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

8. Sionne

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Remember when Demolition Ax got injured whilst Demolition were tag team champions, and WWF saw it as a good opportunity to introduce the Crush character? Smash and Crush continued to defend the belts, with Ax occasionally running 'Twin Magic' interference despite how hilariously preposterous that idea was and is. You could see the reasoning behind the idea but it just didn't work, and not just because Crush wasn't really at the level of the guy he was replacing.

Now if that didn't really work for Demolition, why in God's name did the creative team think it was going to work with The Headshrinkers? Not only that, but what made the company think that after years of not getting over that all The Barbarian needed was to be repackaged as the third Headshrinker?

Did it work? Of course it didn't work. The Barbarian became Sionne, but he would make only one appearance on pay-per-view under that name when he was eliminated by Diesel during the 1994 Survivor Series. In fact, Sionne only made 17 televised appearances, although one of those was a hard-fought victory over the team of Well Dunn. Monumental.

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