10 Times WWE Forced It Down Our Throats
8. Sheamus
In 2020, Sheamus is a hard-working staple of WWE’s midcard, a consistent guy who can have decent matches with anyone and everyone, and one of the promotion's most reliable tag wrestlers. He is all sorts of underrated, and his advancing years mean the dream of an NJPW run (Sheamus vs. Ishii? Sheamus vs. Suzuki? Sheamus vs. EVIL?!) diminishes all the time.
2009 Sheamus was the most over-pushed guy in the business, an out-of-nowhere story that went from 0 to 60 in no time. Sheamus made his ECW debut that summer, and a couple of cups of coffee later he found himself putting John Cena through a table (sort of) and becoming WWE Champion. It all happened in a blur, a pasty, ginger blur that may or may not have been Triple H’s workout partner at the time. Who knows?
It didn’t end there. Sheamus hung around the upper echelons after losing the title, but it wasn’t until his marvellous face turn autumn 2011 that the mega-push began, an incredible feat when you take into account the whole "166 days between debut and World Championship" thing. He won the Royal Rumble and the World Heavyweight Championship within months of each other as WWE tried once again to make the Irishman the face of SmackDown. It didn’t work.
Sheamus is one of those strange cases, a wrestler once overrated who is now under-appreciated. He may deserve better right now, but nobody needs a rerun of the hyper-pushes he received in 2009 and 2012.