10 Most Boring WWE Wrestlers Of All Time

2. Vladimir Kozlov

Triple H Vladimir Kozlov
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The Vladimir Kozlov push was like many other WWE monster pushes in that he was a lumbering foreign menace and there was an expectation that enough squashes would get him over as a main event star.

Where it fell way, way short of some of the best ones was in those supposed destruction derbies.

At no point was Kozlov interesting during his ascent, making the inevitable pay-per-view title match with Triple H one of the most boring in company history. Survivor Series 2009 had at least been built with Jeff Hardy included, but when the 'Charismatic Enigma' was taken out with a pre-show attack audiences were substantially more worried about how they'd survive the singles match rather than Hardy's wellbeing.

When this all badly tanked, WWE played to type and made him a buffoon but even then he'd have a habit of accidentally sandbagging Santino Marella of all people. No matter how much he might have been trying to be for it, wrestling very clearly wasn't for him.

 
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