10 Wrestlers Who Knew They Were DOOMED On Day One
3. Dean Douglas
Look into the eyes of a man who knows his arse is already out the door.
Shane Douglas was rebranded Dean for his WWF re-arrival in the summer of 1995. The premise was simple - Dean, a college professor, would grade other wrestlers and heap heat on himself by being a smarty pants d*ck to all and sundry. That heat wasn't supposed to be legitimate, however.
Somewhat ironically, the WWF's locker room was like a high school/college itself. The Kliq called most of the shots, and they decided they didn't much like Douglas. The fact that Dean struggled in matches against gatekeeper Razor Ramon ("If you worked well with me, you moved up to Shawn [Michaels] or Diesel", he once said) didn't help his cause.
Worse, Douglas' back injury was openly questioned by the rest of the roster on tour, and he departed the federation in January 1996. That'd be a wrap on Shane's WWF/WWE run(s). Some dudes just don't fit in or aren't given a fighting chance. Douglas covered both bases there.