10 WWE Superstars Vince McMahon Completely Lost Interest In

3. Bobby Lashley

Umaga€™s opponent at WrestleMania 23 was also a victim of Vince McMahon€™s fickle attitude towards his next-big-things. In fact, it was that next-big-thing label that was part of the problem with big Bobby. Brock Lesnar remains a defiant anomaly in professional wrestling, as he did in amateur wrestling and mixed martial arts: he€™s a genetic freak and a formidable athlete who picked up pro wrestling in a way few men have before or since. McMahon€™s loss of Lesnar in 2004 after two years spent pushing him to the moon (with sparkly dollar signs trailing in his wake) had to hurt: Lesnar hadn€™t just left the company, he€™d wandered away from wrestling, electing to try his luck in the NFL. Lashley was a similar size, with an even more herculean physique, and had a similar amateur background. He began training to wrestle only nine months or so after Lesnar left WWE, and in many ways McMahon saw him as a second opportunity at the same cherry. That was a mistake: Lashley wasn€™t Lesnar. He had the size, but he didn€™t have the intensity or the frightening aura: more importantly, he just didn€™t pick the business up like Brock had, and never attained the same level of fan support. Pushed to the moon upon his debut as Lesnar had been, Bobby Lashley was exposed as the rookie he was, and WWE fans didn€™t take to him. When he asked for his release in 2007, allegedly over racist issues with a certain notorious member of WWE creative, Vince simply wasn€™t that fussed anymore, and made little effort to change his mind or to punish the employee responsible in an effort to woo him back. Lashley went on to finally €˜get it€™, and succeeded in TNA where he€™d failed in the WWE. Vince McMahon moved on to the next next-big-thing.