10 Great Wrestlers Who Never Got Over In WWE
10. Charlie Haas
The ‘didn’t get over’ finger often gets pointed at Shelton Benjamin, although the former Gold Standard was given several pushes (of varying quality) over the years. His tag team partner? Almost entirely forgotten. The regrettable ‘Jannetty’ phrase gets bandied about far too often, but if you’re using it for The World’s Greatest Tag Team then you are using it to describe Charlie Haas.
Charlie Haas was every bit as good inside the squared circle as Shelton Benjamin. Shelton had the upper hand when it came to athleticism, but Haas undoubtedly had more personality and more character, especially when it came to the wrestling itself. Benjamin never took off as he could, but Haas never even got to sniff that sort of possibility.
In many ways, Charlie Haas was the sort of wrestler who was simply too good at the ‘wrestling’ part to get over. Such prowess can only come at the expense of other aspects, and WWE has never been a promotion that gets wrestlers over through wrestling alone. Haas may well have benefited from performing in the modern-day landscape, outside of McMahon-land. Which leads nicely to our next competitor.