WWE Wrestlers Who Couldn't Actually Wrestle 

Imma defend Khali a bit here, when he wrestled in Japan and México he was actually pretty agile and could offer decent matches. He was never a Kurt angle, but he was closer in performance to peak Big Show. By the time he made it to WWE he already lost a lot of mobility due to knee injuries, he even told that to WWE befofe being signed. So yeah, although he was bad in WWE it was for a good reason.

I believe that Gunther is everything they wanted Kozlov to be.

I almost feel bad for Undertaker having spent so much time of his career stuck in programs with these guys.

I will argue that Khali vs Big Show actually was a really good match. Both played very well off each other and made it really feel like a clash of titans, and the finish actually leaves you shocked.

Personally the boogeyman was pretty good from what I remember, he’s the boogeyman, I don’t expect him to know how to wrestle , it’s just lore that he HAPPENS to wrestle and his stiff movements in ring made him imo (I was 7 years old at the time)

Vince owes Undertaker everything.

If Khali hadn't busted his knees prior to his WWE signing, he would've been viewed in a better light.

Boogeyman is a memorable character though. kudos to Martin Wright for bringing the character to life. always great to see Boogeyman every halloween

Goldberg was upset that Gillberg was a better wrestler than him.

Eva Marie was about looks.. she was a bombshell and eye candy.

Poor Taker, I think he got paired with every one of the men at some point trying to get them over.

I wish the WWE would make more creepy gimmicks like the boogeyman. Even though he hardly had any matches his promo work was always top notch

Poor Undertaker, he gets all the green guys, only a legend like him could work all these inexperienced guys and still have a career for 30 years!!

Vladimir Kozlov wasn't a bad wrestler the problem with him was nobody knew who the hell he was or why he was getting a mega push out of thin air which I the reason he was getting no reaction he wasn't build properly for the position he was put in.

The thing with Khali was that he had multiple knee and possibly some brain surgeries before his debut. If you watch his matches in NJPW, he was very athletic for a person of his size.

I’m gonna have to defend Khali here just a little. He couldn’t wrestle once he was signed by WWE. I saw some videos of the great Khali in his earlier in his wrestling days that man actually had a very diverse set of moves and incredible mobility He could even jump over the top rope. The problem was he was suffering from a condition, which eventually took affect by the time he had signed by WWE making his in ring performances look sloppy. If you watch his matches from when he was in Japan, you would see a completely different Giant

I think you’re overestimating how much WWE fans care about wrestling ability

Surprised that Goldberg isn’t on the list

Boogeyman a legend because of his character work not his ring skills

Heidenreich coming to the ring in a Straightjacket always made me laugh, unintentionally... "this man is such a maniac, that he MUST wear a restraint; unless he's wrestling in a match with a guy he can legally assault; then it comes off"... They did the same thing with Kane in 2003 after he set JR on fire; he's under house arrest and shackled, unless he's in the proximity of other wrestlers, then he can do what he needs to do... 🤣🤣

As great as Undertaker is, he spent a large amount of his career feuding with midcarders who really didn't see too much upside. Just goes to show how much Vince trusted him and how good of a worker Taker was.

Surprised Sable wasn't on the list. It is a bit harder on guys like Khali and Giant Gonzales. At their heights, they're always going to be limited with what they can do in the ring

Severe lack of Goldberg...

The reason that Mabel would return to the company and get rebranded as Viscera was because the Undertaker basically said, "He's a good guy and should have a job, but I'm not wrestling him." So Viscera was put into the Ministry of Darkness/Corporate Ministry.

Ultimate Warrior is the most underrated wrestler of all time. Always the first one in these kind of list list when he had great matches between 1988 and 1992 in a time where in WWF seldom had good matches.

Figured Ahmed Johnson would be on this list. LOL

Just started to watch. If omos isn't on this list, I will never trust your judgment on anything ever again

Mentioning Kozlov but omitting Goldberg is WILD.

