10 Potential Megastars That Never Recovered From WWE Burials
7. Chris Candido
When Chris Candido adopted a 'No Gimmicks Needed' moniker in ECW, he took a dated swipe at the company he arrived just too soon at to be truly appreciated.
Charismatically unvarnished but with an exceptional in-ring presence and a valet that herself had the makings of being the industry's greatest ever female performer, it remains to be seen how well Skip and Sunny may have fared in WWE's Attitude Era instead of the cartoonish New Generation. And not least because Shawn Michaels wasn't really around in the locker room by then.
Bursting onto WWE screens in mid-1995, the pair were unsubtly positioned as obnoxious fitness gurus. And that is to say, that is literally what they were. In 1995, unless you already happened to be established as a character, you were destined to be a caricature. Though Sunny shone as she did in just about everything Vince McMahon envisioned for her, Skip was miscast as a ostentatious braggart, with his fall down the pecking order happening in parallel with the collapse of his reputation backstage.
Defeatedly looking elsewhere as the politically protected 'HBK' stole his girl, Candido was as big an afterthought on television as he was in his own relationship. A babyface turn didn't remotely help, and his talents were left to rot before the company granted him a 1996 escape.