Another 10 Superstars Who Had Better Careers Outside WWE

All in all, these wrestlers should’ve stayed away from the WWE completely.

It is very hard for a wrestler to know where they will be five or ten years after they start wrestling. If we turned the clock back to 2004, who would€™ve guessed that CM Punk would have the longest WWE title reign in 25 years? Or that Daniel Bryan would win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 30? For some people, getting into the WWE and winning their World Title is the biggest dream (and payday) possible. Unfortunately, the WWE roster is very much like a pyramid, with many people equally vying for that top spot. Some wrestlers have spent years trying to get one step closer to fulfilling that dream, only to find out that their time in WWE has been worse than their careers in other promotions. This article marks the third entry on my list of former WWE Superstars and Divas who had better careers outside of the WWE. These individuals were either booked poorly from the start, experienced some kind of dramatic change that led to their demise, or simply couldn€™t like up to the expectations placed before them by WWE management. All in all, these wrestlers should€™ve stayed away from the WWE; their careers elsewhere were much better.
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Alexander Podgorski is a writer for WhatCulture that has been a fan of professional wrestling since he was 8 years old. He loves all kinds of wrestling, from WWE and sports entertainment, to puroresu in Japan. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University in Political Studies and French, and a Master's Degree in Public Administration. He speaks English, French, Polish, a bit of German, and knows some odd words and phrases in half a dozen other languages.