10 WWE Wrestlers Who Weren't Given Enough Chances
5. Diamond Dallas Page
When looking back on WWE's purchase of WCW in 2001, it's easy to point out how the majority of WCW's top stars - Sting, Goldberg, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Scott Steiner et al - were out of WWE's reach due to huge guaranteed Time Warner contracts. But still, even though some of WCW's heavy hitters were missing, one big name who ended up in WWE as part of that purchase was Diamond Dallas Page.
Page was a three-time World Champion upon arriving in WWE, with him alongside Booker T as the only two WCW talents who could be legitimately viewed as a main event level star at that time. DDP and his People's Champion moniker positioned him as a major player in Ted Turner's rasslin' company, yet WWE brass decided to make Page a creepy pervert who hid in the shadows and watched The Undertaker's wife.
Sure, a rivalry out of the gate with The Phenom is nothing to be sniffed at, yet WWE did Dallas no favours whatsoever by giving him such an awful gimmick - not to mention having 'Taker's wife Sara pin him.
Once that extremely one-sided feud with The Undertaker was out the way, Page was never afforded a chance to be anything more than a midcard talent in WWE. A Tag Team Championship run with Chris Kanyon was followed by a stint as European Champion, but DDP was out of WWE barely a year after his debut with the company.