10 WWE Wrestlers Who Were Too Entertaining For Their Own Good
7. Rikishi
"I did it for the Rock. I did it for my people".
And with those two sentences, an entire career died on its ample butt-cheeks.
To clarify, the "it" Rikishi was referring to was running over Steve Austin in an insane bid to help the Rock remain WWE champion. WWE ran a 'whodunnit' plot over who ran over Stone Cold and, in a piece of booking so left field you could use it as a campsite in communist Russia, WWE revealed that the steely-eyed, sinister psychopath who almost killed Austin was...
... the same wrestler who spent the past year getting over by rubbing his colossal caboose over his opponents' faces.
To quote Austin himself, "What?!"
Rikishi was all wrong for the character WWE wanted him to play. The fun-loving, bum-wiggling Samoan simply couldn't shift gears and transform into a believable monster, and the audience didn't want him to. Everyone loved Rikishi as the happy-go-lucky dude who danced in the ring and humiliated bad guys with his cheeks of justice, which meant his heel turn was doomed from the get-go.
Still better than The Sultan, though.