10 Amazing Wrestlers WWE Fans Will NEVER Love

10. Marty Jannetty

This is a logical starting point.

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Marty Jannetty is the prototypical "other guy". Christ, wrestling pushed him to the side in favour of golden boy Shawn Michaels so hard that tag partners who don't go on to become World Champs are referred to as "the Marty Jannetty of the team". That's cold.

Here's the deal: Marty was one hell of a worker in his own right. There's a reason why the then-WWF brought him back time and time again. They knew he could deliver solid matches in his sleep, and quietly hoped that Jannetty would blow up like HBK did by becoming a top singles star.

It'd never happen for a variety of reasons. Personal demons are often cited as the main one, which is fair, but Marty had already been typecast over the years as good in tags but not on his own. He'll probably never get the credit his own in-ring work richly deserves - and the looming Dark Side of the Ring special likely won't alter that...

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