10 Hyped WWE Debuts That Were Total Misdirections
6. Outback Jack
In keeping with American pop culture's Antipodean love affair following the enormous success of the 'Crocodile Dundee' films, Outback Jack was introduced across weeks of overly long and incredibly dated vignettes from late-1986 onwards.
Jack was seen shaving with a knife in the Australian Outback, feeding the crocodiles in his local lake, having drinking contests with cows in pubs, and struggling to work out automatic doors in Sydney's buzzing metropolis.
Set to 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport' by then-Aussie hero Rolf Harris, the videos fulfilled every cliche, and presented a genteel but physically imposing figure who was set to make waves in WWE.
However, Jack's in-ring limitations were highlighted almost immediately, and the Hogan-level star the organisation had promised began a rapid descent to the bottom of the card.
Unleashing his useless 'Boomerang' clothesline (one to the front, one from behind) as a finisher in his debut against WWE's perennial safety net Steve Lombardi, Jack looked completely exposed at the highest level, and within six months of the ballyhooed debut, he was laying down himself, performing jobber duties for fellow nonentities such as Killer Khan.
With little improvement forthcoming, Jack was gone from WWE and on the plane home less than a year later.