10 Breakout Wrestling Performances That Went Nowhere

3. Cesaro (WrestleMania XXX)

A quick look at how the Swiss Superman is currently being handled in Tony Khan's wrestling-centric promotion tells the story of a freakishly talented in-ring technician with superhuman strength and boatloads of charm.

This is a story Vince McMahon arrogantly refused to acknowledge for nearly a decade because he didn't think Claudio Castagnoli had "it"; or more specifically, he wasn't a fan of his accent.

And that's likely the reason what should've been a career-igniting moment at WrestleMania XXX eventually wound up being nothing more than a hollow badge of honour to be rammed down fans' throats whenever Claudio needed to be presented as a threat to whoever the company really wanted to get behind.

The sound that met the now-ROH World Champion as he heaved a monstrous Big Show over the top rope in the first-ever Ander the Giant Memorial Battle Royal had many believing another star had well and truly been born under the bright New Orleans lights that night.

In truth, though, this was Castagnoli's brief genuine moment in the sun under the WWE banner, with an ill-fated Paul Heyman team-up soon falling flat and resulting in the star being lost in the shuffle just a few months on from power-slamming his way into WrestleMania history.