10 Underrated WWE Superstars Who Shouldn’t Have Been Released

9. Vader

Vince McMahon loves big men; that much is and has been true for well over thirty years now. However, one of the downsides of wanting larger, more muscular stars is that they aren€™t always the best workers. WWE history is filled with slow, uninspiring giants like Giant Gonzales, The Great Khali, Viscera, and many others. However, sometimes there are big men who can not only work a good match, but can also perform in great matches. Vader is one of those men. Despite weighing over 400 pounds, Vader was capable of putting on very good matches, and like Bam Bam Bigelow before him, could perform Moonsaults like a much lighter man. Unfortunately, Vader became a victim of backstage politics and questionable decisions. He was rumored to be booked to defeat Shawn Michaels in SummerSlam 1996 for the WWF Championship, but Shawn€™s backstage influence caused that to be changed. After a feud with the Undertaker that led nowhere, Vader eventually become a glorified jobber to the stars. This was a man who was on fire in WCW, and a major draw in Japan, and yet he had been reduced to the lower card within a year of working in WWF. Vader was someone who could€™ve been used in a much greater capacity in WWF. He was definitely worthy of being a World Champion in his own right, and was a perfect fit for WWF€™s Attitude Era as a take-no-prisoners monster of a man. Maybe, if HBK wasn€™t the politicking jerk he was during the mid-1990s, Vader would€™ve had a better career in WWE.