10 WWE Stars Undertaker Failed To Elevate To The Next Level

4. A-Train

It isn€™t hard to see why WWE was so keen on pushing A-Train. He was a former football player, he looked monstrous, and he had immense strength. When you put these elements together, you have a solid €˜strength-based€™ wrestler that can use that most traditional aspect of pro wrestling (i.e. said abnormal strength) to draw in crowds. But not even the Undertaker could make A-Train a credible main-event draw. It wasn€™t entirely A-Train€™s fault that he wasn€™t taken seriously by the WWE Universe; a major reason for his failure came from his earlier booking by WWE. As with his 2012 return to WWE as Lord Tensai, A-Train suffered from negative preconceptions from fans who remembered him as (Prince) Albert, the wrestler named for the penile piercing. Even if A-Train looked far more menacing than Prince Albert, the fans never forgot his more comedic origins, which tarnished his reputation. Furthermore, in the ring, A-Train wasn€™t the best. He was very straightforward in terms of his presentation, and was better off as a big man who demolished smaller guys. But given the fact that he was on SmackDown during a period highlighted by the work of the SmackDown Six, Brock Lesnar and the Undertaker himself, there was simply no way for him to get into the fans good graces while being presented as a monster.