It's one of those "blink and you'll totally miss it" gimmicks that show up in wrestling from time to time.

"Dr. Death" Steve Williams (not the same Steve Williams aka Steve Austin), had entered the WWF for the first time, and was being pushed to the sky. Then, he got his butt knocked out by Bart Gunn in the BRAWL FOR ALL debacle, and "Doc", who's wrestling reputation is legendary, lost a good bit of his cred, and lost all of his push, in the process.

Doc was taken off tv for a while. Then one night, during Raw, Bart Gunn was having a match with Hardcore Holly. Out of nowhere, a huge guy in red suit and a demonic mask attacked Gunn on the rampway and threw him off, then did a few "karate" stance-chops.

It was immediately known that it was Doc on the internet. The gimmick had been rumored for some time that he would return in a kabuki gimmick and would not unmask while wrestling.

The gimmick was never seen again.
Soon after (the next Raw, I imagine), Doc and Jim Ross came out, Doc in his regular clothes, and, as was common in Russo-written angles, they shot on the WWF for trying to make Doc wear the stupid suit. This was during Ross's brief "heel" run during which he kicked Michael Cole in the little coles, and where Williams almost broke Ed "Oklahoma" Ferrara's neck with a suplex.

Doc still didn't have much impact in the WWF, as Ross's heel push came to an abrupt end, and there was nothing for Doc to do. He soon showed up in WCW for a few minutes before returning to his regular stomping grounds of Japan.

Here's a pic of the mask from Doc's "Kabuki" outfit..

 

*Special thanks to Mike Borowiak for sending me the 2 action pics, I really appreciate it man!

 

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