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Arn Anderson Pitched Unabomber Gimmick For Brodie Lee While They Were With WWE

Writer Michael Hansen

Arn Anderson has revealed having pitched a Unabomber storyline for Brodie Lee back when they were both with WWE.

Anderson was among several guests on Chis Jericho's Talk is Jericho podcast this week, with the host looking to celebrate Lee's life. He claimed Brodie, real name Jon Huber, was told he was too intelligent to sound like a hillbilly by creative and it was holding him back.

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“I had a character for him that would have been awesome," Anderson declared (H/T WrestlingNews.co). "It is as frightening as anybody has been. What about the guy that looks like that, especially when he wore the dirty, dingy, white, wife-beater and it was like a little muddy.

"What if we got a shot from like some guy sitting in a tree or something and you are shooting in a window, you have a single light bulb, and it really looks like a primitive, almost like I’m expecting the camera to pan down and you have some guy tied up and you’re torturing him or something.

"What if that guy is sitting there on a computer and he is rattling away and you made that guy the Unabomber? He’s brilliant. He’s making stuff. He’s going over the injuries that he somehow got a hold of the records of all of the crew and what he is going to attack next and he has a game plan. Because his voice is eloquent, you make him a genius. How scary would that guy have been?

"Well when I tried to lay that out to creative, they looked at me like I had six heads, as you can imagine.”

We Lost A Real One

Huber passed away last Saturday at the age of 41, having lost a battle to a lung issue. According to Jim Ross, he had double lung failure and could not get a transplant due to the condition of his organs.

We're not sure how Arn Anderson's idea would have played out in terms of fan reception but it's certainly an interesting one.

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Source: Talk is Jericho (H/T WrestlingNews.co)