10 Most Underrated Superstars Of WWE's Ruthless Aggression Era
The Gold Standard of underrated talent.
Not everyone who enters the WWE can be a superstar. And even fewer will ever get an opportunity to be one of the "top guys." There just aren't enough spots at the top of the pyramid for every talented performer to get their due. Still, it's unfortunate just how many premier talents have come and gone in the WWE without ever getting a significant push.
The Ruthless Aggression era was particularly cruel to un-established talent. Following the buyout of WCW, the WWE basically doubled its roster, creating a dearth of available screen time for everybody. The much maligned Invasion angle also brought in a number of ECW superstars, making it next to impossible for writers and bookers to give every budding performer the attention they deserved.
As the talent pool expanded, characters and storylines started bleeding together while quality performers were getting swept under the rug left and right.
Looking back, it makes sense that the Ruthless Aggression era is one of the most under-appreciated periods in history, since that describes about a quarter of the roster at the time, as well.
That's not to say that everyone on this list deserved to be the WWE Champion. But they most assuredly deserved a much better place in the company than what they got.
10. Matt Morgan
WWE hasn't exactly had the greatest success finding big, athletic men. And when they do, they're incapable of marketing them and exploiting their talents. In fact, you can't help but feel like if Mark Calloway or Glenn Jacobs walked into Vince's office for the first time tomorrow, he'd have no clue what to do with them.
That was certainly the case when Matt Morgan debuted on Smackdown in 2003. Here was a muscular, 7-foot-tall bruiser in the mold of Brock Lesnar, who also had the agility and speed of guys who were a hundred pounds smaller. And he was comfortable on the mic.
So what do you do with a guy like that? Whatever the correct answer is, it should definitely not include making him second fiddle to everyone he's in a match with or giving him a speech impediment as a gimmick.
It's no surprise Morgan was so underrated considering the dreck he was given to do on a weekly basis. He could've been the next Next Big Thing, but instead he was dropped from the WWE after receiving minimal opportunities to make any kind of impact.