10 Wrestling gimmicks that shouldn't have worked but did

9. Stone Cold Steve Austin the babyface

Guys who curse, cheat, and tell the fans they 'really don't give a damn' what they think, are always bad guys, right?

That's what WWE believed when they first debuted Steve Austin's Stone Cold character. After all, he was feuding with a born-again Christian character in Jake Roberts. What could possibly go wrong?

They couldn't account for Austin's charisma, which turned the one dimensional Stone Cold into the most compelling wrestling character of all time. Austin almost single-handedly won the Monday Night Wars due to his feud with Vince McMahon's on-screen persona.

Fans should have booed Austin, but instead, they greeted him with thunderous applause and cheering, making him something that shouldn't have happened, but did.