10. Vladmir Kozlov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGmXAm3zhjo What do you get if you stick a foreign guy in a pair of tighty whitey trunks, make him come out to absolutely no music and give him no character development whatsoever? Vladmir Kozlov - aka a wrestler with the personality of a slightly damp sponge. Sure he may have looked all serious and is probably more than a tad scary in real life, but Vladimir, despite being pushed to the moon and squaring up with huge names such as the Undertaker and even challenging for the world title, made me want to suffocate myself with the nearest cushion whenever he was on screen. Where was the appeal here? When you look at the most successful wrestlers in history, don't all of them pretty much have a unique personality that makes them connect with the audience? Vladimir didn't have any of this, yet WWE felt that they had to push him immediately and far too quickly into the title picture without giving anyone a reason to care. After that didn't work, Vladdy boy came back again in some nice new red trunks, developed some music and gradually descended into mediocrity after working with Santino Marella. He's now gone seemingly forever from the land of the WWE, and I'm rather hoping he doesn't come back anytime soon.
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