10 Biggest One Hit Wonders In Wrestling History
4. Lars Sullivan
Known for: that NXT TakeOver: New Orleans Ladder match.
Calling it a home run would be a cliché gone too far, but it was comfortably a top-three WWE-produced match of the year. Lars Sullivan, crucially, didn't just participate; he performed. Surrounded by two world-class indie darling athletes (Adam Cole and Ricochet), a fast-rising prospect who WWE was positioning for the prime spot (The Velveteen Dream), a tank of an Irishman who shone under such controlled chaos (Killian Dain), and a vendetta-fuelled returnee (EC3), it was important that Lars wasn't lacking in key moments.
He wasn't.
He Freak Accident-ed EC3 through a ladder - and Dream - in a most replayable moment, drawing internal interest from Vince McMahon.
Why didn't he thrive after: because he is a bigot.
That isn't fair. Lars' career had tanked long before his historical, rank views were unearthed. He was another hapless idiot whom Vince McMahon saw the future in. Very much a rinse-and-repeat follow-up to half the WWE alumni, Sullivan was helpless, rotten both in the ring and away from it.
The discovery of his racist, homophobic, misogynistic comments flatlined his career. Not even WWE, which, at the time, was run by a sexual deviant accused of the most inhumane abuse, could defend him.