10 Precise Moments When WWE Ruthless Aggression Era Careers Ended

10. Mordecai/Kevin Thorn

Yes, yes that is the artist formerly known as Mordecai.

WWE pulled the plug on their Undertaker-lite experiment mere months after debuting it in 2004, but the dude was recast as Kevin Thorn on ECW in 2006. The vampire gimmick also failed to get over, and that left poor Kev wondering what was next for him.

He did pop back up on the 6 December 2007 episode of ECW, but a win over enhancement worker Jeff Lewis turned out to be another false dawn - although Thorn had cut his hair and had brand new ring attire, this reinvention was very much a case of too little, too late.

The company hauled him off telly boxes immediately, and the crummy vamp was placed back down in developmental territory OVW before before released a short while later. That smile in December '07 was the last time fans saw him on WWE programming.