10 Wrestlers You Were Totally Wrong About
9. Carlito
Getting off to about as strong a start as one could hope for upon stepping onto the WWE main roster scene back in 2004, Carlito swiftly bested John Cena for the United States Championship with a little help from The Face that Runs the Place's steel chain.
In a case of perhaps peaking a little too soon, though, those who justifiably assumed WWE would eventually throw everything behind the clearly charismatic apple-spitting villain were proven wrong as the "cool" figure never really topped that initial spell in the spotlight.
Despite picking up the odd Intercontinental and World Tag Team Championship in the years that followed, Carlito never fully delivered on the main event potential he showed flickers of in his battles with Cena and interactions with the likes "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper on the Grandest Stage.
Instead, Carlito was often branded as "lazy" and "too nonchalant" by folks backstage, and a wrestler that could've been a top level star of tomorrow ultimately ended up leaving the company in 2010.
Although his virtual-crowd-popping Royal Rumble 2021 return did at least offer a glimpse of what could've been had Carlito grown into the main event calibre presence he once threatened to be.