10 "Next Big Things" In Wrestling Nobody Cared About

Don't let this image fool you; Nathan Jones does not hold a WrestleMania victory. He never even wrestled at the show because Vince McMahon realised how green he was and unceremoniously dumped him from the card.

Nathan Jones sucked. Badly. Completely inept as to how professional wrestling was supposed to work, he was sluggish in his offence, wholly monotonous when presented with a microphone, and failed to forge a relationship with the audience that is crucial to a babyface's success. Being dragged to a passable-to-good match zero times out of ten, Jones lasted longer than he had any right to, the coup de grace of his WWE run being a Survivor Series 2003 match on Brock Lesnar's quintet against Kurt Angle's.

This was seven months after he was scrapped from the WrestleMania XIX card, though. Vince McMahon had already realised how mediocre his latest pet project was going to be and given how many releases WWE had already made/granted by November 2003 (fourteen), it's a genuine miracle that the Aussie behemoth wasn't on the chopping block.

Remarkably, Vince McMahon still didn't realise how big of a flop this supposed next big thing was going to be because, in 2008, he was reportedly open to giving the former powerlifter another look in! Jones never attended the tryout, for the best.