16 jaw-dropping Before and After photos of WWE stars that will leave you stunned

Gerald Briscoe & Pat Patterson

Gerald Briscoe and Pat Patterson

These two wily veterans have incredible wrestling backgrounds and careers; Briscoe as one of the famed Briscoe Brothers alongside sibling, Jack, and Patterson of course as the first ever Intercontinental champion in WWE.

It is meant as no disrespect, then, that wrestling fans of a certain age will actually remember them for altogether different reasons - the above comparison image summing that up perfectly. Back in the late 1990s and the turn of the millennium, the duo were shot back into the spotlight as aides to Mr McMahon or, as they would be known, The Two Stooges.

The pair didn't always get a long - as you can see above - they even went at it themselves in a bizarre encounter at the 2000 King of the Ring.

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Rikishi

Rikishi

Fans will fondly remember the dancing, gliding, nifty-footed Rikishi from his later WWF/WWE days, flanking Too Cool as a fun-loving tag team and sweeping many a foe to one side.

For some with longer memories, though, will recall that Rikishi actually found fame in WWE many, many years earlier as one half of the original Headshrinkers tag team that made their debut in 1992.

Menacing, troublesome and without mercy, the pair gobbled their way through the tag team division to become champions in the 1990s, before Rikishi would later embark on an equally-successful singles run.