12 Cursed Comparisons That DOOMED Promising Wrestlers

'He's a white version of The Undertaker'. When saying that, wrestling fans weren't referring to skin colour. Instead, they meant that WWE's new Mordecai character wore bright white shades and basked in cascading lights whilst 'Taker wore black and was shrouded in darkness.

Also, 'The Deadman' has just reverted to that gimmick after nearly 4 years as a biker, so it was a given that any supernatural guise popping up on programming was going to create discussion about the similarities. In some respects, Mordecai was like an inverted version of Undertaker's satanic 'Ministry Of Darkness' persona from 1998-1999.

Everyone could see it, but that caused problems for him straight away.

A debut win over Scotty 2 Hotty at Judgment Day '04 fell flat as a pancake. It wasn't quite the comprehensive squash win it should've been despite only lasting 3 short minutes, and that set the tone for all of the issues 'Big Mordy' would suffer through over the coming months.

By July, he was demoted back down to developmental for further seasoning. That was totally mortifying for Mordecai. WWE might as well have looked him in the eye and said, 'You tanked as a wannabe 'Taker, my boy'.

The gimmick was never seen again. Dreams Kevin Fertig (the guy behind the character) had of tangling with Undertaker vanished into thin air, and he was released before springing back up as a vampire on the old ECW brand years later.

Kane had been likened to 'Taker when he debuted in 1997, but that felt different. Mordecai never earned those comparisons or lived up to the billing.