10 Wrestlers Who Were Given Way Too Many Chances

10. Test

Test Bad Blood 2003
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Andrew Martin had a great look, he was okay in the ring, but he sure wasn’t the complete package that Vince was looking for when he hired him. The Boss sure kept trying with him, though.

Test was given a sizable role right out of the gate with a run in The Corporation, and then a soap-opera storyline with Stephanie McMahon that was the highlight of his career. The company got shy on giving him a big feud with Triple H, which was the natural course of the story, and Test never recovered.

It seems that he could never really hang on his own, and would be added to random teams, because the company didn’t know what else to do with him. Sadly, he just didn’t seem to fit anywhere. The Unamericans, The Alliance, tag teams with Albert and Scott Steiner and a pairing with his real-life girlfriend Stacy Keibler as his manager: It was all underwhelming. In 2004, while Test was out with an injury, the company let him go.

Two years later he returned, looking more muscular than perhaps anyone on the roster. Because of this, he got a push in ECW, but butted heads with management and soon found himself out of a job.

For a guy that seemed to be a sure fire top star, he just never found anything that made him connect with the audience.

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