When it comes to Mabel not being able to wrestle. Makes me think in his defense how could he? His body was to damn big. You can't expect someone that huge to be able to move around as a wrestler and be successful. Which is why I think he was hardly ever used...

What about Kelly Kelly or other divas at the time? Trish Status was highly overrated too. She could sell,take bumps,great on the mic but her in ring offense was weak.

With the exception of the boogeyman, its obvious that Vince's fascination for size got the better of him. Thank goodness HHH has the control now because we get to see real people getting real hype from the fans because they worked hard for it

Rick Rude always had good matches with Warrior, Summerslam 89 is a gem.

How is Goldberg not on this list?? 3 guys on the list had less then a hand full of matches. That Goldberg guy has decades in the business and still can't do a headlock or even his own moves he screws up. Can't have over a minute match.

Khali arrived in WWE too late. Look up his matches in Japan years prior, he was actually fairly decent in the ring. I think the wear and tear on his body, and his age limited his in ring work by the time he arrived in the big leagues.

10. Obviously. She couldn’t wrestle, so why did WWE bring her back in 2021? 9. Khali did have some sort of success. 8. Still, why did he wear that ridiculous costume? (I think we all know he had the worst match with Undertaker.) 7. The only thing that worked for him was the spookiness….and that was pretty much it. 6. Nathan Jones was not ready for the main roster. 5. His wrestling was not great. 4. His wrestling was not great either. 3. He was pushed way too soon and was simply not ready. However, he did get over once he paired up with Santino Marella. 2. He was way too stiff and reckless with others. 1. Can agree with the thoughts. Although his wrestling wasn’t great, he had the character and aura to help tell stories. (Minus his run in 1996.)

How is Sable not on this list? All she had was the "sable bomb" and flat out refused to even learn how to take bumps...forcing her opponents to carry her all while being threatened with punishment if they injured her

RIP Mabel

The boogeyman was just ridiculous. Yeah he was a unique character, but he was squashed within seconds whenever he was in the ring.

FUN FACT: Eva Marie was NOT supposed to wrestle during her second run. She was supposed to be a manager & signed a contract that clearly stated she was not going to wrestle BUT WWE had a different idea & made her wrestle. Eva revealed this in her RU-vid channel a few months ago. I also think that Eva improved in NXT. She was have 13 minute matches w/ the likes of Asuka & Bayley.

Viscera improved over the years at least

Viscera was actually pretty good from what I read about him the only wrestler that hated him was Kevin Nash which isn’t saying much

What’s the consistent theme with these stiffs? Vince moaning “Look at the SIZE OF HIM!!!”

After watching the list, my respect to the undertaker have increased.

The Great Khali looked like he struggled even walking, poor guy.

Khali at 9 is a crime😂😂

Younger khali looked amazing from the videos I've seen online

The company is called World Wrestling "Entertainment". Some of them had great matches and are a good wrestler just because they didn't give proper WrestleMania main event matches doesn't mean they can't wrestle.

Love how this video got right into it

As much as I love Kevin Nash, that was another guy who was extremely limited...and he himself would be the first to tell you that. Even his days as Oz and then Diesel, Vince McMahon saw his size, and combined with the fact he was also handsome, Vince began pushing him to the top of the card with guts like Bret Hart who had literally hundreds of more matches under his belt. Vince made this mistake many, times throughout the 80's and 90's....trying to find the next Hulk Hogan; who as we all know when it comes to versatility in the ring, was extremely limited. Charisma, and ability to connect with an audience can really cover up many limitations though....at least back then.😊

Give the big Aussie the Intercontinental Championship

As a kid, the Ultimate Warrior was my favorite pro wrestler. He looked like a real life super hero and beat everyone. He was great for kids. We didn't notice he might not have been a great wrestler.

Khali could actually wrestle... in late 90's and early 2000's. He was a very decent wrestler in Japan but his body gave up on him when he moved to the USA. Even tough he won championships in WWE and is in the HOF, he never enjoyed it because he couldn't move well and was majorly in pain, just like Andre in the late parts of his career

I thought you were going to say Goldberg. While not the worst wrestler, he only had a few moves, was reckless in the ring (sorry Bret Hart), and didn't understand storytelling.

