10 Wrestlers Who Could Have Been Main Eventers With Better Gimmicks
9. Kenny
Ken Doane was seemingly destined to become a major star in wrestling. A prodigy, he started training under Killer Kowalski at the age of 14 and debuted the very next year. He soon ended up in OVW and then, with half a decade of experience for his 20 years, he was called up to WWE TV.
Unfortunately, Kenny's call-up came as part of The Spirit Squad - a quintet of male cheerleaders who captured the WWE World Tag Team Titles but mostly served as DX's punching bags. Whether they were leading cheers or having feces dumped on them, they were soon seen as complete jokes by the audience, and even though the group's tenure lasted less than a year, the damage was done.
Dolph Ziggler, the only member of the squad to recover from the gimmick, had the good fortune to be taken off TV for a couple of years, then have his past ignored. Kenny, unfortunately, immediately became Kenny Dykstra, and with a ridiculous name and no separation from his history as a cheerleader, he flopped.