10 Most Boring WWE Wrestlers Of All Time

9. Shane Douglas

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'The Franchise' had shocked the wrestling world in 1994 thanks to the transcendent moment he threw the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship in order to formally (re)launch ECW as much more than just a noisy neighbour in Philadelphia.

His promo on that fateful night was loaded with content powerful enough to fuel a legendary run, but Douglas failed to top up the tank when he returned from a disastrous 1995 stint as 'The Dean' in WWE. Still raging against a machine that had chewed him up and spat him back, the perennial headliner had to show his worth in matches, but the bloom was off the thorny rose.

Douglas was typically one of the dullest guys on an ECW event, particularly when a sense of chaos was so important to the brand's USP underneath the ongoing war between WCW and WWE. Ignored bores against Tully Blanchard and Ron Simmons from his golden era suddenly served as foreshadows for the blandness that defined his time on top.

Most criminal was a dud and a half against Pitbull #2 at Barely Legal. The idea might have been to show off the technical side of ECW on their first ever pay-per-view, but this failed attempt was perhaps the only point on the show where the company didn't look like an alternative to the stoic mainstream.

 
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