15 MORE Wrestlers WWE Debuted In The Worst Way Possible
5. EC3
It is rare that a talent is signed by WWE who feels so effortlessly ready to be a superstar. In a company that values character and personality as much as in-ring work, EC3 should have been the easiest of home runs to translate to their audience. His smug, self-serving, and cocky attitude, combined with a comedic ability to make himself the butt of any joke, felt like a match made in heaven for WWE.
After a great run in TNA, things started OK for him in NXT in 2018. His character was given enough airtime for him to gain a growing reputation with fans, but he felt like he was better suited to the main roster instead of the indie-lite product that NXT was pushing during this era.
Whether he pissed off somebody important in the back or got involved in some other kind of ridiculous backstage politics, EC3 was robbed of everything that made him great when he arrived on SmackDown on February 4, 2019. Given nothing in the way of mic time, he was even reduced to being an actual mute before being relegated to losing regularly on Main Event just a few months later. He was gone from the company entirely inside 14 months of his main roster debut, completing one of the most confusing WWE hires in recent memory.