10 Short-Lived WWE Pushes You’ve Totally Forgotten
Blink and you'll miss it! These rapid WWE pushes just didn't work out as planned.
Everyone loves a right good wrestling push.
Emphasis has to go on the word "good" there, but not every creative shove is guaranteed to work out or click with fans. Sometimes, audiences don't even get the chance to yay or nay a push - WWE themselves squash it before it really gets started.
It says a lot about the company's product over the years that this list includes everything from a dude playing the living embodiment of an entire WCW show to someone who has an imaginary friend/feels like there's some grand conspiracy to keep him from reaching the top of cards.
Yeah, this wrasslin' stuff is a bit...out there at times.
You've probably forgotten most (if not all) of these pushes too. They were real 'blink and you'll miss it' moments on WWE TV, and they were totally scrapped before long. Some did make it to the so-called promised land of a midcard title reign before being dumped though.
Brace yourselves for abandoned legend killers, tough-talking military men, body-proud babyfaces, workers willing to stand up against unfair persecution and more. How many of these do you remember?
10. Rob Conway (2005)
Just look at him.
Rob Conway was physically gifted, and that had to earn him some credit at the bank of Vince behind the scenes. McMahon must've loved how muscular Conway was, but no amount of hard graft in the gym could help the wrestler lift a wobbly 'Con Man' gimmick up in 2005.
WWE transitioned Rob out of La Résistance in July that year - he re-debuted on Heat with some fresh threads and a character which looked for all the world like it had leapt out of the early-1990s. Conway's main objective was to target older legends like Doink The Clown, Greg Valentine, Koko B. Ware and more.
He even bagged an Intercontinental Title bout vs. Ric Flair on Raw, but WWE had given up on his push long before the end of the year. His own legend killer plan didn't pan out quite as well as Randy Orton's would, to put it mildly, and he ended up back in creative hell.