10 WWE Sidekicks Who Were A Total Liability
The also-rans and hangers-on that nearly ruined the party.
Managers, valets, bodyguards, enforcers pets? There's a long and storied tradition in professional wrestling of featured performers coming to the ring with a little company. Wrestlers who couldn't talk had themselves a mouthpiece to cut promos for them; wrestlers who had trouble connecting with the crowd had themselves a sympathetic pal to carefully share heat with. Sometimes it was a comedy gimmick, there to make people laugh in the midcard, whereas some heels were given a heater a big bruiser of a bodyguard to perform their beatdowns for them.
Many partnerships have been revelations, even if they didn't appear to be a good fit initially. Look at Daniel Bryan and Kane, the misfit tag team that would eventually be known as Team Hell No, the best thing on RAW in 2012. Or how about Hardcore Holly being paired with Crash Holly, the cruiserweight lookalike who insisted that he was a superheavyweight? Ahhh, we miss Crash.
Not every pairing has become greater than the sum of its parts, however. In fact, a few were such a bad idea that they've achieved the opposite of what was intended. Storylines have been sabotaged, momentum derailed, or credibility utterly destroyed with the wrong choice of partner. And then there's the sidekicks, whoever they might be, who just sucked: they might have been booked that way, or they might really be that bloody awful.
This isn't an exhaustive list - that would be a herculean task - but rather, an article reminding us all exactly how dreadful it is to be saddled with someone who sucks the air out of the room and the life out of the party, let alone have to watch them on television: the WWE sidekicks we cringe to remember and would prefer to forget.