10 wrestlers who secretly hated their gimmicks

#4 The Booty Man (Ed Leslie, Zodiac, Brutus the Barber Beefcake, the Disciple)

Ed Leslie portrayed the Booty Man character in WCW...fortunately, not for very long.

Brutus Beefcake is perhaps one of the most visible 1980s WWE wrestlers to have never really made it past being a mid-card gatekeeper.

He owes his entire career to his friendship and association with Hulk Hogan. Ed Leslie portrayed Hogan's younger, dumber, weaker cousin, Dizzy Hogan, for a time. While they were technically a tag team it was Dizzy's Hogan's main job to get into trouble so the Hulkster could rescue him.

Then he signed with the WWE -- again at Hogan's insistence -- and actually was part of a pretty decent tag team with Greg the Hammer Valentine, the Dream Team. Unfortunately, when he split off on his own he ended up with one of the worst gimmicks in WWE history; The Barber.

His antics of putting foes to sleep and then badly cutting their hair were far more heelish, but he was a babyface who got a decent reaction from the crowd. Oddly, Leslie loved the Barber gimmick so much he tried to take it with him when he left WWE. The promotion refused to allow him to use the character, even after Leslie tried to buy it off of them.

Unable to use his most famous gimmick, Leslie became the Booty Man. Mainly he would dance like an idiot, though he did have the lovely Kimberly Page (DDP's wife) as his valet, the Booty Babe.

His running knee lift finisher fell about as flat as the whole character. Leslie hated the gimmick, but used it for over a year before turning heel and Joining the Dungeon of Doom.