10 Wrestlers WWE Pushed At The EXACT Wrong Time

10. Bob Backlund

Bob Backlund might as well have been the reanimated corpse of George Hackenschmidt in early 1993.

This is a man who worked Razor Ramon at the Ancient Rome-themed WrestleMania IX, but more closely resembled one of the first practitioners of grappling from Ancient Greece with his prehistoric mat-based style.

He was somehow only 44 years old at the time - younger than Sheamus, AJ Styles, and Bobby Lashley are now - but time actually moved forward in accordance with the general theory of relativity back then before Vince McMahon jobbed out Albert Einstein by making it stand still. 1983 actually felt like it had happened a decade ago in 1993.

When fans didn't connect with this character, despite Vince booking him to set a record of the longest stint in a Royal Rumble match, he was repackaged as an unhinged lunatic who was meant to be a man out of time and couldn't sanction the values of the world he now occupied. It was a far better idea than booking an artefact and deeming Randy Savage too old at the same time (!), and Backlund was very convincing as a maniac - an underrated skill, given the dire form of SAnitY, Karrion Kross and Liv Morgan.

Still, while New Generation truthers can argue in favour of his character work in various underrated angles, the matches were sinfully boring and of no interest to the least amount of fans who ever watched WWE.