10 Failed WWE Pushes One Tweak Away From Excellence
5. Test
Why it failed: Test was green as the sh*t sliding out of the proverbial goose's back passage when he was the recipient of the biggest push he ever had in WWE. On a recent edition of his Something To Wrestle With... podcast, Bruce Prichard noted that he was a favourite of Vince Russo and Shane McMahon at the height of his 1999 run, but like most other characters on the roster at the time, he got over big anyway.
Sadly, the inexperience began to show once the glow of that hedonistic year began to fade. Dropping into the tag team ranks as a heel in 2000, he'd lost all his star power a year on from that, and never again felt like the star he had the potential to be during his time as Stephanie McMahon's husband to be.
One Tweak: Make him WWE Champion at Survivor Series 1999.
As wild as a "PUSH TEST" internet forum-styled solution sounds 20 years later, it's still not as insane as the decision to have Jinder Mahal hold the once-richest prize in the game for 170 days in 2017. Test was over as a babyface but about to lose his storyline wife to Triple H, and with it, his spot near the top of the card. Even as makegood on the night for getting one big win over 'The Game' he might have remained credible for longer than the mere weeks he had left.