Why did they keep Abyss under a mask for so long?

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This is something that confused me for a while, Abyss was always a good hardcore worker sure but the Joeseph Park character is great for his facial expressions, he's the GIF king for one and I doubt many could play the noob to wrestling more convincingly than him. Now the question is why is this seemingly the longest he went unmasked? It could have worked a lot better than the Hulkabyssmania angle we got anyway.

 

[Cloud]

Whoa did not realise as being new to TNA that Joseph Park was Abyss. Fair play.

 

[Testify]

Because they didn't saw what potential is there under the mask. Frankly, none of us knew about it either. I'm happy they allowed Park to do this character for this long, it's been awesome.