Mabel, Viscera, Big daddy V, whatever you want to call him.. He was actually the best on this list. He actually moved fairly well for being as gigantic as he was. Unfortunately he did have a difficult time not hurting people for real.

The thing I'll always remember Mabel for was when he was Viscera, he had a tag match with Crash Holley. Crash went to climb to the top turnbuckle and fell, and Viscera broke character and started laughing in the middle of the match. RIP Crash.

Controversial pick, but original run Mark Henry. Because a lot of these guys had pretty short runs (Jones, Heidenreich) or were already physically broken down by the time they competed (Gonzalez, whose knees were shot from basketball), they never got the chance to improve. Mark Henry's original run when he was signed from weightlifting and thrown on TV with almost no training, he was absolutely terrible, and the office clearly knew it, trying to give him angles and portrayals so bad that it would make him quit, with the comedy foil stuff that drove a lot of people here out of town. However, Henry took his punishment, licked his wounds, learned the business and improved to the point of going on some very respected and even beloved runs, the Hall of Pain run and the retirement bait and switch being very highly thought of now. He's a rare example of somebody who was overpushed when way too green for it, sent all the way to the bottom, and then got genuinely good in the ring and worked his way to the top. Likewise, though less successfully, Chris Masters was another guy who was given a push because of his look, was way too green for it, sucked in the ring and got driven out of the company. He went away, worked really hard and actually became pretty decent in the ring before returning, unfortunately the reactions just weren't there because he hadn't done anything particularly memorable first time around. Of course there are others who have had great runs overseas - just check out Matt Bloom's stuff in Japan as Giant Bernard, he was great out there. Then they brought him back as Lord Tensai and it was a disaster.

The Undertaker just having to survive these terrible wrestlers

Khali doing a crossface is certainly an image. 😂

To me, the Boogeyman was an interesting performer, and I saw his matches on ECW back on 2007; you can all search his matches from ECW from 2007 so you can see him. And yes, he was a decent in-ring performer. I even made him WWE Tag Team champion with Chris Benoit in the SVR 2007 videogame. haha (not joking). I got super disapointed when he was released on 2009.

Would it be possible to do a video over wrestlers who failed even with the help of great managers?

Although king Mabel was not the best in the ring he must have been doing something well to stay in the company that long. RIP

Honorable mention and someone I would pay to never see in a wrestling onesie again- Vicki Guerrero EXCUSE ME!!!!!

Nice 👍 informative video

Kozlov was extremely credible in the ring, he just needed a manager. Agree on the rest, but Kozlov was money that they missed the boat on

Lex Luger all of his matches were just botch after botch.

I saw Jones wrestle Kanyon in early 00s. They put on a decent bout for a surprise match. I think for Jones, it would fall on who we was against S to wether he would have a respectable match

Gunther’s comments about Ultimate Warrior are very accurate, and I love the Warrior gimmick, he had an amazing body, but he should have taken in-ring working more seriously. There have been plenty of excellent workers who had great bodies.

