10 Most Damaging Figures In The History Of Wrestling

10. John Laurinaitis

John Laurinaitis steered WWE's developmental system for a decade between 2001 and 2011, at which point Triple H informally (and mercifully) wrested the reins from him. WWE struggled to create new main event acts within this time frame. That isn't a coincidence; Occam's razor slashes the throat of any argument to the contrary.

During his reign of terror, Laurinaitis:

- P*ssed off Jim Cornette - the man who secured WWE's future by cultivating John Cena, Batista, Randy Orton and Brock Lesnar - to such an extent that he left in a blaze of vaingloriousness, slapping Santino Marella silly.

- Accepted Jody Hamilton's Deep South Wrestling pitch, when Hamilton had precisely nothing resembling even the most humble of wrestling territories in place.

- Subsequently severed ties with Ohio Valley Wrestling in order to set up shop in Florida - where Steve Keirn's FCW was equally as ill-equipped as the facilities in Georgia. The building in which developmental guys trained didn't even have running water for a few months.

- Hired the wrong one-legged wrestler (!).

Oddly enough, no established stars reached the permanent main even pinnacle in WWE proper during the post-Cornette era. It's almost as if Laurinaitis was a buffoon.