10 Breakout Wrestling Performances That Went Nowhere
5. Wardlow (Double Or Nothing, 2022)
It may be a little unfair to class Wardlow's run post-MJF massacring at Double or Nothing 2022 as one that has ultimately gone nowhere, what with the TNT Champion still only a few months removed from his career-making win over The Salt of the Earth. But there's no denying that the rising powerhouse's once-radiant star has dimmed somewhat in the time that has followed Maxwell's infamous Double or Nothing weekend.
On the back of the explosive one-time employer of Wardlow massively overshadowing his jaw-dropping squashing at the hands of his former bodyguard with his real-life antics and eventual Dynamite pipe bomb that would follow, Wardlow's World hasn't quite been what many would've hoped.
His aforementioned seizing of the TNT Championship felt like an organic and well-received next-step. But it was soon laughably brushed to the side in a bid to pull the spotlight back onto the already established main eventers and far hotter programmes in the works elsewhere.
And Wardlow's shoe-horning into a three-man alongside fellow one-time Pinnacle players FTR at All Out 2022 acted as the latest piece of evidence to suggest that the titanic face may be on the verge of becoming yet another star to stumble into obscurity on the back of picking up the once-prized TNT strap.
What a difference a few months make, eh?