10 Wrestlers EVERYBODY Was Wrong About

If there's one thing we know for certain about wrestling fans, it's that they are never wrong - even when they categorically, absolutely are.

We're fully aware that we're very much pitch black pots reflecting the kettle here; our staffers have been as eager as anyone on the various wrestling subreddits to tell WWE precisely why pushing Lacey Evans is tantamount to dropping your wanger in a toaster, or to write withering, withered editorials about the parlous state of the company's tag team scene.

Give The Revival their due, and get them in the main event whilst you're at it, dammit! Why pay one guy to do something you could pay two guys to do? AEW would!

Listen to us, we say: we know best. Follow our whims, and all the company's problems will be solved.

Such as, for example, get shot of this babyface throwback Rocky Maivia. What will he ever amount to?

Or how about, several years later, hindsight not withstanding: make Damien Sandow world champion. He's wasted as an undercard comedy act. A pink robe worked for Ric Flair. How is this any different?

Yeh. Wrestling fans are never wrong.

When the newest member of the Wyatt family announced his colossal presence by attacking Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns at the tail end of a August 2015 episode of Raw, the prognosis for his prospects were singularly pessimistic. Here was a near-seven foot mountain of meat with approximately five minutes of NXT experience under his sizable belt, looking for all the world like an evil Father Christmas, and absolutely not the sort of stellar superstar fans had grown accustomed to being called-up from Full Sail.

The very superficial reasons for his fast-tracking were enough to inspire resignation over his future, and after an opening few matches in which he looked like a danger to himself and just about everybody in the building, hope didn't exactly proliferate. When it leaked that Braun was to be positioned alongside Sami Zayn for seasoning, heads dropped at the absolute waste of the Canadian's talents. What was the point? The big lump would never amount to a mountain of beans.

Well, welcome to Mt. Heinz, altitude 2.03m. By virtue of being positioned opposite boo-boy Roman Reigns in 2017, Strowman automatically inherited a degree of popularity, and once WWE focused his matches on his strengths - that is, unbridled chaos - the strongman earned plaudits in his own right.

Though his once seemingly inextinguishable steam has cooled considerably thanks to the usual WWE malaise which has seen the draw of his character woefully misunderstood, Braun has nevertheless already confounded the admittedly grim expectations of his early detractors. Put it this way: people are now asking if it's too late to redeem Strowman's Universal Title credentials, rather than whether he will ever be a level above terrible.