10 New Generation-Era WWE Stars You Totally Don't Remember

by John Bills

1. The Pug

The Pug Alex Porteau
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Truth be told, The Pug is probably more memorable than Tank, but I'll be damned if I write a list about forgotten New Generation wrestlers that doesn't feature The Pug at number one. 'The Pug' was actually Alex Porteau, a wrestler from Louisiana who had performed for the company in an enhancement role on a number of occasions in 1994, but finally got his big break in 1996.

His break came in the form of an amateur wrestler gimmick, and in truth he didn't do too badly. His first televsied match was an Intercontinental Championship match against Goldust, and Porteau would go on to pick up victories against Barry Horowitz and, erm, okay just Barry Horowitz. I'm being harsh, he beat Timothy Flowers too. Porteau also teamed with Aldo Montoya, the intimidating duo picking up a televised victory over The Smoking Gunns no less.

Porteau's position on the New Generation totem pole is clear from the list of men who defeated him. Porteau was defeated by WHO (Jim Neidhart's brief 1996 gimmick that possibly deserves a spot on this list), The Sultan, Leif Cassidy and even his former partner, Aldo Montoya. Whether it was the New Generation not being ready for The Pug or vice-versa I'm not sure, but by 1997 he was gone. He did reappear at WrestleMania XXV however, albeit as one of the mass of John Cenas during Cena's excellent entrance.

The truth is the New Generation was mostly a forgettable era for the company. To this list you can add Salvatore Sincere, Ludvig Borga, Kwang, Avatar, Waylon Mercy, Cloudy, the aforementioned TL Hopper, Well Dun, Goon and others. The saying goes that if you throw enough sh*t at a wall some of it will eventually stick, but I dare say that the WWF creative team's wall was mostly faeces by the time the era came to a close.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.