10 Wrestlers Who F*cked Up On Their First Day
7. Kizarny Wishes He'd Ran Away To Join The Circus Again
Kizarny was another embodiment of a Vince McMahon trend that permeated - or stained - the mid-to-late 2000s.
Much like Eugene, the Spirit Squad and the masochistic Basham Brothers, Kizarny was an outsize "larger than life" character that Vince thought was necessary in the wake of a ratings decline he never did arrest. Possibly because Kizarny, a greenhorn product of a wildly dysfunctional developmental system, was the drizzling sh*ts.
He was in no way ready for TV, but he made his debut, against MVP in January 2009, regardless. His unusual and creepy carny gimmick was very much Vince-flavoured ephemera - the sort of thing he'd fall in love with and then rapidly out of, even back then.
It started out respectably enough. MVP did much of the early work by bumping big for a pair of over-the-shoulder arm drags, but it started to fall apart, and quickly, when Kizarny under-shot a crossbody. Punishingly dull during MVP's heat sequence, Kizarny, visibly lost, bumped awkwardly and telegraphed everything. The commentary euphemisms didn't so much rain as pour.
"Not sure what that was, but it was effective," Jim Ross said of an ugly basement dropkick. "That's a unique cover if ever saw one," he said when Kizarny made a pin attempt by nestling into MVP's tummy.
A soft and dull mess of a debut, he lasted just two months subsequent to it.