10 Wrestlers WWE Should Have Pushed More

Mr Monday Night (or Tuesday depending on the year) was a dependable crowd-pleaser for decades. His flashy blend of strong style, martial arts-based offence with reckless high flying was endlessly entertaining. Unfortunately, working a dangerous pace is, well, dangerous and, upon joining the WWF in '01, RVD was frequently in the dog house for busting people open the hard way.

In the safer-worked years that followed, the longtime fan favourite often lacked much mic time and mostly hopped between midcard title scenes. Upon returning from a career-threatening knee injury in '06, WWE finally committed to giving him a WWE (and ECW) Championship run... for 22 days.

While a lengthy title reign was never on the cards, it was cut shorter still owing to the mountainous portion of drugs police found in his and Sabu's car one night. RVD was never a World champion in WWE again and left the following year.

While the setback that dwindled his main event run is on him, it's plain as day that Rob Van Dam could've entered the main event scene all the way back in 2002. Capable of great character work when given the actual time and space for it, RVD was horribly under-utilised throughout his initial WWE run.