9. Savio Vega
Savio Vega made his WWE debut as the mysterious and seriously miscast “Asian” ninja Kwang in the early 1990s, and he didn’t make too many fans or friends when he did it. The Kwang gimmick was dropped entirely in mid-1995 and Vega debuted his far more popular gimmick as a proud Puerto Rican, a total reformation that in many ways saved his career for at least the next couple years. Another thing that definitely helped Vega was that he was one of the members of Undertaker’s Bone Street Krew, and therefore had some high powered friends backstage even when his character wasn’t succeeding.
Vega proved his loyalty to Undertaker and the Bone Street Krew by becoming the first member to tattoo the letters BSK on his body, ultimately inspiring Taker to famously do the same on his abdomen. Even with his more popular gimmick, Vega never quite exceled to a level on the card where an Undertaker feud would have made much sense, but the two did manage to square off in the ring on at least a few occasions. One of Undertaker’s matches with Kwang has even made several of his compilation videos, presumably due to their friendship.
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