytelling WWE had ever delivered But they ever is one of the greatest decisions that we got to give credit to Vince signed off on even though Vince wasn't trying to do it. This was really a Roman Reigns Led idea and what he wanted to do when he came back Vince did sign off of it So I give him I give him some you know kudos for at least saying all right cool And I think what worked with that is because there was no crowd I don't know if he would have signed off on it as you know quickly as he did if there was a crowd there But there was no crowd so he could kind of just experiment more and that's the one thing Okay, I can't say about the pandemic era. They experimented more. They tried they did a little bit They tried different things with different wrestlers and characters. They tried because you didn't have fans there So you can kind of just go off of you know, I'm saying Social media interaction, you know saying you didn't have to worry about a You know the crowd taking over a segment, you know, I'm saying it's because there was no people there You just go off of what people were saying on social media and you know, sometimes most of the time I doubt WWE I'm sure they check but I doubt they really care too much about what's going on on social media About people, you know talking about their product or whatnot But at the end of the day, they just seem like they did a little bit more with different wrestlers because they didn't have fans there so they can experiment more and Hey Roman Reigns coming from the big dog to the tribal chief. It's probably one of the best transformations We've seen in WWE for sure. So comment down below. Let me know What's your favorite or most shocking transformation from a wrestler that you've ever seen I'm just WWE You can be in WCW can be an AEW Let me know the one where you was like you was shocked But you was you started to enjoy the character switch up I appreciate all of them support you guys channel channel road to 150k And I'm still getting speedy you to wrestling champion the world appreciate talking to me see you next one