7 Amazing Wrestlers WWE Had No Plan For
1. Riccohet
Decades could pass, and the video package that preceded Ricohet's one and only Premium Live Event WWE/World Heavyweight Championship match against Brock Lesnar at Super Showdown 2020 is sure to remain amongst the stupidest the company ever took the time and effort to produce.
Remember it? You'd be forgiven for not, or at very least for attempting to erase it from your memory. The theme was "Why not me?" in response to the cries of how 'The One & Only' could possibly dethrone then-Champion Brock Lesnar and go to the main event of WrestleMania 36 instead of 'The Beast'.
The question - that shouldn't have even been posed - was answered in just 95 seconds when Lesnar steamrolled through his ostensibly idiotic challenger with relative ease. It gets away with a lot of criticism because it fell on the same undercard as the even-more-preposterous The Fiend Vs Goldberg main event, but it was a staggering bit of talent mismanagement so soon after the two had enjoyed a strong confrontation in the Royal Rumble, leaving the door open for Ricochet to gain a modicum of credibility nearer the top of the card.
Everything failed in that era by one metric or another, making a dumpster fire like this the rule rather than the exception, but after a year or so grinding away trying to find his place on a bloated roster, this was concrete evidence that a lightyears-out-of-date Vince McMahon had never wanted nor felt like he particularly needed a talent like Ricochet. You were marketable for the nonsensically bad material you could elevate, or absolutely no use at all, and Ricochet, generational talent and all, was one of the many, many wrestlers trapped on the wrong end of the divide.