10 Biggest Career Hangovers In WrestleMania History

7. Jack Swagger (After WrestleMania XXVI)

At WrestleMania XXVI, fans were thrown a curve ball when €˜All American American€™ Jack Swagger defeated 9 other men and won the Money in the Bank briefcase. On the first episode of SmackDown after that €˜Mania, Swagger shocked the world once again by successfully cashing in the briefcase, defeating then-World Heavyweight Champion Chris Jericho for the title. At first, it seemed that Swagger€™s momentum was on the rise; after all, he had everything that Vince liked in a Superstar: he was big, muscular, athletic, and had amateur wrestling skills, which gave him an added touch of legitimacy. He even defeated Chris Jericho in a rematch for the title, and adopted a more serious persona to fit his new World Champion position. Unfortunately, Swagger€™s sudden reign was more a symptom of WWE€™s Creative team lacking in, well, creativity, because Swagger€™s reign seemed to be nothing more than a flash in the pan, before he lost the belt to Rey Mysterio. And just like that, Swagger€™s main event run was over. It was WWE€™s attempt at a curve ball, and all it did was highlight how Swagger wasn€™t ready for the top of the SmackDown roster. WWE attempted to salvage Swagger€™s upper card career by featuring him prominently alongside Michael Cole in the latter€™s feud with Jerry Lawler (itself a terrible rivalry). However, despite the commentators regularly referring to him as a €˜former World Champion€™, Swagger was playing second fiddle to Michael Cole at every opportunity. Swagger eventually faded into mid-card purgatory, alongside other former World Champions (there€™s a pattern here), and in recent months has been turned into a glorified jobber for Rusev; which is hardly a position fitting an athlete with legitimate amateur wrestling credentials and a former World Heavyweight Champion.