10 Second Generation WWE Stars Who Totally Failed

10. Richie Steamboat

Let's be fair here: Richie Stemaboat had some incredibly high expectations to live up to. His father, Ricky, wasn't just one of the best wrestlers of his generation, he helped usher in a whole new in-ring style in WWE with his performances in the late 1980s.

Richie had no such luck, getting released from his contract with the company about four years ago after spending more than a year on the shelf with a serious back injury, one from which he still hasn't returned even on the independent circuit.

It's not as though he was pulling up any trees prior to that, though. He was still yet to make a single appearance on the main roster at the time of his WWE exit, having instead competed on FCW and then later NXT, where he wasn't exactly a marquee name.

Given his injury troubles, it would be unfair to put him any higher on this list, but the fact is that he came nowhere close to matching the career of The Dragon (although that same charge can admittedly be leveled at 99% of wrestlers in history).