10 WWE Superstars you never knew once played very different characters

#6 Savio Vega and Kwang

Savio Vega was spawned from the man who played Kwang

Kwang was one of the more mysterious WWE Superstars of the mid-1990s.

The masked athlete was presented as a menacing martial arts specialist, and the only thing feared more than his deadly move-set was the dangerous green mist that he'd spray at his opponents. Managed by the sly and dastardly Harvey Wippleman, Kwang made his first major pay-per-view appearance at the 1994 Royal Rumble before going on to lose televised matches to Razor Ramon, Bret Hart, and The Undertaker. Never really managing to put together any serious momentum as a character, he lasted just over a year before disappearing. Well, kind of...

In a blink-and-you-miss-it type repackage, the man behind that mask was off your television screen for barely a fortnight before appearing in street clothes to defend his pal, Razor Ramon, from a beat down. This man was no longer Kwang, he was Savio Vega! Vega teamed with Ramon to ward off their foes for the forthcoming months before reaching the finals of the 1995 King of the Ring tournament. His most well-known feud was his 1996 rivalry with Steve Austin before that man became Stone Cold.

A heel turn saw Vega align with the Nation of Domination in 1997, before breaking off again to form his own faction, Los Boricuas. That kept him busy in a version of gang warfare that spanned much of the next year or so, before Vega featured less frequently prior to his departure from the company before the turn of the millennium.