10 Next Big WWE Things That Crashed And Burned

Bet the farm on these guys. If you want to lose the farm, that is.

In theory (and mostly in practice), the holder of the WWE€™s big belt should always be the guy who the promotion is going to be built around for the duration of his run at the top. Not everyone€™s cut out for that role, and it€™s only partly to do with talent: the performer€™s connection to the crowd, character type, size and look are all factors of more or less equal performance when deciding who€™s going to make it and who isn€™t. That means there€™s nothing wrong with promotions like WWE choosing to mould and shape someone like John Cena or Roman Reigns into their €˜fightin€™ champion€™: it€™s what professional wrestling promotions have been doing since the time of the Gold Dust Trio in the 1920s. On the other hand, there are those wrestlers who were clearly intended for bigger and better things who never made it. As a generalisation, that happens either because the company picked the wrong guy for the role and realised it before it was too late, or because the company picked the right guy but completely botched the play to get him to where he needed to be. Part of the reason that Roman Reigns is still such a major part of the conversation is because even the fans that don€™t like the thought of him as WWE World Heavyweight Champion are divided as to which of the above categories they think he falls into. This article is dedicated to the also-rans that were, at one point, considered to be in the running to be the next big thing in WWF/E€ shortly before the hype train derailed and careened down the mountainside, a thin wail of regret and tortured metaphor bubbling in its wake...

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