5. Big Poppa Pump Scott Steiner
Back in the dying days of WCW Scott Steiner was a big deal. After originally leaving the then WWF in the early '90s, Scott and his brother Rick had floundered in the WCW tag team division, re-treading old feuds with teams like Harlem Heat, The Nasty Boys and Public Enemy. With the creation of the New World Order came an opportunity for the more marketable Scott to go it alone and become one of the company's best heels. Once WCW was dead and buried, WWE were keen to pick up Steiner's contract. Rather than utilise him as part of the Invasion angle, WWE decided to wait until the 2002 Survivor Series to bring the genetic freak back to television in a segment where he destroyed both Matt Hardy and Christopher Nowinski in a matter of minutes. Over the coming weeks RAW and Smackdown's General Managers both tried their upmost to sign the newest babyface to a contract on their show. He of course ended up choosing RAW which lead to a dream feud with then World Heavyweight Champion Triple H. Agreeing to a feud with Triple H may have seemed like a good idea on paper but in practice the feud was horrible. Seen as a "WCW guy" Steiner found himself completely buried in the feud putting on one of the most boring main event matches of that era at the 2003 Royal Rumble. It was all down hill from there. Sadly the Scott Steiner experiment was a massive failure. WWE displayed it's usual ignorance to talents created outside of their own product and managed to kill off one of the coolest heel characters of the early 2000's by first miscasting him as a babyface and then turning him heel as part of the midcard - a position Steiner should have never been demoted to. His original debut was exciting but in retrospect underwhelming. Having Steiner show up in the main event would have been a much more impressive way to debut. Scott Steiner's long awaited return to the WWE was a real big deal. It's just a shame he ended up being treated worse than the Gobbledy Gooker.