10 Wrestling Careers That Bombed After Their Biggest Match
6. Daniel Puder
If you only ever have three televised matches in WWE, can any of them truly be considered your biggest match? Saying that, one of those was a 'Dixie Dog Fight' against fellow Tough Enough competitor Mike Mizanin, so that probably doesn't count.
Daniel Puder only had two televised matches of any interest in WWE, but my lord what a famous couple of bouts they were. The first was a Tough Enough challenge against Kurt Angle, a 'match' of sorts that saw Puder lock Angle in a kimura, forcing the referees to count an imaginary pin and stop the MMA fighter from breaking the Olympic Hero's arm. Not the best way to introduce yourself to the locker room, to say the least.
That was clear with Puder's third and last WWE match; his entrance into the 2005 Royal Rumble. Puder was the third entrant into the match and the first eliminated, after four minutes of some seriously stiff chops by Chris Benoit, Hardcore Holly and Eddie Guerrero. It was televised bullying and then some.
Puder's career never recovered from these setbacks, and he was soon out of WWE for good. He ended up teaming with Shinsuke Nakamura in the 2010 NJPW G1 Tag League though, which is a pretty fantastic piece of wrestling trivia.