10 Most Random Full-Time WWE Returns

8. Tensai

From 1999 to 2004, Prince Albert/Albert/The Hip Hop Hippo/A-Train was employed by WWE, and through that tenure was most well known for having a hairy back. He received a couple of big pushes along the way, but they never panned out for him. After his release, he mostly competed in Japan for the next eight years.

Overseas he became a bit of a star as Giant Bernard, even landing in a huge match against Brock Lesnar in 2006. Still, it didn’t seem like he would ever come back to WWE...until he did.

In 2012, Albert came home. He was nearly 40, and despite a lack of success in front of American audiences, he was set for a main event push against John Cena. That idea pretty much died his first night out.

Albert was now Tensai, who was made to look like a large Asian man. It was just plain goofy. The crowd chanted his old moniker, and weren’t willing to give him another chance. What also sealed his doom was that Lesnar returned to WWE the night that he did. The real life badass, and former main-eventer just made Tensai look even more ridiculous than he did when he first walked out.

The gimmick tanked, and Tensai is now teaching the next generation of wrestlers how to get over in NXT.