10 Wrestlers Who Never Recovered From Awful Debuts
9. Lord Tensai
After almost a decade away from WWE, reports started to circulate in early 2012 that Matt Bloom was set to return to the company.
The last time WWE fans saw him, Bloom was losing a match to Val Venis as A-Train on an episode of Heat. So, what could they expect from the star who'd spent the last few years wrestling under the name Giant Bernard in Japan?
Well, not very much, as it goes.
Following weeks of vignettes advertising the ominous looking Lord Tensai, Bloom finally resurfaced under his new name on the Raw after WrestleMania 28 - and he didn't exactly get the reaction Vince McMahon was hoping for.
Instead of shocking the fans in attendance into a state of stunned silence, Tensai was met with chants of 'Albert' and 'A-Train' as the rowdy post-Mania crowd all but ignored this Japanese warrior character.
It probably didn't help that Tensai debuted on the same night Brock Lesnar returned to WWE, but his stuttering comeback only got worse in the months that followed this weak first impression. Before long, Bloom was without his 'Lord' title or formidable entrance gear and by 2014 he'd become another painful 'comedy' act which fans struggled to take seriously.
Thankfully, Bloom would go on to become NXT head coach after retiring and has excelled in training the stars of tomorrow ever since.