10 WWE Wrestlers Who Were Nothing After A Great Entrance
1. Rikishi
After Rikishi ran over Stone Cold Steve Austin and gaslit The Rock, he was a bad man, but the Samoan star wasn't exactly the best at converting his offence nor his personality to the new persona he'd suddenly had thrust upon him.
The new theme was everything. Not everything the effusive way, more in that it was everything you needed to know about this Rikishi rather than the one that was supremely over a few weeks earlier. Gone was the Too Cool theme and the crowd-popping dance after the fact - here was the sinister cynicism of a man that had done very bad things because he was a very bad man. For about a month until he was revealed to be working on behalf of a much badder one in Triple H.
WWE's 2000 glorious creative run peters out at some pace on rewatch, and this shock-for-shock's sake decision (and the retcon when it failed) remains a monument to that. Rikishi wasn't a bad man, or at least hadn't been during the most lucrative and luxurious period of his career. He was worse off for his journey to the dark side. Bad man, or bad choice?
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