10 Wrestling Careers Damaged By The WWE Draft

7. Kenzo Suzuki

Kenzo Suzuki Hirohito
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In one of the stranger, but true, stories in WWE history is that Kenzo Suzuki was originally going to be pushed as a main-event heel known as Hirohito. Thankfully, someone took that name away from him since it came from the Japanese emperor during World War 2. Even more thankfully is that someone took that big push away from him.

Suzuki showed up on SmackDown with his wife Hiroko in 2004. They tried to get him over as a dominant heel, but he was absolutely awful in the ring. So they turned him into a comedy act for the rest of his run there. He starred in offensive and embarrassing skits where he basically turned into a teenager who wanted to bed Torrie Wilson. Then he became a guy who loved America, and sang in broken English, which was likely to highly amuse Vince McMahon. Still, he had a job.

After he was drafted to Raw in 2005, he no longer had one. Along with his real life wife Hiroko the two never showed up on TV again. To be fair, though, it probably was only a matter of time before Suzuki was let go. The trade just accelerated the inevitable.

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