Failure

[Montana]

Watching Wrestling over the years, have you ever thought someone was destined for sucess, and completely failed. Or has there ever been a storyline that you thought would be epic, but came up way short. Any fueds, characters, face/heel turns that didn't turn out as you planned?



My biggest failed thought ever was i thought Dean Douglas would not only have a very good wwe career, but even go on to be WWF champion. For those that don't know, Dean Douglas is "the franchise" Shane Douglas from ECW fame. He debuted in 93 or 94 won the IC belt from Razor, and pretty vanished after that. I thought he was going to be what Austin turned out to be. But Shane did end up having a solid career in ECW.

 

[THE Renegade Diesel]

Andrew "Test" Martin in TNA. At the time, I didn't know as much about wrestling industry besides the kayfabe stuff. I didn't know the difference between face, or heel, or what a push was.

I thought he'd do some great things, but following the show where he debuted to help Abyss in a ladder match I think, he flopped, and disappeared.

Bobby Lashely's another who I thought would be awesome, but that went down hill when Kennedy injured him.

A couple other I didn't say, but I'll post more when they come to mind.

 

[Hometown Kid]

Glacier. I was a huge fan of his back in the day and he didn't do anything. The man was undefeated for like a year and never got a title shot or anything. Just a team with a karate expert. Considering I was a little kid back then, I was a "keyfabe fan" I guess. But still, I wish that crazy sumbitch would've gotten a Sting push.

Ultimo Dragon's WWE run was a huge letdown. I think that was that was the moment I realized the truth about how things work in WWE when it comes to light heavyweights. >_> They still could have threw him a bone and at least made room for 1 CW title run for him.

TAKA Michinoku, Sean O'Haire, and Elijah Burke are all up there too I guess. (Although Elijah's still young and has good wrestling future ahead of him.)

 

[noumenon]

O'Haire...wow. I loved those little bumps he did. "I'm only telling you what you already know" or something.

 

[Travis40]

Mark Jindrak, WWE put him in a great tag team with Garrison Cade in 2003, and they got some Tag Title shots, and they were improving, but WWE never put the belts on them, keeping them on teams like Regal/Storm, Dudleys, Regal/Morley, La Resistance, and Kane/RVD. Jindrak finally got a singles run after WWE released Cade (only to rehire him a year later, and renaming him Lance Cade). Jindrak had a horrible gimmick where he was with Teddy Long (back when he was the Angry Black Man), and looked at himself in the mirror that he brought to the ring. I liked the nickname that he had (Reflection of Perfection) and he had a great finisher, but WWE stuck him with Luther Reigns and Kurt Angle. Reigns and Jindrak split right before WM 21, and everyone expected a Jindrak/Reigns match at WrestleMania, but sadly (I think it's sad) it didn't happen. Jindrak only wrestled house shows after that until he was released.

 

[S0LD1ER]

Shelton Benjamin maybe, look back to when he was getting all those wins over HHH and look at him now. Nowhere at that level anymore. They had some good matches to, I think people shoot down Shelton to much when really hes pretty good in the ring.

EDIT: The Sheltons mamma thing imo made him a joke. Sheltons better then that.

 

[JimmyD]

For me it's Kane.

I still rate him as the best big man in the business, but back in late '99 it looked as though the only thing the company could do with him was push him to the moon, such was his overness. I was convinced he'd go on to be a big deal in the future, but unfortunately stupid angles that watered down his character got in his way and his eventual unmasking proved to be the final nail in his coffin.

A terrible waste of talent if you ask me.

 

[S0LD1ER]

You make a point Jimmy, at the time the unmasking seemed the best thing ever but it did prove to be the nail in the coffin for Kane.

 

[LAURINAITIS33]

I go with Scott Steiner, I know he was a mutiple time WCW World Heavyweight Champion but for me it was at a time where he was a shell of his former self. I think at one time he was on the level as the great technical wrestlers of all-time. People talk about Kurt Angle but Steiner wasn't that far off and his power more then made up the difference. But injuries and the fascination of becoming "The Genetic Freak" took their toll as Steiner became himself became his downfall. Steiner could have been in the talk of the greatest of all-time but a new age of wrestling fan's sees him as the joke he has become.

I'm a little old school and for someone who never got big as he should, I pick Nikita Koloff. In my mind he was Goldberg before Goldberg was Goldberg, if that makes sense. He was unstoppable and should have been the face of the NWA and WCW for many years. If he would ever switched to the WWE, McMahon would have made a bundle of him versus Hogan. He was one of the intimidating wrestlers ever.

 

[Airfixx]

Flair in WWE - Dropped the title too soon. No Hogan v Flair. Wasted the title rub on Savage (& Bret never TRULY got his). No coverage of his regaining the belt from Savage.

Mr Perfect - Obvioulsy, injury to thank for that but he was so fucking good when fueding with Hogan & Beefcake (which all pre-dates his IC run)... It's a sin, he never had a proper ME run.

Million Dollar Man - What happened? Pushed to the moon for 8 or 9 months and then what..... No title run, bottom of the card vs Beefcake @ WM5 (WDF???), fueded with Jake for what seemed like forever and then trickled back down the card to get little more than a couple of half-arsed title shots on SNME.

Bam Bam(2nd WWE run) - The Million Dollar Corp didn't really amount to much did they? ....And, to me, Bam Bam was the centrepiece. He should/could have had an awesome ME program with Bret (Look no further than KOTR93) and probably brought the 'best' out of Diesel too when he was champ.


(Admittedly these could be considered more of a waste than a "fail", but.....)



I too share dissapointment about Kane (I love that head tilt thing he did in the masked days), but ultimately ya gotta realise there was one big thing standing in his way... The character of The Undertaker.... It was always gonna boil down to them if Kane ever amassed a title run and unless you were gonna retire Taker then you simply can't have him lose to Kane.

 

[PerfectCurt]

Chuck Palumbo. When he originally showed up in WCW, I really thought he had the look, the size, the personality. A little light on the wrestling, but that never held back most men with "it." I was wrong. He didn't have "it" at all.

 

[SnackZ]

Scott Hall - he was great in the ring in his WWE "Razor Ramon" years and was an integral part of the NWO and his mic skills were great imo and I jsut had high hopes for him when they returned to the E and he totally flopped and then got drugged and alcoholed up. Too bad for him.

Psycho Sid - plain and simple I liked his character and attitude and wanted more from him and he failed.

 

[Airfixx]

^^^^Sid's just shit tho', innit.


I thought he was the best thing ever when I first saw him in the late 80's (not long before he came to WWF)... That was until I saw one of his matches.

Even Taker struggled to drag a decent match out of him at WM13.


Best shit he ever did(*) was whilst he was his program/split as HBKs bodyguard.


(*Well, that and the one in his pants mid-match! )

 

[Bloodopera]

Sean O'Haire

need i say more ... why didnt they go trough with that gimmick? DAMN

 

[NinoBrown]

Co-sign with Travis. I can't say it any better, I thought Jindrak would be Orton today, back then!