With some of these names, the main issue is the same old story with WWE under Vince - see promising star, push him too far too soon, ruin his career, see new shiny future star, push him too far too soon, ruin his career, rinse and repeat. Sometimes they'd get lucky and someone would be a natural and it would work, sometimes they'd get it right and save the push until the wrestler was truly ready for it, and that's how stars like Steve Austin, The Rock, Hulk Hogan, Macho Man, and John Cena were born. IMO if they'd held off on the big programs with guys like the Boogeyman, Great Khali, or Vladamir Koslov and let them simmer in the undercard and mid cards longer and let the fans either warm up to them or not, so we could see a more natural rise up the card, they'd have gone over much better for the role they were intended to be pushed for, and if they weren't main event material, they'd still be effective mid card acts to help other potential stars get over. If they did make it, they'd have had much more seasoning in the low and mid card roles and had time to develop their in ring skills enough to at least be credible in the upper card and main event space. IMO a good example of how to push a monster babyface is Goldberg. He had the charisma from day 1 to be the strong silent type, and Bishoff pushed him as that. Keeping his matches short so his inexperience wouldn't show too much, and when it did vs Regal, they were able to script around it by relaying that into a series with Jerry Flynn and make mat wresting his one small weakness where a wrestler can make the matches a bit more competitive, giving them an out to get Goldberg a few more competitive matches to give him a chance to develop his selling and chain wrestling skills, while the story of him being weaker at that then when he can use his fortitude to take blows and dish out his explosive offence to justify any awkwardness in the ring. Honestly, following through with that and booking a submission wrestler to be the one to finally break the streak would have been the smart way to go when that time came. But the main thing is, they gave him time in the undercard, doing squash matches to build him up sufficiently first. Once they did push Goldberg into the main event scene, he'd already become lightning in a bottle. Primed for success and the fans were more behind him then nearly anyone since the golden era of Hulkamania.

even tho khalis skill and pace is whack you gotta admit he did pretty alright and he won a title at least even tho its a terrible run if his knees didn't give up on him he might do well

Heidenreich looks like a mix of Ken Shamrock & Brock Lesnar

Vince always had a hard-on for the big guys, whether they could wrestle or not.

Wwf: Hey, Undertaker! We got a guy who's taller than you. Taker: Great. Can he wrestle? Wwf: No.

There has to be a part 2 of this video, Wrestlelamia. My 5 picks of WWE Superstars who couldn't wrestle that didn't get a mention are: 1.Abdullah the Butcher 2 & 3. Giant Silva and Kurrgan (of the Oddities) 4. Uncle Elmer 5. Sable

So glad Ahmed Johnson is on this list. He was horrible in the ring and worse on the mic. He was awful

You've done well to narrow this down to just 10.

I still love the Ultimate Warrior 😞

And I'll see you next time with some more - And I'll see you next time with some more WRESTLING CONTENT!

The boogeyman didn't need to wrestle

Ahmed Johnson tried to be like Scott Steiner, a stiff and reckless performer. The major difference was Steiner was safe, despite the hard bumps and real punches he throws(in rare occasions he hits you in the head, mostly it was body blows) .

The irony is that Eva liked to throw around that "do nothing b" phrase

if warrior was just a showman was Hogan too??

Actually Big Daddy V was pretty entertaining to me. You can't lump all big guys in the same can't wrestle category.

Before watching this ultimate warrior better be in this

I'm still a fan of Boogeyman, he had a great look, I like the spooky characters like him, Papa Shango, Phantasio, even Damien Demento.

The Great Khali should occupy the entire Top 10.

Eva Marie Nikki Bella Brie Bella Ronda Rousey Kurrgan

Please make video on Def rebel

“I'll see you next time with some more, I'll see you next time with some more” 😂😂😂

RIP BRAY ❤

I really wish people would stop crapping on the Warrior. He portrayed his character perfectly - sprint to the ring and run his opponents over. You don't look like that and do figure 4s and inverted sunset flips.

Love how one of the beloved and memorable characters in wrestling gets simplified to "just a showman" maybe because he had zeal that was of any 3 wrestlers combined. R.I.P warrior

Khali was already damaged goods when he got to WWE. He wasn’t awful early in his career.

Gillberg, I mean Goldberg 🤣

easy to talk down on someone when they’re dead

I wanna see 10 wwe Legends that can’t wrestle like John cena and hulk hogan

I miss big daddy v entrance and theme song

Where is Nia Jax?

I loved the boogeyman though I expected him to almost be a supernatural Tajiri but how could that even be compared. Still a cool gimmick

Totally surprised Goldberg wasn't here considering he ended the career of one of the best wrestlers of all time

I feel like for Ultimate Warrior it depends what you mean by “Wrestler” as he may not have been the best from the Athlete perspective but you could argue that winning over and entertaining the crowd is just as if not more important, as long as he wasn’t dangerous to wrestle with in the ring, id still say that Ultimate Warrior was a great wrestler