#9 Goldust
Dustin Runnels has been playing the Goldust character, on and off, for 23 years now. Goldust has been one of the most hardworking performers in the business and deserves far more credit than he gets.
The character debuted in 1995, and often used lewd and flirtatious mind games to anger, confuse, and distract his opponents. It may seem a bit extreme, but back in 1995, WWE was full of odd failure characters, but unlike those, Goldust stuck. "The bizarre one" feuded with top wrestlers such as Razor Ramon, Bam Bam Bigelow, The Ultimate Warrior, even briefly The Undertaker, and challenged for the WWE Championship on a few occasions, but was never kept in the main event scene.
This was the closest Goldust ever came to being a main event player. He has been mostly used as comic relief and in various tag teams during his several returns to WWE since 2002, and while he remains active with the main roster even today in 2018, Goldust time to be a WWE World Champion is unfortunately long passed.