5 Ideas rejected by Vince McMahon that could have been huge hits

#4 Vince McMahon rejects Bubba Ray Dudley's idea of bringing the Bully Ray character to WWE

After leaving Vince McMahon's company years ago, Bubba Ray Dudley's career was revived in IMPACT Wrestling, where he became Bully Ray. The character had tons of potential, and Dudley decided to pitch it to Vince McMahon, when he returned to WWE.

Bubba Ray Dudley told Vince McMahon that they could develop the Bully Ray character for around a year. Later, a babyface would make him realize that he is in the wrong, and he would then turn into a babyface himself.

I told Vince, 'Here is how we're going to work around it. Let's do the Bully Ray thing for a year and at the end of the Bully Ray thing, story or run, that one babyface makes Bully understand the error of his ways and why you shouldn't be a bully and now Bully Ray can do all the Be A Star stuff with the younger kids, saying I mended my ways. It was an in-the-ring and out-of-the-ring concept.' He goes, 'My god, I love it! It's great. But in that year, I'm going to get killed by the media because how can you have an anti-bullying program but call somebody Bully Ray?"

Vince McMahon loved the idea, if Bubba Ray Dudley's words are to be believed, but he was worried about how the media would react to the character. Dudley ended up doing nothing much of note during his run. A good idea on Vince McMahon's part would have been to let him run with the character, at least for a short period.

Instead of stretching it to a year, WWE could have concentrated it to a few months, so that Dudley would turn to the good side before the angle caused major outrage. Fans, as well as mainstream media, would have loved the idea of a bully embracing his good side, if Vince McMahon had greenlit the same.