10 Next Big WWE Things That Crashed And Burned

5. Nathan Jones

Once booked as €˜the Colossus Of Boggo Road€™, due to his real-life seven year stint behind bars in that notorious maximum security prison for multiple counts of armed robbery as a teenager, Nathan Jones was, like Matt Morgan, a legit six foot ten or so, billed at seven foot tall...but with an entirely different upside. Morgan was constantly looking for ways in, ways to improve, to become valuable to the WWE. Although just as inexperienced in the ring and just as massive and chiseled, Jones had that criminal past, and stories of his exploits were all over the newspapers. Stories like kicking cell doors down, physically breaking out of solitary confinement, requiring ten prison guards to take him down. Y'know, those stories... Added to that, while Morgan€™s amiable personality showed on his face, Jones€™ natural look was that of a bug-eyed maniac. Despite his calmer, wiser nature since leaving prison, Jones looked like he could kill a man with his bare hands. In a business in which the right appearance can do the work that half a dozen storylines can€™t get over, Jones was money. The problem was those in-ring skills, or more specifically the lack of them. Jones was hot-shotted into a WrestleMania angle teaming with The Undertaker against A-Train and The Big Show, and then removed from the match itself once his deficiency in the ring became apparent. His job on the show itself went from tag team partner to run-in, and following that he was returned to OVW to gain more wrestling experience. He was called back up to join the same Survivor Series team as Morgan, also joining Train, Show, and Lesnar as the largest team ever to take part in one of the traditional elimination bouts. Despite his look, his size, any of which should have landed him a storyline of his own now that he was back on the main roster, WWE had him acting as henchman and enforcer for Lesnar and Paul Heyman, a role in which he couldn€™t learn anything new. And then he was gone: vanished from the company while on tour in his home country of Australia. Sick of the hectic travel, the wasted time, the lack of opportunities, he never returned. Since leaving WWE, Jones has had several fairly high profile movie roles as monsters, henchmen and heavies, including a significant turn as the villain€™s simpleminded son in Mad Max: Fury Road, so it€™s safe to say that he€™s not missing wrestling. WWE missed a trick in choosing not to take advantage of a man with Jones€™ scary, intimidating appearance when they had the chance, though.