10 Wrestlers Vince McMahon Couldn't Get Over
7. Drew McIntyre
A career kickstart so bad that it became the stick to beat a returning Drew McIntyre with nearly a decade later, the "Chosen One"s initial anointment doomed a fresh-faced SmackDown star to half a decade of failure.
Tall and with a good head of hair, McIntyre was hardly the wildest outside bet Vince McMahon had ever made on one of his young stars, but there was something particularly odd about how he structured this entire introduction.
In a heavily promoted segment that McMahon promised would change the future of the show, the Chairman first plugged an October 2009 show that would celebrate a decade of SmackDown that was set to feature a host of stars past and present. In the meantime, the crowd in Oklahoma were forced to make do with Drew McIntyre, a recent debutant who'd assaulted R-Truth a few times like any old blue brand midcarder.
He might have been McMahon's personal signing, but the boss seemingly couldn't wait to get out the ring and McIntyre's shrill and drab heel promo did nothing to assuage the nagging sensation that the whole thing was destined to fail.