10 Worst WWE Wrestlers Ever (According To The Internet)
6. Eli Cottonwood (1.12/10)
Eli Cottonwood might be wearing a bad rating as well as he wore the moustache he claimed not to have, but he deserves credit for simultaneously doing the impossible and uniting the Cagematch ultras and Matt Striker.
The teacher-turned-wrestler-turned-commentator didn't have change anything about himself in the role as bully-in-chief on the original NXT. Gleefully dishing out hospital passes from his pathetically small position of power on a fatally flawed show, Striker would rip into the doomed talents as if he were Vince McMahon ripping into...well, Matt Striker on commentary.
This routine cat-kicking resulted in almost nobody escaping the show unharmed, and the vast majority having matches, moments or promos that doomed them to a life of wrestling obscurity and/or "remember when" nightmares such the aforementioned Cottonwood facial hair farce.
Bell-to-bell he was nothing to write home about in the 72 matches he wrestled between 2009 and 2012, but every inch of that resumé could be applied to swathes of talent that came through WWE's broken developmental system before Triple H retooled it. Cottonwood gets isolated from his peers here for one unforgettably abysmal night