10 Most Unsuccessful WWE Returns Of All-Time
1. Lord Tensai
Matt Bloom may hold the record for having had the most amount of personas during his time in WWE. From A-Train to Prince Albert to the Hip-Hop Hippo, however, no moniker was more of a failure than Lord Tensai.
Bloom spent several years in WWE in the early 2000s and experienced success throughout the various incarnations of his character. As it turned out, getting cut by the company was the best thing that could have happened to him.
It allowed him to hone his craft on the Japanese wrestling scene and be utilised as the monster heel he was destined to be for WWE.
WWE officials took note of his career resurgence in New Japan Pro Wrestling and contacted him about returning in early 2012, an offer which was accepted by Bloom. For weeks, vignettes aired on Raw hyping up the impending arrival of one Lord Tensai, a menacing figure from Japan with intimidating tattoos across his skull.
Although he looked the part, the character never seemed to connect with the audience. That in addition to how he wasn't given any meaningful direction for the better part of the year. The tag team he formed with Brodus Clay was the ultimate kiss of death for his career in WWE.
To their credit, they made the pairing work, but it was a complete waste of his wrestling skill set that is now thankfully going to good use in NXT.