10 Wrestlers Who Totally Wasted Their Own Potential
8. Damien Sandow
Released from WWE in 2015, Aron Steven Haddad was given a chance to prove the whole world wrong. His former employers had failed to capitalise on his immense momentum on two occasions, first as Damien Sandow, 'Intellectual Savior Saviour of the Unwashed Masses,' then as Mizdow - The Miz copycat act that should have launched a mega-babyface run. It didn't, though. WWE buried him with a lame impersonation gimmick, and Haddad was released long after his slide down the card.
He returned to mainstream wrestling as TNA's Aron Rex on 11 August 2016. Widely regarded as an underpushed, underappreciated wrestler, it was hoped that the former Sandow's career would finally take off in America's second-biggest promotion, who, it was assumed, would at least try to succeed where WWE failed.
They didn't.
Rather than capitalising on the charm, wit, and charisma that made him so popular in the first place, Rex debuted with a god-awful This Business promo chastising his former employers for not helping him realise his full potential. It stunk. The poor guy tried to put himself over as a line-blurring shooter, choosing exactly the wrong character type for a performer of his attributes, and his career ran out of steam only a few months later.