10 People Who Had No Business In Professional Wrestling
10. Brakkus
If you havent noticed throughout the past three decades, Vince McMahon has a fetish for bodybuilders. If he didnt, he wouldnt have started up the World Bodybuilding Federation, at the very least. Its also why he chooses to often push men who look like real-life action figures. Weve seen time and time again of some giant musclebound freak of nature getting a job and nice push in WWE, and the results are almost always the same: complete failure.
Still, though, the vast majority of those guys at least had some prior experience in the world of wrestling and a bit of training in the business. Not Brakkus. He was a McMahon pet project that he would take on and groom...into the next Hercules Hernandez apparently.
Achim Albrecht was an impressive physical specimen when he signed with the WWF in 1996. He was an accomplished bodybuilder who had won the over 90 kg competition at the 1990 Mr. Universe contest. Hell, Flex magazine listed him with the 8th best quads ever. Out of the billions of people who have ever lived on planet Earth, the eight best is pretty damn impressive!
Besides the amazing quads, though, Brakkus had nothing else going for him. He was so muscular that his movement in the ring was greatly hindered. He could shout at people and look mad, but had no talent to back it up in the ring. His final curtain call was getting defeated and injured in the Brawl for All tournament. After that, his tough guy aura was gone, and so was he.