10 Totally Wasted Wrestling Factions

10. Kai En Tai

Making their WWF debut the night after WrestleMania XIV by attacking Taka Michinoku, the group known as Kai En Tai had been working together for years prior in Japan. Originally comprised of Terry Boy, SATO and Shiryu, Taka Michinoku and Shoichi Funaki soon joined them and they experienced moderate success.

Despite being attacked by them in their WWF bow, Taka soon joined forces with his former teammates. They soon became nothing more than a comedic afterthought, famously threatening and coming close to causing a permanent separation between Val Venis and his most prized physical possession. I'm sure Vince McMahon found it hilarious.

The sad truth is that the group was horrifically under-utilised in WWF to a mix of their size and, depressingly, their nationality. In WWF, the group was made up of Taka, Funaki, Dick Togo (formerly SATO) and Mens Teioh (Terry Boy). All four were tremendous performers, and if the WWF had decided to take their light heavyweight division seriously the group could (and should) have acted as a legitimate heel threat within it.

As it was Togo and Teioh left fairly swiftly, leaving Taka and Funaki to move on as a comedic tag team known only for terrible overdubs. A waste of talent for sure.