10 Wrestlers WWE Gave Up On Too Quickly 

R.I.P., my Condolences to His Family 🙏🙏🙏💚💚💚

Died saving his own son. A true heroes death. He has a seat at the table now. 👍🏻

Potential, still didn't get big! Vince is racist. Period. Cryme Tyme was the one of the most racist groups created by Vince, just imagine Kofi and Xavier doing the same today? He deserved better!

​@@random__itchheart wrenching story 😢

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Same

Mordecai had so much potential, it's a shame it never lasted

I especially like that he recognizes the things that he did wrong that contributed to his lack of extended success.

@patrickdare5356 Absolutely, it's so refreshing as well as being (I'd imagine) quite hard to do considering much of that entails revisiting his past demons

I honestly think a character like that could work if done the right way.

That's how much WWE wanted to give up on Sandow. Geez. Convenient for them to put all the blame on Cena.

Cena didn't lose. He won by dq when Big Show interferred, so was the first to not have a successful cash in.

True I agree. He and Rey could've had bangers together

@zanethind Oh my God, TVs would've been damaged by overheating due to the amount of fire matches viewers could see.

I wonder how much Punk is earning right now...

@@Avenrise Touché

@@daltonpinell6251 Never meant that in a snarky way btw, just some fun! Some wrestlers are more trouble than they are worth and while I don't remember a huge amount of Kaval Ryback I can see being a pain and if they had no solid plans for him then it's best to go separate ways. No doubt though that if AEW was around at that time they'd have snapped them both up (for better or worse)

@@Avenrise Yeah, Low Ki especially considering he takes his gimmick way too seriously, you know who also could’ve made this list? Teddy Hart

@@Avenrise IIRC Low-Ki demanded his release because he thought he shouldn't have been used the way he was, even though he was almost immediately getting IC title shots. IDK, dude's got a stick up his ass.

I honestly had no idea he was this good until he popped up on AEW. When they signed him I thought alright, face that I know but nothing special. Glad to have been proven wrong.

Oh yeah, wasn’t he only on Smackdown for a month before they fired him? Seeing as we have 100% proof of how over he can get when he is actually pushed that seems like a pretty obvious one in hindsight

@@kevinfrank8164 I was watching NXT back then and wasn't too into Hit Row so maybe it's a bit of bias from myself as he clearly had something special prior to AEW. I have a tendency to zone out a little if the stable isn't my thing... its the reason I've really cooled on Balor and Ripley in recent times. Nothing to do with them, just dont enjoy the gimmick.

Swerve is amazing in AEW. He's become one of my favourites to watch. Hopefully future AEW Champ.

You can't have every MITB cash in be successful, or things get too predictable.

IIRC, part of what wrecked Tenzan was that fans knew who he was and chanted "Albert" at his matches.

Disagree. Ricochet seems like a genuinely good dude, and he is being used properly.

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Yeah I think they really dropped the ball hard on this gimmick.

It should be a lot, not alot.

He got into legal trouble and it was a headache WWE didn’t want t to partake in which is why they have up on him

Wwe Bootlicker

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I don't think the problem was the gimmick. I think the crowd knowing it was a-train and sarcastically chanting "albert" at him killed his gimmick and push

Yeah! Cryback! 😂

if hes a bore then its weird how he got the biggest reactions out of dbryan and la knight in 2010s

That was primarily booking though. Whenever they needed a spot for the video reel they'd just have him face two 150lb'ers instead of giving him some story to play with. Not the greatest on the mic I will admit but as some beef that could rile up a crowd he could certainly go, heel or face.

@@Mega_Collosas oh I never said that he didn’t have good pops…the problem was after his WWE championship losses to Cena and Punk…plus being eliminated at the end by Cena in the 2013 rumble…everything that was good that was going for him just kinda went…poof

Convinced they should have just brought him back as Albert. Not necessarily going to win the big one but shove the IC belt on him and he'd have been a great final boss just like Gunther is atm. Instead they had him cosplay a samurai.

WWE was also at fault because they decided not even acknowledge Tensai's past as Albert. If they did then it wouldn't have been a major problem

​@@Avenrisevery true

@@zanethind That could of helped. On the one hand, I understand wanting him to be presented in a different light, but at the same time, Albert had a run, people were going to recognize and remember him, he wasn’t going to be able to just transition to someone new like Bray did when he stopped being Husky Harris.

Exactly His sickness is a work/fake

Genuinely don’t understand why he was on the list, then again with the likes of Ryback and Low-Ki either they tried to keep it exclusively kayfabe and failed or that it was really badly researched. Dragon broke his arm retired after multiple surgeries failed, then unretired after three years of zero in ring action. WWE didn’t give up on him too soon, they didn’t give up on him soon enough (surely dude getting injured to the point he was forced into retirement before hitting his prime is a sign you might want to help him get rid of some ring rust and make sure he can go before putting him on tv). All this coming from someone who adores dragon gate so I should probably have a bias for him being way better than what he has been the last two decades, best comparison is to look at his protege dragon kid who despite being almost 50 can do things in the ring his mentor couldn’t even imagine performing since he hit 30. Injuries robbed us of prime Ultimo.

Somebodies sensitive😂😂

@@Tampafan33 Tbf, Tensai was literally Albert with some samurai aesthetics.

@@optimus2008 i know but the op acted like his gimmicks were some evil thing😂 people just get so sensitive over the dumbest shit is all im saying.

damien got over everything wwe gave him ...tell me how does that not work at the top?

WHAT ABOUT EC3 WWE GIVE UP ON HIM

@mlgfoxymangle3657 This is a top 10 list of lesser known ones. If they were to include everyone, this list would be full of 8000 people and last a 100 days.

He looked like a generic create a wrestler

Loser

That's his real name