10 Failed WWE Wrestlers Who Became Cult Classics
2. R-Truth
The launch of the 24/7 Championship was greeted with grim acceptance from a WWE audience beaten into submission by decades of belt mistreatment. As if to establish the strap as a punchline from the off, the company booked a literal chase to crown the first champion after Mick Foley simply left the title in the ring to be collected by the first taker.
What followed was a dangerously close comparison to TNA's catastrophic reverse battle royal. What followed that was R-Truth yet again getting something sh*t, and more importantly himself, over. He's been doing it for years, too.
An creative failure as a babyface following a 2008 re-emergence from the Impact Zone wilderness, Ron 'The Truth' Killings, his character wasn't, until he unlocked a caustic side following a bizarrely brilliant 2011 heel turn that forever transformed how he'd be used.
Propelled to the top of the card for a brief programme with John Cena', Truth's comedic side blossomed thanks to his own creative endeavour. He got a literal figment of his imagination over with 'Little Jimmy', carrying the craic enough to become a better comedy all-rounder than former steward Santino Marella.
Making himself teflon to WWE's atrocious scripting, Truth's actively bantered it off whilst becoming indispensable as a result. He is at this point not so much a credit to the process, but one in spite of it.